Here is the third installment of the DailyFaceoff Fantasy Team of the Week. It was an exciting week of hockey including some awesome games on Hockey Day in America. Remember this team will be based off of the usual fantasy scoring categories and players that excelled across the board. Skaters – (G, A, +/-, SOG, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 23, 2012
Recently we were able to corner Boston Bruins beat writer Matt Kalman in order to extract some excellent fantasy hockey knowledge out of him. If you are unfamiliar with his work, Matt runs The Bruins Blog as well as regularly contributing to NHL.com and CBS Boston. Below is the transcript of our conversation, a must [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 25, 2011
‘Line Change on the Fly’ is the feature where we re-rank our current player rankings. This edition ranks defensemen and their counterparts for the first time since the preseason. Feel free to go nuts in the comments. Good evening, fantasy hockey gamers. For the last couple of weeks we’ve heard clamoring over our current rankings. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 28, 2011
Dale Hunter Hired, Bruce Boudreau Fired At approximately 8:17 AM, a press release from Sergey Kocharov hit our inbox, announcing the Washington Capitals hired Dale Hunter as their head coach. The former legend and icon in the Nation’s capitol, Hunter left the London Knights for a prestigious job on his former club. As my colleague [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 16, 2011
By Alexander Monaghan Editor-in-chief We touched upon this concept in our Part I but it bears repeating: improving your team via free agency continues to become a trend of the past. Today, we will take a look at 10 players who improved their fantasy hockey game after leaving their previous organizations via free agency. Most [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The Carolina Hurricanes simply continue to score goals in buckets. As an excellent combination of veteran presence and youth, the team seems to be finally establishing their identity. What better way to show that to the rest of the League than embarassing the team they beat in the playoffs just five short years ago. Captain [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 4, 2010
According to Chip Alexander of the News Observer, defenseman Anton Babchuk may be on his way back to the Carolina Hurricanes. The former 21st overall and Chicago Blackhawk last skated in the NHL in the 2008-2009 season where he officially broke out with a 16 goal campaign. This campaign of course came sandwiched between two [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 4, 2010
Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated wrote yesterday that the NHL’s trade deadline lacked star power and only two players, Wojtek Wolski and Fredrik Modin, could comfortably play a top-six role in the current game. At this point I would like to urge Farber to see outside the box as numerous trades created holes likely to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 3, 2010
You likely drafted Joe Corvo (38% owned) in the near-end of your draft this season with the hopes of a sleeper performance, or maybe you picked him up when he returned from injury and hoped he’d find his stride. Either way, he’s likely not on your team anymore and with good reason. He’s missed just [...]
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