The All-Star game is this weekend meaning Daily Faceoff won’t be entirely relevant for the next couple of days. However, DF Editor-in-Chief Alexander Monaghan and ‘Fantasy or Fiction’ columnist Dan Berlin decided to have some fun with the festivities and select the Fantasy Hockey All Stars. Here are the rules: 4 C 4 RW 4 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 19, 2012
According to Dave Molinari of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Twitter, Letang will play tonight. Expect him to pair with Brooks Orpik on the top defensive unit and to get some time on PP1. For the team’s projected lines, click here. * * * UPDATE 1/19/12: Kris Letang returned to practice yesterday which fueled speculation over [...]
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...Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Brendan Shanahan swung the Shanahammer today, suspending Montreal Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty for three games due to his hit on Kris Letang. If you haven’t seen the hit, click here. If you want to see the ruling, click here. None of that matters. What matters is how we will adapt to this current setback. Pacioretty [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 9, 2011
When you’re drafting players for your fantasy league it’s always easy to draft guys based on goals and assists. You can look at a list of the top scorers from the previous season and make a pretty good guess of how many points a player might get this season. But what about those leagues where [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Every once-in-a-while we get some exclusive, first-hand information. About a month ago we started talking to Brian Metzer of From the Point and most recently NHL.com, bouncing some Pittsburgh Penguins-based questions off of him. Below is the transcript of our conversation, a must read for any Penguins’ owners. Thanks for taking the time to answer [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Clearly the Pittsburgh Penguins are short on forwards. Not just depth forwards but hugely talented stars in the shape of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. However, yesterday Ray Shero helped strengthen a depleted roster by acquiring potential star James Neal from the Dallas Stars. Dallas in return gains the services of Alex Goligoski, also sending Matt Niskanen over [...]
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