Offensive Corps: The Avalanche surprised a lot of people by squeaking into the playoffs in a tough Western conference this past season. While much of the credit went to goaltender Craig Anderson, the offence more than held it’s own, lightning the lamp 244 times, good for 4th in the conference. Paul Stastny was the catalyst, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 24, 2010
Matt is covering the forgettable 2009-10 fantasy campaigns, so I am going to look at some guys who really surpassed expectations this season and hopefully helped deliver your team a fantasy title. Steven Stamkos O-Rank: 89; Final Rank: 5 Stamkos ended the 2008-09 season strong, scoring 27 points in his final 30 games. He didn’t [...]
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
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The Phoenix Coyotes traded Kevin Porter and Peter Mueller to the Colorado Avalanche for Wojtek Wolski in the first “hockey trade” of the deadline. Wolski moves from the first line in Colorado alongside Paul Stastny to likely the first line alongside Shane Doan and Matthew Lombardi. We mentioned a few weeks ago how Mueller occupied [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Who would have thought that one team could freefall so quickly out of playoff contention? Well the Flames have allowed it to happen, and that’s how it looks right now, as with Calgary sits 9th in the West on 58 points tied with Detroit who have played one less game. No doubt the Western Conference [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 6, 2009
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In his “Fantasizing” column, Mike finds some bargain bin players that are widely available and does a great job on that, so I don’t want to infringe on his territory, but there is some terrific talent out there that might just be available in your pool. While he looks at guys who are less than [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
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We want you, our readers, to vote daily on the previous night’s Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night. Based on your votes, points will be assigned to the top 3 stars of the night and at the end of the season the 3 players with the most points will be delcared the DailyFaceoff Fantasy 3 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
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Don’t get me wrong Yahoo is probably the best free place to host your fantasy league. In the past they weren’t offering their fantasy hockey participants the same features as the other fantasy sports, such as keeper leagues and free live scoring, but hockey now seems to be on par with the others. That being [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Colorado Avalanche 2008/09: 32-45-5 – 69 pts (5th in Northwest, 15th in West) Arrived: Tom Preissing (LA), Kyle Quincey (LA), Craig Anderson (FLA), David Koci (TAM) Departed: Joe Sakic (Retired), Ryan Smyth (LA), Andrew Raycroft (VAN), Ben Guite (NSH), Tyler Arnason (NYR), Ian Laperierre (PHI) I am not going to lie; it felt very good [...]
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Friday, July 23, 2010
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