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Beat My Team – Free One Day Fantasy Hockey Contest – $300 in cash prizes

Beat My Team – Free One Day Fantasy Hockey Contest – $300 in cash prizesWe have been lucky enough to partner up with our friends at Draftstreet again to provide a one day fantasy hockey contest for our readers, complete with $300 in cash prizes. The contest will occur on Saturday April 20th, but you can sign up at...

Blake Geoffrion Retires/Corey Perry Likely Suspended

Blake Geoffrion Retires/Corey Perry Likely SuspendedSad news in the hockey world today, as 25 year old Montreal Canadiens forward Blake Geoffrion (grandson of Boom Boom) announced his retirement from hockey. Geoffrion suffered a fractured skull last November after being leveled by Syracuse Crunch defenceman JP Cote. He has not played...

Starting Goalie Career Stats

Starting Goalie Career StatsAs many of you have noticed and commented on, we have stopped posting goaltenders career statistics versus their opponent when we confirm them. There are two very simple explanation for this: 1) Fantasy managers should not be using this information to decide who to sit/start....

DailyFaceoff Preseason Rankings Now Live!

DailyFaceoff Preseason Rankings Now Live!Welcome to the Daily Faceoff pre-season rankings. Rankings were particularly difficult this year due to the lack of information regarding lines, playing time, tracking how players were doing in Europe, and a variety of other factors. Please take these rankings with a grain of salt, and use...

Meet the AHL’s Second Leading Scorer – Justin Schultz

Meet the AHL’s Second Leading Scorer – Justin SchultzWhen browsing the list of AHL scoring leaders, one likely encounters the names of many young guns that they expect to see: Eberle, Hall, Niederreiter, Schenn, Nyquist, Connolly etc… All of these players save Nyquist were first round picks, and all six have spent time...

Playoff Pool Primer Round 3

Playoff Pool Primer Round 3Goalies The playoffs in the West have been a low scoring affair, and expect that to continue with defensive-minded squads LA and Phoenix squaring of the the Conference Finals. Jonathan Quick leads all goalies with a 1.55 GAA and a stellar 8-1 record. Phoenix can’t...

2011-12 Fantasy Hockey Disappointments

2011-12 Fantasy Hockey DisappointmentsEvery year there is a guy (or 10) that utterly and completely fails to live up to expectations. Sometimes it is because expectations are too high, and other time, they just stink. Let’s take a quick look at some of the guys who fit the...

VOTE: Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night April 3

VOTE: Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night April 3

VOTE: Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night March 27

VOTE: Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night March 27

Will Karlsson Follow the Dark Road of Green, Doughty and Phaneuf?

Will Karlsson Follow the Dark Road of Green, Doughty and Phaneuf?I think it’s fair to say that the fantasy steal of the year is Ottawa Senators defenceman Erik Karlsson. Anyone who says otherwise is probably drunk. In Yahoo! leagues, Karlsson had an ADP of 87.4, and on average was the 16th blueliner off the board,...