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2021 Fantasy Hockey

It’s Opening Night! Late Updates Around The NHL

It's here!  The 2021 NHL Season will finally start at 5:30 EST tonight in a battle of Pennsylvania.  I'm going to give some late minute…

  • Viz
  • January 13, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

My Ten Bold Predictions for the 2021 NHL Season

We're only two days away from the start of the season!  I hope you're as excited as I am.  For today's post, I'm going to…

  • Viz
  • January 11, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

The 10 Most Overvalued Players for 2021

After yesterday's post breaking down my 10 most undervalued players (you can read that here), it's time to do the ten most overvalued.  I'll be…

  • Viz
  • January 8, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

The 10 Most Undervalued Players of 2021

The title says it all.  Today, I'm going to hit on the ten guys that I like most to break out this season.  With the…

  • Viz
  • January 7, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Laughs From The Yahoo! Staff

One of my favorite things to read and write about is the failures of the rankings of popular sports websites.  Every year, I'm excited to…

  • Viz
  • January 5, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

Updates From Around The NHL

With no exhibition games this season, it's going to be harder to predict what lines and pairing teams are going to use.  Thankfully, there are…

  • Viz
  • January 4, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Top 200

Happy New Year to everyone!  I've gone through each position thoroughly over the last week so now, it's putting together a top 200 list.  I…

  • Viz
  • January 1, 2021
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Forwards Part Two

We're moving to the last part of my rankings before my top 200 list today with the second part of the forward rankings.  You can…

  • Viz
  • December 30, 2020
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2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Forwards Part One

And now we reached the meat of the rankings.  Forwards generally make up half of your roster, if not more, and they dominate the beginning…

  • Viz
  • December 30, 2020
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Defensemen

We’re going to keep the rankings rolling today with my defensemen tiers.  As a reminder from the goaltending rankings, I will be ranking the guys…

  • Viz
  • December 29, 2020
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2021 Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Goaltenders

It's time to get rolling with my fantasy hockey rankings.  Instead of starting with my top 10 and going from there, I'm going to be…

  • Viz
  • December 27, 2020
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2021 Fantasy Hockey

2021 Fantasy Hockey: We’re Back!

The time has come!  The NHL has reached an agreement to start a 56 game season on January 13th.  You know what that means!?  Fantasy…

  • Viz
  • December 23, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

2019-20 NHL Season Postponed

It's seemed inevitable for the past few days, but on Thursday, it officially happened.  The NHL has suspended play indefinitely due to COVID-19.  It absolutely…

  • Viz
  • March 12, 2020
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Forsberg Finally Flourishes

It's hard to believe that Filip Forsberg recently had a 20 game goalless streak.  He had his best game in months on Tuesday scoring two goals and…

  • Viz
  • March 11, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Playoffs Week One: The Week Ahead

We've finally reached the final four weeks of the regular season.  That means fantasy hockey playoffs!  This post is meant to help you plan for…

  • Viz
  • March 9, 2020
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2020 Playoff Manifesto: Western Conference

We're back for part two of the Playoff Manifesto.  For those that didn't read Part One, you can read that here.  Today, we will cover…

  • Viz
  • March 6, 2020
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2020 Playoff Manifesto: Eastern Conference

It's that time of the year!  We are rapidly closing in on the fantasy hockey playoffs, and to help everybody out in terms of streaming…

  • Viz
  • March 5, 2020
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Pitt Piles it On

Poor Ottawa.  The Penguins were coming off six straight losses before Tuesday night and it wasn't hard to imagine them destroying the Senators.  They did…

  • Viz
  • March 3, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Stone And Stamkos Succumb To Injuries

Injuries this time of year are the main thing we are trying to avoid.  This season probably hasn't been as bad as last year, but…

  • Viz
  • March 2, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Look Around The League

First off, sorry for the delay in getting a post up following the trade deadline.  I'm in Vegas to see the Sabres Friday night and…

  • Viz
  • February 28, 2020
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Live NHL Trade Deadline Post!

It's my favorite day of the year!  It's the NHL Trade Deadline, and I'll be updating this post throughout the day with instant analysis on…

  • Viz
  • February 23, 2020
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Boeser Out, Toffoli In

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first.  After being initially ruled out for three weeks, Brock Boeser was subsequently ruled out for eight…

  • Viz
  • February 18, 2020
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Coleman Coming To Tampa

Another trade domino fell on Sunday as Blake Coleman was traded to Tampa Bay for a first round pick (Vancouver's conditional first from the Miller trade) and Nolan…

  • Viz
  • February 16, 2020
  • 2
2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Welcome Back Olofsson

At the time of his injury, Victor Olofsson was leading rookies in points.  That's not to say that he was the Calder favorite because he certainly was…

  • Viz
  • February 14, 2020
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Zucker Moves To Pittsburgh

The first big trade deadline move happened two weeks early.  Jason Zucker was sent to Pittsburgh in Bill Guerin's first big move as Wild GM, in exchange…

  • Viz
  • February 13, 2020
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A Different Connor Best Of The Weekend

The player with the most points this weekend was Connor.  No, not McDavid.  Kyle Connor continued his terrific season with two amazing games.  First, he scored a…

  • Viz
  • February 9, 2020
  • 2
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Stone Bashing Time

Mark Stone has had a pretty good season by his standards, albeit not as great as I had hoped.  Perhaps that'll change now that he had…

  • Viz
  • February 6, 2020
  • 13
2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Burakovsky Burns Buffalo

Andre Burakovsky has gone back and forth between bottom end hold and elite streamer for most of the season.  Right now, we're in one of his…

  • Viz
  • February 5, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

The King Of Leon

Last season, Leon Draisaitl had a massive breakout with 50+55.  It seemed naive to expect better, but he's going to blow 105 points out of the water. …

  • Viz
  • February 3, 2020
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Forsberg Feeling It

For years, I've been predicting the big breakout from Filip Forsberg.  All of the talent is there, but for whatever reason, be it injury or just…

  • Viz
  • January 30, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Ullmark Suffers Brutal Injury

There wasn't a lot of action the last two days after the All-Star Break, but sadly we saw what certainly appeared to be a severe…

  • Viz
  • January 29, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Post All-Star Break: The Week Ahead

The first week after the All-Star Break is always an interesting one to navigate for fantasy hockey, especially in head to head leagues.  We have…

  • Viz
  • January 27, 2020
  • 6
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Kadri Keeping Hold Status

I was expecting a big bounce back from Nazem Kadri this season in Colorado after being stuck on the third line in Toronto last season.  It hasn't…

  • Viz
  • January 22, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Welcome Back Williams

He's backkkk.  Justin Williams made his return on Sunday, totaling three shots on goal in 13 minutes of action before scoring the shootout winner for the Hurricanes. …

  • Viz
  • January 19, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Crosby Crushes In Comeback

The Pittsburgh Penguins have taken a beating this season in terms of injuries, but they've kept chugging along piling up the wins.  On Tuesday, Sidney Crosby returned…

  • Viz
  • January 14, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Huberdeau Becomes Highest Scorer In Florida History

It's safe to say that at 26 years old, Jonathan Huberdeau has plenty of hockey to play in his career.  The scary thing is that he's going…

  • Viz
  • January 13, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Tony Dogs Destroys The Devils

Tony DeAngelo grew up in New Jersey and on Thursday, he had the best game of his career against the Devils.  DeAngelo scored a hat trick…

  • Viz
  • January 9, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

V-V For Varlamov’s Vendetta

I'm a big fan of the revenge game and Semyon Varlamov had one on Monday night against his old team in Colorado.  Varlamov had a 32 save…

  • Viz
  • January 8, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Rising Rantanen

It was only a matter of time until Mikko Rantanen had a big game.  The Finn had his second career hat trick on Saturday, scoring on all…

  • Viz
  • January 5, 2020
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2019-20 Fantasy Hockey

Hope For Hornqvist?

For years, Patric Hornqvist has been an easy hold in fantasy, but last season brought some doubt if the 32 year old would get back to that…

  • Viz
  • January 3, 2020
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