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The Senators have been a disappointment this season despite their big forward acquisitions in the summer.  Turns out that you can't get away with completely ignoring the blue line and being forced to give bad players big minutes.  Anyways, we don't care about that for fantasy, we care about their scoring, and their top players have largely delivered.  Claude Giroux had a great weekend, totaling three goals and two assists with ten shots over two games.  Giroux is having his best goal scoring season since his monstrous 34 goal, 102 point season in 2017-18.  Unsurprisingly, that season and this season are Giroux's two highest shooting percentages, but it seems a bit more sustainable in this environment in Ottawa.  Even with an inconsistent PP1 role, Giroux has still played his way into being a bottom end hold in all formats.  The one problem is that after Ottawa's game on Tuesday, they don't play again until February 11th.  My biggest point here with bottom end holds over these bye weeks is that you need to know your league format and whether the waiver wire is strong enough that you can drop someone like Giroux to get more games.  In head to head leagues, volume is king, so you can make a case after Tuesday that you can let him go for players with a bunch of games after the All-Star break. In roto, I would hold onto Giroux without hesitation.  Let's take a look at what else happened over the weekend:
One of the most popular names discussed in the trade market lately has been J.T. Miller.  A big reason is because whoever trades for him would have him signed for next season as well.  The main reason is because he's a damn good hockey player and he showed that on Thursday.  Miller had a hat trick and an assist with five shots in the 5-1 win over the Jets.  Miller is on pace for the best season of his career, which says a lot because he was over a point per game two seasons ago.  There's no guarantee Vancouver moves him, but if he does, I'm hesitant to think it would help his trade value.  If anything, I would expect it to hurt.  He gets massive minutes that he might not get on his new team, including top power play time.  I wouldn't necessarily sell high on him, especially two months from the deadline, but it's something to think about.  Here's to hoping we don't have to worry about that.  Let's take a look at what else happened over the last two nights: