fantasy-hockey Stories - Second City Hockey
Battle of California Fantasy Report: Week 8
Premier Match-up Anzeholics Anonymous vs. McSorley's Stick Anzeholics wins 10-4! MVP: Kari Lehtonen is good this year? I feel like I've slipped into an alternate dimension. LVP: No points this week for Evander Kane. In this match-up between the first and last place teams in our league,...
Pekka Rinne out 2-4 weeks, Nashville Predators recall Mark Dekanich
UPDATE: Bryan Mullen of The Tennessean quotes a Preds official as saying Pekka will be out 2-4 weeks. From the Nashville Predators: Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has recalled goaltender Mark Dekanich from Milwaukee...
Nashville Predators Fantasy Hockey Update
With just five goals scored in their last five games, the Nashville Predators aren't exactly tearing up the fantasy hockey leagues right now (well, except for Pekka Rinne, who has played well of late). At this point in the season, however, it's hard to pick quality performers off the waiver wire,...
Nashville Predators Fantasy Hockey Update
With the Nashville Predators constantly finding fresh bodies to fill gaps opened due to injury, it can be difficult to keep on top of which players are getting the greatest opportunity to contribute to your fantasy hockey lineup. Follow after the jump as we take a look... Note: I've moved this...
Battle of California Fantasy Report: Week 6
Premier Match-up Slappyville Freezers vs. Setoguchi's Revenge Setoguchi's Revenge wins 9-3! MVP: Tim Thomas decided to play well again this week. LVP: Brian Elliott had three losses and a 6.15 GAA this week. That dude sucks. Michael Del Zotto was -7 this week, and that still didn't keep...
Battle of California Fantasy Report: Week 4
Premier Match-up Anzheholics Anonymous vs. Slappyville Freezers Slappyville wins 11-2! MVP: The dynamic duo of Backstrom and Backstrom keeps rolling. LVP: Brian Campbell had a knee injury and a bunch of zeroes this week. This was a match-up between the leading teams in each division, and the...
Fall into the Gap: Fantasy Hockey Versus GVT, Goaltenders
Goalies are a different bird, and the fantasy and GVT rankings are no exception. Overall, this is a little bit different analysis because we're working with a much smaller number of player; this is especially true because I still wanted to cut out anybody that played fewer than 25 games (to get...
Fall into the Gap: Fantasy Rankings Versus GVT, Defensemen
In the end, I simply had to split forwards, defensemen, and goaltenders because Yahoo did not want to see them eye-to-eye. Once again, we're looking at the divergence between more-popular views of valuable players (via fantasy hockey) versus a stats-oriented look at valuable players (via GVT). ...
Fall into the Gap: Fantasy Rankings Versus GVT, Forwards
Really, this post is an extension of a larger argument between those who are adamant that they were counting what really matters all along and those who have seen hockey analysis as an evolving, academic process. For the moment, the former has dominated the argument when it comes to fantasy...
Battle of California Fantasy Report: Week 3
Premier Match-up Anzeholics Anonymous vs. BROWS Anzeholics Anonymous wins 12 - 1! MVP: A strong week from Giguere locked up all the goalie categories for the Anzeholics. LVP: BROWS' best goalie is Ryan Miller, who had a poor week. This wouldn't be so bad if his other goalie wasn't Craig Anderson....
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