Some personal news:
In light of today's Tarasenko injury update I've decided that I hate fantasy hockey and need to reevaluate what I'm doing with my life.
Hey
@YahooFantasyCC
now that all of these games have been rescheduled can you please update your schedule to no longer have a 4 week matchup through February? Looks like we can go back to week to week now! 🙏
The
@NHL
announces a comprehensive update to the 2021-22 regular-season schedule. All teams will complete the full season by original April 29 closing date.
Full details:
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@YahooFantasyCC
any particular reason why you made Crosby, Malkin, Hoffman, Price, Malkin, Backstrom etc. "NA" on your fantasy hockey platform instead of "O"? Now nobody in our leagues can put them in their IR+ spots even though they are injured.
@YahooFantasyCC
is there anything we can do to help you come up with more reasonable position eligibilities for hockey? There are currently too many C-only players. Take LA for example. Last year Kopitar's most common linemates were Kempe and Byfield. So how can they all be C?
2) You should be allowed to add/drop players who have already played on a given day. The move would then only take effect for the next day (i.e. the dropped player would still be on your roster today but not tomorrow).
Filed a story on the GM meetings today, but one item of interest: There was a presentation by Colin Campbell that zeroed in on cross-checking. Specifically, which kinds of cross-checks the NHL is going to start cracking down on more.
7 days, 31 teams, 285 players, 65 goalies, 1 Smörgoåliesbord and 40+ hours of recording time later, the Keeping Karlsson NHL 2018-19 Audio Almanac is officially in the can! What an adventure it’s been 🤪🤪🤪
@EASPORTSNHL
when and how will you get serious about keeping racist and misogynist team/player names out of EASHL? Every time I play I end up matching with a team using some variant of the n word in their club/player names and accompanying derogatory imagery
When we started the podcast there’s no way we could have ever dreamed that one day
@DobberHockey
would be tweeting this out.
It’s been an honour to be able to say we’re presented by you for all this time!
Super stoked to be recording our annual episode tomorrow where we take every goalie that we expect to play NHL games next season and put them into tiers.
Happy Smörgoåliesbord weekend all!
We're super excited to announce that
@domluszczyszyn
is going to join us for our next episode that we'll be recording tomorrow night at 9pm ET. You can join us for the show at
With Brian on paternity leave (send your well wishes to
@BK_plus81
) we're super lucky to have the great
@Hockey_Robinson
taking over the co-hosting duties today. It's gonna be a great show and you can join us live at 7:00pm ET:
As 2018-19 fantasy draft season begins, we just want to thank all our fans and sponsors for all of your support and sponsors throughout our 6 seasons and Almanac release and sponsors. We couldn't have done any of it without you and our sponsors and sponsors and sponso
Congrats on an amazing run to our pals at FHP. Fantastic podcasters, nice guys (and, of course, the 👑 s of SEO)
Wishing you all the best with your next big thing. You’ve got a standing invite to come join us anytime you’ve got a take to drop or a podcasting itch
Thank you to everyone that has followed along the past 4.5 years. It's been an amazing journey but for now it's time to say goodbye. You gave us an experience we'll never forget. Thank you again for everything ❤️
Here's a breakdown of our final goalie tiers for anyone interested:
(These of course fully spoil yesterday's Smörgoåliesbord episode / the last chapter of our almanac)
General thoughts on the Stars games getting postponed:
This fantasy season is going to be very strange with luck playing a bigger role than usual. I think it'll be a good opportunity for everyone to just try to have fun and not take the results as seriously as we normally would.
Last night we teamed up with the
@PDOcast
to record a 3 hour preseason extravaganza looking at what's going on with every team!
Part 1:
Part 2 coming tomorrow on the PDOcast feed.
Thanks
@DimFilipovic
🤝
We're super excited to announce that 's
@NHLJensen
will be joining Elan for tomorrow's episode to cover all the fantasy news from the past week.
As always you can join us live at 8:00pm ET:
Trying to wrap my head around the Ryan Suter buyout:
He had 4 yrs left at $7.6M AAV and was bought out.
DAL signed him for 4 yrs $3.6M AAV.
MIN will have cap hits of $2.4M, $6.3M, $7.3M, $7.3M in the next 4 yrs.
Why not trade him to DAL, retain $4M in salary and get a return?
Merry Christmas all! I (Elan) personally don't celebrate and don't have any plans today so happy to take any
#fantasyhockey
questions you want to throw at me throughout the day.
Not often you can get advice from a T1 KKUPFL manager with a 4-5 record right?!
So with Trouba and Myers out the door, Laine and Connor unsigned, and Byfuglien contemplating retirement, how are Connor Hellebuyck owners feeling right now?
Weird feeling to be mid-matchup and then have a 4 day break. I feel like Obi Wan and Qui-Gon when they were fighting Darth Maul and then those laser gates came up and they had to wait before they could keep on fighting.
A partial list of Guys I’ve Got a Good Feeling About going into this
#fantasyhockey
season, in no particular order:
Grubauer
Verhaeghe
Arvidsson
Namestnikov
Klingberg
R. Smith
Palat
Honourable mentions: Buurakovsky, Necas, Kotkaniemi
Who are yours?
Can anyone think of a downside to fantasy platforms easing the restriction of locking players whose teams’ games have started even if they aren’t playing in that game?
I feel like if a player is a late scratch, you should be able to move them to your bench or IR after game start
Two busy nights coming up. My advice regarding sit/start decisions: try not to overthink it. Predicting a single game is such a toss up. My plan is to take a look, go with my gut, and then try not to agonize over the decision once I've made it.
No. 316 - Draft Day Deszczyszyns with
@domluszczyszyn
omg! It's the 1 and only Dom— and we hit the ground running, quizzing him on some of his model’s most controversial projections for 2021. In his defense, he has some..
We waited 500 episodes but finally got
@DobberHockey
himself on the pod to talk about some of the most intetesting projections from his annual guide. Lots of great potential fantasy sleepers for this season!
Decided to take some classic advice from
@NHLStreamScheme
and try to reverse a losing streak by changing my team name.
For your consideration:
Zegrassi: The Next Jenneration
ranking the best D in the league based on the last several hours of
#HockeyTwitter
1. Devon Toews
2. Nate Schmidt
3-185. everyone else
186. Nikita Zadorov
General guidelines to follow when asking for fantasy advice:
1) Share league scoring settings
2) If 2 for 1 trade who would you add/drop? Same with F for D trade.
3) Are there keeper considerations?
4) Who are the top FAs? Useful to gauge a player's value over replacement
At optional morning skate at Staples Center. As Brad Treliving told the boys this morning, no Backlund, Tkachuk, Giordano, Brodie, Hamonic, or Hanifin tonight vs. LA.
Bennett, Quine, Fantenberg, Kylington, Stone, and Valimaki will all come in.
#Flames
The two main schedule related things I look at when drafting are off-days (Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun) and back-to-backs. Here's a handy table with the breakdowns:
Shout out to our sponsor and pals
@Fantrax
for giving us a platform that we can customize to our heart’s content.
And not just for scoring settings.. we update player position eligibilities however we see fit as commishes, rather than waiting for some random determination 👌
For some reason I woke up yesterday thinking we should rank every goalie on the podcast along with our regular content 🙊
The result? A 2:42:00 mega episode! Very curious to hear what you think and whether we went too nuts here. Enjoy :)
Annual reminder that if you're ever considering a 2 for 1 trade, you need to take into consideration who the best replacement level player is and include him in the analysis...
Congrats to the
@FantasyHockeyPD
guys for currently holding down 1st place in the Keeping Karlsson Ultimate Patron League (KKUPFL) T5 Ludwig division.
I guess these guys know what they're talking about afterall ;)