-- Allen, Burakovsky is going to play plenty with his new club in Seattle, at even strength and on the power play. That should prove to be a fairly fruitful gig as well. Whats new. Brett Pesce? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, 12 Team H2H Points: G|A|P|PPP|SHP|SOG|FOW|HIT|BLK|PIM|GS|W, 8T - G/A/+-/PPP/SHP/SOG/HIT/BLK/FOW/FOL/W/SV/SO. The opportunity is there to do something more. That gets to a question asked by reader James K., which Ill paraphrase down to: How much more money is the SEC looking for each game? His 7.66 fantasy points per 60 minutes was 21st in the NHL among skaters. Especially those who don't want to devote as much time, at least to start. These players were among the best in fantasy hockey this season, but how will their second halves fare? Either way, leaving other customizable options (roster size, lineup rules, bench flexibility, IR spots etc.) Top-tier, well-rounded players are extra valuable in battling for a favorable blowout, especially on small rosters. You're the league manager here. With a new season on the horizon and Kadri doubtful to return, there is a wide range of outcomes for Nichushkin in fantasy. While always customizable to your own statistical taste, our default 12-category game presents as follows: Choose your league size, customize the scoring and set the rules you want to follow in order to create the fantasy hockey league you want to play in. Dylan Larkin C. 57 PTS. Which is why ranking worst or near-bottom in a couple of stats, and subsequently earning only a point or two of a maximum of 12, is difficult to overcome, regardless of how well you're faring otherwise. Murray is, however, on the right side of 30 and should be uber-comfortable with goalie coach Jon Elkin on staff -- who has been Murray's go-to mentor since the age of 10. Points. Eliah Drinkwitz got a contract extension last year. What effect will Claude Giroux and Andre Burakovsky have on their new linemates? Play ESPN Fantasy Hockey. alone for now, here's a rundown of ESPN.com's variety of fantasy hockey leagues, available to suit any taste. ESPN's standard scoring settings give out four points for a "Goalie Win," 0.2 points for a save, minus two points for each goal against, three points for a shutout, and one point for an. Bob (Gainey)'s your uncle. Again, margin of victory in individual categories, large or small, matters not. Securing a few "slam-dunk" categories at the expense of one or two others makes greater sense in this particular brand of fantasy play. Well it wont be this year, based on the way-too-early rankings weve already seen unless Billy Napier has a spring transfer portal spree that impresses even the San Diego Padres. -- Matiash, It's not a situation all that dissimilar from the one Campbell parlayed into an all-star appearance with the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. In fact, if theres one criticism to make of Stoops is that he has become too comfortable having gotten Kentucky to respectability. You win that category, full stop. ESPN Fantasy Hockey analysts Victoria Matiash and Sean Allen sort through the biggest free agent deals to help fantasy managers prepare for the 2022-23 season. Campbell posted 3.44 fantasy points per 60 minutes with the Leafs last season, but was much better than that before a series of injuries seemed to derail his play. In no small part thanks to scoring from fantasy outliers Tyler Bertuzzi (44.4%), Robby Fabbri (7.7%), and Pius Suter (0.8%). Especially those who don't want to devote as much time, at least to start. As demonstrated by one club winning the Cup and the other getting knocked out in the first round. Less room for complementary options The deadline for all weekly scoring or stat corrections made by the system is the Saturday following the week of the game in question, during the season. Now it's official: Patrick Kane is a member of the New York Rangers, with an eye on making his debut against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday. Nashville's power play doesn't rival that of the Oilers, which - thanks to Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and friends - ranks tops in the NHL (31.9%). They were saying the 1990s were a long time ago. -- Matiash, After some grumblings about Talbot being unhappy with Marc-Andre Fleury rejoining the Minnesota Wild, the club shipped the veteran off to the Senators in exchange for backup goaltender Filip Gustavsson. -- Allen, This trade for yet another former Soo Greyhounds alumni from GM Kyle Dubas's and coach Sheldon Keefe's former life does seem to signal that the Leafs are out on any of the bigger fish in the goaltending pond and will kick the tires on Murray as their primary starter. There is no Bryan Harsin this year. 29.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, and 6.9 assists per game. Both wild cards have plenty to prove with a top-tier club in T.O. Each category, in direct head-to-head competition, is equal to each other in that goals, hits, blocked shots, whatever-your-fantasy-fancy etc. Floridas last three recruiting classes all rank in the top 25 of the 247Sports Composite (14th this year, 18th in 2022, 12th in 2021), but its respective ranks in the SEC are seventh, 10th and sixth. Almost any SEC program, with the right coach and the right breaks, could find lighting in a bottle for one season, squeak into the Playoff as the third or fourth SEC team who knows, maybe even the first or second and then use that as a springboard to become something more than it is now. Here are the teams with the best and worst schedules remaining, and how you should plan for it. During their two seasons as teammates/linemates in Chicago - 2015-16 and 2016-17 - Panarin and Kane were on the ice together for a total of 190 goals at all strengths and 102 at five-on-five (NaturalStatTrick). But we've seen what can happen if Campbell isn't at his sharpest with last season's latter half. Warren B. Selecting six to eight keepers every campaign is a common tact, still allowing for improvement from outside help at season's onset. Or is ESPN the holdout? A balanced smorgasbord of skilled contributors in all aspects of the game will provide you with the greatest chance of campaign-long success. No one's going to relinquish Connor McDavid as a keeper in 2022, but some very good players will inevitably re-enter the draft in these modified leagues. Absolutely that reality exists for Stoops at Kentucky. Sean Allen provides the latest updates in who's rising, who's falling, and other player trends from around the league. Sanders was the SECs second-leading rusher. That translates into a gig alongside Artemi Panarin, which further projects into an inevitable bump from last season's haul of 1.7 fantasy points/game in ESPN standard leagues. How does a second line composed of Alex DeBrincat, Tim Stutzle and Giroux strike you? Is there a reality in which Kentucky is competing for the 12-team Playoff every so often under Mark Stoops? You've earned 31 shots on goal and your opponent has 30? Guess who's in a playoff spot, with approximately seven weeks to go? You win that category, full stop. Through stints in Florida and Carolina, Trocheck has yet to bust through the point per game mark, but that changes alongside a production machine like Panarin. A 6-5-1 win is just as good as 12-0. It's a small sample, to be sure, but offers a glimpse of what could be with the two snipers flanking Crosby. Otherwise, no need to rush the puck-mover into your fold, unless utterly desperate. Desperate for netminding? Jefferson is the only returning QB who was in the SECs top five in yards per attempt last year. Fantasy Store. Draft him accordingly. And he's skating on a top line with the club's captain and Evgeny Kuznetsov. -- Matiash, Detroit's power play just got better. There are too many fantasy points at stake - in the red and black - to pooh-pooh the position. I think it just means the game is about to start. -- Matiash. Set up a private league to play with your family and friends! 1, a loaded LPGA field and more to watch in golf this week, How to watch PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational on ESPN+, 2022 NHL draft - Fantasy hockey wrap-up and reaction, Fantasy hockey reaction to 2022 NHL free agency signings, trades and more. You'll start fresh with a 0-0 record. The team with the most overall points wins. As for Malkin, he was as dominant as ever for fantasy points last season. It also bears repeating: Goaltenders cannot be shrugged off in any brand of H2H league, including this type, when more than two categories are devoted to the position. His .937 save percentage when he was hurt in December plummeted to .893 for his remaining 26 games, which were also interrupted by another injury in March. Watch on ESPN+. ESPN Kane you believe it? We should also watch newcomer Justin Holiday, a journeyman with 3-point potential who pushed Josh Green to the bench. So you can see why the SEC would try to extract as much as it can from ESPN, probably putting the hypothetical nine-game schedules in front of ESPN and saying: This should be worth X amount of dollars, but if we stay with an eight-game schedule, meaning a loss of these marquee games on an annual basis, youd be leaving X amount of money on the table.. Beating your competitor in hits by a singular check carries equal weight to obliterating them in goals. That rate was second only to, you guessed it, linemate Connor McDavid. While there are many ifs and maybes serving as speed bumps on route to consummating such a deal - never mind an interest in Kane from other teams around the league - ESPN's Greg Wyshynski outlines how such a trade could reasonably unfold involving Vitali Kravtsov, Jake Leschyshyn, draft picks (including a first-rounder in 2024), and a third-party broker. Securing a few "slam-dunk" categories at the expense of one or two others makes greater sense in this particular brand of fantasy play. Join or start a league for free >>. Craig Anderson is not who the Sabres hope will start a bulk of their games this season. But in Josh Heupels second year, he briefly got the program to No. ESPN.com Fantasy Hockey is the closest thing you can find to buying your own professional franchise and becoming the team's coach, team manager and president. Wes K. There isnt really much of a debate the eight-game proponents are out-voted and thus not much need for a compromise. So you've decided to take the fantasy hockey plunge, joining millions of others in enjoying one of the sporting world's best game within a game. Follow your team with FantasyCast and watch streams of your players right in the app. That's a massive gap. Emory K. The Razorbacks would be a sneaky pick to be next years Tennessee if you just went by those two players. counts towards the week's final score, accruing over the course of the season. Please don't draft a singular skater with an impressive plus/minus at the expense of nailing down shots on net. This duo should be just as explosive again as they look to push through to another playoff run. After watching his team lose six-straight - with and without Alex Ovechkin - the GM can hardly be blamed for such a loss of enthusiasm. It's just a matter of whether you feel lucky enough to take the over on him playing more than half the season. Willing to accept the challenge of assembling a roster with little margin for weakness, similar to how it's done IRL? No question, Kane slides into the Rangers' top-six, whether on a line with Vincent Trocheck and his old Blackhawks buddy Artemi Panarin, or alongside Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider. Daily, weekly, yearly (set-it-and-forget-it) - it's up to you. Instead of lining up alongside Nathan MacKinnon or Nazem Kadri, and a winger like Mikko Rantanen, the 27-year-old will be working to gel with a young, future star center like Matty Beniers or Shane Wright (eventually). "Ridiculous chemistry," according to one of my ESPN colleagues. At least as long as John Carlson remains sidelined with a face/head injury (indefinitely, as it stands). 1 power play - a possible option for Sheldon Keefe, but hardly guaranteed - the offensive-defenseman won't benefit from the same quality of chances to contribute as he did in Washington. Managers engaged in this style of contest, where stat egalitarianism reigns, are best served by striving for competitive balance. On the Orlov-less blue line - and on the premise that the Caps don't trade for Jakob Chychrun as loosely rumored - Trevor van Riemsdyk (4.4%) is bound to see a consistent boost in ice-time at even strength and with the extra skater. In the end, I dont think either side will haggle too much, as neither really can afford to alienate the other. Copp is a third-line center in an ideal world, but he has shown an ability to play wing with star forwards when called upon. . Preseason greetings to you too. And where do they rank in terms of best QB-RB duos in the SEC and nationally? 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Even though Seth Jarvis was an underrated addition to the Sebastian Aho-Teuvo Teravainen connection at the top of the lineup, you have to think Pacioretty lands here. Either way, leaving other customizable options (roster size, lineup rules, bench flexibility, IR spots etc.) Then the decision to go with Kevin Barbay as the offensive coordinator was interesting, as Barbay isnt from the Air Raid coaching tree. The Jordan Rashada situation was a black eye, but the Gators do have a commitment from top 50 prospect DJ Lagway, the sixth-ranked QB in the 2024 cycle, and if they can get through the next year or two before Lagway is ready, they could be OK. If you are playing in a deeper league and need to take a late goalie gamble, this might be the spot. But the founding philosophy remains the same: the best overall team by season's end sports the crown. But the founding philosophy remains the same: the best overall team by season's end sports the crown. Meanwhile Giroux -- who potted 0.73 points/game with the Flyers before blossoming to 1.28 in Florida -- is in for a potential 50-assist campaign along with a respectable haul of goals. Long shot for late-round value? hsb.accessibility.skipContent. While dynasty/keeper competition is more kindred to how real teams are run - management doesn't get to start from scratch every year in the NHL - with redraft leagues, there's the benefit of enjoying a clean slate the following season, no matter how badly a current campaign is unfolding. Those are always fun! Create or join a fantasy hockey league, draft players, track rankings, watch highlights, get pick advice, and more! Right now mine show a black box with a P for a goalie, and some red boxes with exclamation points next to some skaters. Since defeating your direct rival 10-2 in a 12 category format is a significantly bigger victory than edging them 6-5-1, you want to give yourself a competitive chance in all/most aspects of the fantasy game. Again, there's no right or wrong way to play ESPN.com fantasy hockey. But Collins seemed to be too much flash and sizzle, while Napier is more understated. What about a compromise of an eight-game schedule with three permanent opponents? Its also going to ratchet up the pressure. 12 Vols lose starting PG Zeigler to torn ACL, Out of dark, Rodgers vows decision coming soon, Survey: Vikes, Fins, Raiders top FA report cards, Lakers' Davis out vs. OKC with right foot injury, Red Wings lock up Larkin with 8-year extension, Kiper's updated NFL mock draft: Who's moving up for a QB? Seth Emerson is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Georgia Bulldogs. Varying from the H2H points formula, so-called "each" category leagues also maintain a committed, loyal following. Winners of seven of their past eight - and averaging 3.88 goals/game - the Red Wings currently find themselves in the East's second Wild Card position. If the Predators don't make a move to bolster themselves down the middle ahead of the trade deadline, Novak should serve as a fantasy gem down the stretch. New to fantasy hockey and looking to join one of ESPN's free leagues for this season, but I'm having a devil of a time finding (a) what categories are tracked in their head-to-head public leagues and (b) the point values for each -- i.e. Never mind if the 28-year-old can stay healthy and withstand the pressure of performing in such a pressure-filled market. Jimbo Fisher still has a $79 million buyout after the season. As for the rest of the staff, you have experienced SEC hands in offensive line coach Will Friend and defensive line coach David Turner and potential rising stars like receivers coach Chad Bumphis. Wednesday note: Still nursing an upper-body issue, Timo Meier isn't expected to make his debut for New Jersey in Colorado. Follow Seth on Twitter @SethWEmerson, Texas and Oklahoma are scheduled to join the SEC in 2024. If you're rocking out in eight or nine of 12 categories, maybe don't sweat penalty minutes, or time-on-ice or the like too much. Draft your team now to play the rest of the Fantasy Hockey season! But those characters are limited in number. Interested in a slow-burn, largely unforgiving league that can't be won in the first few months of the season but certainly can be lost? The expanded Playoff is going to open doors for more SEC programs. By trading away two regulars, GM Brian MacLellan is seemingly expressing a lack of confidence in his club's chances this late winter and spring. We have plenty of managers willing to provide their insight! 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