FantasyPuck Update: After a lot of discussion and consideration, we have decided not to continue with FantasyPuck this season. FP has been a fun and exciting project for us. What started six years ago with nothing more than a love for hockey and fantasy sports grew into an incredible community of thousands of passionate hockey fans. We’ll always be grateful for everything we were able to build together. I (FP Mike) began FP during the Covid-19 pandemic. Eventually recruiting long-time friends FP Don, FP Chris and FP Sven, we had plenty of free time to curate and develop a fantasy hockey brand. Over the years, continuing to push FP toward growth and becoming a leader in the fantasy hockey space came with a significant commitment. Today, the FP team balances full-time careers, relationships, family & friends and activities that take time away from fantasy hockey. The work that goes into a season felt more and more like a chore than a passion. We feel like the time is right to step back and prioritize other commitments. The Discord will remain open. We’ve built a great community here, and there’s no reason to shut it down. We’ll still be around and hope the friendships and conversations within the community continue. FPPL, although we have seen the excitement for another season, will also not be continuing. The organization, scheduling, administrative work and livestreams still require a significant amount of time and effort that we do not feel we can adequately provide to the community. Similar to our other content, we do not feel like it would be fair to the community to continue without being able to give the level of effort and commitment you deserve. A huge thank you to FP Don, FP Chris, and FP Sven for being incredible friends and teammates throughout this journey. Thank you to all of our moderators, especially Wick3d, who has been with us since the early days, as well as Barzy, Dip, Chadilac, Salty, Soaring Ostrich, Aladoma, Ham and DDH Jake. Thank you to everyone who watched, supported and followed FantasyPuck over these past six years. YOU are what made FantasyPuck special and what kept us coming back each year. We’ll still be around in the Discord, so this isn’t necessarily goodbye forever. Maybe one day we’ll miss it enough to come back. Love you all, and thank you for everything.

Agree with FUFH on this along with the general public. Just an unnecessary move by @YahooFantasy. The gap in popularity of fantasy football and hockey just got larger. Part of the draw for football is not being required to update lineups daily. Yahoo just took that from us in hockey.

Jack Hughes fantasy owners need to be real with themselves over the next 2 months. Our advice would go as follows: If you are comfortably in a playoff spot and have not been hit with the injury bug - HOLD If you are outside of a playoff spot and underperforming, consider selling Hughes for some assets to win 5-6 of the next 8 weeks. Look for a 2nd or 3rd round ADP and some extra pieces.

This year’s Ross Colton? Bolduc makes for a fine add as a bench Fwd on your fantasy teams. Can drop someone along the lines of Laine, McTavish, Lindholm, DeBrusk, Schmaltz.

Surely the #Preds don’t start Brady Martin at 1C in his debut right? I look through that lineup but no other obvious options jump out. Martin is worth an add in a deep league. 2025 5th overall pick.

Something to monitor on Markstrom. He was pretty good value as G14 off the board in #fantasyhockey drafts. Jake Allen also left Monday’s games with cramps so it doesn’t appear to be severe.

Never want to look too deep into preseason stats, but certainly a good sign for Tage, Wyatt and Norris who we have seen drafted frequently. Hendrix Lapierre worth a look in deep leagues as he looks to take another step forward this season.

Luke: 😀 Meier: ☹️ Mercer: 🤨

Blackwood on conditioning loan to AHL. Expect him back before EOW.

Since Rick Bowness took over in #CBJ they have gone 5-1-0. The D has undergone some changes (Mateychuk -> IR, Gudbranson activated, so it’s not quite fair to evaluate the D ATOI changes. On fwd, Kent Johnson is seeing +3 mins ATOI, Fantilli is ~ +1.5 mins. Voronkov has seen the biggest drop (-4.5 mins) since the new coach.

Have not verified this but I believe Boldy put together the best fantasy week of the season this past week. 4 GP 6 G 6 A 5 PPP 25 SOG 2 H 4 BLKS

Sean Walker (#CarolinaCulture) has quietly turned himself into a great bangers D. Only 11% owned on Yahoo, he is one of four D this season with 75+ blocks, 75+ hits and 75+ sog. He ranks 10th amongst all D this season in SOG with 111. Consider him for your D4 or D5 spot in bangers leagues.

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Weegar has been tough to own in #fantasyhockey, particularly in +/- leagues. Despite his drop in production, he is the only skater this year with 50+ shots, hits and blocks.

SOG/gm YoY changes (min. 5 GP this yr., 10 GP last yr.) 1. Cutter Gauthier +2.41 2. Jason Robertson +1.68 3. Corey Perry +1.48 4. Roope Hintz +1.39 5. Jordan Harris +1.35 1. Willy Nylander -1.53 2. Jake Walman -1.52 3. Alex Ovechkin -1.40 4. Warren Foegele -1.13 5. Gus Forsling -1.10

5 Players we were right on this year. #fantasyhockey 1. Cutter Gauthier, ANA - we had been a fan of his SOG rates since last year. He broke out finally and started putting more of them in. We nailed his Assist total but even he impressed us with his Goals (41). 2. Will Cuylle, NYR - his undervalued bangers stats were too much to not promote in preseason. He put up a respectable 20g and had 300+ hits and 60+ blocks. We were bang on with out Pts projection and SOG projection of him. 3. Leo Carlsson, ANA - ducks had plenty of ADP value and Carlsson was called out as a breakout candidate. He outdid our projection by less than 10 pts and set career-highs in most cats. 4. Gabe Vilardi, WPG - not much to be happy about in Winnipeg, but Vilardi finally had a healthy season and notched 30 goals for the 1st time. We were off by less than 10 in goals, assists, points and SOG. 5. Karel Vejmelka, UTA - was called out as a sleeper goalie and finished 2nd in Wins (38) and had amazing volume stats. UTA surprised a lot of folks but we had Vej in our top 10 for Wins, Svs, fpts.

Goals Above Expected Leaders (G-xG). Can be a reasonable indicator of luck but ignores the skill of the shooter. #fantasyhockey 1. Cutter Gauthier (+6.8) 2. Morgan Geekie (+4.8) 3. Cole Caufield (+4.6) 4. Brad Marchand (+4.4) 5. Sidney Crosby (+4.3) 1. Jason Robertson (-5.9) 2. Anders Lee (-5.5) 3. Alex DeBrincat (-3.8) 4. Brandon Hagel (-3.6) T5. E. Malkin/R. Hintz (-3.5)