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Ultimate Fantasy Pool Guide 2017-18
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THAT SEVENTIES LEAGUE
IN APRIL 1976, at Canadian Superior Oil’s downtown Calgary office, Marc Lee’s eyes were opened to the world of playoff pools. Lee had been brought down to the office by his father to act as a ringer, the elder Lee enlisting the then-18-year-old’s vast hockey knowledge to gain an upper hand. As Lee watched businessmen become NHL front-office gurus, assembling all-star casts of playoff-bound players, he knew he had to find a way to build a pool of his own. “I was sold on it,” Lee recalls. “I had never seen anything like that before. I came back and told my friends about it and we found ourselves in Lang Ellison’s basement doing our draft a few days later.” Now, 41 years after the inaugural draft, from which four of the league’s…
ULTIMATE GUIDE TEAMS
OUR NHL TEAM section gives you the information you need to challenge in your hockey pool. The key component is point projections. The team breakdowns begin here, with the league-wide scoring forecasts on pages 132-135 and goalie projections on page 136. POINTS-O-METER Our visual gauge offersa graphic representation of anticipated scoring totals for players who are expected to be regulars. POWER ZONE 2016-17 team leaders in power play points, penalty minutes, hits and blocked shots. DEPTH CHART The pecking order of how the roster stacks up. Line combinations and defense pairings will vary greatly by early October. TOP 10 PROSPECTS Prospects are listed in terms of long-term NHL upside. Candidates for this year’s roster in bold. Stats are from 2016-17. SLEEPER OR BUST When it comes to that late fantasy pick, this player could either make you look like a…
DO YOUR DRAFT ONE DAY AT A TIME
THERE’S NOTHING WORSE than taking Steven Stamkos with your first draft pick and finding out two weeks later he’s out for the season with a knee injury. There’s nothing better than drafting Stamkos and knowing for sure he’s going to be in your lineup that night. OK, there’s also nothing better than finding out an opponent in your fantasy league picked Stamkos and lost their first-round pick for the season, but what we’re trying to describe is the basic difference between a season- long draft and a daily draft. If you’re not familiar with how standard daily drafts work, it’s simple. You pick a team of nine skaters and a goalie, and stay within the salary structure. The more fantasy points a player is projected to get, the higher his salary. There are…
FABULOUS & 40 & ON THE CLOCK
IF JAROMIR JAGR, Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan and Matt Cullen don’t play another NHL game, they’ll still never be able to say they were cheated. Hockey’s cast of fabulous 40-somethings have had remarkable pro careers that go back more than two decades. Regardless, that doesn’t mean they’re ready to pack it in. But they were on the outside looking in as the first few weeks of free agent season passed. And that meant they were still UFAs as deadline for the Ultimate Fantasy Pool Guide arrived. Jagr, 45, has played for eight NHL teams since he was an 18-year-old rookie back in 1990. He wants to keep his career going and even resorted to social media and humor to get that message across. Iginla, 40, is still looking for that elusive Stanley…
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