Note: Submitted questions have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Brett Pesce? And enjoying this great game through a fun bonus lens from late summer until it all wraps up in the spring. Schools in the soon-to-be-former SEC East have had some particularly weak home schedules lately. Again, margin of victory in individual categories, large or small, matters not. Watch on ESPN+. For many then, keeper competition - middle ground between an all-in dynasty and turn-the-page redraft play - suits best. 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. Then this brand of fantasy play might be for you. Create a League. You win that category, full stop. 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. ESPN 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 most popular game in ESPN's fantasy hockey universe pits individual managers against others in weekly head-to-head fisticuffs with a slew of weighted points at stake. Even if the organization does veer in that direction, I still like his chances of remaining in the top six. What effect will Claude Giroux and Andre Burakovsky have on their new linemates? That said, maybe the kids are ready to go or maybe Jack Roslovic is all the Jackets need given the elite talent on either side. Draft your team now to play the rest of the Fantasy Hockey season! It's only a matter of time, in my view, that the 25-year-old is tossed onto a top power play with Filip Forsberg, once the prominent winger returns. Believe it or not, that secondary trio posted a better goals per 60 minutes rate than the combination of Brad Marchand, Bergeron and Pastrnak. The main issue was how much more the SEC could get by opening up the TV contract. Goaltenders also tend to decline sharply in their mid-30s and Talbot just turned 35. There was a 14% increase in GAA for tired teams vs rested teams compared to 2 rested teams facing off. Kuemper edged on performing as a top-five fantasy goaltender in Denver. It's not too late to play! Loading up on specialists in one category is much less useful than in other forms of H2H play. Dylan Larkin C. 57 PTS. -- Allen. In direct competition with every other manager at all times, striving for a share of points available based on standings in individual categories, squandering one or two can prove catastrophically costly. But don't doubt for a second that he has the role and the chops to be among the best selections in your draft. Up front, led by Ovechkin, this is still a highly competitive bunch. Having a gander at affairs back in Illinois, it's worth noting that Andreas Athanasiou (rostered in 1.5% of ESPN.com leagues) is skating on a top line and power play, and scoring, with Max Domi right now. Fantasy Store. This type of league operates in similar fashion to "each" category competition except - and this is a Zdeno Chara-sized exception - whichever manager emerges with the weekly victory wins 1-0. If so, he's easily a top-75 skater for fantasy. Please don't try to convince yourself otherwise. While Washington's power play ranks middle of the NHL pack (21.3%), the team's top unit does most of the heavy lifting. But those characters are limited in number. Follow Seth on Twitter @SethWEmerson, Texas and Oklahoma are scheduled to join the SEC in 2024. New coach Derek Lalonde has a lot more work with -- Dominik Kubalik, and defenders Ben Chiarot and Olli Maatta also signing up in Detroit -- than he did only hours earlier. You have reached ESPN's Australian edition. These players were among the best in fantasy hockey this season, but how will their second halves fare? Right now mine show a black box with a P for a goalie, and some red boxes with exclamation points next to some skaters. Split 16 ways, that's almost $69 million in broadcast revenue to each SEC school, while . Attendance is a factor, too: Schools will have a much easier time selling season ticket plans to a home schedule that features at least a few of the elite powers. H2H Points. In fact, his overall scoring numbers got a significant boost this past season, compared with 2020-21. Emory K. The Razorbacks would be a sneaky pick to be next years Tennessee if you just went by those two players. in a 12-team/10-category league translates into 12 of a possible 12 points. You should, considering we're emerging from a good stretch of being subjected to substantiated rumors of the star forward heading to Manhattan by way of trade. For example, Ottawa's Brady Tkachuk checks a bunch of valuable boxes, night in and night out, in fantasy leagues that reward both scoring and physical play. I think theyre just excited for the season to begin. By no means a gateway league, Roto competition best suits managers with strong fantasy stomachs. In 563 career NHL games over eight seasons, all with Detroit, he has scored 169 goals . Sanders was the SECs second-leading rusher. Tennessee is already a good example. Back in Illinois, Max Domi - and his fantasy managers - would appear a loser should he remain in Chicago without his elite top-line pal. 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. Remember, he's spent his career playing with a couple of guys named Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos! The jump that Tennessee made last year, particularly in the transfer portal era, is one that almost any SEC program can make. It's one thing to point to the . While Nurse is largely spoken for, Bouchard remains available in nearly 40% of ESPN.com leagues. But there's inarguably a greater sense of satisfaction with enjoying fantasy success on the blades of a roster built over time, from rebuild to peak performance. Regardless, winger Jimmy Vesey is out of there. Beating your competitor in hits by a singular check carries equal weight to obliterating them in goals. But don't forget that when Schultz was called upon to be his team's primary PP quarterback for half of 2016-17, he answered the bell in a big way. Barring a curveball from left field, one of Darnell Nurse or Evan Bouchard is in position to replace Barrie on that vicious top special teams' unit. Adam Henrique, Trevor Zegras and incoming rookie Mason McTavish can all play center. Managers engaged in this style of contest, where stat egalitarianism reigns, are best served by striving for competitive balance. Whether in roto or head-to-head, the schedule matters as we hit the home stretch of the 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. There is some risk baked into most of his projections though, so just outside the top 50 feels like the right spot. Thats a program that had been in the wilderness for years, nationally irrelevant except to be made fun of for coaching searches. But I think this landing spot drops Gaudreau in the rankings as life without an Elias Lindholm type at his side is going to be a bit rougher. Beating your competitor in hits by a singular check carries equal weight to obliterating them in goals. Exactly. But Tarasenko hasn't exactly lit it up - two goals, two assists in nine games - since landing in New York anyway. I think it just means the game is about to start. And enjoying this great game through a fun bonus lens from late summer until it all wraps up in the spring. Only more so. 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. Unless he replaces Morgan Rielly on Toronto's No. The total value of the ESPN-SEC deal is now believed to be $811 million annually, which we learned via some good soul at the Florida State board of regents. Travis S. Probably as good as could be done under the circumstances. Draft your team now to play the rest of the Fantasy Hockey season! If the ex-Capital is already on your fantasy roster, let it breathe a minute, and gauge where he fits in. In stride with this formula, skaters who shoot regularly, score plentifully, and contribute often on the power play, qualify as fantasy royalty. Barbays offense at Appalachian State, which was more balanced but also relies on misdirection, ranked second in the Sun Belt last season. Top-tier, well-rounded players are extra valuable in battling for a favorable blowout, especially on small rosters. 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. Seth has been covering Georgia since 2010, joining The Athletic from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and he also covered the Bulldogs for The Albany Herald from 2002-05. (Im including Oklahoma and Texas in that because in 2024, those are two of the teams Florida will be competing with.). But thats a general prediction that will stray away from specific predictions. Stay on current site or go to US version. Ill set the over/under of coach firings before January at one. Less room for complementary options While the situation remains fluid - Domi himself could still be dealt - there's a solid argument, supported by a goal in each of his past two games, to be made for streaming Athanasiou in the meantime. -- Allen, The Senators' top six has a very different look to it than it did only days ago. that werent foreseen when the original contract was signed. Anton Forsberg hasn't been a slouch of late either, so it's not as if Talbot is strutting into a 3,500-minute role here. 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. Setting aside what the Volunteers might have done in the playoff, merely making it would have been great exposure for recruiting and inspired Volunteers fans to offer up donations that could be translated to the school providing any resources (facilities, staff, etc.) Women's Champ Week predictions: Which teams will win the auto bids in all 32 conferences? . He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. 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. It's hard to see a fit on the Wings top line that is currently penciled in as Dylan Larkin, Tyler Bertuzzi and Lucas Raymond. Larkin, 26, leads the Red Wings in scoring this season with 22 goals and 35 assists for 57 points in 59 games. 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. The assumption is that right now, under the pre-expansion contract ESPN and the SEC signed in 2020, there is a pro-rata exemption in which ESPN would pay for 16 teams worth of inventory, according to what it agreed to pay for 14 teams worth. You just have to be good enough to win 10 games, or preferably 11, but the right 10 games could do it. For the home squad, after missing four games with a (second) head injury, defenseman Cale Makar could return to Colorado's lineup against the visiting Devils. In no small part thanks to scoring from fantasy outliers Tyler Bertuzzi (44.4%), Robby Fabbri (7.7%), and Pius Suter (0.8%). Doesn't matter who you have up front. Most total points wins the week 1-0 - no fuss, no muss. 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