Studs & Duds 10/12
Studs & Duds 10/12
Studs
The Crosby Show
We all knew it was only a matter of time until Sid exploded with some nice point totals, and last night was it. The unlucky victims were the Tampa Bay Lightning, who witnessed Crosby score a hat trick, with two of those goals on the power play, and add a power play assist for a 4-point night! He was also a +1, shot 4 pucks on goal and won 14 faceoffs.
Backes Stackes Them Up!
Perennial multi-cat stud David Backes had a great night versus this young season's doormat, the New York Rangers, notching 2 goals, including the game winner and adding an assist. Add a +3 rating, 2 PIM, 3 SOG and 8 FOW to that, and you have the total package. Surprisingly, 0 hits though... But then again, I guess the Rangers would have to actually carry the puck for that to happen!
Rocky Mountain High
The Colorado Avalanche improved to 5-0 after embarrassing the Washington Capitals 5-1 despite being outshot 41-28. Whether it was Semyon Varlamov's 40-save performance, Alex Tanguay's 2 goals, Nathan MacKinnon's 1 goal & 1 assist or Gabriel Landeskog's 2 assists, there is currently lots of fantasy gold on the red-hot Avalanche right now.
Duds
Static Duo?
Washington's normally dynamic pair of Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom put in a pretty lacklustre fantasy performance against the Avalanche last night. Both players went -3 while contributing very little of value fantasy-wise.
Hammin' it up!
Dan Hamhuis conjures up memories of Steve Smith with a rather careless play that results in the dreaded "own goal". Not exactly a fantasy disaster, Hamhuis went -1 while contributing 5 shots, 2 PIM and 2 hits, but a goof like that has to be mentioned in the "Duds" section. Honourable mention goes to Roberto Luongo.
Yaku-Not-On-The-Ice-Tonight!
After contributing absolutely nothing to his NHL squad over the first 4 games, and doing the same for all of his fantasy owners, supposed young gun Nail Yakupov was a healthy scratch against the Leafs last night. Unacceptable.
10th year Keeper League, Fantrax
14 teams, H2H, keep 10, daily starts
G (3), A (2), +/- (1), PIM (0.1), PPP (1), FOW (0.1), FOL (-0.1), BLK (0.5), HAT (3), W (5), SO (3), SV (0.1), GA (-0.5)
C (3) - Schmaltz (LW, RW), Mercer (RW), Norris (IR), Domi (LW), T. Johnson (RW), Nosek (LW)
LW (3) - Keller (RW), Hagel, McCann (C), Zacha (LW), Kubalik (RW), N. Foligno (IR)
RW (3) - Fiala (LW), Vilardi (C), Ehlers (LW), Kakko
D (4) - Theodore, Orlov, Grzelcyk, T. van Riemsdyk, Clifton, Skjei, Weegar
Util (1)
G (1) - Montembault, Allen, Halak
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