Fantasy Hockey Week 21 Team Forecast

Goals Against - a low ranking means they let in lots of goals (Ottawa is letting in 3.16 goals against per game, they are ranked #1).

Goals for - the lower the ranking the more the team scores (Washington  is scoring the most goals for per game at 3.36 and is the number 1 ranking).

So you want to face a team with a low GA and a high GF. This is based off this seasons goals for and against, it will be updated as the season progresses to be a larger aggregate of this year.

Number of games this week:

4 Games: Arizona Coyotes, Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Blues and Washington Capitals.

3 Games: Anaheim Ducks,  Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Dallas Stars, Florida Panthers, Montreal Canadiens, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, New Jersey Devils, Ottawa Senators,  Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lighting,  Toronto Maple Leafs,  and Winnipeg Jets

2 Games: Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks.

Favorable Offensive Matchups:
Detroit Red Wings. Only two games but against Columbus and Colorado both in the bottom ten in goals allowed per game. Pavel Datsyuk is heating up, a week for him to continue his scoring.
Vancouver Canucks. Two home games against Ottawa and San Jose who are in the bottom 11 (Ottawa is the worst defensive team). Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin are playing well as is Jannick Hansen (7% owned) and Bo Horvat (7% owned).
Ottawa Senators. They are on the West Canada trip playing at Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary who are all in the bottom 12 in goals allowed. Edmonton and Calgary are in the bottom 5.

Unfavorable Offensive Matchups:
Arizona Coyotes. Four games. All on the road. They face Washington (2^nd best defensive team), then Tampa Bay on back to back nights (7^th best defensive team) and Florida (Best defensive team) before  a respite against Philadelphia who is "just" average defensively.
Minnesota Wild. Four games. The middle two back to back on the road against Philadelphia and Washington. The book ends against the Islanders and Florida. Three of the four games are against top ten defensive teams.
Columbus Blue Jackets. Four games (seeing a trend here). Half of them are on the road. Boston is in the bottom ten but the next three Detroit, New Jersey and Florida are all in the top ten defensively.

Favorable Defensive Matchups:
San Jose Sharks. They have 4 games this week and 3 of them are away (St. Louis, Colorado and Vancouver) while the home game is against Buffalo. All of them except Colorado are scoring fewer than 2.43 goals per game. Martin Jones should fare well.
Los Angeles Kings. Four games. Calgary, Edmonton and Buffalo are all scoring less than 2.29 goals per game among the worst 8 teams in the league. A good week for Jonthan Quick.
Philadelphia Flyers. They got Michael Neuvirth back for a fortunate week. They are at Carolina and home against Minnesota and Arizona. The first two are in the7 worst offensive team scoring fewer than 2.46 goals per game.

Unfavorable Defensive Matchups:
Vancouver Canucks. Great week for their offense, terrible for Ryan Miller. Ottawa and San Jose are the 7^th and 4^th best offensive teams in terms of goals scored this year.
Winnipeg Jets. Three games and the first two are a home and away stint against the Dallas Stars, the last one is against the Penguins who are one of the best offensive units right now.
Calgary Flames. They had an easier week last week, now they face LA, Islanders and Ottawa who are all top ten offensive units this year.  They are all scoring 2.79 goals per game or better. Jonas Hiller will be on an uphill climb.