Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: October 22-28

Welcome to this week’s Fantasy Hockey Forecaster. In here, you’ll find:

• Each team’s ranking for goalies, forwards, PK and PP against the other teams in the league. As of now it’s so early in the year that we are using last year’s total stats to run this off.
• Three players who are on fire (this might not even be points wise, it might be an uptick in play that signals to me they are on the cusp of some point production)
• Three players who are cooling off (this will also include players that aren’t materializing the way we expect)
• Three free agent pickups (among all players under 50% owned, preferably some in the single digits and some that are close to 50 to feed all different sizes of leagues).
• The schedule which will show each team they play and what the individual rankings are for each matchup, this is more useful in the daily leagues where you are looking at individual matchups

Let’s begin!

3 players who are on fire

1. Gabriel Landeskog (89% owned). Despite the Avalanche dropping two of their last three, Gabriel has scored in each one putting up four goals and two assists in three games (two ppp) to go with 12 SOG.
2. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (75% owned). If I told you he has two goals and four assists in the last three games would the notion of him being on Connor McDavid’s line cross your mind? You would be correct! He also has three power play points over this three game win streak for the Oilers.
3. Sebastian Aho (97% owned). Sebastian now has points in EVERY GAME this year. Seven games, four goals, eight assists as well as a +8.

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3 players who are cooling off

1. Erik Karlsson (100% owned) He will find his way but it has not been pretty thus far, over his last week he has 1 assist, a -1 amidst 8 shots on goal. Over this time period San Jose went 1-2.
2. Jakub Voracek (98% owned). Philly has lost two of their last three and over that time Voracek has no points, a -2 across seven shots and not a whole lot else to show for it.
3. Max Pacioretty (83% owned). Over his last three games, Max has no points across 8 shots and a -2. At least he has seven hits.

3 free agent pickups (under 50%) …grumble grumble Brady Tkachuk out for a month.

1. Tyler Johnson (44% owned). After a cold start in Tampa Bay (3 goals in their first two games) they have since won three straight scoring a combined 15 goals. Tyler has five points across those 15 as well as a +5. He’s on a line with Nikita Kucherov which might be helping him…a bit.
2. Warren Foegele (8% owned). The rookie out of New Hampshire (and the Kingston Frontenacs) has three goals and two assists in his last five games. He has cemented himself on Jordan Staal’s line and while he’s not bringing in plus/minus or power play points, he is shooting the puck a lot so 20 goals this season is not unattainable.
3. Ron Hainsey (10% owned). You know how people will naturally hang out with famous actors in effort to elevate their own careers? 37 year old Ron Hainsey is on the top Toronto line and showing he can still hack it with a Toronto team that is replete with talent. The outcome of this is two goals and two assists in his last five games to go with seven hits, six blocked shots and a +6.