Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: December 3rd – 9th

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. These stats are as of 10/23.
•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.) Patrick Laine (100% owned) 12 goals in the last six games to go with three power play goals, five hits and five blocked shots. Surprisingly the Jets have lost three of those six games.
2.) Nathan MacKinnon (100% owned) Six goals and nine goals across the last six games in addition to six power play points and a plus seven.
3.) Marc-Andre Fleury (98% owned) Six games won across seven games including two shutouts.

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3 players who are cooling off

1.) Evander Kane (94% owned) Three points in his last eight games (including 1 point in his last five games) to go with 26 PIM and a -3. He has no goals in his last 8 shots (and just 1 shot in each of his last three games).
2.) Brad Marchand (100% owned). Four points in his last nine games to go with -3 and 22 PIM (if your league punishes those)
3.) Devan Dubnyk (94% owned). No wins and three loses

3 free agent pickups (under 50%)

1.) Nick Ritchie (7% owned). Sitting on Anaheim’s 2^nd line with Adam Henrique and Ondrej Kase, he has four goals and four assists in his last eight games including 1 power play point and a plus six. As always he provides hits with 18 hits!
2.) Noah Hanifan (29% owned). He has two goals and four assists in his last six games as well as three power play points, eight blocked shots and eight hits.
3.) Curtis McElhinney (37% owned). He has stepped in as the number 1 goalie in Carolina, he has four wins in his last four starts each with fewer than three goals allowed.

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