Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: November 18th – November 24th

Welcome to the 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 11/15/2019 (there is no separation for home vs. away since the season is so young).
• 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. Leon Draisaitl (100% owned). Five assists the other day as he now has 16 points across the last two weeks and six power play points.
2. Patrick Kane (100% owned). It was only a matter of time, Patrick now has six goals (fourth most in NHL) and eight assists over the last two weeks, he’s +5 and has 4 power play points.
3. Carey Price (99% owned) Three wins in his last four games and an average of 2.7GAA over that time.

3 players who are cooling off (not panicking on any of them)

1. Brayden Point (100% owned). Brayden has two assists over his last five games with one hit and one blocked shot.
2. Seth Jones (96% owned) Seth is part of the larger CBJ struggles so far. Over the last eight games, where Columbus has gone 1-7, Seth has three assists and is -6. He has no goals across 15 shots.
3. Pekka Rinne (98% owned) Pekka has started in three of the last five games and he has just 1 win and has allowed 4+ goals in two of those three starts.

3 free agent pickups (under 50%)

1. Matt Calvert (14% owned) – He is currently sitting on the top line with Joonas Donskoi and Nathan MacKinnon. He has one goal and three assists over the last four games.
2. Ryan Dzingel (18% owned). Ryan has been bumped to the top line with Jordan Staal and Warren Foegele. Ryan is also heading up the top PP unit with Andrei Svechnikov, Teuvo Teravainen, Sebastian Aho and Dougie Hamilton. He has one goal and four assists over his last seven games including a +2.
3. MacKenzie Blackwood (9% owned). People bought in and then retracted, he now has three wins in his last five starts and he’s allowed 3 goals or fewer in four of those five starts.