Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: December 16th – 22nd

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 12/12/2019 (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. Jack Eichel (100% owned). 15 game point streak for Eichel as the Sabres have now won three straight.
2. Steven Stamkos (100% owned). Six goals and nine points over his last two weeks including 34 SOG and 3 power play points.
3. Ben Bishop (99% owned). Three wins over his last five games with a shootout and just seven goals allowed.

3 players who are cooling off

1. Brent Burns (94% owned). This. Is. Bad. 10 games without a point and a -8 over that time.
2. PK Subban (71% owned). It’s been a LONG time since PK had a point, it’s also been eight games since he posted a + in the game.
3. John Gibson (91% owned). Just 1 win over the last four starts with 10 goals allowed during that time.

3 free agent pickups (under 50%)

1. Troy Terry (0% owned) – He’s up 2 minutes in ATOI as he is seeing time on the top line with Devin Shore and Ryan Getzlaf. He has 5 shots in his last three games and two assists in his last four games.
2. Chandler Stephenson (10% owned). He has an assist, +1 a SOG and four hits over his last two games since he joined the Vegas Golden Knights. He is on a line with Max Pacioretty and Mark Stone right now.
3. Alexander Georgiev (32% owned). Jake is playing every other game for the blues, he’s allowed less than 3 goals in each start with one shutout.