Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: March 25th – March 31st

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 3/14/2019.
• 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. Aleksander Barkov (94% owned) Four goals and six assists over his last five games played to go with a power play goal and assist as well as a +3.
2. Matthew Tkachuk (93% owned) Five goals and four assists across five games. +8!....8! He’s shooting 23.8% over this time.
3. Andrei Vasilevskiy (99% owned) Four starts, four wins.

3 players who are cooling off

1. Artemi Panarin (99% owned) over his last six games he has no goals, three assists and a -3.
2. Evander Kane (89% owned). No points over his last four games and a -2.
3. Frederik Andersen (97% owned) Five starts, just one win and 18 goals allowed over that span.

3 free agent pickups (under 50%)

1. Jordan Staal (20% owned) Three goals and two assists over his last five games as well as a plus six.
2. Andreas Athanasiou (20% owned) Five goals and two assists over his last seven games including a power play point and 41 face-offs won.
3. Philipp Grubauer (40% owned) Five starts and four wins and one shutout. He’s allowed two goals or less over his last six starts.