Fantasy Hockey Forecaster: February 1st - 7th

Welcome to my weekly Fantasy Hockey Forecaster! In here you’ll find:

• Top 3 waiver wire adds (among all players under 50% rostered Yahoo)
• Top 3 players who have gone “cold”
• Each team’s schedule ranking, based on opponent’s points allowed, where the #1 ranked team plays teams allowing the most points so far this season

Top 3 Waiver Wire Adds (under 50% rostered)

• Tanner Pearson, LW (Van) 14% rostered — Pearson has four points (two goals and two assists) over the last week. He’s on the Canucks second line with Bo Horvath and Nils Hoglander. He’s also on Vancouver’s second PP unit.
• Vincent Trocheck, C (Car) 26% rostered — Carolina has put together a respectable second line with Trocheck, Nino Niederreiter and Martin Necas. It will be streaky but this last week Trocheck had three points including two PPP.
• Jordan Eberle, RW (NYI) 14% rostered — Eberle is on the Islanders top line with Martin Barzal and Anders Lee. He’s also on their top PP unit. The Islanders are going to produce a ton of points but this will be their best line.

Top 3 players gone cold (over 50% rostered)

• Mika Zibanejad, C (NYR) 97% rostered — Zibanejad is pointless across the last week with 13 SOG. To be fair the entire Rangers team is struggling out of the gate.
• Jonathan Huberdeau, LW (FLA) 99% rostered — Huberdeau has just one assist across his last three games but even more bizarre he has only three total SOG across that time. Hopefully with a favorable schedule that will turn around this week.
• Brady Tkachuk, LW (OTT) 96% rostered — Tkachuk has just one assist on the last week across three games (15 SOG). He did have 13 hits in the last game alone.