Fantasy Hockey Scouts: Daily Dosage - Nov 18th, 2009
Dosage Express
Redden on the PP... Kovalev not sucking as bad... Legward's totals increase by 60%, in one game... Ovie's back, Semin's out... A closer look at Seguin and Hall.
Daily Diarrhea
Just an interesting stat we noticed while putting together our FSOTW... Tomas Vokoun has only five wins, but three of those came thanks to shutouts. Moral of the story? The Panthers suck balls.
The Rangers played Wade Redden on the point of the PP. He played 1:39 with the man advantage last night & had zero points. It sounds like Torts is liking Redden these days, so he should get some extra PP time in the short term at least... which will increase his rock bottom value a bit. Redden was a big time disaster last year and he's only picked up five points in 20 games this season. Expect another season with around 25 points.
It's offical, Nikita Filatov has been loaned to CSKA of the KHL for the rest of the season. Dump him in one year leagues but hang onto him if you have the bench space in keeper leagues.
Alex Kovalev might be coming out of his slump a bit. After a dreadful five points in October (12 games) he's picked up five in six November games. This guy is a mystery wrapped in an enigma who knows what's coming next?
Excuse me? David Legwand scored 1+2=3 last night? That's can't be right. We'll awaiting word that NHL.com is experiencing technical problems but until then, he's increased his season totals from five to eight. Probably just did it to screw us over for picking him as a breakdown in the FSOTW this week.
Legwand's linemate, Joel Ward, also had the same game (1+2=3) and he upped his totals to nine points. With only 35 points in 79 games last year you shouldn't be expecting much. Having Legwand and Ward on the 2nd line is one of the big reasons the Preds can't score.
Injury Updates (see our Injury Updates page for a consolidated list of injuries):
Alex Ovechkin made his long awaited debut last night and didn't waste anytime as he picked up his 15th goal on the PP. You know what to do.
One comes back, one goes out. Alex Semin was out last night with a sore wrist. Doesn't sound too serious but he's a bit injury prone so this comes with the territory.
Devin Setoguchi missed last night's game with problems stemming from the same leg that caused him to miss seven game before returning for four. Todd McLennan said The Gooch is day-to-day.
Jose Theodore missed last night's game for personal reasons. No details were given but he'll only miss one game. Proceed as normal.
Joni Pitkanen (LBI) and Scott Walker (UBI) missed last night's game and did not travel with the Canes on their road trip. Sounds like they'll miss a couple of games at least. More info as we get it, but their production shouldn't be too hard to replace.
Daily Distraction
What's distracting us today? If you don't have Hockey or Die bookmarked yet, you really should. Jonathon Willis does a great job over there and it's worth a daily look. He just posted on the 2010 Entry Draft and specifically about Central Scouting picking Tyler Sequin over Taylor Hall for the #1 spot. Our consolidated draft list has Hall at #1 and Seguin at #3 behind Cam Fowler... but with Seguin going nuts, that should change in our next look.
So with Seguin stepping up those lottery picks are going to become doubly important. 1st and 2nd overall should pretty much have equal value now. So that also doubles the chances that Brian Burke messed things up royally.
Take a look at this list Willis compiled... gives you a much better idea of how good Tyler and Taylor could be:
- Sidney Crosby: 87G – 135A – 222PTS
- Patrick Kane: 88G – 117A – 205PTS
- Sam Gagner: 54G – 128A – 182PTS
- Tyler Seguin: 87G – 77A – 164PTS
- Taylor Hall: 69G – 79A – 148PTS
- Steven Stamkos: 78G – 63A – 141PTS
- Bryan Little: 54G – 86A – 140PTS
- Bobby Ryan: 49G – 69A – 118PTS
- Joshua Bailey: 35G – 82A – 117PTS
- Chris Stewart: 49G – 66A – 115PTS
- Cody Hodgson: 48G – 54A – 102PTS
- Mikkel Boedker: 38G – 58A – 96PTS
- Jordan Staal: 34G – 48A – 82PTS
- Benoit Pouliot: 35G – 44A – 79PTS
Ahhh Benoit Pouliot... we picked you up in a fantasy league one day. It seems so long ago.
If you feel ripped off because you didn't get a video in today's distraction then have a look at this commercial from the Sharks. We loved Dan Boyle before and now we love him just a bit more:
(stick tap to Fear the Fin):
Gotta love a good doppler radar joke.
Q; Is Claude Giroux getting time playing as a center or is he strictly a right winger?
With center eligibility, he could become quite the fantasy commodity.
Thanks for your continued insights guys.
Posted by: Keith | November 18, 2009 at 05:28 AM
Hey Keith,
From what we can tell he's been playing a lot more on the wing than at C. On Monday he didn't play any C but the Flyers are constantly changing things so it's tough to keep things pinned down.
We're not really not too worried about where he's playing as much as we're worried about who he's playing with.
On Monday he played quite a bit with Powe and Asham (ugh) but he did take a few shifts (mostly on the PP) with Richards and Hartnell (now we're talking).
We would love to see what he could do with a consistent spot with two talented linemates, but it's looking more and more like we won't get our wish.
Hope that helps.
Posted by: TheScouts | November 18, 2009 at 05:31 PM