All 2nd Half Stars & Stinkers

Alright, well you know what they say, "timing is everything"... and that's why this is nothing really as a good time to put this out would have been sometime in January around when the typical All-Star break happens but without an All-Star break this year we got a little fat & lazy and forgot about this.  Well, better late than never as we get quite a few questions about guys like this...

2nd Half Stars 

These are the guys who make a habit of turning it up after the all-star break (typically late January)... we won't ask them what they were doing in the 1st half.  Here's our All 2nd Half Stars Team:

F - Pavel Datsyuk - career ppg: .92 pre AS break, 1.10 post AS break.  Over his career, March has been his best month, by far (1.18 ppg).  

F - Brad Richards - career ppg: .87 pre AS break, .98 post AS break.  His numbers have increased post break in 6 of the past 7 seasons. 

F - Daniel Briere - career ppg: .75 pre AS break, .87 post AS break.  His career numbers in March & April (.91 ppg combined) are far better than any other months.  

Honourable mentions amongst the forwards go to Patrik Elias (.82 pre, .92 post, with a career .96 ppg in March), Scott Gomez (.77 pre, .89 post), Jason Pominville (.76 pre, .85 post, increased the past 3 years) and Mike Ribeiro (.70 pre, .79 post, increased the past 3 years).

D - Mike Green - career ppg: .65 pre AS break, .76 post AS break.  His numbers have increased post break in each of the past 2 seasons.  

D - Mark Streit - career ppg: .52 pre AS break, .69 post AS break.  His numbers have increased post break in each of the past 3 seasons.  

Honourable mentions amongst the Dmen go to Pavel Kubina (.42 pre, .44 post, increased 4 of the last 5 years), Nicklas Lidstrom (.72 pre, .77 post, increased 3 of the last 4 years), and Ryan Whitney (.49 pre, .68 post, increased in each of his four seasons). 

G - Marty Turco - career numbers: 2.38 gaa & .909 sv% pre AS break, 2.10 gaa & .916 sv% post AS break.  His numbers improve post break every year.

Honourable mentions amongst the goalies go to Henrik Lundqvist (pre: 2.42, .915  post: 2.14, .922) and Marc-Andre Fleury (pre: 2.96, .904  post: 2.57, .913).

2nd Half Stinkers 

Here's the guys that always seem to go south after the all-star break and smart fantasy GMs will be looking to unload these guys soon.  Here's our All 2nd Half Stinkers Team:

F - Marc Savard - career ppg: .96 pre AS break, .78 post AS break.  His numbers have decreased post break in each of the past 5 seasons.

F - Ilya Kovalchuk - career ppg: 1.07  pre AS break, .95 post AS break.  His numbers have decreased post break in 3 of the past 4 seasons.  

F - Daniel Alfredsson - career ppg: 1.02 pre AS break, .94 post AS break.  His numbers have decreased post break in 5 of the past 7 seasons.

D - Dan Boyle - career ppg: .64 pre AS break, .55 post AS break.  His numbers have decreased post break in 3 of the past 4 seasons.

D - Zdeno Chara - career ppg: .46 pre AS break, .36 post AS break.  He's a plus-91 in his career in months other than March... in March he's a minus-21.

G - Ryan Miller - career numbers: 2.45 gaa & .918 sv% pre AS break, 2.85 gaa & .906 sv% post AS break.  His numbers have gone south post break in 3 of the past 4 seasons.