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The Hockey Writers | All | Fantasy Hockey Draft Rankings: Top 250 |
September 18, 2018 10:17 AM * |
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The NHL regular season begins on Wednesday, Oct. 3, so if you play fantasy hockey, it';s time to set your keepers and prepare for your draft. This article outlines the top 250 players for fantasy hockey to help you do just that. Fantasy hockey rankings are difficult to set, as leagues use different category settings. Some just have points, while others include a number of categories and those categories are often different. To give the best set of rankings possible, I used a weighted approach, with goals and assists being of the highest importance, followed by power-play points, plus-minus and shots, with a small amount of consideration given to hits, penalty minutes and blocked shots as well. The positions listed next to each player are based on eligibility in Yahoo Fantasy Hockey.Top 250 Fantasy Hockey Rankings for the 2018-19 Season: Connor McDavid EDM CNikita Kucherov TB RWSidney Crosby PIT CAlex Ovechkin WSH LWAuston Matthews TOR CEvgeni Malkin PIT CBrad Marchand BOS LWNathan MacKinnon COL CBlake Wheeler WPG C,RWSteven Stamkos TB CTyler Seguin DAL CJamie Benn DAL LWJohn Tavares TOR CPatrick Kane CHI RWTaylor Hall NJ LWAndrei Vasilevskiy TB GConnor Hellebuyck WPG GPatrik Laine WPG RWBrent Burns SJ DPhil Kessel PIT RWClaude Giroux PHI C,LWVladimir Tarasenko STL RWErik Karlsson SJ DDavid Pastrnak BOS RWMark Scheifele WPG CJack Eichel BUF CJohnny Gaudreau CGY LWEvgeny Kuznetsov WSH CMitchell Marner TOR RWVictor Hedman TB DJakub Voracek PHI RWFilip Forsberg NSH LWAnze Kopitar LA CPekka Rinne NSH GJonathan Marchessault VGK C,LWTuukka Rask BOS GArtemi Panarin CBJ LWSergei Bobrovsky CBJ GJoe Pavelski SJ C,RWPatrice Bergeron BOS CDustin Byfuglien WPG DJonathan Quick LA GFrederik Andersen TOR GMikko Rantanen COL RWLeon Draisaitl EDM C,RWMatt Murray PIT GAleksander Barkov FLA CP.K. Subban NSH DRoman Josi NSH DMarc-Andre Fleury VGK GBraden Holtby WSH GMartin Jones SJ GDrew Doughty LA DJohn Gibson ANA GSean Couturier PHI CJohn Carlson WSH DMathew Barzal NYI CJohn Klingberg DAL DAlexander Radulov DAL RWVincent Trocheck FLA CShayne Gostisbehere PHI DEvander Kane SJ LWRyan Getzlaf ANA CJaden Schwartz STL LWSeth Jones CBJ DWilliam Karlsson VGK C,LWDevan Dubnyk MIN GKristopher Letang PIT DDougie Hamilton CAR DBrock Boeser VAN RWBrayden Schenn STL CPatric Hornqvist PIT RWNicklas Backstrom WSH CMax Pacioretty VGK LWSebastian Aho CAR RWViktor Arvidsson NSH RWSean Monahan CGY CTyson Barrie COL DTorey Krug BOS DMikael Granlund MIN C,RWJonathan Huberdeau FLA LWWilliam Nylander TOR C,RWBrayden Point TB CCam Atkinson CBJ RWJonathan Toews CHI CMike Hoffman FLA LW,RWRickard Rakell ANA LW,RWMark Giordano CGY DKeith Yandle FLA DAlex Pietrangelo STL DNikolaj Ehlers WPG LW,RWJames Van Riemsdyk PHI LWBen Bishop DAL GMatthew Tkachuk CGY LWDylan Larkin DET CGabriel Landeskog COL LWJason Zucker MIN LW,RWMark Stone OTT RWLogan Couture SJ C,LWMorgan Rielly TOR DRyan Johansen NSH CRasmus Dahlin BUF DReilly Smith VGK LW,RWEric Staal MIN CBrendan Gallagher MTL RWZachary Werenski CBJ DJeff Carter LA CClayton Keller ARI LW,RWIlya Kovalchuk LA LW,RWChris Kreider NYR LWCarey Price MTL GMike Smith CGY GJake Gardiner TOR DAntti Raanta ARI GWayne Simmonds PHI RWTom Wilson WSH RWJake Allen STL GCraig Smith NSH RWJeff Skinner BUF LWTeuvo Teravainen CAR LW,RWOliver Ekman-Larsson ARI DCam Talbot EDM GMatt Duchene OTT CAaron Ekblad FLA DEvgenii Dadonov FLA LW,RWRyan Nugent-Hopkins EDM C,LWNico Hischier NJ CMathew Dumba MIN DIvan Provorov PHI DAnders Lee NYI LWMats Zuccarello NYR RWRoberto Luongo FLA GKyle Palmieri NJ RWT.J. Oshie WSH RWDustin Brown LA LW,RWKyle Connor WPG LWNazem Kadri TOR CJake Guentzel PIT LWJ.T. Miller TB C,RWPierre-Luc Dubois CBJ C,LWKevin Fiala NSH LW,RWRasmus Ristolainen BUF DJordan Eberle NYI RWRyan Suter MIN DTyler Toffoli LA RWDerek Stepan ARI CScott Darling CAR GKyle Turris NSH CBo Horvat VAN CDuncan Keith CHI DAnthony Mantha DET LW,RWTomas Hertl SJ C,LW,RWKevin Shattenkirk NYR DSemyon Varlamov COL GCory Schneider NJ GJake DeBrusk BOS LWRyan O';Reilly STL CAlex DeBrincat CHI LW,RWRyan Ellis NSH DTravis Konecny PHI LW,RWColin Miller VGK DElias Petterson VAN CAndrei Svechnikov CAR RWJosh Bailey NYI RWJames Neal CGY RWNick Bjugstad FLA C,RWCorey Perry ANA RWMikhail Sergachev TB DMilan Lucic EDM LWJonathan Drouin MTL C,Mikko Koivu MIN CTimo Meier SJ LWYanni Gourde TB C,RWMikael Backlund CGY CJake Muzzin LA DAlex Galchenyuk ARI C,LWTyler Johnson TB C,RWSam Reinhart BUF C,RWJuuse Saros NSH GJoe Thornton SJ CCharlie McAvoy BOS DOscar Klefbom EDM DEeli Tolvanen NSH RWErik Haula VGK C,LWDavid Krejci BOS CBrian Elliott PHI GJakob Silfverberg ANA RWHenrik Lundqvist NYR GJeff Petry MTL DJustin Faulk CAR DFilip Zadina DET LWNick Leddy NYI DCam Fowler ANA DTyler Myers WPG DPatrick Marleau TOR C,LWWill Butcher NJ DColton Parayko STL DAdam Henrique ANA CElias Lindholm CGY C,RWCorey Crawford CHI GCarter Hutton BUF GShea Weber MTL DKeith Kinkaid NJ GThomas Chabot OTT DThomas Vanek DET LW,RWDerick Brassard PIT CDavid Perron STL LWRyan Donato BOS LW,RWJosh Anderson CBJ RWMika Zibanejad NYR CBrandon Montour ANA DCasey Mittelstadt BUF CAlex Tuch VGK RWJacob Trouba WPG DKyle Okposo BUF RWMattias Ekholm NSH DJosh Manson ANA DPatrick Maroon STL LWShea Theodore VGK DNolan Patrick PHI CPaul Stastny VGK CGustav Nyquist DET RWRyan Pulock NYI DMathieu Perreault WPG LWJacob Markstrom VAN GNick Schmaltz CHI C,LWBrandon Saad CHI LWAlexander Steen STL RWAaron Dell SJ GAlexander Edler VAN DJustin Schultz PIT DNino Niederreiter MIN LW,RWOndrej Palat TB LWPhilipp Grubauer COL GJesse Puljujarvi EDM RWJustin Williams CAR RWMike Green DET DMax Domi MTL C,LWDylan Strome ARI CMartin Necas CAR CJack Roslovic WPG CTyson Jost COL C,LWJared Spurgeon MIN DJaroslav Halak BOS GJakub Vrana WSH LW,RWPetr Mrazek CAR GPavel Buchnevich NYR RWJames Reimer FLA GMiro Heiskenen DAL DBrady Tkachuk OTT LW Draft Auston Matthews With the Fifth Overall Pick Connor McDavid should always be chosen first overall in any fantasy hockey draft and some combination of Kucherov, Crosby and Ovechkin are likely to follow in picks two through four. Pick No. 5 is where things get interesting. You can go with a proven elite scorer like Malkin, Kane, Stamkos, Marchand or Tavares, a player that covers a lot of categories like Wheeler or Benn, or one of last year';s big breakout stars in MacKinnon or Hall. All are decent choices but my pick is Auston Matthews.Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews (Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports) Matthews will have just turned 21 years old entering the season and has the talent to be a Hart Trophy candidate. He was a point per game player last season, scoring 34 goals and 63 points in 62 games (that';s a 45-goal pace for an 82-game season). That was despite playing on the Maple Leafs'; second power play unit and facing the opponent';s best defenders. In 2018-19, with a boost to the top power-play unit and with Tavares taking some of the opposition';s attention away, 50 goals, 40 assists and 300 shots are not unreasonable targets for Matthews and it';s that high ceiling that has me taking him fifth overall in fantasy drafts.Target Rookies in the Late Rounds of Your Draft A number of rookies made big impacts to fantasy hockey rosters last season, including Clayton Keller, Matthew Barzal and Brock Boeser. Towards the end of your draft, rather than grabbing a mediocre veteran, it';s better to take a chance on a rookie with high upside. My rankings have Rasmus Dahlin, Elias Petterson, Andrei Svechnikov, Eeli Tolvanen and Filip Zadina as the top rookies to target, followed by Ryan Donato and Casey Mittelstadt and then a stack of them in the 235-250 range.Position Scarcity is Important As soon as the draft ends, the value of centres plummet and the value of goalies skyrocket. There are plenty of good centres and very few good goalies available. Wingers and defencemen fall in-between. My recommendation is to get at least one of the top 12 goalies, and then as soon as the top centres are gone (everyone up to Anze Kopitar), focus on filling out the rest of your goalies (three is usually a good number for standard leagues), your wingers and defencemen and then start to pick centres again.Andrei Vasilevskiy #88, Tampa Bay Lightning is the top-ranked goalie for fantasy hockey (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)Fantasy Hockey Resources The Hockey Writers has a dedicated fantasy hockey page that you can keep an eye on for more content and advice. Goalie Rankings and Draft Strategy and Defencemen Rankings are also available. You can compare my rankings with other experts using Fantasy Pros Expert Consensus Rankings. Daily Faceoff and Leftwinglock are also excellent resources as they update starting goalies and line combinations on a daily basis. As fantasy hockey expands in popularity, NHL.com now has a dedicated fantasy page as well. The post Fantasy Hockey Draft Rankings: Top 250 appeared first on The Hockey Writers. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHockeyWrite... --- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32 * Origin: TequilaMockingbird Online - Toms River, NJ (1:266/404) |
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