Waiver watch – Final pickups and keeper strategy

Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comApr 15, 2024, 01:00 PM ET

CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard.

It’s a bittersweet moment, as we enter the final stretch of games to preview for the 2023-24 fantasy season.

It’s sweet because, if you are taking the time to read this, you are still playing for something. Whether it’s your fantasy championship or just pushing into a finishing position or winning out your consolation bracket in head-to-head, those are all noble goals and worthy of one final effort to set a winning lineup.

But it’s bitter because, regardless of where you finished in your league, we have a long summer on tap before regular season fantasy hockey returns.

In weekly lineup leagues, you have already been locked into your current lineup since April 8, so there isn’t too much you can do here. But in daily leagues, we still have four more days in which to maximize your fantasy returns.

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You definitely should take one final glance at your games-played restrictions for your fantasy league in season-long formats, as there is a chance — especially if you are a very active player — that you will be pushing up against those boundaries. When you reach the maximum for any one lineup position, you will still get the rest of the starts from the same day, but the position will be locked the next day.

With that said, there is still a lot of opportunity to min-max your roster between now and Thursday in that push for the victory.

There are 26 games remaining on the NHL schedule: eight on Monday, eight on Tuesday, four on Wednesday and six on Thursday. But with the season ending in the middle of the week, there isn’t one last gasp with all teams in action and some will watch from the sidelines.

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Author : Sean Allen

Publish date : 2024-04-15 18:18:59

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