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Victoria Matiash, Fantasy HockeyOct 10, 2024, 01:37 PM ET
CloseESPN.com Fantasy Contributor since 2010Part-time anchor at NEWSTALK1010
Setting the benchmark at six games — when another 20 teams, at minimum, are idle — we charted which clubs are booked to compete on so-called slower nights, from Oct. 10 to Oct. 31. Here’s a quartet of teams to recognize in that respect, when deciding which available players to stream, all else being equal. Obviously you’re not shuffling in a fourth-liner over a scoring star just because of how the schedule plays out.
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Colorado Avalanche
No other team in the NHL earns greater amplitude of the viewing spotlight this October than the Avalanche, playing on six so-labelled lighter nights. That’s a sizable chunk for only a three-week span — one that could pay tangible fantasy dividends in all H2H competition.
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Beyond the team’s fantasy heavy hitters, Jonathan Drouin is again slotted on a top unit and power play with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen. While that configuration should change once a gaggle of prominent forwards — Artturi Lehkonen, Gabriel Landeskog, and Valeri Nichushkin — return, not one of the aforementioned is expected back until November, at earliest. Stashing any one of the three on IR, while rostering Drouin in the meanwhile, is one strategy. If the IR option isn’t in play, the veteran winger still merits an immediate whirl in deeper competition. Once settled in alongside MacKinnon last year, Drouin earned 48 points — more than a third of them on the power play — in his final 53 contests, including 16 goals.
Second-line center Casey Mittelstadt appeals as (again, likely for the time being) a member of the Avs’ top power play. And keep an eye…
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Author : Victoria Matiash
Publish date : 2024-10-10 18:37:50
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