Fantasy Hockey

Will Butcher - D - New Jersey Devils 77% owned on Fantrax The 2016 Hobey Baker winner (the Heisman award for college hockey), Will Butcher has gotten off to a hot start in the NHL. Butcher has eight assists in five games and a plus-five on a suddenly potent New Jersey Devils offense. Butcher was initially drafted by the Colorado Avalanche but after four years of the University of Denver and putting up 103 points in 153 NCAA games in his time, he didn't end up signing with the Colorado Avalanche. Instead, he went to New…

It is never easy to foresee the unforeseen. Injuries happen every day in the NHL, and here at FanTrax, our goal will be to help you try to stay on top of those maladies with our weekly Injury Report. Counting all the latest bumps, bites, and bruises, there were 64 players held out of lineups. Several of those are long-term injuries from a previous year. Those players are likely not going to return or have retired. Here are some of the more notable maladies out there and their possible prognosis. Centers Patrice Bergeron …

It has taken a while for sports to embrace advanced statistics. It really started in baseball when the book Moneyball came out in 2003. Moneyball was about the 2001 Oakland Athletics new approach to baseball where the GM Billy Beane would value players based on stats or sabermetrics rather than what scouts used to just look at players. Although Oakland still has never won a World Series, the Athletics’ went on to win 20 straight games at one point that year with this new method. Soon every team was following suit. Then…