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Hockey's second season, the Stanley Cup Playoff, is set to go Wednesday night. That doesn't leave much time to sort out your picks and call your shot for who is going to win the most storied trophy in all of sports. Iain gave us his Eastern Conference opening round picks earlier, so here I go with the Western Conference. Don't count out the Phoenix Coyotes against the perennial powerhouse Detroit Red ...

With the NHL regular season quickly drawing to a close, we begin to consider how the 2010-11 season could shape up. For fans of the Maple Leafs, and other non-playoff bound teams, all we can do is look to next year at this point. However, here is a list where being number one is not a good thing. If the current top-heavy payrolls are any indication of how teams will fare ...

Consider the Vancouver Canucks, San Jose Sharks, and Chicago Blackhawks rank second, third, and fourth respectively among NHL teams with 225, 218, and 217 goals scored this season. Each of these teams have several offensive fantasy studs—Joe Thornton , Dany Heatley , Patrick Marleau , and Dan Boyle in San Jose, Patrick Kane , Jonathan Toews , Marian Hossa , and Duncan Keith in Chicago, and Daniel and ...

Before you know it, it’ll be time for all you hockey diehards to snap out of Olympic mode and get yourself ready for the home stretch of the NHL fantasy season. With the NHL trade deadline fast approaching, so too are most fantasy leagues’ trade deadlines. Now is the time to cut dead weight and acquire the players who will produce down the stretch. We’ll provide our usual “Buy, Hold, Sell” ...

Is this the beginning of the end for Nicklas Lidstrom? Can Eric Staal find his form in time to make Canada’s Olympic team? Can Matt Stajan and the Toronto Maple Leafs continue their current hot spell?   Buy Eric Staal , CAR, C: Now will be the last chance you’ll have to pry Staal away from that frustrated owner in your pool. Battling injury, the hulking centre struggled out of the gates this ...

Buy Jimmy Howard, check. Hold Dion Phaneuf, check. And, and...sell Alexander Ovechkin? Sell Alex Ovechkin?!? Yep, now is the time. á Buy Jimmy Howard , G, DET á Look out Chris Osgood owners. The numbers tell the tale. Since Nov. 5 Jimmy Howard has six victories for the Wings. How many does Osgood have? Zip. If Howard can mimic Ty Conklin Æs 2008-09 performance and steal the regular-season starting job from Osgood, the addition ...

The second weekend of the 2009-10 NHL regular season is nearly here, and that leaves just a few days before we drop the puck on our new concept NHL Survivor Pool. It works just like a traditional NFL Survivor Pool, but for hockey. Pick a team to win or OTL (overtime loss) its game and you advance to the next week to pick again. If your team loses in regulation, then ...