Hopefully everyone is off to a quality start in their fantasy hockey pools. I’ve won one and lost one week in the HBSL; I swear it’s the week two curse! Both of my head to head leagues I have come out of the gate in great shape, 9-1-2 and 12-2-1. I’m in the middle of the pack in my rotisserie pool and holding down last place in my keeper pool as expected! The rebuild is coming along gloriously as I made two bold trades this weekend that I will share.

Trade one: I found myself with a few extra defensemen and thought perhaps I can do a 2 for 1 trade and get a decent forward in exchange. After some back and forth I was able to get Ghallagher in exchange for Demers and Chychrun. The deal should help both teams as we include all stats in this pool; I was short on forward depth and he was short on defensive depth. Time will tell!

Now for the doozy of a trade…

Trade two: John Gibson + Josh Morrissey I traded away in exchange for Logan Couture, Matthew Tkachuk and Clayton Keller. This was a big trade as goalies are not easy to get your hands on, but with the return giving me some juicy prospects in Tkachuk and Keller I felt confident that Couture was going to help me for years to come and once these two prospects ripen they should help bring me the title down the road.

Who’s hot?

Richard Panik
Zach Wereneski
Thomas Vanek
Travis Konency
Victor Rask
Jeff Petry
Matt Read
Tanner Pearson
Jonathan Machessault
Sebastian Aho
Artem Anisimov
Brandon Carlo
Michael Matheson

A few goalies worth noting:

Peter Budaj (LA)
Jacob Markstrom (VAN)
Jimmy Howard (DET)

Games played this week:

2 games:
Colorado

3 games:
Anaheim – Arizona – Boston – Carolina – Chicago – Columbus – Dallas – Edmonton – Minnesota – Nashville – New Jersey – New York Islanders – New York Rangers – Ottawa – Pittsburgh – San Jose – St Louis – Vancouver – Washington

4 games:
Buffalo - Calgary – Detroit – Florida – Los Angeles – Montreal – Tampa Bay – Toronto – Winnipeg

5 games:
Philadelphia

*may be worth looking at Philadelphia player(s) if you are in a head to head this week*

Starting goalies:

Philadelphia (Steve Mason) vs Montreal (Carey Price)
Calgary (Brian Elliott) vs Chicago (Corey Crawford)

Be sure to set your HBSL lineups before the first game of the week!

Thanks for reading.

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