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First and foremost I wanted to mention that Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop was hurt last night in Pittsburgh when they lost 4-2 to the Penguins. Evgeni Nabokov will likely get the start as the Lightening are in Philadelphia tonight. For those of you (like myself) who took Bishop this week in the HBSL are going to take a hit in fantasy points; hopefully the rest of your roster this week were solid picks and can keep you afloat as the week goes on. For those of you who are Tampa Bay fans; I’m sure you realize how big of an impact this could be for your team going forward. Best wishes to you as I for one hope that Bishop is back in net later this week as the Lightening have 4 games this week. As for the Jets; they have lost defenseman Jacob Trouba until February with an upper body injury.
Categories:
Goals: Tyler Seguin (23) Rick Nash (18) Steven Stamkos (17) Vladimir Tarasenko (17) Evgeni Malkin (15) Phil Kessel (15) Joe Pavelski (15)
Assists: Jakub Voracek (26) Sidney Crosby (26) Claude Giroux (26) Ryan Getzlaf (23) Evgeni Malkin (22) Tyler Johnson (22) Mark Giordano (22) Micklas Backstrom (22) Kevin Shattenkirk (22)
Points: Tyler Seguin (38) Evgeni Malkin (37) Jakub Voracek (37) Sidney Crosby (35) Steven Stamkos (34) Claude Giroux (34)
Plus/minus: Filip Forsberg (+24) Vladimir Tarasenko (+17) Tyler Johnson (+17) Nikita Kucherov (+17) Mike Santorelli (+17) TJ Brodie (+16)
Penalty minutes (I’ll add their points to show their fantasy worth)
(forwards) Steve Downie (116 PIM) 15 points Cody McLeod (71 PIM) 4 points Derek Dorsett (66 PIM) 10 points Brandon Prust (64 PIM) 8 points Antoine Roussel (62 PIM) 15 points
(defense) Eric Gryba (58 PIM) 5 points Mark Borowiecki (58 PIM) 2 points Dion Phaneuf (50 PIM) 16 points Travis Hamonic (48 PIM) 6 points Simon Despres (44 PIM) 6 points Kevin Bieksa (44 PIM) 5 points
Power play points:
(forwards) Evgeni Malkin (16 PPP) Claude Giroux (16 PPP) Sidney Crosby (16 PPP) Steven Stamkos (16 PPP) Nick Foligno (14 PPP)
(defense) Kevin Shattenkirk (16 PPP) Sami Vatanen (13 PPP) Erik Karlsson (13 PPP) Keith Yandle (13 PPP) Kris Letang (11 PPP)
Shorthanded points:
Tyler Toffoli (4) Jannik Hansen (3) Rick Nash (2) Jonathan Toews (2) Tyler Bozak (2)
*about 20 others*
Game winning goals: Tyler Seguin (4) Patrick Kane (4) Filip Forsberg (4) Alex Ovechkin (4) Lars Eller (4)
Shots: (top 10 with scoring %) Alex Ovechkin (135) 10.4% Erik Karlsson (120) 5.8% Tyler Seguin (118) 19.5% Claude Giroux (116) 6.9% Joe Pavelski (116) 12.9% Max Pacioretty (112) 11.6% Vladimir Tarasenko (109) 15.6% Dustin Byfuglien (106) 6.6% James Neal (104) 10.6% Radim Vrbata (103) 11.7%
Face off leaders: Manny Malhotra (62%) 329/531 Martin Hanzal (58.9%) 225/382 Pavel Datsyuk (58.5%) 186/318 Lars Eller (58%) 173/298 Patrice Bergeron (57.8%) 394/681 Paul Gaustad (57.5%) 199/346 Joe Pavelski (56.6%) 252/445 Jonathan Toews (56.4%) 369/654 Joe Thornton (56.4%) 244/433 David Backes (56.3%) 227/403
If there are any other stats you would like to know about please ask in the comments section.
Starting Goalies:
(TBL) Nabokov VS (PHI) Mason (ANA) Andersen VS (TOR) Bernier (CAR) Ward VS (MTL) Price (CBJ) Bobrovsky VS (DET) Howard (WSH) Holtby VS (FLA) Luongo (BUF) Neuvirth VS (WPG) Pavelec (BOS) Rask VS (NSH) Rinne (LA) Quick VS (STL) Allen (MIN) Kuemper VS (CHI) Raanta (NYR) Lundqvist VS (CAL) Ramo (EDM) Fasth VS (ARI) Dubnyk
remember: bold is starting; italics is probable
Best of luck in tonight’s games and thanks again for reading!