Jeff Hicks
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Jeff Hicks

Read more of my sports and entertainment thoughts on Twitter @jeffrotull44

Fantasy Hockey

The waiver wire in fantasy hockey has been deep with talent this season. It also feels as if now is the deepest it has been in talent that can be added and plugged into your lineup immediately. Some of the depth is coming from younger players, especially forwards, that have

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Fantasy Hockey

The 2014 Winter Olympics hockey rosters have been set for the 12 participating countries. Debating who should and should not be on the teams will go on for days, but the immediate impact the decisions have in fantasy hockey loom large. This is a waiver wire piece, so saying to

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Fantasy Hockey

Happy New Year and welcome to 2014! Hopefully you enjoyed your New Year’s Eve. If you had a little too much fun, nurse your hangover with some waiver wire talk. Your fantasy team may be hurting as much as you are right now, but the fix form your team may

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Justin Peters
Fantasy Hockey

Happy Holidays to all who have kindly chosen to read our waiver wire piece, as well as any and everything else that The Fantasy Fix offers. No matter what or how you celebrate, we hope it turned out as well as you had hoped it would. There have been a

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Fantasy Hockey

Due to the Christmas Holiday, we are simply rolling out an updated rankings list. Stay tuned next week for our mid-season Top-200 rankings! Enjoy the Christmas weekend everyone. Forwards   1. (1) Sidney Crosby 51. (54) Milan Lucic 2. (2) Alex Ovechkin 52. (62) Ryan Johansen 3. (3) Evgeni Malkin

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Martin Jones
Fantasy Hockey

The year of the presumed back-up goaltender continues to be fun to watch as backups to backups are making their mark in fantasy hockey. In nearly two-thirds of the league, second and third string goalies are being asked to keep teams in games and the relevant part of the standings.

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Fantasy Hockey

NHL teams are making the push for respectability heading towards the end of the calendar year. Some annual playoff teams and newcomers to the postseason discussion are mixing and matching lines trying to find another spark to keep from falling back in very crowded playoff pictures. Some of the line

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Wayne Simmonds
Fantasy Hockey

A couple of teams have done well for themselves and are rewarding fantasy teams. The Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers put together good weeks during week eight of the fantasy hockey season. Players such as Taylor Hall, Claude Giroux, and Jakub Voracek, among others, have become relevant again as opposed

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Marc-Andre Fleury
Fantasy Hockey

There are a number of teams in the NHL that have good-to-great goaltending situations with poor records. There are also a number of teams that have average to poor goaltending situations that have good or great records. It never ceases to amaze me how sports in general work in mysterious

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Jan Hejda
Fantasy Hockey

The fantasy graveyard is a fun place to go digging. The waiver wire will always have the usual players ripe for picking, but the fantasy graveyard gives (re)birth to players that belong, or no longer belong six feet under on waivers. This week there are a few players that appear

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