“Unlocking Hidden Gems: Surprising Fantasy Hockey Takeaways from the Thrilling 2024-25 NHL Season!”
The goaltending market is more volatile than ever
This is by far the most important one. I’ve always been an advocate for drafting goalies early simply because there aren’t enough top-tier ones to go around. Sure, Connor Hellebuyck has been great, and Jake Oettinger and Andrei Vasilevskiy have helped anchor fantasy teams, but players like Igor Shesterkin, Jeremy Swayman and especially Juuse Saros, have been woeful given where they went on draft day.
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Shesterkin has actually played pretty well relative to how bad his teammates have been, but Swayman and Saros have really struggled. What they all have in common is that the Rangers, Bruins and Predators have all woefully underachieved as a team. Among the top 10 in the league in GAA are a player who was so bad he was included in a salary dump trade in the offseason (Darcy Kuemper), a guy on his fifth NHL team who had never played more than 28 games in a single year (Anthony Stolarz) and a goaltender who spent the first quarter of the year playing for the worst team in the league (Mackenzie Blackwood).
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