Thursday Night Forwards (TNFs)

So this is going to be a column about fantasy hockey forwards, just some thoughts, notes, maybe a set of power rankings... haven't exactly figured out how I'm going to do this... yet...

Top 100 forwards...
1.   Sidney Crosby
2.   Steven Stamkos
3.   Corey Perry
4.   Alex Ovechkin
5.   Brad Ricahrds
6.   Henrik Zetterberg
7.   Alexander Semin
8.   Patrick Sharp
9.   Bobby Ryan
10. Martin St. Louis
11. Jeff Carter
12. Danny Briere
13. Eric Staal
14. Daniel Sedin
15. Jarome Iginla
16. Anze Kopitar
17. Evgeni Malkin
18. Ryane Clowe
19. Ryan Kesler
20. Dustin Brown
21. Jonathan Toews
22. Scott Hartnell
23. James Neal
24. Logan Couture
25. Dany Heatley
26. Rick Nash
27. Pavel Datsyuk
28. Mike Richards
29. Justin Williams
30. Loui Eriksson
31. Matt Duchene
32. Nicklas Backstrom
33. Derek Roy
34. Ryan Getzlaf
35. Evander Kane
36. Milan Lucic
37. Ryan Malone
38. Brandon Dubinsky
39. Henrik Sedin
40. Paul Stastny
41. Mike Cammalleri
42. Brian Gionta
43. Joe Pavelski
44. Claude Giroux
45. Sean Avery
46. Tomas Plekanec
47. David Backes
48. Andrew Ladd
49. Martin Havlat
50. Teemu Selanne
51. Thomas Vanek
52. Alex Steen
53. Danny Cleary
54. Mikko Koivu
55. Patrick Marleau
56. Johan Franzen
57. Nathan Horton
58. Phil Kessel
59. Mikhail Grabovski
60. Ryan Callahan
61. Brooks Laich
62. Patrick kane
63. Brenden Morrow
64. Ryan Smyth
65. Chris Stewart
66. R.J. Umberger
67. Milan Hejduk
68. Mikael Samuelsson
69. Rich Peverley
70. David Booth
71. Brian Boyle
72. Rene Bourque
73. Andrei Kostitsyn
74. Radim Vrbata
75. Jeff Skinner
76. Anthony Stewart
77. Michael Frolik
78. Kris Versteeg
79. Dustin Penner
80. Chris Kunitz
81. Taylor Hall
82. Steve Sullivan
83. Mike Ribeiro
84. Derick Brassard
85. Joe Thornton
86. Stephen Weiss
87. Sam Gagner
88. Teddy Purcell
89. Nikolai Kulemin
90. Clarke MacArthur
91. Patric Hornqvist
92. Jack Skille
93. Tomas Holmstrom
94. Olli Jokinen
95. Tomas Kopecky
96. Alex Tanguay
97. Sean Bergeneheim
98. Steve Ott
99. Patrice Bergeron
100. Jarret Stoll

There's a formula I used to calculate the power rankings based on everyone's current stats. So obviously, those that perform poorly will slide down, and those that do well will go up. The stats involved are Goals, Assists, +/-, SOG, and PIM. So that's why Sean Avery is so high.

Top 5 Hottest Fowards
1. Loui Eriksson - he's got 8 points in the last four games and 11 in the last eight games. He's also had a +2 and 22 SOG.
2. Corey Perry - he's been scoring points and racking up PIMs this season, turning out to be a monster. 13 pts in the last 7 games to go with 24 PIMs and 35 SOGs. He had a monster five point game against Minnesota and score two goals against Buffalo Tuesday Night.
3. Dustin Brown - he's also got 13 points in the last seven games including a four point night against Colorado on Tuesday. He's been tearing it up as of late
4. Brad Richards - Brad Richards is proving to the Stars management that he doesn't want to go. Eight points in the last 8 games and scoring goals in each of the last three, he's is absolutely on fire right now!
5. Evgeni Malkin - Malkin has scored nine points in 4 games since coming back from injury. He's really turned his game up a few notches and it's shown  in the stat book. Not to mention, ESPN went crazy over his five point night against the Coyotes.

Top 5 Coldest Forwards...
1. Niclas Bergfors - this dude hasn't been playing or even skating for that matter, and somehow, a ton of people own him. It's time to dump him folks, even his team doesn't want him.
2. Jason Arnott - Arnott has not recorded a point in his last six games. Not only that, he has one goal and two assists since Thanksgiving.
3. Matt Cullen - what started as a fantasy point machine in the power play has now become an injury bug. Cullen isn't scoring, much less staying on the ice long enough to do so... time to dump him.
4. Thomas Vanek - Vanek hasn't been THAT bad, 2 goals, an assist in the past six games, but a -3 and only 13 SOG for a guy that's getting paid 7 million to score... he's really not living up to his potential or value right now...
5. Sean Avery - he gets PIMs, only PIMs, except when he's not on the ice to get PIMs, but the fact of the matter is, he's not getting as much ice time as he used to, not only that, his value is going down as fantasy owners realize he's not producing points anymore.

I guess this is all I got for now...