Thursday Night Forwards (1/13/11)

TNF's once again

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


NEW: Nikolai Kulemin, Tuomo Ruutu, Blake Comeau, David Jones
OUT: Taylor Hall, Todd Bertuzzi, Ryan Callahan, Anthony Stewart

Biggest Movers: Patrice Bergeron(↑33), Clarke MacArthur(↑26), Jeff Skinner(↑22), Jarret Stoll(↑18), Mikhail Grabovski(↑13), Patrick Kane(↑13), Phil Kessel(↑12), Teemu Selanne(↑11), Jamie Benn(↑11), Evander Kane(↓11), Rene Bourque(↓11), Rich Peverley(↓12), Derick Brassard(↓12), Joe Pavelski(↓13), Michael Frolik(↓13), Derek Roy(↓14), Brooks Laich(↓15), Andrei Kostitsyn(↓16), Danny Cleary(↓19),  Dustin Penner(↓22)

Hot 5:
1. Patrice Bergeron - Had a five game point streak coming into today with six goals and four assists over that span
2. Danny Briere - Has a five game goal streak coming into today with a total of 11 points in the past six games
3. Blake Comeau - four goals in the past five games and six points in that span
4. Henrik Zetterberg - had an 11 game point streak going into last night with 6 goals and 10 assists in that span
5. Daniel Sedin - past 7 games, 7 goals, 3 assists... and he's on fire...


Cold 5:
1. Mike Cammalleri - he's been out with a strep throat, but he hasn't scored a goal in almost a month.
2. Alexei Kovalev - He's got three points in the last month and hasn't played recently due to his knee acting up
3. Alexander Semin - he's been injured, on and off the ice, and only has two assists in the past month... if he were healthy, he'd be good, but he's not
4. Alexei Ponikarovsky - he's been getting scratched and hasn't been scoring
5. Milan Lucic - only one assist in the past month, and has pissed the past couple games...


Guys flying under the radar: Drew Stafford, Marco Sturm, Patrik Elias, Mark Recchi

Evaluating the previous week's 3 S'S

Here's how I'm scoring myself.
For Studs
+1 if they performed like a stud
0 if they performed like a solid
-1 if they performed like shit

For Solids
+2 if they performed like a stud
+1 if they performed solidly
0 if they performed like a sleeper
-1 if they performed like shit

For Sleepers
+3 if they performed like a stud
+2 if they performed solidly
+1 if they performed like a sleeper
0 if they performed like shit

Forwards

Studs (1/8) - less players need to epically fail...
Steven Stamkos: 0G, 1A, -3, 4PIM, 9 SOG - epic fail (-1)
Ryan Kesler: 4G, 2A, +4, 15 SOG - epic awesomeness (+1)
Mikko Koivu: 1G, 1A, -1, 4 PIM, 12 SOG - he was just coming off a 4 assist game... and it didn't carry over... but he barely qualified as a solid (0)
Sidney Crosby: 1A, +1, 2 PIM, 2 SOG - if he was on your team last week, you were probably pissed, not because he played like shit, but because he played only one game! (-1)
Henrik Sedin: 5A, 4PIM, +4, 5SOG - barely missed out on stud-like numbers (0)
Martin St. Louis: 2G, A, -2, 20SOG - also barely missed out on stud-like numbers, but the shot count is impressive (0)
Daniel Sedin: 5G, 2A, 2 PIM, +4, 17 SOG - now this is a stud! (+1)
Eric Staal: 2G, 2A, +1, 4PIM, 18 SOG - Stud-like numbers (+1)

Solids(17/29)
Brad Richards: 4A, +2, 8 SOG - solid, but not stud-like (+1)
Jeff Skinner: 3G, 1A, +1, 10 SOG - see comment above (+1)
Tuomo Ruutu: 1G, 4A, +3, 2PIM, 7 SOG - almost stud-like numbers! (+1)
Stephen Weiss: 1G, 1A, -1, 10 SOG - almost.... solid numbers... (0)
Anze Kopitar: 4A, -2, 4PIM, 8 SOG - barely solid numbers... (0)
John Tavares: 3G, 1A, +1, 17 SOG - Stud-like numbers (+2)
Phil Kessel: 3G, 1A, -1, 21SOG - definitely stud-like numbers (+2)
Logan Couture: 1 G, +2, 2 PIM, 24 SOG - not many points, but the SOGs carried him this week (+2)
Joe Thornton: -6, 4 PIM, 10 SOG - definitely played like shit (-1)
Zach Boychuk: 1G, 1A, 9 SOG - nope, definitely played like shit (-1)
Johan Franzen: 1G, 1A, +2, 0PIM, 12 SOG - almost, but not quite (0)
Paul Stastny: 6 SOG - that's the end result after last week... damnit... (-1)
Matt Duchene: 1G, +1, 7 SOG - if only his performance last night had come a game earlier (-1)
Brandon Dubinsky: 4A, +3, 6PIM, 8 SOG - solid numbers (+1)
Mike Santorelli: 1G, 2A, 11 SOG - barely solid numbers (+1)
Shane Doan: 1G, 2A, +3, 2 PIM, 9 SOG - solid (+1)
Patrick Sharp: 4G, 2A, 4PIM, +3, 14SOG - MONSTER MONSTER WEEK! (+2)
Ryan Malone: 1G, 1A, -3, 4PIM, 10 SOG - almost, but not quite (0)
Ryane Clowe: 1G, 1A, 5 PIM, 10 SOG - barely qualified to be a solid (+1)
Drew Stafford: 1G, 3A, +2, 4PIM, 8 SOG - good solid numbers (+1)
Martin Havlat: 2G, 2A, +1, 2PIM, 15 SOG - stud-like numbers(+2)
Patric Hornqvist: 3G, 2A, +4, 2PIM, 13 SOG - phenomenal week (+2)
Dany Heatley: 2A, -1, 20 SOG - it's the SOG that got him the solid numbers (+1)
Dustin Brown: 1G, -3, 4 SOG - absolute shit (-1)
Henrik Zetterberg: 1G, 2A, +2, 2PIM, 12 SOG stud (+1)
David Booth: 1G, 2A, -4, 10 SOG - barely sleeper numbers (0)
Jeff Tambellini: 4PIM, +3, 10 SOG - not bad, but not solid (-1)
Antti Miettinen: DNP (-1)
Rick Nash: 2G, 1A, +1, 2 PIM, 17 SOG - Stud numbers... (+2)


Sleepers(32/40)
Patrick Marleau: 1G, -3, 8 SOG - sucked.... (0)
Michael Frolik: 3A, +3, 2 PIM, 16 SOG - stud-like numbers... (+2)
Brian Boyle: -1, 8 SOG - sucked... (0)
Travis Zajac: 1A, -1, 0PIM, 5 SOG - sucked... (0)
Jonathan Toews: 1G, 2A, +1, 2 PIM, 16 SOG - solid like numbers (+2)
Zenon Konopka: -3, 5PIM, 7 SOG - not enough fights... (0)
Vincent Lecavalier: 2A, -5, 2 PIM, 13 SOG - the +/- killed him (0)
Jason Arnott: 1G, +1, 9 SOG - not enough points (0)
Olli Jokinen: -5, 2 PIM, 11 SOG - sucked... (0)
Evander Kane: -1, 4 SOG - got injured... (0)
Christopher Higgins: 2G, 1A, +2, 6PIM, 7 SOG - solid-like numbers (+2)
Alexandre Bolduc: -1, 3 SOG - terrible (0)
Dave Bolland: 1G, 4 SOG - nope (0)
Justin Williams: 1G, 2A, +2, 4 PIM, 12 SOG - solid numbers (+2)
Dustin Penner: 1G, 1A, -1, 3 SOG - nope... (0)
Mikael Samuelsson: 2 PIM, -1, 8 SOG - nope (0)
Marian Gaborik: 1A, 12 SOG - nope... (0)
Jamie Langenbrunner: -1, 8 SOG - nope... (0)
Patrick Kane: 2G, 3A, +2, 15 SOG - stud numbers (+3)
Marian Hossa: 2G, 3A, +4, 13 SOG - stud as well... (+3)
Andrew Brunette: 0G, 1A, -2, 2 PIM, 4 SOG - sucked.. (0)
Tomas Kopecky: 1G, 3A, +3, 2 PIM, 11 SOG - pretty damn solid (+2)
Chuck Kobasew: 1G, -2, 4 SOG - just not a good week for the Wild (0)
Kristian Huselius: -4, 5 SOG - garbage... (0)
Pat Dwyer: 2A, -1, 7 SOG - eh... (0)
Patrik Elias: 1 G, 3A, +1, 2 PIM, 8 SOG - surprisingly solid numbers (+2)
Loui Eriksson: 4A, +3, 5 SOG - somebody stop this dude, he's been on fire with the pts (+1)
Matt Moulson: 2G, 1A, 2 PIM, 9 SOG - solid numbers (+2)
Pierre Parenteau: 2A, -2, 2 PIM, 5 SOG - uh... no (0)
Ray Whitney: 4 SOG - really? (0)
Brenden Morrow: 1G, 3A, 5 SOG - sleeperesque... (+1)
Erik Cole: 3G, 2A, +4, 6 PIM, 10 SOG - damn... stud numbers (+3)
Bryan Bickell: 2A, +2, 6PIM, 5 SOG - sleeper numbers (+1)
Sergei Samsonov: 3 SOG - r u kidding me? (0)
Scottie Upshall: 2G, +1, 6 PIM, 10 SOG - pretty solid numbers... (+1)
Mason Raymond: 2A, +3, 9 SOG - sleeper numbers (+1)
Ilya Kovalchuk: 1G, 2A, -1, 11 SOG - sleeper numbers (+1)
Raffi Torres: 2A, 2PIM, 3 SOG - decent, but not quite (0)
Jamie Benn: 2G, -1, 2PIM, 11 SOG - almost, but not quite (0)
Alex Burrows: G, 4A, +4, 4 PIM, 9 SOG - sick, sick week (+3)


Defensemen

Studs(0/3)
Christian Ehrhoff: 3A, +1, 13 SOG - solid, but not stud-like (0)
Kevin Bieksa: G, 2A, +3, 4 PIM, 10 SOG - stud-like numbers (+1)
Dustin Byfuglien: 2PIM, -1, 17 SOG - what a bust... (-1)

Solids (/7)

Brent Burns: -1, 4 PIM, 11 SOG - complete bust... (-1)
Kris Letang: 3A, +1, 9 SOG - sleeper stats (0)
Shea Weber: 1G, 3A, +6, 4 PIM, 6 SOG - HE HAS EXPLODED! (+2)
Mike Weber: 5 PIM, 1 SOG - only played two games... (-1)
Keith Yandle: A, +3, 12 SOG - sleeper-like (0)
Dan Boyle: 1A, -4, 6 PIM, 10 SOG - sleeper (0)
Nicklas Lidstrom: 2A, +3, 2 PIM, 4 SOG - sleeper (0)


Sleepers(9/12)
Tobias Enstrom: 1G, 3A, -2, 2 PIM, 4 SOG - sleeper stats (+1)
Zdeno Chara: 1A, 10 PIM, 12 SOG - in reality, that game misconduct elevated him from solid to stud for last week (+3)
Jamie McBain: 3A, -3, 2 PIM, 6 SOG - not really that good.... (0)
Dion Phaneuf: 4 PIM, 5 SOG - eh... (0)
Alexander Edler: 2G, 2 PIM, +1, 8 SOG - solid - (+2)
Drew Doughty: 2A, 6 SOG - almost, but not quite (0)
Pavel Kubina: 1A, -2, 4 PIM, 3 SOG - nope... (0)
Matthew Corrente: -1, 2 SOG - he played only one game... and did nothing... (0)
Tim Gleason: 1A, -3, 6 PIM, 5 SOG - eh... (0)
John-Michael Liles: +2, 6 SOG - nope... (0)
Dan Hamhuis: 2A, +3, 4 PIM, 6 SOG - for a defenseman... his is pretty solid (+2)
Joe Corvo: 3A, -2, 12 SOG - barely sleeper stats (+1)


Goaltenders

Studs(-1/3)
Cam Ward: 2 OTL, 6 GA, 57 saves - just a lotta bad luck... (-1)
Tim Thomas: 1 OTL, 3 GA, 39 saves - had only one start... (-1)
Jonas Hiller: 2 W, 2 SO, 2 GA, 84 saves - monster week... (+1)

Solids(-1/3)
Ondrej Pavelec: 1 W, 1 OTL, 11 GA, 82 saves - eh... (0)
Rick DiPietro: 1 W, 1 GA, 13 Saves - just had to get injured.. (-1)
Antti Niemi: 0W, 7 GA, 94 saves - couldn't win a single game... but almost solid numbers (0)

Sleepers(3/4)
Niklas Backstrom - injured (0)
Steve Mason: 4GA, 20 saves - had to get injured as well... (0)
Ryan Miller: 2W, 5GA, 99 saves - had a monster week (+3)
Craig Anderson: 1 OTL, 5 GA, 54 saves - just couldn't win a game... (0)

Deep Sleeper(3/1)
Corey Crawford: 3W, 8 GA, 97 saves - had a sick, sick, week (+3)

Eh... it's the first week of actually analyzing... generally when I pick my team, using the above formula they actually work out. For reference, he guys I went with in my weekly league are in bold. One guy not listed is Jack Johnson, whom I picked up due to salary cap constraints. Well, let's see how next week works out!

3 S'S, albeit, a bit late

So here's this week's 3 S'S. Sorry about the late timing. Hopefully this week I can also post a review of last week's picks. This week, I actually do have them ranked in order of how well i believe they will do this week


Forwards
Super Stud
Daniel Sedin

Studs
Mikhail Grabovski
Alex Ovechkin
Danny Briere
Ryan Kesler
Patric Hornqvist
Phil Kessel
Mike Richards
Brandon Dubinsky
Shane Doan


Solids
Kris Versteeg
Henrik Sedin
Jeff Carter
Patrick Sharp
Scott Hartnell
David Backes
Alexander Steen
Nikolai Kulemin
Henrik Zetterberg
Alex Burrows
Clark MacArthur
Eric Staal
Sergei Kostitsyn
Brad Boyes
Scottie Upshall
Ales Hemsky
Drew Stafford
Martin St. Louis
Bobby Ryan
Taylor Pyatt
 Justin Williams
Anze Kopitar
Patrice Bergeron
Ryan Smyth
Ville Leino
Marian Gaborik
Nicklas Backstrom
Rick Nash
Teemu Selanne
Nathan Horton
Patrick Kane
Marian Hossa
Matt D'Agostini
Jarome Iginla

Sleepers
Sean Avery
Milan Hejduk
Martin Havlat
Eric Fehr
Logan Couture
Jonathan toews
Milan Lucic
Alexander Semin
Johan Franzen
Mason Raymond
John Tavares
Radim Vrbata
Jarret Stoll
Martin Hanzal
Erik Cole
Colby Armstrong
James van Riemsdyk
Claude Giroux
Ryane Clowe
Dany Heatley
Dustin Penner
Thomas Vanek
Jeff Tambellini
Daniel Alfredsson
Matthew Perreault
Michael Frolik
Mikko Koivu
Cal Clutterbuck
Derek Stepan
Taylor Hall
Tuomo Ruutu
Colin Wilson
Chris Kunitz
Marcel Goc
Mike Knuble
Sam Gagner

Defensemen

Studs
Shea Weber
Zdeno Chara
Mike Green

Solids
Keith Yandle
Kevin Bieksa
Kris Letang
Ryan Suter
Christian Ehrhoff
Brian Rafalski
Alexander Edler
Eric Brewer

Sleepers
Alex Goligoski
Dion Phaneuf
KimmoTimonen
Adrian Aucoin
Dam Hamhuis
Matt Carle
Ben Lovejoy
Tomas Kaberle
Nicklas Lidstrom
Theo Peckham
P.K. Subban
Dennis Seidenberg
Lubomir Visnovsky
Jordan Leopold
Jack Johnson

Goalies

Studs
Pekka Rinne

Solids
Roberto Luongo
Henrik Lundqvist
Jimmy Howard
Semyon Varlamov
Carey Price
Ryan Miller
Jose Theodore
Marc-Andre Fleury
Brian Boucher

Sleepers
Jonathan Quick
James Reimer
Brian Elliott
Jaroslav Halak

SAGs - 2nd week of the year

Here's our second set of Saturday Afternoon Goalies (SAGs) of the new year.I'm gonna be honest here, when crunching these numbers, I honestly don't know how the time share works out. I do know that almost all the guys at the top have been dominating their time share, except Tim Thomas, who's just a monster, however, I don't like how Rask got three consecutive starts this past week and Thomas had to clean-up Rask's mess last Saturday in Buffalo. Luongo moves up because he had been dealing with some personal issues, but has since come back and posted three straight ridiculous games. Even though he's splitting time with Schneider, it only appears right now to be in back-to-back games. Lehtonen has his game back after starting off the new year with three consecutive games of giving up only two goals.

Top 25:
1.   Jonas Hiller(↑1)
2.   Carey Price(↑1)
3.   Tim Thomas(↓2)
4.   Cam Ward(NC)
5.   Henrik Lundqvist(NC)
6.   Tomas Vokoun(NC)
7.   Ondrej Pavelec(NC)
8.   Roberto Luongo(↑5)
9.   Jimmy Howard(NC)
10. Kari Lehtonen(↑5)
11. Jonathan Quick(↓3)
12. Miikka Kiprusoff(↓1)
13. Marc-Andre Fleury(↑1)
14. Ryan Miller(↑3)
15. Ilya Bryzgalov(↓3)
16. Jaroslav Halak(↓6)
17. Niklas Backstrom(↓1)
18. Brian Elliott(↑1)
19. Sergei Bobrovsky(↓1)
20. Pekka Rinne(↑1)
21. Michal Neuvirth(↓1)
22. Steve Mason(NC)
23. Nikolai Khabibulin(NC)
24. Craig Anderson(NC)
25. Dwayne Roloson(NEW)

NEW: Dwayne Roloson
OUT: Marty Turco
Biggest Movers: Roberto Luongo(↑5), Kari Lehtonen(↑5), Jaroslav Halak(↓6)

Hot 5:
1. Jonas Hiller -  Over the past five games, Hiller has won 4 of them while allowing two or fewer goals in each of them... absolutely disgusting...
2. Roberto Lunogo - Since coming back, he's won three straight and posted ridiculous numbers. 1.33 GAA and a save percentage over .950!
3. Pekka Rinne - Had the night off against the Kings, but posted three straight games with only one goal allowed. He's been awesome!
4. Henrik Lundqvist - see Hiller above, why's he below Hiller then? Because he's sharing time with Biron...
5. Semyon Varlavmov - expect to see him in the top 25 soon if he keeps playing the way he's playing! The only knock against him is that he's only played 14 games so far this season (REALLY?) Yeah, but he's put up impressive numbers the past four games!

Cold 5:
1.  Chris Mason - relegated to being Pavalec's backup, he can't even win his spot starts, why teams still have this guy? I don't know, but it's best to get rid of him sooner rather than later
2. Martin Brodeur - I think he's done guys...
3. Jaroslav Halak - two straight games giving up four goals per, he's a streaky guy right now, and that streak is cold....
4. Steve Mason - why does anyone have either of Columbus's goaltenders?
5. Nikolai Khabibulin - hasn't won since the middle of December, and it doesn't look like it's gonna get any better from here on out...

Flying under the Radar: Jose Theodore, James Reimer, Cory Schneider, Brian Boucher

FEDs First week of the new year!

Here's our first week of FEDs (Friday Evening Defensemen) of the new year!

Top 50:
1.   Dustin Byfuglien(NC)
2.   Kris Letang(NC)
3.   Shea Weber(↑11)
4.   Keith Yandle(↑3)
5.   Zdeno Chara(↓1)
6.   John-Michael Liles(↓3)
7.   Dan Boyle(↓2)
8.   Nicklas Lidstrom(↓2)
9.   Brent Burns(NC)
10. Steve Montador(↓2)
11. Tobias Enstrom(↑1)
12. Mike Green(↑1)
13. Jack Johnson(↓3)
14. Mark Giordano(↓1)
15. Christian Ehrhoff(↑12)
16. Alex Goligoski(↑10)
17. Stephane Robidas(↓1)
18. Ryan Whitney(↓5)
19. Alexander Edler(↓1)
20. Lubomir Visnovsky(NC)
21. Kevin Bieksa(↑11)
22. P.K. Subban(↑6)
23. John Carlson(↓6)
24. Drew Doughty(↓5)
25. Roman Hamrlik(↓2)
26. Bryan McCabe(↓2)
27. Matt Carkner(↑3)
28. Niklas Kronwall(↓3)
29. Erik Karlsson(↓8)
30. Joni Pitkanen(↓8)
31. Eric Brewer(↑2)
32. Chris Pronger(↓3)
33. Dan Girardi(↑1)
34. Jordan Leopold(↑3)
35. Marc Staal(NC)
36. James Wisniewski(NEW)
37. Theo Peckham(↑2)
38. Duncan Keith(NC)
39. Toni Lydman(↑8)
40. Deryk Engelland(↓9)
41. Adrian Aucoin(↑5)
42. Andrew Ference(↓2)
43. Matt Carle(NEW)
44. Ed Jovanovski(NC)
45. Brent Seabrook(↓9)
46. Kimmo Timonen(↓5)
47. John Erskine(↑3)
48. Alex Pietrangelo(NC)
49. Dennis Seidenberg(NEW)
50. Brian Rafalski(NEW)

New: James Wisniewski, Matt Carle, Dennis Seidenberg, Brian Rafalski
Out: Andrej Meszaros, Kurtis Foster, Jay Bouwmeester, Victor Hedman

Biggest Movers: Christian Ehrhoff(↑12), Shea Weber(↑11),, Kevin Bieksa(↑11), Alex Goligoski(↑10), Toni Lydman(↑8), P.K. Subban(↑6), John Carlson(↓6), Erik Karlsson(↓8), Joni Pitkanen(↓8), Deryk Engelland(↓9), Brent Seabrook(↓9)

Hot 5:
1. Shea Weber: If you look at those rankings, you see Weber jumped up 11 spots! Why? Four straight MONSTER GAMES! 2 goals, six assists, +9 and 11 SOG during that span
2. Ryan Suter: Suter's been mooching off Weber's success the past few games with 4 assists and a +8 over the same span
3. James Wisniewski: Welcome to Montreal, does 2 goals, 3 assists, +2 and 10 SOG sound nice since he went over?
4. Kris Letang: Past five games - 5A, +5, 16 SOG, and that includes a monster game against the Lightning
5. Christian Ehrhoff: Very similar numbers to Letang in the past five games except he only has 14 SOG, but 6 PIM.


Cold 5: 
1. Tyler Myers: He had been accumulating a lot of assists before missing a few games, but since he came back, -3, 3 SOG. He's a streaky guy and considering he almost doubled his point total in December alone, he's not been very good all year.
2. Michael Del Zotto: Just got sent down to the AHL, dump him
3. Michal Rozsival: What is it with Rangers defensemen? Rosival has had a decent +/-, but has only four points in his last ten games, not to mention, he's not even shooting the puck this season, only 24 SOG. Time to get a new guy
4. Kurtis Foster: no points since mid December and was scratched last night... clearly he's going in the wrong direction...
5. Brent Seabrook: he's taken a nosedive in the rankings posting five straight games with a -1 and only 1 assist over that span. While he's getting minutes, he's not taking the best advantage of them. Stash him on the bench until he starts contributing to something, even a postive +/- would be good at this point.


Guys flying under the radar: Andrew MacDonald, Joe Corvo, Dan Hamhuis, Francois Beauchemin, Jamie McBain

A very late TNF for this week

Hey folks, sorry for the delay, but here's this week's TNFs (Thursday Night Forwards). I was busy yesterday and didn't get around to it.

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

New: John Tavares, Tomas Kopecky, Ville Leino, Tomas Fleischmann, Radim Vrbata, Scottie Upshall, Jarret Stoll, Todd Bertuzzi
Out: Nikolai Kulemin, Brandon Prust, Tomas Holmstrom, Pascal Dupuis, Sean Bergenheim, Matt Cooke, Alex Tanguary, Chris Stewart

Biggest Movers: Patric Hornqvist(↑35), Shane Doan(↑31), Phil Kessel(↑15), Ryan Smyth(↑14), Alex Steen(↑13), Mikko Koivu(↑12), Stephen Weiss(↑12), R.J. Umberger(↑11), Michael Frolik(↓10),Brian Boyle(↓11), Joe Thornton(↓11), Rene Bourque(↓11), Ryan Getzlaf(↓14), Derek Roy(↓14), Sean Avery(↓14), Danny Cleary(↓14), Pavel Datsyuk(↓16), Joe Pavelski(↓16), Anthony Stewart(↓17), Ryan Callahan(↓27)

Hot 10:
1.   Patric Hornqvist - Where have you been all season? Finally Hornqvist is scoring goals! Four straight games with goals and two goals last night against LA. He's also had three straight multi-point games. Pick him up if you haven't already!
2.   John Tavares - Back-to-back games with 3 points in each, he's also been averaging a point per game since the middle of December. If somehow he's available, pick him up!
3.   Drew Stafford - Drew Stafford has been playing well since he came back from injury, but has been unreal since the new year. He had a hat trick against Boston (second since he came back) and has assists since then. Somebody's gotta pick up the scoring with Derek Roy out.
4.   Brad Richards - Brad Richards continues to be on fire, with points in almost every game since mid-December. He's on a ridiculous tear right now as he's averaging over a point per game.
5.   Daniel Sedin - We all missed Daniel when he was injured last season, and this is why. He's averaging over a point per game on the season and scoring at a ridiculous pace right now with six goals and six assists in his last eight games.
6.   Shane Doan - Thank you for finally waking up Shane! He's averaging a goal per game his last six games and been averaging at least a point per game since Thanksgiving. He's really turned it up as of late with multi-point games in four of his last five.
7.   Sergei Kostitsyn - getting out of Montreal was really the best thing for this guy, goals in four straight! He's a streaky guy and right now, he's on a streak
8.   Brenden Morrow - Another streaky guy, but he's got four goals in his past three games and six points in the last four!
9.   Chris Higgins - Since he came back in the middle of December, he's been scoring points. 10 points in the last 10 games and five in the last four, including a three game goal streak!
10. Mikko Koivu - Koivu's been tearing it up for a while, but he had a monster stat line against Phoenix to start the new Year with 4 assists, a +4, and 4 SOG. Look for his points to come in bunches!

Cold 5:
1. Jordan Eberle - While he's injured right now, he's also only had an assist in the past six games he played in. He had a nice three game goal streak in the middle of December, but hasn't done jack since then...
2. Simon Gagne - He had a nice three point game against Colorado in early December, but since then has only two points in the last 14 games. He's even seen his ice time dwindled to under 15 minutes per game.
3. Wojtek Wolski - He's been getting scratched every couple games and hasn't scored in his last six, now he's even got his ice time under 9 minutes per, time to let him go
4. Sean Avery - you notice that his ice time and point production have taken a nosedive as of late. Add that he has ZERO PIMs in the past six games and you find that he's no longer useful
5. David Krejci - with him no longer centering the top line, he hasn't been putting up points. Just an assist in this last five. although he did have a nice two goal game against Florida, Krejci is now on the third line and has four points since the middle of December, time to dump him...

Guys flying well under the radar: P.A. Parenteau, Ray Whitney, Tuomo Ruutu, Scott Gomez, Colin Wilson

See ya'll next week!

The first 3 S'S of the New Year!

Alright, I'll have an analysis of my picks from last week up  a bit after this is posted.

Forwards

Studs
Steven Stamkos
Ryan Kesler
Mikko Koivu
Sidney Crosby
Henrik Sedin
Martin St. Louis
Daniel Sedin
Eric Staal

Solids
Brad Richards
Jeff Skinner
Tuomo Ruutu
Stephen Weiss
Anze Kopitar
John Tavares
Phil Kessel
Logan Couture
Joe Thornton
Zach Boychuk
Johan Franzen
Paul Stastny
Matt Duchene
Brandon Dubinsky
Mike Santorelli
Shane Doan
Patrick Sharp
Ryan Malone
Ryane Clowe
Drew Stafford
Martin Havlat
Patric Hornqvist
Dany Heatley
Dustin Brown
Henrik Zetterberg
David Booth
Jeff Tambellini
Antti Miettinen
Rick Nash


Sleepers
Patrick Marleau
Michael Frolik
Brian Boyle
Travis Zajac
Jonathan Toews
Zenon Konopka
Vincent Lecavalier
Jason Arnott
Olli Jokinen
Evander Kane
Christopher Higgins
Alexandre Boluc
Dave Bolland
Justin Williams
Dustin Penner
Mikael Samuelsson
Marian Gaborik
Jamie Langenbrunner
Patrick kane
Marian Hossa
Andre Brunette
Tomas Kopecky
Chuck Kobasew
Kristian Huselius
Pat Dwyer
Patrik Elias
Loui Eriksson
Matt Moulson
Pierre Parenteau
Ray Whitney
Brenden Morrow
Erik cole
Bryan Bickell
Sergei Samsonov
Scottie upshall
Mason Raymond
Ilya Kovalchuk
Raffi Torres
Jamie Benn
Alex Burrows


Defensemen

Studs
Christian Ehrhoff
Kevin Bieksa
Dustin Byfuglien

Solids

Brent Burns
Kris Letang
Shea Weber
Mike Weber
Keith Yandle
Dan Boyle
Nicklas Lidstrom


Sleepers
Tobias Enstrom
Zdeno Chara
Jamie McBain
Dion Phaneuf
Alexander Edler
Drew Doughty
Pavel Kubina
Matthew Corrente
Tim Gleason
John-Michael Liles
Dan Hamhuis
Joe Corvo


Goaltenders

Studs
Cam Ward
Tim Thomas
Jonas Hiller

Solids
Ondrej Pavelec
Rick DiPietro
Antti Niemi

Sleepers
Niklas Backstrom
Steve mason
Ryan Miller
Craig Anderson

Deep Sleeper
Corey Crawford

1st SAGs (Saturday Afternoon Goalies) of the year

So this is the second week of goalies that I've done this season. Time to compare and contrast! By the way, since this is so late at night, and not the afternoon. (Blame the Arsenal game, BCS Games, and of course, the Winter Classic! But most of all, today was my birthday, so if I'm late... so be it...)

Top 25 Goalies
1.   Tim Thomas(↑2)
2.   Jonas Hiller
3.   Carey Price(↓2)
4.   Cam Ward
5.   Henrik Lundqvist(↑1)
6.   Tomas Vokoun(↓1)
7.   Ondrej Pavelec(↑2)
8.   Jonathan Quick(↓1)
9.   Jimmy Howard(↓1)
10. Jaroslav Halak(↑5)
11. Mikka Kiprusoff(↑2)
12. Ilya Bryzgalov(↓2)
13. Roberto Luongo(↓1)
14. Marc-Andre Fleury
15. Kari Lehtonen(↓4)
16. Niklas Backstrom
17. Ryan Miller(↑1)
18. Sergei Bobrovsky(↓1)
19. Brian Elliott(↑1)
20. Michal Neuvirth(↓1)
21. Pekka Rinne(↑1)
22. Steve Mason(↑1)
23. Nikolai Khabibulin(↓2)
24. Craig Anderson
25. Marty Turco

NEW: Craig Anderson and Marty Turco
OUT: Antero Niittymaki and Corey Crawford
Biggest Movers: Jaroslav Halak(↑5), Kari Lehtonen(↓4)

Hot 5:
1. Semyon Varlamov - He's become the new hot goalie for the Caps, while the rankings do not reflect today's result, the fact that Varlamov has posted three monster games including tonight's ridiculous game against Pittsburgh makes him the hottest goalie in the NHL
2. Cory Schneider - While Luongo is the starter in Vancouver, Schneider stepped up big while he was out. Not only that, when he was given the start against Dallas, he showed that he can play, stopping 44 outta 45 shots backstopping the Canucks to a big W
3. Jaroslav Halak - Halak has won three straight, posting a shutout book-ended by games allowing 3 goals. However, three straight wins should prove he's out of his most recent funk when he got knocked around by Detroit, San Jose, and Vancouver.
4. Henrik Lundqvist - three straight games with 2 goals or less allowed, although he lost to Tampa today, it was still a good showing
5. Cam Ward- Similar stats to Halak in the past three games as well as posting two poor games before that, but he's great.

Cold 5:
1. Kari Lehtonen - notice the four spot drop on the part of Lehtonen... he hasn't won in four straight games and has been rocked his past two outings... stash him on the bench for now...
2. Antero Niitttymaki - notice that he's out of the rankigns? Niemi has supplanted him as the primary goaltender in San Jose as Niittymaki had a poor showing against Minnesota... tread cautiously with him for now...
3. Brian Boucher - in the three-way tango of the Philadelphia goaltending situation, Boucher has not made good on his opportunities as of late after posting several solid wins earlier this month. After getting lit up by Vancouver, he has not had an opportunity to play... seems like the coach will ride the hot hand for as long as possible
4. Sergei Bobrovsky - see above...
5. Carey Price - there's an easy way to drop from first to third in the span of a week... post three duds... he'll get back on track... eventually.... unless he craps out at some point... like last year...

More to come with the three S'S!