Fantasy Hockey Life

Jesse and Victor gave a low-percentage hot take on each NHL team back in the preseason, and now we are back to check in on how each one went. Have a listen and find out. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to be a part of the Dobber Podcast Network. Email fantasyhockeylife@gmail.com and ask to join our free discord. Join our Patreon at Patreon.com/fantasyhockeylife for rankings, bonus p...

Eetu Siltanen of Dobbert Prospects shares his looks on players who have played in Finland and Sweden. Included are Simon Edvinsson, Filip Bystedt, William Wallinder, Marco Kasper, Leo Carlsson, Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Joakim Kemell, Kasper Halttunen, Aleksi Heimosalmi, Filip Mesar, Topi Ronni, Ville Koivunen, Lenni Hameenaho, Otto Stenberg, and Felix Nilsson. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and...

Friend of the show Mason Black who manages the app NHL Rank King is back to talk about players excelling in his pNHLe equivalency model around prospectdom. Covered are: Lane Hutson, David Jiricek, Alexandre Nikishin, Gabe Perrault, Lukas Dragecevic, Nick Lardis, Marat Khusbutdinov, William Wallinder, Adam Engstrom, Luke Hughes, Logan Cooley, Jimmy Snuggerud, Cutter Gauthier, Jiri Kulich, Jeremie P...

The trade deadline hype has passed and it's time for Victor and Jesse to give takes on the impact to dynasty value for several of the players moved. We don't hit them all, but we talk Nikita Nestorenko, John Klingberg, Wyatt Kalynuk, Jordan Greenway, Jakub Vrana, Max Domi, Cam Dineen, Jakub Voracek, Jon Gillies, Tyler Bertuzzi, Mikael Granlund, Michael Eyssimont, Erik Portillo, Jakob Chychrun, Fil...

It's NCAA and USHL time. Alexander Annun of Dobber Prospects is here to tell us about some of the prospects on the mind of Jesse and Victor and the Patrons. Hear about Matthew Coronato, Alex Lafierriere, Kenny Connors, Gavin Brindley, Matthew Wood, Will Smith, Seamus Casey, Erik Portillo, Jason Polin, Cameron Whitehead, Jake Livingstone, and Alex Young. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and pro...

Cat Silverman of McKeen's Hockey is here to try to help Jesse and Victor understand goalies. Patrons suggested situations around the league to analyze. We discuss Samuel Ersson, Felix Sandstrom, Carter Hart, Pheonix Copley, Cal Petersen, Jonathan Quick, Ilya Samsonov, Matt Murray, Erik Kallgren, Joseph Woll, Artur Akhtyamov, Keith Petruzzelli, Drew Commesso, Arvid Soderblom, Dominic Bass, Alex Ned...

Friend of the show Joel Henderson of Puck Preps joins this week to talk all things WHL. We cover Fraser Minten (TOR), Denton Mateychuk (CBJ), Brayden Yager (2023), Zach Benson (2023), Riley Heidt (2023), Connor Bedard (you know), Andrew Cristall (2023), Ethan Samson (PHI), Kyle Masters (MIN), Koehn Ziemmer (2023), and Nate Danielson (2023). Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to be a pa...

Jesse and Victor have the fantasy trade deadline on their minds. Dynasty trading is the best, and we have ideas on players to keep in mind for this stretch. These include Mikko Rantanen, Sidney Crosby, Erik Karlsson, Roman Josi, Bo Horvat, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Travis Konecny, Brayden Point, Anthony Beauvillier, John Carlson, Cole Caufield, Zach Werenski, Jordan Dumais, Danila Yurov, Marco Rossi, and...

We're back to prospects this week and back to North America with Sebastian High of Dobber Prospects. In the first segment, Jesse asks about 2023 draft-eligibles Jayden Perron, Colby Barlow, Oliver Moore, Riley Heidy, Matthew Wood, Nate Danielson, Koehn Ziemmer, Lukas Dragicevic, and Etienne Morin. In the second segment (45:00) Victor talk about drafted prospects Owen Beck (Montreal), Cameron Lund...

Some fringe fantasy players are closing in on the 100 NHL career game mark. Sometimes this is when experience turns into to production, sometimes this is when we finally move on with our rosters. Jesse and Victor break a few down. Discussed on this show are Sheldon Dries, Connor Dewar, Logan Brown, Connor McMichael, Calle Rosen, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Nathan Walker, Michael Pezzetta, Klim Kostin, P...

Jesse and Victor talk philosophies of why our dynasty leagues' playoffs start so early and how to keep league members engaged through the slog of the late season. Can we structure things to give the dregs of the league a reason to pay attention to the end? Then we talk about trade deadlines in fantasy and strategies beyong the simple buy low-sell high. Dynasty means lots of ways to trade late. Our...

This week Sarah Avampato of Calder Farmstead and Canes Country joins Jesse and Victor to talk about some ofour favorite prospects in the American Hockey League. We discuss Lukas Reichel, Ridly Greig, Jean-Luc Foudy, Luke Evangelista, Jeremie Poirier, William DuFour, Tyson Foerster, Elliot Desnoyers, Danila Klimovich, Vasili Ponomayrov, David Jiricek, Fabian Lysell, Quinton Byfield, Jake Neighbors,...

Dobber Prospects editors Ben Gehrels, Pat Quinn, and Curtis Rines joing Jesse and Victor to talk about several prospects who participated in the just-concluded 2023 WJC-U20. Look for reports on Jiri Kulich, Joakim Kemell, Brad Lambert, Lane Hutson, Luke Hughes, Ryan Ufko, Fabian Lysell, Eduard Sale, Filip Mesar, Chaz Lucius, Logan Cooley, Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Julian Lutz, Leo Carlsson, and Adam S...

Victor and Jesse have thoughts on pool play at the World Juniors! We discuss performances by Filip Bystadt, Tyler Boucher, Lian Bichsel, Ludvig Jansson, Carl Lindbom, Matyas Sapovaliv, Isak Rosen, David Jiricek, Jani Nyman, David Spacek, Jimmy Snuggerud, Filip Mesar, Stanislav Svozil, Simon Nemec, Sean Behrens, and Peter Repcik. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to be a part of the Do...

Elan and Shams of the Keeping Karlsson podcast join Jesse and Victor for a crossover episode! Listen to this week's Keeping Karlsson for part 1, and this episode as part 2. The four of us each draft one player from each NHL team for the rest of the season for a points-only draft. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to be a part of the Dobber Podcast Network. Email fantasyhockeylife@gmai...

Peter Harling, Dobber Prospects editor and host of Dobber Prospect Radio, joins Jesse and Victor to break down Canada's WJC team. We discuss Shane Wright, Brennan Othmann, Brandt Clarke, Adam Fantilli, Connor Bedard, Dylan Guenther, Logan Stankoven, Joshua Roy, Olen Zellweger, Nathan Gaucher, and Ben Gaudreau. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to be a part of the Dobber Podcast Networ...

Victor and Jesse are here to talk some dyansty. In segment 1, Jesse digs into some players getting 3rd line minutes with excellent rate stats. Among those discussed are Wyatt Johnston, Mason McTavish, Yegor Chinakov, Anton Lundell, Nathan Bastian, Yegor Sharangovich, Anthony Mantha, Jack Quinn, Arthur Kaliyev, Emil Bemstrom, Jonatan Berggren, Cody Glass, and Noah Gregor. In the Dynasty Dig (43:00)...

Jesse and Victor talk multiple topics on this episode. In the Goalie Fight, we highlight goalie timeshare situations that have our attention. Goalies covered include Craig Anderson, Eric Comrie, Arvid Soderblom, Petr Mrazek, Spencer Knight, Sergei Bobrovsky, Filip Gustavsson, Marc-Andre Fleury, Sam Montembeault, Jake Allen, Spencer Martin, and Thatcher Demko. In Scout's Tout (32:45), FHL Scout Jer...

We're back to check in on prospects playing in Sweden with the excellent Jimmy Hamrin of EP Rinkside. Victor and Jesse ask about Marco Kasper, Dennis Hildeby, Emil Andrae, Otto Sternberg, Calle Clang, Jonathan Lekkerimaki, Noah Ostlund, Liam Ohgren, Dalibor Dvorsky, Leo Carlsson, Theor Lindstein, Axel Sandin Pellikka, Noah Dower Nilsson, and Alex Ciernik. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and p...

This week, Jesse and Victor take questions from the Fantasy Hockey Life Discord. Both take a shot at a general methodology for finding under the radar post-hype players who could emerge in the future. Then they look at some post-hype nominees suggested by listeners: Jesse Puljujarvi, Oliver Wahlstrom, Jake Bean, and Ty Smith. Jesse takes a shot at a theory for finding players who will be good at h...

Sasha LaGarde of Dobber Prospects joins Victor and Jesse to discuss players from Central Europe. We start with check-ins on 2022 draftees David Jiricek, Simon Nemec, Jiri Kulich, Filip Mesar, and Julian Lutz. In the 2023 draft class Sasha breaks down Linus Brandl, Ondrej Molnar, Martin Misiak, Eduard Sale, Jakub Dvorak, and Mateo Koci. We end with Sasha's comments on patron-suggested prospects Ale...

The show starts with players around the 200 game career mark - the "200 gamers.' Victor breaks down Sonny Milano, John Marino, Victor Olofsson, Kailer Yamamoto and Michael Rasmussen. In "Scout's Tout," FHL Chief Scout Caleb joins to talk Simon Edvinsson and Leo Carlsson. In Segment 3, it's the Skid Game as Jesse breaks down a dynasty team from Patron Will. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and...

Dylan Griffing from EP Rinkside joins Jesse and Victor to talk Russian prospects. After some discussion of the state of Russian prospects overall, Dylan gets into the players. We talk about Dmitri Rashevsky, Alexander Nikishin, Vladimir Grudinin, Danila Yurov, Gleb Trikozov, Nikita Chibrikov, Fyodor Svechkov, Alexander Pashin, Alexander Kisakov, Matvei Michkov, Mikhail Gulyayev, Dmitri Simashev, A...

Dobber Hockey Managing Editor Ian Gooding joins Jesse to talk about some early starts to figure out if they amount to anything we need to know. Discussed are David Krejci, Valeri Nichushkin, Rasmus Dahlin, Vincent Trocheck, Nino Niederreiter, Carter Hart, Patrick Kane, Sam Reinhart, Josh Norris, Tage Thompson, Elias Lindholm, and Marc-Andre Fleury. Our show is presented by Fantrax.com and proud to...

The regular season is here. Jesse and Victor are still taking the long view. In our "200 gamer" segment, Victor dives into players hitting that threshold of their career and whether they will emerge as fantasy-relevant players. Players discussed are Martin Necas, Tage Thompson, Trevor Moore, Casey Mittelstadt, and Carter Verhaeghe. 34:00 In our new segment "Scout's Tout", FHL Lead Scout Caleb join...