Fantasy Hockey Life

Today Victor and Jesse go all the way to Slovakia for an expert on European Hockey. Sam Tirpak of Dobber Hockey and Oh My Hockey talks Czech and Slovak prospects as well as others in Europe and elsewhere. The 2022 NHL draft will have some prospects from that area going in the lottery this year. Discussed players include draft-eligibles Juraj Slafkovsky, Simon Nemec, David Jiricek, Maros Jedlicka,...

Goalie Expert Cat Silverman of InGoal Magazine and Elite Prospects joins Jesse and Victor to talk goalies. We discuss how non-members of the "goalie guild" can better scout and evaluate goalies, through eye test or analytics. In the pro section, Cat gives her takes on Philip Grubauer, Ville Husso, Anton Forsberg, Robin Lehner and Adin Hill. Next we talk about goalie prospects including Calle Clang...

Alexander Annun of Dobbert Prospects and puckpreps joins Jesse and Victor to talk NCAA, USHL and USNTDP prospects. We cover Brock Faber, Sam Colangelo, Sean Behrens, Matthew Knies, Carter Savoie, Sean Farrell, Bobby Brink, Jakub Dobes, Matty Beniers, Kent Johnson, Owen Power, Luke Hughes, Brendan Brisson, Thomas Bordeleau, Seamus Casey, Ryan Chesley, Isaach Howard, Frank Nazar, Logan Cooley, and R...

Jesse and Victor welcome @JFreshHockey to the show to talk about his Visualization website and work for EP Rinkside. He talks through his easy to follow charts showing things like overviews of team strengths and weaknesses and cap value vs. production for NHL players. The biggest goodies for us prospect lowers is his work analyzing the star probability and NHLer probability of specific prospects....

Jesse and Victor go to western Canada to chat WHL prospects with Joel Henderson of Puck Preps and FH Hockey. Joel gives us to in-person takes on prospects Logan Stankoven, Dylan Guenther, Olen Zellweger, Niko Huuhtanen, Ryker Evans, Ozzy Wiesblatt, and Tristen Robins. Then Joel gives takes on WHL draft-eligibles Conor Geekie, Matthew Savoie, Jagger Firkus, Owen Pickering, and Kevin Korchinski. Fol...

Jesse and Victor welcome on Micah Blake McCurdy, the man behind the website HockeyViz.com and the @Ineffectivemath twitter account. We go over the data visualizations available on his website and how they can help you play fantasy. Also, Micah shares insights on how to use data visualization to ask good questions and allow exploration for connections you might not expect. While discussing his site...

Today, no guest. Instead, Jesse and Victor chat listener-suggested topics and we cover a LOT. Players discussed/mentioned include Maxime Comtois, Dominik Kubalik, Lukas Dostal, Daniil Tarasov, Pyotr Kochetkov, Ilya Konovalov, Cayden Primeau, Dustin Wolf, Moritz Seider, Tim Stutzle, Rasmus Dahlin, Jason Robertson, Dylan Cozens, Alexis LaFreniere, Seth Jarvis, Anton Lundell, Quinton Byfield, Matty B...

Josh Younggren, half of the duo behind seminal hockey stat website evolving-hockey.com joins the boys to talk about what stats his site provides to help fantasy players. Follow Victor on twitter @victornuno12 and Jesse @fanhockeylife. Email fantasyhockeylife@gmail.com and ask to join our free discord. Join our Patreon at Patreon.com/fantasyhockeylife for rankings, bonus podcasts, show sheets and m...

Jesse and Victor are joined by Eetu Siltanen from Dobber Prospects to talk about Finnish prospects. They include Topi Niemela, Ville Heinola, Brad Lambert, Joakim Kemell, Samuel Helenius, Ville Koivunen, Aatu Raty, Matias Maccelli, Juuso Parssinen, Lassi Thomson, Oskari Laaksonen, Jimi Suomi, Aron Kiviharju, and Aleksei Henosalmi. Folks, we are just going to keep talking about Brad Lambert until w...

Alex Appleyard of the Athletic and Smaht Scouting joins Jesse and Victor for a potpourri of young players. Included are young NHLers Adam Boqvist, Jesse Puljujarvi, Sonny Milano, Nils Hoglander, Jesper Bratt, Ivan Provarov, Jakob Chychrun, and Nick Suzuki. In the current prospect category, we talk Dominik Bokk and Jonatan Berggren. We wind down with a couple of '22 draft prospects on different tra...

Peter Harling of Dobber Prospect Radio drops by to talk about fantasy prospects on the rise and decline. Victor and Jesse get his takes on Mason Lohrei, Scott Perunovich, Carter Savoie, Tyler Angle, Will Cuylle, J.J. Moser, Matt Stienburg, Glenn Gawdin, Dmitri Zavgorodny, Raphael Lavoie, Klim Kostin, Alex Barre-Boulet, David Cotton, and Brogan Rafferty. Follow Victor on twitter @victornuno12 and J...

Jesse and Victor welcome Elan Dubrofsky and Ben Burnett of the Keeping Karlsson network for a crossover episode. The topic is a draft of the rest of the 2021-22 NHL season. We each take one skater from each of the 32 teams, 22F and 10D. The object is to draft the team with the most points for the rest of the year. The catch: all players must be under 50% rostered in Fantrax! Fireworks ensue. The f...

Jesse and Victor are here to give you something to do when hiding out in the garage away from your annoying uncle. This week is listener's choice. In 100 gamers (and 50 game goalies) we cover whether to cut bait on Noah Dobson, Ilya Mikheyev, Josh Norris, Nils Hoglander, Adam Boqvist, Vitek Vanacek, Adin Hill, and Kevin Lankinen. Then in upgrade the fade, we consider Sonny Milano, Nic Hague, Filip...

It's World Juniors time and we talk about a couple of guys from each team! Greg Boysen of the Hockey Writers comes in to talk with Victor and Jesse. We go through Yaroslav Askarov, Shakir Mukhamadulin, Matvei Michkov, Alexander Pashin, Drew Commesso, Jake Sanderson, Ty Smilanic, Matt Knies, Joel Blomqvist, Topi Niemala, Kasper Simontaival, Joakim Kemell, Helge Grans, Isak Rosen, William Eklund (of...

Matthew Zator is back to talk prospects and Victor and Jesse are here for it. We talk about Matthew Coronato (F-CGY), Matthew Beniers (C-SEA), Dylan Guenther (F-ARI), Aatu Raty (C-NYI), Luke Hughes (D-NJ), Joshua Roy (F-MTL), Samuel Fagemo (W-LAK), Sebastian Cossa (G-DET), Sasha Pastujov (F-ANA), Connor McClennon (W-PHI), Mackie Samoskevich (F-FLA), Danila Klimovich (C-VAN), Logan Cooley (C-USNTDP...

It's just Jesse and Victor this week. First we have "Cliffhangers," our recurring visit to the old men of fantasy hockey and whether they can hang on to relevance longer. Then our second round of the "Skid Game," featuring a challenging dynasty rebuild. A lot of players are mentioned, but prominent include Ryan Getzlaf, Patrice Bergeron, David Perron, Blake Wheeler, Joe Pavelski and Alexander Radu...

Episode 162 features Jimmy Hamrin of EP Rinkside talking prospects playing in Sweden. We cover Emil Andrae, Elmer Soderblom, Jesper Wallstedt, Albert Johansson, William Eklund, Anton Olsson, Simon Robertsson, Daniel Torgerson, Theodor Niederbach, Calle Clang, Emil Heinemann, Isak Rosen, Daniel Ljungman, Viktor Lodin, Simon Edvinsson, Liam Ohgren, Noah Ostlund, Calle Odelius, Jonathan Lekkerimaki,...

Victor and Jesse answer listener questions from the Discord forum. In the first segment, we consider the fantasy value of Rasmus Asplund, Kirby Dach, and Emil Bemstrom as they come up on the career 100 game marker. Then in "Upgrade the Fade" we consider what we would take back for young players whose outlooks are waning. Those players include Kyle Capobianco, Kaapo Kakko, Lias Andersson, Tim Stuet...

Episode 160 features Peter Baracchini, head of draft and prospects at The Hockey Writers. Victor and Jesse get his thoughts on many of the rookie starts in the NHL this year. Covered are Lucas Raymond, Moritz Seider, William Eklund, Bowen Byram, Dawson Mercer, Phil Tomasino, Anton Lundell, Topi Niemela, Cole Caufield, Tanner Jeannot, and Drew O'Connor. Follow on twitter @victornuno12 @fanhockeylif...

Episode 159 is Jesse and Victor. We start out with the Skid Game, where Jesse proves he can make a cultural reference 2 weeks too late instead of 30 years too late. Some strategy from both are mixed in on head to head cats leagues and how to dig out of an early hole in the standings. Then Victor answers listener questions on prospect comparisons. Discussed players in the questions segment include...

On this 158th edition of Fantasy Hockey Life, Victor and Jesse welcome Dylan Griffing of EP Rinkside to talk about prospects in Russia. Dylan fills us in on drafted propsects Marat Khusnutdinov (MIN), Dmitri Rashevsky (WIN), Kirill Marchenko (CBJ), Fyodor Svechkov (NSH), Prokhor Poltapov (BUF), Ivan Morozov (VGK), Nikita Chibrikov (WIN), and Arseni Gritsyuk (NJD). Following this, Dylan talks about...

Jesse and Victor are back to talk fantasy hockey. We start by discussing a couple of fantasy hills Jesse may or may not want to die on, including one that half of you will hate. Then we answer listener questions about prospect/young pro defensemen. Discussed are Juuso Valimaki (CGY), Scott Perunovich (STL), Josh Mahura (ANA), Ryan Merkley (SJS), Connor Timmins (ARI), Samu Niku (MTL), Ian Mitchell...

REAL FANTASY HOCKEY MATCHUPS ARE HAPPENING AGAIN. Even if you are losing this week, you have to be excited. In this episode Jesse and Victor kick off the regular season with listener questions. In our new segment "Take a Swing" we talk about a couple of players who have a new level of attention from us. In "Cliffhangers" we spotlight old guys who we already look at differently this season. Players...

'Tis the weekend before fantasy hockey! Victor and Jesse go through the annual exercise of looking at the 10-15 players we took most often in our redraft leagues -- the real proof of guys we are 'high' on relative to other drafters. We did this last year, so we also look back and hold ourselves accountable for those results. Did we actually learn anything? Who's to say? Lastly, we hand out our adv...

Jesse and Victor are back to tie up loose ends for the 16 Eastern Conference teams - specifically those players who moved after their team previews. We also give one hot take per team that I'm sure we will both regret almost instantly. Follow on twitter @victornuno12 @fanhockeylife. Email fantasyhockeylife@gmail.com and ask to join our free discord. Listen and subscribe wherever podcasts are poste...