Five Hole Fantasy Hockey Podcast

In todays episode TJ, Zac and Rog take part in the first Monday Mock Draft of the season! This week’s Mock is a 12 team, weekly head to head fantasy pts league setup. The scoring is mainly using Fantrax new standard setup, but with hits and blocks added. Zac thinks Rog’s team is going to spend the whole season on the IR…and Rog thinks Zac and TJ’s goalies suck! Crosby at 77th overall, what? It was...

Joining us today to highlight goalies is Kevin Woodley of InGoalMag.com. Shedding light on the most volatile position in Hockey, and undoubtedly Fantasy Hockey as well. We dig into a bunch of specific goalies, the free agent market, what makes a defensive environment healthy for a goalie, how we can possibly come to draft day a bit wiser in how to predict and project goalies. If you leave this sho...

In today’s episode you’ll hear: - Takes on the many goalie battles going on in the NHL - Takes on what happened to Bobrovsky, Jones, Binnington and others - We go over a bunch of goalie centered stats and metrics to better help all of us make better judgement calls - How to determine which environments are healthy for a goalie, and which are toxic - What stats we can try to point to when searching...

In this episode, Zac and TJ analyze teams and players who’ve taken an early exit from the playoff bubble. The guys focus on players who’s stock may have risen or fallen due to notabably good (or bad) performances in the playoffs. How much recency bias will there be when next seasons drafts come around? Do you think Binningtons suckiness will continue into next season? Lucic and Bennett…really? Wha...

Checking out round 2 matchups and taking a look at which players have impressed and depressed us so far. Bulls and bears, who’s moved their draft needle one way or the other? How much do you take playoff performance into account when drafting for next season? FHFH Twitter - ( https://twitter.com/FHFHockey ) - FHFH Discord - ( https://discord.gg/kfnyrn7 ) - Patreon - ( https://www.patreon.com/FHFHR...

The boys round table what the Rangers will look like in the early Lafreniere era. Dissecting the trickledown and what it could mean for Kravtsov’s timeline, where will Kreider fit amongst the wealth of LW depth? Does Lexy see middle-6 minutes until the confidence is up? Do the Rangers so nuclear with Lafreniere - Zibby - Panarin? After the draft smoke settles, and through the 5OT distraction on in...

In this episode, our sound and music guy ROG joins us as a co-host for this one and asks us a bunch of questions that came in from fans via our discord, twitter, facebook. The topics are all over the map… from prospect discussions to breakout candidates…and why TJ isn’t allowed to talk to customers at the restaurant! It’s Rog’s first time on the air, so be gentle! lol. This is a fun one to get you...

Today’s episode, we listen in as TJ and Zac draft their teams for the (http://twitter.com/RogSauce) playoff pool. Listening to the draft can give you a good idea of ADP for your playoff drafts, and get a sense of where players are getting drafted for this wacky and wild 2020 playoffs!!! It’s a total pts league…bangers stats…no goalies, because goalies are stupid. Also…the debut of the new Playoff...

Today we highlight a strong handful of players we think have just taken the first stpes into their respective breakouts. Whether they showed definititve signs, or if they’re smack dab in the middle of a breakout already, or showing signs in underlying numbers. We’re here to try and cover as many of these players as we can. Covered are a number of “obvious” candidates, “semi-under-the-radar” candid...

Alright finally. Episode 101, only took 3 tries but here it is. Goldilocks and the “might be better, might be fucked” fuckepisode101 Thanks for listening! We love you - FHFH Twitter - ( https://twitter.com/FHFHockey ) - FHFH Discord - ( https://discord.gg/kfnyrn7 ) - Patreon - ( https://www.patreon.com/FHFHRadio )

In the 1st part of 3 episodes, we go over players we find it hard to believe there is any hope left for. Maybe it was a down year, maybe age hit them, maybe it’s just time; whatever it is… IT’S OVER! If you disagree, please chirp me @FHFHockey on twitter, I honestly love a good back and forth and if you know something I don’t I’d love to know it. Chris Mancuso drops by the show, we talked for arou...

With the NHL draft lottery in the books we have a better idea of where these high end prospects could land. Today’s episode is the airing of our grievances. A festivus! We opened up the discord and were joined by Littlefoot and Punk rock warlord to talk about how the “lottery balls fell”. Thanks for listening! We love you - FHFH Twitter - ( https://twitter.com/FHFHockey ) - FHFH Discord - ( https:...

This trio of interviews finishes up our journey across the NHL. We are Joined by Kyle Shohara Ducks writer for NHL.com, Jack Harris, Kings reporter for the LA Times, and Kevin Kurz, beat writer for the Athletic covering the Sharks. In Anaheim we discuss John Gibson’s weird season, whether or not Rickard Rakell can meet our hopes, and the wealth of prospects in the system. In LA, again, another pip...

Continuing on with our beat writers series, here are our interviews with Harman Dayal of the Vancouver Canucks and Luke Lapinski of the Arizona Coyotes. We talk potential breakouts, lot’s of ‘will he stay or will he go’ scenarios and of course…Phil Kessel. Thank you to everyone to made this happen…and to our wicked handsome sound guy Mike

Our second installment of our Pacific Division preview we talk with Allan Mitchell of the Athletic EDM (@Lowetide) and Wes Gilbertson of Postmedia (@WesGilbertson) We go through a ton of topics, all the big ticket items for each team. Johnny Gaudreau trade rumors, Mark Giordano projections, Evan Bouchard timeline, Jesse Puljujarvi and tons more. Hope you guys enjoy it, thank you to Allan and Wes f...

Kicking off our Pacific division preview we were happy to be joined by Ken Boehlke of SinBin. Vegas. We cover a ton of ground, and Ken was nice enough to hang out for a while. We talk about Lehner’s possible contract with the Knights, Shea Theodore’s ceiling, the prospect pool, new strategies under DeBoer and a ton more. I think you guys are going to enjoy this one. Let us know how you’re digging...

Wrapping up the Atlantic we have Graeme Nichols of the Athletic Ottawa to walk us through the landscape of Senators hockey, and Ansar Khan, Detroit beat writer for MLive.com tell us what the Red Wings have to look for ward to. Thank you guys for hanging out, thank you to the listeners for riding along. Have a good weekend! We love you. FHFH Twitter - ( https://twitter.com/FHFHockey ) - FHFH Discor...

In part two of our Atlantic preview, we are joined with George Richards of The Panthers Pressbox to talk some Cats, Arpon Basu of the Athletic Montreal to talk some Habs, and Lance Lysowski to talk Sabres.

Kicking off the Atlantic division we have three of the top teams in the league. Boston kicks it off as top team with Conor Ryan of the Boston Sports Journal , then we head down to Tampa with Erik Erlendsson of LightningInsider.com and we polish it off with Jonas Siegel of the Athletic Toronto to talk some Leafs. For Boston we go through some of the topics I know I was curious about, the Krug situa...

Monday Mock Drafts are back! Find Rog on Twitter if you’re interested in keeping your fantasy muscles loose in this extended off-season. To usher in the return of Monday Mocks is the Fantasy OG Elan Dubrofsky of Keeping Karlsson. Ride along with a 16-team points league mock with TJ and Elan! Hope you guys dig it, thanks Elan for hanging out man. Lot’s of fun, good draft boys! - FHFH Twitter - ( ht...

Our final piece on the central division, we are joined by Jeremy Gover of Nashville Predators Radio Net, Locker Room reporter for the Nashville Predators you can check out his blog here and his side projects (one and two we also host Dan Myers of Wild.com and Alexis Pearson of the @BardownBeaut Podcast to talk about the Minnesota Wild. Finally we are joined by Scott Powers, the Athletic’s Senior W...

A bit of a 2-Parter! With the new playoff format, Zac and TJ give their takes on different scenarios that could play out. Then in part two of our Central dive: we are joined by Ken Wiebe and Sean Shapiro of Athletic Winnipeg and The Athletic Dallas to talk topics on the Jets and Stars. With Ken we talk Neal Pionk, what his future could look like and whether or not the Jets will chase one of the bi...

Next in the series we are checking out the Central division. With us today are Adrian Dater (@adater) of ColoradoHockeyNow.com and Tom Timmermann (@TomTimm) of the St. Louis Dispatch. With Adrian we talk all the main story lines we believe to be fantasy relevant, Makar’s sustainability, Byram’s ceiling, Francouz vs. Grubauer, Burakovsky, Rantanen, and Donskoi’s outlooks, contract situations for al...

Wrapping up the Metro talk we are joined by Rick Carpiniello and Corey Masisak. You can find Rick (@RickCarpiniello) on twitter and you can find his work covering the Rangers on the Athletic. We talk the goalie situation, what will happen to Hank? Kaapo Kakko’s struggles in his rookie year, Tony DeAngelo’s contract situation, the wealth of talent in the pipeline and Zac’s favorite topic: Brendan L...

Our next stop in the Metro Division covers the Carolina Hurricanes, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the New York Islanders. Joining us to talk Canes is Omar Abdelgawad, Editor of Cardiac Canes, and host of the Redvolution Rampage Podcast. We talk Svechnikov, Trocheck, prospects, goalies and Dougie. On the Blue Jackets is Alison Lukan, Blue Jackets reporter for the Athletic. We check in on the sustai...