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November
22, 2001
Jonathan
Kinney |
Fantasy
Hockey at the Quarterpole - The Bad
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The
Bad |
Fantasy
Impact |
| Mario's Injury Woes |
Mario
Lemieux has been a
disappointment for the Penguins. Hip surgery has forced him to
miss a bunch of games and he'll probably miss a lot more before
the season's through |
| Stanley
Cup Finalists Struggling |
If
it wasn't for a shutout streak by Patrick
Roy, both Colorado and New Jersey would be sitting out of a
playoff spot. While the season is only a quarter done, this should
be setting off alarm bells. |
| Olympic
Impact |
Will Peter
Forsberg come back? Why won't Patrick
Roy be playing? Will the Slovaks, Germans, and other players
from teams in Preliminary Round have their players released? And
if they do what impact will that have on Fantasy Teams? |
| Injuries,
injuries, injuries |
Start
with Forsberg and Lemieux, then add Pavel
and Valeri
Bure, Jaromir
Jagr (he's back now but still hurting) and Mike
Modano's nagging back injury and you'll see that the
superstars are still falling like flies. For more on this check out our 4-part
series on injuries. |
| Struggling
goalies |
Ron
Tugnutt, Manny
Fernandez, Felix
Potvin, and Olaf
Kolzig were all being counted on by their teams and they
haven't performed so far. |
| Ray
Ferraro - league
worst +/- |
An
absolutely ugly -15 in in only 16 games. To top it off he
only has 9 points in those games. |
| Those
awful Dallas Stars |
Wow, after
22 games the Stars stand tied with 3 other teams for the last
playoff spot. And this is a team many picked to challenge the Red
Wings for top spot in the West. |
| Faltering
Flyers |
The
team may be looking to change coaches for the 3rd time in three
years as they have only 24 points and sit 7th in the East. |
| Where
have all the superstars gone? |
When you
look at the top of the scoring charts 9 of the 10 players who
finished atop the list in 2000/01 are not there at the quarterpole
( Patrik
Elias is the only one). Injuries, contract problems and team
turmoil have had a devastating impact on the League's top talent. |
| Washington
problems |
Jagr
is not the saviour, Kolzig is struggling, injuries have been
devastating and Adam
Oates still doesn't want to be there. |
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