Patience pays off
A month ago I wrote that fantasy players should be patient when it comes to their players and poor starts, especially their best players. I used the example of the Experts Hockey Draft and the first round had produced eight players off to okay to very good starts and seven players that were struggling. Here were their stats as at October 17.
G A PIMS +/- GAA WINS SAVE %
Roberto Luongo 3.17 3 .897
Sidney Crosby 2 2 4 -3
Miikka Kiprusoff 3.40 2 .877
Dany Heatley 6 4 2 +2
Joe Thornton 3 4 4 +1
Alex Ovechkin 3 2 2 +1
Jarome Iginla 4 4 14 +6
Martin Brodeur 3.26 1 .879
Jaromir Jagr 1 5 2 +1
Evgeni Malkin 1 4 4 EVEN
Marian Hossa 1 0 0 -3
Vincent Lecavalier3 3 0 +4
Evgeni Nabokov 2.40 3 .896
Henrik Lundqvist 2.02 2 .934
Marc-Andre Fleury 3.82 2 .876
As you can see, there were some pretty awful stats by some of the best players in the NHL.
These are their stats as of Monday morning, November 19
G A PIMS +/- GAA WINS SAVE %
Roberto Luongo 2.41 9 .914
Sidney Crosby 11 19 18 even
Miikka Kiprusoff 3.06 8 .885
Dany Heatley 8 13 20 +8
Joe Thornton 8 16 24 +7
Alex Ovechkin 13 8 6 +3
Jarome Iginla 11 15 20 +7
Martin Brodeur 2.70 5 .894
Jaromir Jagr 4 13 16 +1
Evgeni Malkin 7 20 18 -1
Marian Hossa 9 6 8 +1
Vincent Lecavalier 13 19 32 +9
Evgeni Nabokov 2.02 11 .915
Henrik Lundqvist 1.78 11 .932
Marc-Andre Fleury 3.47 5 .893
All forwards are in the top 23 in scoring now with the exception of Jaromir Jagr and Marian Hossa and Hossa has managed nine points in his last four games. Roberto Luongo has really turned his season around and has been amongst the hottest goaltenders in the NHL; if not the hottest. While Miikka Kiprusoff is still struggling stats-wise, he is really giving the Flames a chance to win every game. As I said before, be patient. If you were lucky enough to grab a top-notch player from someone with no patience, congratulations!!
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