Five Hole Fantasy Hockey Podcast

FHFH 212 || Vetting the ‘21 Season, and Advanced Stat Applications with Evolving Hockey

So much chatter in the Fantasy Community about how the 2021 Intra-Divisional season should be ignored when it comes to projecting point totals and performances going into next year. Should that be the case? Is there more to it? Josh Younggren of Evolving Hockey and Evolving Wild stops by to lay down some insight on how to approach the future given the strange past we’ve been dealt.   Josh was also kind enough to hang out for some advanced stat applications. How can we as Fantasy GMs become better forecasters? Are there stats out there that are more applicable than others in Fantasy Hockey? How can we determine good team defenses through stats? Goalies, what gives? Really fun conversation that I hope you guys enjoy.  Don't forget to check out https://evolving-hockey.com/!!!If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause!Love Yas

FHFH 211 || Dynasty Series with Tony Ferarri

Capping off our 2021 Dynasty Series is Tony Ferarri of Dobber Prospects. One of the premiere minds when it comes to prospects, and as an added bonus: he knows Fantasy Hockey too!   We touch on the top end D in this class, and how they stack up against the top half of the 1st round's respective Defense pipelines and whether or not Power, Clarke or Hughes can beat out names like Dahlin, Valimaki, Drysdale, Smith or Chabot for QB1 hopefuls on the power play.  Dive deep into a bunch of projected first rounders, some deep cuts, and some specialists.  We move onto what will wind up being the '21-22 Calder candidates, Caufield, Byfield, Zegras and more and what kind of impact they can have for both redraft and dynasty managers.  Cap it all off with some 2nd year outlooks for Lafreniere, Kahkonen, Sharangovich, Stutzle, Hoglander and Pius Suter.    Hope you guys dig it, hope you've dug the series, and stick taps to all our guests - specifically tonight Tony for hanging out and talking hockey.

Fantasy Fallout || Viktor Arvidsson Trade

We are still in the middle of the Dynasty series...but TJ, Zac and Rog take a few minutes to share some quick thoughts on the trade today between the Nashville Predators and the L.A. Kings...Arvidsson for some picks...  definitely fantasy relevant in a lot of leagues!   If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause! Bit of a pivot for Season 6, our Patreon profits will be forwarded to Mental Health America. This is in honor and memory of one of our home league poolies who left us recently. It's a cause that hits close to home, and that we feel connected to. We're always here to talk if you ever need an ear for Fantasy Hockey or for anything, we won't pretend to know what it's like to walk in your shoes, but we want you to keep walking in them.

FHFH 210 || Dynasty Series with Peter Harling

In the fourth installment of the Dynasty series, welcome in Peter Harling! Pete's so much fun, I had a blast on this one and can't thank him enough for coming on to talk a side of Dynasty leagues that often gets left on the back-burner: Veterans. How do we know when to jump ship? What are the red flags? What are the benefits to going win now out of the gate?  We talk some NHL Jump-Ready prospects, ya boi Phillip Tomasino, Alex Newhook, Anton Lundell, and more. We then go on to tackle some Sophomore season outlooks on guys you're well versed in whether you're a redrafter or a dynasty nut - Jason Robertson, Kirill Kaprizov, Eeli Tolvanen, Josh Norris and more.    Thanks again to Pete for hanging out, having some drinks and talking hockey. Can't ask for a better Monday night. Cheers!   ----------   If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause!   Bit of a pivot for Season 6, our Patreon profits will be forwarded to Mental Health America. This is in honor and memory of one of our home league poolies who left us recently. It's a cause that hits close to home, and that we feel connected to. We're always here to talk if you ever need an ear for Fantasy Hockey or for anything, we won't pretend to know what it's like to walk in your shoes, but we want you to keep walking in them.

FHFH 209 || Dynasty Series with Mitch Brown

In our third installment of 2021’s Dynasty Series: Mitch Brown of EliteProspects stops by to talk a bunch of 2021 Draft Eligibles, their Fantasy potential and projections down the road. We also dip into some NHL prospects a bit, like Vasili Podkolzin, Morgan Frost, Cole Perfetti and Nick Robertson.   Mitch is the man, I hope you guys enjoy this episode. Mitch is really well spoken and knowledgeable in his area. Check out the EliteProspects 2021 Draft Guide for almost unlimited information on this draft class!   ---------------------   If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause!   All of our Season 5 Patron profits will be going towards Hockey Fights Cancer, something we're very excited to do.

FHFH 208 || Dynasty series with Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler of the Athletic joins us today to talk a bunch of 2021 draft eligible prospects and NHL prospects.    We talk about who might have the highest offensive ceilings, who has some good crunch to their game, and get insight on a bunch of other Fantasy Hockey relevant topics.   Huge thanks to Scott, always love having him on. Tons of insight, good head about him on prospects, and kind enough to carve some time out.    Love ya's   ---------------------------------------------------------   If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause!   All of our Season 5 Patron profits will be going towards Hockey Fights Cancer, something we're very excited to do.

FHFH 207 || Dynasty Series with Will Scouch

First up in our yearly dive into the years Draft Class is the brilliant Will Scouch of Scouching. Here Will sounds off about some of the top end talent coming out of the 2021 draft class including Owen Powers, Matt Beniers, William Eklund, and so many more with some deep cuts included.  If you guys enjoyed this episode you'd be doing yourself a disservice not following Will's work at McKeen's Hockey, or on the Scouching YouTube page where Will does live streams, and in depth looks at prospects from around the world and to get even more check out the Scouching Patreon Program! Huge thanks to Will, pleasure talking to you. 

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FHFH 206 || 2020-21‘s Breakouts and Busts, a Dissection

Reviewing this past years many breakouts and busts.  So many names came out of the woodwork, and just as many flatlined. Today we dissect which of these names we think will continue whichever path they took this year.    If you guys are digging it, subscribe and throw us a follow on twitter, if you're loving it toss us a review, join the discord, or consider becoming a Patron to support the show, and support a good cause!   All of our Season 5 Patron profits will be going towards Hockey Fights Cancer, something we're very excited to do.

FHFH 205 || Top 10 Takeaways from the 2021 Season

2021 was a wild ride, these were the top 10 lessons we learned along the way.

FHFH 204 || Season Finale || For Smokey.

TJ and Rog break down the last week(s) and break down the differences in schedule between Yahoo vs ESPN.  Tom Wilson comes up for some reason... We appreciate all the love and support you've shown us over this weird and wild year of fantasy hockey and we hope we have been some help in your leagues - or at the very least, we hope we entertained you.  There will be no official podcasts for about 6 weeks, as We will be taking our usual 6 week break to sit back, have a few pops and watch the playoffs.  If anyone is interested in joining our playoff leagues, hit up Rog @themikerogerson on Twitter or DM Rog on the FHFH Discord.  If you want to show your support, the best way to help us is to leave a written review and a 5* rating on Apple Podcasts, and anywhere else you can review the show.  If you are doing well and feel like you want to help us offset the production costs of running the show, you can check out our Patreon page to make contributions there. With that, you will also gain access to a bunch of new, Patron only content, which we will be rolling out over the summer...listener leagues, tools, streams, bonus episodes...etcLove Ya's.