{"id":468842,"date":"2010-03-24T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:fantasy,article,yhoo-ept_sports_fantasy_experts-230057:1"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:27:36","slug":"pick-six-late-season-hockey-grabs-for-the-title-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/468842","title":{"rendered":"Pick-six: Late-season hockey grabs for the title run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s getting to be winning time in the fantasy hockey season and I want that imaginary trophy on your mantle. Let’s look at some skaters worth picking up in deep, medium and shallow leagues.<\/p>\n

Deep:<\/strong> Henrik Zetterberg<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> has been on a tear since the Olympic break (16 points in 11 games), and while you obviously can’t pick him up, you can make a move on his two current linemates. Valtteri Filppula<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> has a 4-4-8 run going over his last three starts, and Todd Bertuzzi<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> is coming along for the line as well (five points, 10 shots, plus dual-wing eligibility). Don’t worry about Danny Cleary<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> getting in the way of this trio; he returned to action Wednesday and immediately fell to the third line. <\/p>\n

Medium: <\/strong> We liked Andrei Kostitsyn<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> as a pickup back in December and he justified the faith nicely before a knee injury took him out of commission. He’s back in play now and off a two-goal game Wednesday at Buffalo. There’s a lot to like here; first-round pedigree, regular power-play time, enough of a mean streak to pick up some penalty minutes.<\/p>\n

Michael Del Zotto<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> seemed to hit a wall after a quick getaway (12 October points), but he’s back in good standing on the Rangers power play, collecting two man-advantage points Wednesday and a goal (even strength) on the weekend). He’s also been a lot more assertive shooting the puck of late after a stretch of games where he seemed to lose his confidence. He’s currently available in over two-thirds of Y! leagues; time to fix that number. <\/p>\n

Shallow: <\/strong>If Peter Mueller<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> and Alex Steen<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> are still floating around your waiver wire, shame on you. These are strong plays who should be owned in any self-respecting group. Mueller’s career has woken up nicely since the deal to Colorado; he’s got a 5-10-15 line over 11 games, reminding us why he was tabbed as the No. 8 overall selection in the 2006 draft. Steen didn’t figure in the scoring at Detroit Wednesday despite five shots, but he’s posted a 9-10-19 line since February, another post-hype sleeper makes good. Get these guys in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s getting to be winning time in the fantasy hockey season and I want that imaginary trophy on your mantle. Let’s look at some skaters worth picking up in deep, medium and shallow leagues. Deep: Henrik Zetterberg(notes) has been on a tear since the Olympic break (16 points in 11 games), and while you obviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}