As is usually the advice in the early season, we are attacking positive results and trying to ignore negative ones where we can.
Why? Justified FOMO — that’s fear of missing out.
You need to strike a balance with your roster in which you hold onto players like Teuvo Teravainen, Timo Meier, Patrick Kane and Sam Reinhart, while also finding ways to roster players like Shane Pinto, Calen Addison, David Savard, Gabriel Vilardi and Jason Zucker.
First, make sure to utilize your injured reserve where you can. We’ve had a few injuries start to crop up this week, so get players like Gabriel Landeskog, Aaron Ekblad, Tyler Bertuzzi and Nikolaj Ehlers onto your IR to make some room.
Second, when you trim, try to trim from replacement-level assets with solid baselines, but minimal upside. Players like Mathew Barzal, Ryan O’Reilly, Jaccob Slavin, Andrew Mangiapane, Blake Wheeler and David Perron may be hard to part with in shallower leagues, but they are the kind of player you may be forced to make a hard decision with. Just remember that, given their current output, it’s not like other managers in your league will be scrambling to add them. In some cases, you may be able to revisit the decision later when one of the shiny new assets goes cold.
Forward notes
David Pastrnak, W, Boston Bruins (up 22 spots to No. 15): Shooting drives offense. Pastrnak is firing more than six shots per game through six contests. That’s a great omen to start a campaign in which the Bruins won’t be at full strength until mid-December.
Andrei Svechnikov, W, Carolina Hurricanes (up 31 spots to No. 32): If you track what I like to call “primary fantasy points,” Svechnikov is off to one of the better starts to the campaign. Using the default ESPN scoring, but only looking at goals, primary assists, shots, blocked shots and hits, Svechnikov sits seventh with 17.0 fantasy points — ahead of Pastrnak, Mika Zibanejad and Nathan MacKinnon in that metric.
Jonathan Huberdeau, W, Calgary Flames (down 11 spots to No. 35): Through five games it doesn’t look like the top line for the Flames has much mojo. After Elias Lindholm, Matthew Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau were the best line in the NHL last season, Lindholm,…
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