Definitely Offside Podcast Ep.15:"There's No Crying in Baseball!"

Episode 15 - better late than never! Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. Delayed by some kind of disruption in the time-space continuum, namely: busy schedules, Gersy and Smitty finally return to the ice for some saucy, scintillating talky-talk talk. Outbursts of raw, unwanted emotion, Sam Gagner (seen below in this week's episode of "The Walking Dead" a.k.a. "The Oilers"), trade rumours and some recent retirees all get their due in this episode's free-flowing tete-a-tete. Also - numerous factual errors! We're hoping Kommissioner Kev will write an addendum to the conversation that can fill in all the gaps in Mike's and Ross' memories. What are ya gonna do when there's no Wi-fi? Backwards tattoos, Sammy Jankis, backwards tattoos.

Best Fantasy Players in January

So I'm a little late getting on this for January, but with the all-star break, these totals are roughly 1 month's worth despite including a few games in February. Most players have played a typical 13-14 games for this reporting period.

Top 12 Fantasy Point Totals:

John Tavares (33.4)

Ilya Kovalchuk (31.7)

Dan Boyle (28.4)

Evgeni Malkin (28.3)

Martin St Louis (25.2)

Martin Erat (25.2)

Erik Karlsson (25.1)

Matt Moulson (24.9)

James Neal (24.9)

Mike Fisher (24.3)

Vincent Lecavalier (24)

PA Parenteau (23.2)

50th Best player: Alex Goligoski (17.1)

I've added the 50th best guy so that we can see the distance between 12 and 50. It's not much this month. Anyone else getting tired of seeing Malkin and Karlsson on these lists? Me neither. Note that Ross has two players this month for the first time - January All-Star Tavares and everyone's favourite guy to forget, Martin Erat. Jason S. also has two guys, but he left one on the bench all month. Finally, did anyone else see St Louis up there for January and December and feel a little bad for Jason B. (who traded him on November 26th)?

Top 12 Fantasy Point Averages:

Ilya Kovalchuk (2.6)

John Tavares (2.5)

Ryan Whitney (2.4) ** Only 4 games played

Dan Boyle (2.2)

Martin St Louis (2.1)

Alex Pietrangelo (2.0)

Evgeni Malkin (2.0)

Vincent Lecavalier (2.0)

Martin Erat (1.9)

Erik Karlsson (1.9)

Patrick Elias (1.9)

Justin Williams (1.9)

(Also at 1.9: Mike Fisher and Jake Gardiner, though Gardiner only played in 8 games.)

Only 8 players at or over 2.0 this month compared to 11 in December and 14 in November. You'll see that reflected in the goalie stats. 

Top 5 Goalies

Cam Ward (42.7 / 3.6)

Pekka Rinne (39.8 / 3.6)

Jaroslav Halak (31.5 / 3.9) ** Only played 8 games

Henrik Lundqist (31.8 / 3.5)

Miikka Kiprusoff (28.1 / 2.8)

Craig Anderson put up 30.4 points, but only a 2.2 average.

This is a MASSIVE increase over last month's stats, showing both that teams are starting to rely on their starters a little more (they are playing more games) and that scoring was down. Last month the top goalie had an average of 3.0. Lundqvist makes his 3 appearance in a row on this list, and Halak appears after Elliot was on here in November. Ward and Kipper are new. In fact, they are out of no where. And where are Niemi and Quick?! Both had 2 shutout weeks this month and neither make the list. 

Malkin is still on these lists, keeping his streak alive at 4 straight months. Also, last month the list was filled with Canucks (Sedins, Kesler, Bieksa, Luongo). This month there are none. In their place are a couple guys from each of the Islanders, Predators, and Lightning. I guess that makes this month the Month of the Losers.

Definitely Offside Podcast Ep.14:"Moses Had 10 Keepers"

Hang on tight, kids, or else you're getting sucked up into the nerd tornado faster than you can say, "Sonic Screwdriver"! New guest Matt "Belly" Beall joins us for the first time as we get into X-Men, Avengers, Transformers, Fenslerfilm/GI Joe, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twitter, war hero tribute beer, Kev's mouth trumpet, Henry Rollins and the relative value of Glen Danzig. We even fit in some hockey talk! Madness. You're just some cheap innuendo away from the best hour of your life. Lace up and hit the ice, it's Definitely Offside, Episode 14!

source: http://hudsonhongo.com/danzig/