Fantasy Hockey Life

In Episode 108, Jesse and Victor are joined by old friend Ben Burnett of the Short Shifts podcast to talk about the Eastern Division. We cover the Bruins, Sabres, Devils and Rangers. The boys plumb the depth charts of these four teams and invent a new boardgame that will make them all rich. Have a listen. Subscribe to the cast, download, rate five stars, and leave glowing reviews. We thank you for it.

Episode 107 completes the review of the NHL's Western Division. Brett Pickler returns to talk Wild, Sharks, Blues, and Golden Knights. Is Mats Zuccarello's season real or an illusion caused by Dolla Bill Kirill? How is Victor coping with the Sharks? That and much more. Tune in all, then subscribe to the cast, download, rate five stars, and leave glowing reviews. We thank you for it.

Jesse and Victor start their tour through the Western division with special guest Brett Pickler of the Hockey Writers. We talk about the Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, LA Kings and Colorado Avalanche. Cal Petersen is mentioned. Tune in all, then subscribe to the cast, download, rate five stars, and leave glowing reviews. We thank you for it.

Shaun Filippelli of the Hockey Writers joins Victor and Jesse again for the second part of the NHL Central Division. We discuss the Panthers, Red Wings, Predators and Lightning. Who is catching our attention on these teams from a fantasy perspective? Tune in to find out. Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews help us a lot.

Shaun Filippelli of the Hockey Writers joins Victor and Jesse to check in on the NHL Central Division. We discuss the Hurricanes, Blackhawks, Blue Jackets, and Stars. Who is catching our attention on these teams from a fantasy perspective? Tune in to find out. Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews help us a lot.

Episode 103 features digs into Zayde Wisdom, Noel Gunler, Jonathan Dahlen, Veini Vehvilainen, Mikko Lehtonen, and Michael Dal Colle. Then the boys talk late season and playoff prep and strategy. They do an exercise where they lay out the two wildest trades each would be willing to do, that would probably surprise many fellow players. Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews earn you incredible positive karma.

Jesse, Victor, and Josh Kim of the Hockey Writers cover the rest of the North Division - Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg. Josh gets off his chest his biggest concern with the Leafs. The boys discuss what to make of Nils Hoglander for the rest of the season. Jesse attempts to gaslight Victor on who the real Kyle Connor fan is. All that and an update on the listener league. Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews earn you incredible positive karma.

Victor and Jesse are ready to talk about the teams in the Great Canadian North. For the first half of this division, we talk Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, and Ottawa with THW expert Josh Kim. What victory laps and mea culpas do Jesse and Victor have halfway through the season? Which players have been catching our eye? We talk about the players whose performances could turn the second have of your fantasy season. Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews earn you incredible positive karma.

On episode 100 of Fantasy Hockey Life, Victor answers listener questions and covers some players in the vicinity of 100 games played. Jesse dives into guys whose goals scored may be a bit high or a bit low. Then Jesse makes a shocking confession and issues a decree on the future of fantasy talk. Tune in! Follow us on Twitter at @fanhockeylife @victornuno12. Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you want a free invite to the FHL Discord. 5 star ratings and good reviews earn you incredible positive karma.

Rachel Nones of the Hockey Writers stops by to check in on the Penguins, Flyers, Capitals, and Rangers. These teams feature some risers and some fallers as the East continues to sort out in the short season. Which of the bright young goalies among these teams made our surprise list? Follow us on twitter @fanhockeylife and @victornuno12, join the Discord, email us at [email protected].

Jesse and Victor check in on the first half of the NHL's Eastern division. Hannah Garfield (@HannahGarfield_) from the Hockey Writers joins to talk Bruins, Sabres, Devils, and Islanders. All these teams have their surprise players and their disappointing ones. Hear who is impressing and depressing the crew. Stick around as Jesse tries to learn the world "cockles." Remember to follow us on Twitter @fanhockeylife and @victornuno12, email at [email protected]. Leave a 5 star rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

Burned out from watching 367 consecutive minutes of Arizona vs St. Louis? Take a vacation with your friends Jesse and Victor. Victor answers your questions on prospects and a guy hitting the 100 game mark. Then Jesse goes into players whose shot and shot attempt rates are up and down this year. Connor McMichael, Owen Tippett, Marco Rossi, Kirill Marchenko, Sam Steel, Conor Garland, Drake Batherson, Rasmus Dahlin, Kyle Connor, and Shea Weber are among the guys we discuss.

Victor and Jesse welcome in Eddy Jones of the Forever Mighty Podcast to talk about all 8 Western Division teams: Arizona, Anaheim, Colorado, Los Angeles, Minnesota, San Jose, St. Louis and Vegas. Will the kids in LA and Anaheim come up soon? How good are the teams at the top of the division? Catch up on those late-night teams with us.

Jesse and Victor are back to check in on some dynasty topics. First Victor answers some prospect questions from the Fantasy Hockey Life Discord in the latest edition of the Dynasty Dig. Then Jesse premieres a new segment looking at players whose rate of hits and blocks have increased or decreased the most this season. Email us at [email protected], follow us on twitter @fanhockeylife and @victornuno12 and leave us a 5-star rating and review on your podcast platform.

Victor and Jesse interview Elan Dubrofsky, cohost of the Keeping Karlsson fantasy hockey podcast. We talk through all 8 teams of the Central Division, focusing on the guys whose early performance impressed or disappointed us as well as a guy on each team we are keeping an eye on. Lots of audio goodies on this one. Follow on twitter @fanhockeylife and @victornuno12 email at [email protected] . Leave us a 5 star rating and review on apple podcasts or anywhere else. Contact us to join our free discord to chat fantasy hockey all week with us and other listeners and submit questions for the show.

Jesse and Victor are back in the regular season swing. In this episode, we start by running down the players we got most frequently in drafts. The dynasty dig features a few rookies making an early impact on the NHL season - suggested entirely by listeners. Finally, we run down some advice for approaching the first weeks of the season. Email us at [email protected], follow us on twitter @victornuno12 and @fanhockeylife. Leave us a 5 star review. Join our free discord to talk fantasy hockey with other listeners.

In this week's episode, Jesse and Victor are finishing final preparations for the 2021 NHL Fantasy season. First the guys discuss the last-minute rush of slow drafts and Jesse confesses to a big mistake. They run down a list of players who might be available late in your last-minute drafts or on your preseason waiver wires. Finally, they run down the results of the inaugural Fantasy Hockey Life Listener League. Fantasy Hockey Life is starting a free discussion forum for listeners. Send your feedback on whether you prefer groupme, discord, or somewhere else to [email protected] . Questions for Victor and Jesse can go there too, as well as to their Twitter addresses @fanhockeylife and @victornuno12 The puck drops Wednesday!

On episode 91 of Fantasy Hockey Life, Victor and Jesse talk about defensemen and goalies they rate differently from our Fantrax team consensus ranks. Find out if Victor can talk Jesse down from his irrational love for Kevin Shattenkirk. How will Vegas's two star defensemen share the ice and what will be the impact on their fantasy value? What late round defenseman does Victor see as a Calder candidate? What goalies does Victor see breaking out of past tandems to become top fantasy goalies? Who loves Elvis Merzlikins more? We go a little long, but these 20 discussions should help you as you make the final push toward your drafts.

FHL Episode 90 is a long one, but worth it. After some talk about the upcoming draft season, Victor and Jesse talk about their takes for drafting forwards this year. They compare their individual rankings to the Fantrax consensus rankings. They geek out explaining their methodologies for coming up with projections and rankings. Each picks 5 guys who they are much higher on than on consensus and 5 they are lower on - an overall value of 20 takes with stats to back it up. Have a listen as you prep for your fantasy drafts!

Jesse and Victor are joined by Matthew Zator of the Hockey Writers to discuss the prospects who will be playing in the upcoming World Juniors. Dynasty players will enjoy discussion of recent draft picks, especially on the stacked Russian, Swedish, American, and especially the Canadian squad. Have a listen before the puck drops Christmas Day.

Byron Bader produces an excellent model for predicting which prospects and draft picks are mostly likely to succeed as pros using the closest comparisons in a historical database. In this episode, Victor and Jesse interview him about how the model works and Byron talks about which of this year's draft picks he liked better than the consensus.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are the topic for Victor, Jesse, and special guest Ian Gooding of Dobber Hockey. The returning Stanley Cup champs are dealing with a money-based roster crunch but still feature an embarrassment of fantasy riches. Is Kucherov the #1 player in fantasy hockey? Is Vasilevskiy the #1 goalie? Tune in to get our opinions, then stick around for the dig and Victor's thoughts on a not-irrelevant system.

Victor and Jesse welcome Brett Duboff of the Lace 'em Up podcast to talk about the Boston Bruins. From the injury questions surrounding the top line to the change of the guard at the top defenseman position, there is a lot of uncertainty on the reigning President's Trophy winners. In the Dynasty Dig, Victor covers a shallow system with a couple of players who might still make an impact. Tune in!

The Washington Capitals had a familiar brilliant regular season and lackluster playoff. Victor and Jesse talk about how early to draft Alex Ovechkin, whether Vrana and Wilson can keep up their career surges, and whether podcast fave Ilya Samsonov will be a success in goal. The dynasty dig takes on a generally dry system that has perked up from the last two drafts.

The Carolina Hurricanes couldn't replicate their magical "bunch of jerks" 2018-19, but they still feature top notch players like Sebastian Aho, Dougie Hamilton and Andrei Svechnikov. Victor and Jesse talk about their faves on the team as well as who they are fading. The dig is target-rich with Jake Bean, Joey Keane, Dominik Bokk, Alex Nedeljkovic and a top-notch draft class. Tune in!

Episode 83 is dedicated to the Stanley Cup runner-ups, the Dallas Stars. The Stars have an aging core and will be missing their top scorer Tyler Seguin and their all star goalie Ben Bishop for the better part of the season. Are there indications aging forwards like Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn can lift their game to what we saw in the playoffs? Is career backup Anton Khudobin capable of replicating his excellent playoff run? And how dang good is Miro Heiskanen? In the dig, Victor identifies some incoming offensive players Dallas will desperately need and soon. Tune in!

In episode 82 we talk about the Pittsburgh Penguins. We start at the two immortals - Crosby and Malkin. A group of wingers jockey to play alongside them, and we discuss which might be just products of their lines and which have legitimate star potential. The blue line has some of everything - the established, oft-injured Letang, the up and coming Marino, the frighteningly overpaid Matheson. In goal, Tristen Jarry owns the net now and has to prove last year was no fluke. Plus the boys discuss which Penguin plays Victor's true passion sport, disc golf. In the dig, Victor makes the best of a shallow system by talking about a couple of guys who might be able to break into the pros relatively quickly. Tune in!

Episode 81 is all about the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers jumped from fringe contender to division runners-up thanks to a star young goalie, Carter Hart. Victor and Jesse quiz Max Nason of the Hockey Writers what we can expect of stars like Giroux and Couturier, breakouts like Konecny, and injury wild cards Patrick and Lindblom. In the dig, Victor takes on a couple of potential breakouts in Philly's system. Tune in!

Fantasy Hockey Life is talking St. Louis Blues! Ethan Carter from the Hockey Writers stops by to set Victor and Jesse straight on the team that finished first in the Western Conference. How will the 2019 Cup winners address the continued absence of Vladimir Tarasenko? Will Torey Krug be able to replicate Alex Pietrangelo's strong blue line play? Is Jordan Binnington a warlock? All this plus Klim Kostin and Jordan Kyrou in the dynasty grid. Tune in!

Episode 79 of Fantasy Hockey Life welcomes back James Nichols of FantraxHQ and the Hockey Writers. We talk all about the New York Islanders, who always seem to punch above their weight but can't be called a fluke any more. Barzal leads the way, but there are some intriguing points/peripherals guys and a power vacuum on the blue line. In the Dynasty Dig, Victor praises "the best goalie not yet in the NHL" and Jesse and James don't argue. Tune in!

Victor and Jesse talk Colorado Avalanche! Can MacKinnon match or surpass his top 5 pick production again? How high would you rank Cale Makar among young D? And what is going to happen to this team when they actually have to pay both of them? In the Dynasty Dig, Victor talks about a top goalie, a top defenseman, and some good forwards on the way. Tune in!

Shaun Filippelli joins Jesse and Victor to sort through the sliding Chicago Blackhawks. Toews and Kane are still stars, but the team around them has slid. Shaun walks us through who to pay attention to in all the moving parts. Jesse gives his HAWT TAEK on the goalie situation over Victor's vociferous objections. In the dig, Victor looks for the relevant prospects on a rebuilding team.

Josh Kim of the Hockey Writers rejoins Jesse and Victor to talk Toronto Maple Leafs. Will the uber-talented core ever see post-season success? Will a top D-man step up? Who are the peripheral guys who should get run? In the Dynasty Dig, Victor delves into a very promising forward at the top of the heap. Tune in!

Jesse and Victor are joined by Colton Pankiw in snowy Alberta to talk about the Calgary Flames. After a slip down the Pacific Conference standings this year, how far can the stars of this team climb back up? Will the big investment in goal finally solve Calgary's goalie woes? Then Victor gets into the dig with an excellent defenseman and a rising goalie. All that and Tkachuk talk. Tune in!

This week, Jesse and Victor talk Columbus Blue Jackets with Pete Bauer. We talk PLD, Werenski, Seth Jones, Max Domi, and many more. Victor gushes about Elvis. Jesse tries to sing the name of one Blue Jacket player. All that all a French top prospect in the dig. Tune in!

FHL 73 is talking Vancouver Canucks with Sartaaj Bhullar of the Hockey Writers. Victor and Jesse talk about Pettersson, Miller, Hughes and all Vancouver's grade-A talent. We also consider the newly complicated goalie situation. Then in the Dynasty Dig, Victor holds forth on Vasili Podkolzin, Jack Rathbone, the awesomely named Jett Woo and many more. Give it a listen.

Episode 72 of Fantasy Hockey Life focuses on the Arizona Coyotes. Their bold trade and play-in round upset made this a better season than recent ones in the desert. Unfortunately, off-ice management have left them stripped of draft picks and in a financial bind. Can the young core of Keller, Garland, Hayton, Crouse, Dvorak and Chychrun keep the team relevant or are the Coyotes set up for a slide back? Who do you want to roster from this crew in fantasy? Join guest Louis Pannone to find out. Then in the dynasty dig, Victor gets into Barrett Hayton and the 'Yotes yet to come.

Jesse and Victor are joined by The Hockey Writers author Ryan Szporer to talk about the Montreal Canadiens. Will the Habs' surprising bubble upset lead to a playoff run next year? How will the offensive talent shake out after the Domi for Anderson trade? The Dynasty Dig features a couple of strong prospects and for the first time a breakdown of a team's 2020 draft picks.

Fantasy Hockey Life's 70th episode is Victor and Jesse talking about our first year player draft rankings in the wake of last week's NHL draft. We debate our top 15 lists, discuss our buys and fades outside that top list, chat about the goalies you might want to consider, and mention a couple of NHL clubs who did well for themselves. Listen in to hear not only about the players but how we approach a first year fantasy player draft.

Fantasy Hockey Life Episode 69 features the Edmonton Oilers and Jim Parsons, Jr. (@nhl_tradetalk). How does a team with the top two scorers in the NHL drop out in the first series of the bubble? What kind of moves could they make in the offseason in the eternal project of improving the defense? Will Mikko Koskinen be the answer in goal? All this and the Dynasty Dig with Victor in an action-packed episode.

Episode 68 of Fantasy Hockey Life has Victor Nuno of the Hockey Writers and Jesse Severe of Fantrax talking Vegas Golden Knights. Brett Pickler of The Hockey Writers is here to share the state of the defending Pacific Division champs and Western Conference Finalists, all the way up to Saturday's Lehner extension. In the Dynasty Dig Victor talks Peyton Krebs and tries to convince Jesse there is a town named "Kootenay." Tune in!

Jesse and Victor welcome back Jack Dawkins of The Hockey Writers to talk Florida Panthers. We gush over Barkov and Huberdeau, mourn the dismantling of the top 6 and the abysmal and expensive first year of Bobrovsky in Sunrise. Victor's Dynasty Dig hits a series of excellent of prospects and one he talked about because he felt bad for Jesse. Tune in!

Jesse Severe and Victor Nuno are joined this week by Kyle Gipe, content manager for The Hockey Writers to talk about the Nashville Preds. Is the team really on the decline? Why can't they ever add a scoring center? Will Pekka Rinne ever let Juuse Saros just be the goalie already? After the pros, Victor goes on a dynasty dig with a promising Nashville prospect system.

Fantasy Hockey Life Episode 65 is all about the Winnipeg Jets. Jesse and Victor welcome Josh Kim of the Hockey Writers. Topic covered include what happened in the postseason, the prospects of the stars holding up and coming back. We fawn over Connor Hellebuyck. Then we go to a defense-oriented dynasty dig to consider if the prospect pipeline is as good as it has been.

Victor and Jesse are back for Episode 64 for Fantasy Hockey Life. On this episode, the boys are joined by Jack Crawford of the Hockey Writers to talk about the tumultuous Minnesota Wild. Who will the first line Center be for this team? Are you ready for Kaprizov fever? Tune in.

Episode 63 of Fantasy Hockey Life is here. On this episode, Jesse and Victor talk with Eddy Jones of the Hockey Writers, the Draft Analyst, and the Forever Mighty podcast. Eddy gives us the lowdown on the Anaheim Ducks, from the declining pros to the slow debuts of the new wave. We also ask Eddy what's wrong with John Gibson and whether he'll bounce back. In the second half of the show Eddy adds his perspective to Victor's Ducks dynasty dig. Give it a listen.

Fantasy Hockey Life Episode 62 is here. Zackary Weiner of the Hockey Writers joins Victor and Jesse to talk L.A. Kings. We start by talking about the last remaining players from two Stanley Cup-winning teams. The Kings have fallen in the standings and become very expensive, leaving GM Rob Blake serious challenges. In the second half we talk about a stacked prospect system that looks likely to bring the team back to playoff contention.

Jesse Severe from Fantrax and Victor Nuno of the Hockey Writers are back to talk Detroit Red Wings. Guesting on the episode is Tony Wolak of THW. We discuss the state of the Red Wings including the active roster, future plans, and the prospect system. Start to study up on a team where there will be plenty of opportunity for up and coming fantasy players.

In episode 60, Jesse and co-host @victornuno12 are joined by @avgtimeonice Ben Burnett to talk all about the New York Rangers. We ask Ben how excited Rangers fans to have the #1 overall pick. We cover the stars of the Rangers like Panarin and Zibanejad all the way down to our normal dynasty dig into up and coming prospects. All that and some very special announcements -- tune in to hear more!

It's time to talk New Jersey Devils with Victor Nuno! Find out how many brothers of NHL players can fit on one roster. Talk about which #1 overall pick Jesse and Victor like for the future. Hear Jesse's crackpot theories about Jersey trades and how to fix Nikita Gusev. All this and more on episode 59.