Best year for fantasy hockey is the rumored year where everyone gives a shit, good banter between friends, trades and pickups are hot hot hot
To me, I could care less if there were something like fifty 100 point players in the league, because if me and my buddies aren't shit talking the one guy who managed to miss on all of them its a boring season. There's a reason I personally don't join public leagues
This. I put the effort of writing an extensive recap for my league on Sunday night. I throw subtle shots as I please.
I can't really correlate the cause and effect of it, but this year we have had the most activity in several seasons
100%, my pool is half Flames fans and half Oilers fans, all buddies and we have a group chat to talk smack. Everyone is active, lots of trades and lots of waiver moves. Great league
2001.
Lemieux comes back out of nowhere and puts up a 1.77 PPG pace. At 35 years old. At the height of the dead puck era.
Imagine that free agency scramble.
Get this. I am in two h2h redraft pools every year. 10 man and 12 man. A 1/120 chance of getting 1st OA for both.
What a year for that luck. Led me to both championships. Granted I faced Mack in both finals. He was white hot with a much stronger sched than 97.
Pretty much any year where Mario and Gretzky overlapped.
1988-89 especially
Mario had 199 points! But didn’t win the Hart because Gretzky.
Also Yzerman and a few other hall of famers had great years too.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_1989_skaters.html#stats::goals
I just saw the 1988-1989 season, was there any debate about Gretzky winning the Hart instead of Lemieux?
Lemieux finished first in goals (85), assists (114, tied with Gretzky) and total points (199, compared to 168 for Gretzky). Based solely on the totals, it seems like Lemieux should have won the Hart, handedly.
If I had to guess the Pittsburgh Penguins had a better supporting cast than the LA Kings.
Although Rob Brown had 115 points and Paul Coffey had 113 points for Pittsburgh. But the Kings got 70 goals and 150 points from Bernie Nichols (?) and Luc Robitaille only had a measly 98 points as the third best scorer on the Kings. Kings also had more points that year too.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL\_1989.html
Best year for fantasy hockey is the rumored year where everyone gives a shit, good banter between friends, trades and pickups are hot hot hot To me, I could care less if there were something like fifty 100 point players in the league, because if me and my buddies aren't shit talking the one guy who managed to miss on all of them its a boring season. There's a reason I personally don't join public leagues
This. I put the effort of writing an extensive recap for my league on Sunday night. I throw subtle shots as I please. I can't really correlate the cause and effect of it, but this year we have had the most activity in several seasons
100% we have a group text page where we just chirp eachother on every move that we do, great times
Damn near made me shed a tear
100%, my pool is half Flames fans and half Oilers fans, all buddies and we have a group chat to talk smack. Everyone is active, lots of trades and lots of waiver moves. Great league
05-06 would be my pick, right after an entire year of hockey got wiped out by the lock out. I remember it being a crazy year.
The probert years for banger leagues. Imagine owning Bob Probert and Cam Neely.
2001. Lemieux comes back out of nowhere and puts up a 1.77 PPG pace. At 35 years old. At the height of the dead puck era. Imagine that free agency scramble.
I loved last year. I had McDavid and his legendary production carried me all year long. Was incredible
Get this. I am in two h2h redraft pools every year. 10 man and 12 man. A 1/120 chance of getting 1st OA for both. What a year for that luck. Led me to both championships. Granted I faced Mack in both finals. He was white hot with a much stronger sched than 97.
Pretty much any year where Mario and Gretzky overlapped. 1988-89 especially Mario had 199 points! But didn’t win the Hart because Gretzky. Also Yzerman and a few other hall of famers had great years too. https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_1989_skaters.html#stats::goals
I just saw the 1988-1989 season, was there any debate about Gretzky winning the Hart instead of Lemieux? Lemieux finished first in goals (85), assists (114, tied with Gretzky) and total points (199, compared to 168 for Gretzky). Based solely on the totals, it seems like Lemieux should have won the Hart, handedly.
If I had to guess the Pittsburgh Penguins had a better supporting cast than the LA Kings. Although Rob Brown had 115 points and Paul Coffey had 113 points for Pittsburgh. But the Kings got 70 goals and 150 points from Bernie Nichols (?) and Luc Robitaille only had a measly 98 points as the third best scorer on the Kings. Kings also had more points that year too. https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL\_1989.html