Every year, we have a fantasy hockey pool at work.\u00a0 Last year, I use pure statistic to select my players and I end up having the lowest score.\u00a0 I guess performance of hockey players just like stocks, past result does not always imply future growth.\u00a0 Some of my friends really into hockey.\u00a0 They are a walking hockey database.\u00a0 Not only that they know all the players and their teams by heart, they also keep track of who is injured, who has been traded or even who had just become a dad.\u00a0 Crying baby at night probably affect the game performance.\u00a0 I believe they hockey knowledge give them an advantage in the hockey pool.\u00a0 Anyways, I am too busy and lazy to do my own research, so I end up using statistic again this year.\u00a0 It is much easier to look at numbers than find out everything about the players from sports news website.\u00a0 Here is my team this year:<\/p>\n
Henrik Zetterberg (Det – F)
\nRyan Getzlaf (Anh – F)
\nOlli Jokinen (Pho – F)
\nShane Doan (Pho – F)
\nRick Nash (Cls – F)
\nAlexander Frolov (LA – F)
\nNathan Horton (Fla – F)
\nPatrick Marleau (SJ – F)
\nMark Streit (NYI – D)
\nLubomir Visnovsky (Edm – D)
\nJay Bouwmeester (Fla – D)
\nBryan McCabe (Fla – D)
\nHenrik Lundqvist (NYR – G)
\nMarc-Andre Fleury (Pit – G)<\/p>\n
This time we are more prepared than last year when we are drafting the players.\u00a0 All of us bring our laptop to search the players on line when it is our turn to pick the player.\u00a0 We have 9 teams in total, it took us almost 1.5 hours to finish the drafting.\u00a0 The hockey season is starting this week, following our fantasy hockey team and bragging on who is winning would be a regular feature in our lunch coversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"