If you own Toews

Here's some advice I gave to a colleague:


Toews is about to go on IR for a few weeks

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/12380-Blackhawks-get-good-news-as-rookie-Toews-avoids-knee-surgery.html

so when he's IR-eligible, use that status and pick up any of the following:

Ty Conklin (goalie)

Pierre-Marc Bouchard (who stands out because he's c,w)

Any available Red Wing of your choice (but I like Filppula (C), pundits seem to like Cleary (W) and Kronwall (D))

I don't understand why nobody picked up Langkow. He works with Iginla.

The Yahoo! computer seems to like Shane Doan, but I don't know why.

The league's best power play is Montreal (again, I don't know why) and Saku Koivu is available but listed as DTD.

There are plenty of NSH players available but for good reason but Arnott and Dumont are good.

Zherdev is viable any time Nash is on a hot streak.

Dustin Brown is the top goal scorer among available players but he's with LA which had a good power play but terrible +/-, which is why I dropped Visnovsky, who is very good.

Byfuglien (D, Chicago) is still available and doing well and I dropped Erik Cole who is okay. Other Canes available: Cullen and Brind'Amour. Canes have lost 5 of the last 7 but should do well again at some point.

I dropped Paul Kariya because he takes lots of shots and doesn't score but he leads the Blues and the day I dropped him he had a hat trick.

The players I would recommend based on recent hot streaks are:

Recchi, Vrbata, and Nagy, but all play for teams that are not likely to make the playoffs. Atlanta's tough to figure out.