NHL Playoffs - Fantasy Player Projections

Fantasy pools are becoming more and more popular for the playoffs so I figure I could help out a little by making my own projections. To do this, I used a combination of Vegas odds and my own predictions to come up with a number of projected games for each team. After that I used season statistics and simply applied points per game averages to every player. Here are the results:


Player

Team

Pos

Proj Pts

Player

Team

Pos

Proj Pts

Alex Ovechkin

WAS

LW

25.74

Ruslan Fedotenko

PIT

LW

6.23

Sidney Crosby

PIT

C

22.34

Kris Letang

PIT

D

6.14

Nicklas Backstrom

WAS

C

20.94

Tyler Myers

BUF

D

6.13

Alexander Semin

WAS

LW

19.56

Jason Spezza

OTT

C

6.09

Evgeni Malkin

PIT

C

19.08

Andy Greene

NJ

D

6.07

Henrik Sedin

VAN

C

17.94

Jason Demers

SJ

D

6.01

Daniel Sedin

VAN

LW

17.73

Paul Stastny

COL

C

5.95

Mike Green

WAS

D

17.23

Patrice Bergeron

BOS

C

5.95

Joe Thornton

SJ

C

16.45

Brian Rolston

NJ

RW

5.92

Patrick Kane

CHI

RW

15.02

Wojtek Wolski

PHO

LW

5.92

Patrick Marleau

SJ

C

14.78

Joe Corvo

WAS

D

5.88

Dany Heatley

SJ

LW

14.60

Tom Poti

WAS

D

5.83

Ilya Kovalchuk

NJ

LW

14.32

Dustin Byfuglien

CHI

RW

5.80

Henrik Zetterberg

DET

LW

13.81

Dave Bolland

CHI

C

5.74

Sergei Gonchar

PIT

D

13.39

Brooks Orpik

PIT

D

5.68

Mike Knuble

WAS

RW

13.06

Jochen Hecht

BUF

C

5.57

Zach Parise

NJ

LW

12.96

Ryan Smyth

LA

LW

5.53

Brooks Laich

WAS

C

12.86

Jason Arnott

NSH

C

5.50

Pavel Datsyuk

DET

C

12.78

David Krejci

BOS

C

5.49

Tomas Fleischmann

WAS

C

12.57

Jeff Carter

PHI

C

5.42

Jonathan Toews

CHI

C

12.53

Sami Salo

VAN

D

5.41

Marian Hossa

CHI

RW

12.53

Brent Seabrook

CHI

D

5.38

Ryan Kesler

VAN

C

12.02

Jeff Schultz

WAS

D

5.36

Duncan Keith

CHI

D

11.78

Jordan Leopold

PIT

D

5.33

Johan Franzen

DET

C

11.36

Matt Bradley

WAS

RW

5.30

Patrick Sharp

CHI

C

11.27

Logan Couture

SJ

C

5.26

Dan Boyle

SJ

D

11.14

Kevin Bieksa

VAN

D

5.26

Joe Pavelski

SJ

C

11.11

Tomas Plekanec

MON

C

5.13

Alexei Ponikarovsky

PIT

LW

10.78

Raffi Torres

BUF

LW

5.09

Alex Burrows

VAN

LW

10.73

Chris Stewart

COL

RW

5.07

Chris Kunitz

PIT

LW

10.62

Drew Doughty

LA

D

5.03

Patrik Elias

NJ

LW

10.59

Drew Stafford

BUF

RW

5.01

Travis Zajac

NJ

C

10.46

Martin Erat

NSH

RW

4.98

Ryane Clowe

SJ

LW

10.15

Jason Williams

DET

RW

4.98

Jordan Staal

PIT

C

9.92

Mike Richards

PHI

C

4.97

Tomas Holmstrom

DET

LW

9.66

Matthew Lombardi

PHO

C

4.95

Brendan Morrison

WAS

C

9.65

Patrick Eaves

DET

RW

4.94

Jamie Langenbrunner

NJ

RW

9.64

Steve Bernier

VAN

RW

4.90

Eric Fehr

WAS

RW

9.61

Shane Doan

PHO

RW

4.89

Bill Guerin

PIT

RW

9.58

Patric Hornqvist

NSH

RW

4.80

Mikael Samuelsson

VAN

RW

9.41

Milan Hejduk

COL

RW

4.80

Tim Connolly

BUF

C

9.32

Dustin Brown

LA

RW

4.77

Valtteri Filppula

DET

C

9.29

Boyd Gordon

WAS

C

4.72

Eric Belanger

WAS

C

9.05

Steve Sullivan

NSH

LW

4.68

Derek Roy

BUF

C

9.03

Darren Helm

DET

C

4.67

Alex Goligoski

PIT

D

8.90

Danny Briere

PHI

C

4.64

Nicklas Lidstrom

DET

D

8.72

John Carlson

WAS

D

4.64

Mason Raymond

VAN

LW

8.49

Mike Cammalleri

MON

LW

4.63

Jason Pominville

BUF

RW

7.92

Zdeno Chara

BOS

D

4.59

Brian Rafalski

DET

D

7.86

J.P. Dumont

NSH

RW

4.58

Todd Bertuzzi

DET

RW

7.83

Scott Gomez

MON

C

4.55

Thomas Vanek

BUF

LW

7.82

Andrei Markov

MON

D

4.54

Kris Versteeg

CHI

RW

7.80

Brian Gionta

MON

RW

4.53

Pascal Dupuis

PIT

LW

7.79

Simon Gagne

PHI

LW

4.53

Daniel Cleary

DET

RW

7.76

Jarret Stoll

LA

C

4.50

Devin Setoguchi

SJ

RW

7.51

Mark Recchi

BOS

RW

4.43

Pavol Demitra

VAN

RW

7.51

Chris Pronger

PHI

D

4.41

Jason Chimera

WAS

LW

7.41

Alexander Frolov

LA

LW

4.40

Mathieu Perreault

WAS

C

7.29

Kyle Wellwood

VAN

C

4.38

Alexander Edler

VAN

D

7.26

Lee Stempniak

PHO

RW

4.37

Christian Ehrhoff

VAN

D

7.23

Adam Burish

CHI

RW

4.31

Michael Grabner

VAN

RW

7.23

Mike Fisher

OTT

C

4.30

Troy Brouwer

CHI

RW

7.18

Jannik Hansen

VAN

RW

4.19

Anze Kopitar

LA

C

6.90

Ben Lovejoy

PIT

D

4.15

Manny Malhotra

SJ

C

6.79

Shea Weber

NSH

D

4.15

Dainius Zubrus

NJ

C

6.78

Matt Duchene

COL

C

4.14

Niklas Kronwall

DET

D

6.69

Justin Williams

LA

RW

4.13

David Clarkson

NJ

RW

6.68

John Madden

CHI

C

4.08

Daniel Alfredsson

OTT

RW

6.50

Marco Sturm

BOS

LW

4.06

Andrew Ladd

CHI

LW

6.49

Karl Alzner

WAS

D

4.05

Tyler Kennedy

PIT

C

6.48

Tomas Kopecky

CHI

RW

3.97

Paul Martin

NJ

D

6.40

Rob Niedermayer

NJ

C

3.97

Matt Cooke

PIT

LW

6.30

Kris Draper

DET

C

3.97

Tyler Ennis

BUF

C

6.28

Kent Huskins

SJ

D

3.92

Rob Blake

SJ

D

6.26

Mike Rupp

PIT

C

3.89