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Highest-paid National Hockey League Players

August 21, 2011 By 15 Comments

01311443931_golfing.jpgUnlike others sports such as baseball, basketball and football, National Hockey League (NHL) sees very long contracts of best players from ten to twelve years with guaranteed salaries instead of five or six years as normal because they help NHL owners put fans in seats. Therefore, these players often earn a huge amount of money.
 
Below is the list of top 10 NHL players who will receive at least $8 million this season including Roberto Luongo, Vincent Lecavalier, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin, Chris Drury, Scott Gome, Dany Heatley, Duncan Keith and Jason Spezza.

Roberto Luongo receives $10 million for his 2010-2011 salary from Vancouver Canucks. In 2008, he was the first NHL goaltender to become a team captain in 60 years.

Vincent Lecavalier signed an 11-year and $85-million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2008. $10 million is his 2010-2011 salary

Sidney Crosby, a hockey’s golden boy of Pittsburgh Penguins, is paid $9 million in the season 2010-2011

Evgeni Malkin signed a $43.5 million contract in 2008 with Pittsburgh Penguins and became the first Russian to receive the Conn Smythe trophy when he led the Pens to the Stanley Cup in 2009. At present, he earns $9 million in 2010-2011

The star winger Alexander Ovechkin has the biggest contract in the game worth $124 million over 13 years. He also receives $9 million in 2010-2011

Chris Drury, who plays for New York Rangers, is the only player to receive awards as the top college player (Hobey Baker) and best NHL rookie (Calder). His salary in 2010-2011 is $8 million.

Scott Gomez signed a $51.5 million free-agent contract with the Rangers in 2007 but was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in the season 2008-09. His salary now is $8 million.

Dany Heatley, the all-time leading scorer of Team Canada with 38 goals in World Championship events, currently gets $8 million at San Jose Sharks

Duncan Keith of Chicago Blackhawks is the NHL’s highest-paid defenseman this year with $8million

Jason Spezza gets $8million from Ottawa Senators
 

 
 
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Fantasy Hockey 101 – Types of Hockey Leagues You Must Know About

August 19, 2011 By 1 Comment

11311444079_michael-jordan.jpgFantasy Hockey 101: Types of Hockey Leagues You Must Know About

If you are really getting serious about playing fantasy hockey, you should know about the type of hockey leagues you have the option of joining.

Kinds of Fantasy Hockey Leagues

Fantasy hockey leagues #1: The Points League

When you say points league, it is the one where point multipliers are assigned to a particular category. The owners try to garner the needed points to win by scoring in the categories in spite of not having a weekly competition.

An example of this is if 10 points are to be given for a goal score while 3 points for a hockey assist, then a player who scores 20 goals and 50 assists will collects 200 and 150 which totals 350 and that would be the fantasy hockey owner’s score.

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Are you a big fan of hockey and the National Hockey League? If you are, then better join the growing number of men and women who are hooked on playing the enjoyable game of fantasy hockey. Tips To Build A Better Fantasy Hockey Team

For most hockey fans, it is a shadowy dream for them to get access to play for the NHL. However, don’t be too disappointed and sad about that. You can pursue and realize your dream in another way. A fantasy hockey team is what you need to fulfill your desire. Here are some important tips for the organization of your first fantasy hockey team.The same system of points is awarded for the scoring in multiple categories.

Fantasy hockey leagues #1: Head to Head (H2H)

A fantasy hockey league that uses head to head means that fantasy owners will be competing again with each other on a one on one duel which happens each week. The fantasy hockey owner must try to win as much categories in a week as possible. This is important because the weekly scores will be tallied and totaled at the end of the season and the cumulative score will make the owner a winner or not.

The head to head fantasy hockey league is the only league that offers the bracket-style playoff game format that occurs at the regular season’s end.

The new head to head points systems is a type of system which mixes the concept of two kinds of leagues. The combination of weekly match-ups and opponents play to accumulate the most number of points. The points are based and earned from each statistic. Each of these stats have been assigned a specific amount. An example is a goal can be worth five points while an assists can be worth ten points.

Fantasy Hockey leagues # 3: The Rotisserie League (Rota)

This is the type of league in which teams are numbered and classified from worst to best. For example, in a ROTA league, if there are 20 teams and 20 categories, the most number of points a team can win is 200 (this is if that teams win 1st in all of the categories). The worst team can gain 20 points as a result of getting one point in all the categories.

A rota league is said to be the most strategic type of fantasy hockey pool. A winner of a rota league means that the manager who selected it was adept enough to draft pick a team that is strong, balanced and wins in most of the categories.

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