Daily Fantasy Hockey experts have focused on the importance of the power play in the game of hockey and in fantasy sports. The power play creates an advantage for the team on the power play to score and thus creates points for the game and the daily fantasy player or players. The more power plays that a team has, or that a fantasy player scores during, the higher value that team or player ranks. This is largely due to the fact that power plays open up a plethora of scoring opportunities for the team on the attack. Powerplays are a result of a player occurring penalty time, thus leaving their team with one less player than the other. All of the dynamics change in hockey, rules included, when either team is on a powerplay because scoring is a premium in this advantageous situation.
In the National Hockey League, also known as the NHL, the focus on the power play is on both parts of the game, the offense and the defense. The NHL teams look to build a team with players that can perform well on the power play and also to defend well against the power play. The salary cap in sports limit the roster as some top players are taking up a big portion of the teams spending, and thus teams focus on adding depth through defensive specialists for the power play Kill, as most of their high cost players are on the power play for scoring opportunities.
In Daily Fantasy Hockey the focus is on scoring, but the power play also allows for a bonus point for scoring on “special teams.” If the team defending the power play score a goal short handed they are also granted a bonus point for a special team goal and even an assist on that goal. Thus, the NHL and Fantasy Hockey spend a great deal of time analyzing the power play squads of every team, and again, that is both offense and defense. But in building your daily fantasy hockey roster, you will want to consider picking players that play on the power play as it has statistical advantage of scoring and the daily fantasy bonus point for a special teams point.
