Fantasy Hockey pick: Comeback player of the year

Each fantasy hockey manager knows the temptation.

You swore you would stay clear of players who got beat up last year.

Case, concussion, reconstructed knee cases, the annoying groin cases, even the super-skilled guy who seems to have terrible luck with bumps and bruises and breaks.

Avoid them all; too much risk.

But at some point in the draft your determination begins to feel free.

Of course, that the center was missed 60 games last season, and that the defenseman has not been the same since the shoulder surgery, and to power up is limping in and out of the Channel editing.

This is probably why they are still available.

But if any of them can play as they did before injury troubles, you can look at a gold mine.

That is why we've compiled our list of Fantasy Hockey Comeback player of the season in (more or less) full health, is the guys on this list, your best bets is to return to the form during the 2010-11.

Photo: healthy Ales Hemsky is good for 60 points, even in an off year (Dave Sandford/Getty Images).

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Fantasy Hockey picks: who is ready for a Fresh Start

Washed up? Not a chance.

Jarome Iginla decline and fall reports are greatly exaggerated.

Calgary captain is one of the guys we pick to make a healthy leap forward this season.

Check out the full list of ten players on the Rise.

You see we are also optimistic about the new number one goalie in Washington, whipping boy in Ottawa and the guy who isn't Crosby in Pittsburgh.

(Photo: Claus Andersen/Getty Images).

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Fantasy Hockey pick: There is a Long Way Down

Our preseason fantasy hockey coverage begins with a wild and hopelessly indefensible guess on players on the slide during the season 2010-11 NHL.

By our reckoning, release 10 guy on list ten points or more from last season totals.

To begin, we are not bullish on Mike Moulson, Mike Knuble, or aging Ranger image to the right.

Photo: Václav Prospal are hard-pressed to match their 2009-10 output (Mike Stobe/Getty Images).

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Fantasy Hockey pick: The Rookie Crop

List of Calder Trophy winner include back-to-back Bruins (Bobby Orr 1967, Derek Sanderson 1968) and back-to-back Rangers (Gump Worsley in 1953, Camille Henry 1954).

It has also been a distance of three consecutive Maple Leafs (Gaye Stewart, Gus Bodnar, Frank McCool, 1943-45).

Now, we were able to watch back-to-back Sabres and back-to-back Tyler 's.

Tyler Myers put up a rookie of the year for Buffalo season 2009-10, only the tenth defenseman to win the Calder since 1937.

This year's favorite can either be a Sabre, 20-year-old left winger Tyler Ennis.

He'll have plenty of competition, of course, Potential Challengers take even a Tyler, in Boston.

Ennis leads the way in our conservative projection of this year's Fantasy Hockey Rookies.

(Photo: Rick Stewart/Getty Images).

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