San Jose Sharks 2008-09 Fantasy Hockey Preview

We are now a week into the 2008-09 NHL season, and my hockey-crazed brother and I have begun work on our own fantasy hockey magazine, predicting the stats for every player on the starting roster of an NHL team.

We hope we can accurately predict most players' statistics and we hope to help you with your fantasy hockey teams. A new article will be posted every couple of days at the most, and some teams will come even sooner. We will be doing this in alphabetical order.

I realize I have fallen a little behind on these due to my schedule, but the plan is to get a lot done during the four-day weekend I have this week.  Hopefully, I won't be finished too late into the season.

San Jose Sharks 2008-09 Projected Lineup

Milan Michalek-Joe Thornton-Jonathon Cheechoo
Ryane Clowe-Patrick Marleau-Devin Setoguchi
Tomas Plihal-Joe Pavelski-Mike Grier
Jody Shelley-Torrey Mitchell-Jeremy Roenick

Dan Boyle-Rob Blake
M-E Vlasic-Christian Ehrhoff
Doug Murray-Brad Lukowich

Evgeni Nabokov
Brian Boucher

Fantasy Stud: Joe Thornton

This guy just keeps on racking up the assists.

Watch out for: Joe Pavelski

He was good year last year but I don’t see him getting as many opportunities.

Individual Scoring Predictions for 2008-09

Player                         GP-G-A-P
1. Joe Thornton            82-27-74-101
2. Patrick Marleau         77-30-36-66
3. Milan Michalek          81-30-29-59
4. Jonathan Cheechoo   77-33-22-55
5. Devin Setoguchi        78-24-23-47
6. Ryane Clowe            76-14-30-44
7. Dan Boyle                74-8-36-44
8. Joe Pavelski             79-12-24-36
9. Rob Blake                80-7-27-34
10. Jeremy Roenick       74-12-18-30
11. Mike Grier              78-9-19-28
12. Torrey Mitchell       72-8-13-21
13. Tomas Plihal           77-8-10-18
14. Christian Ehrhoff     79-3-15-18
15. M-E Vlasic             82-3-14-17
16. Doug Murray          73-2-11-13
17. Brad Lukowich        74-2-10-12
18. Jody Shelley          67-2-4-6

Goalies

Evgeni Nabokov 46-18-10 .915 SVP 2.19 GAA
Brian Boucher 3-3-2 .902 SVP 2.56 GAA