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2014 Fantasy Hockey: Jaden Schwartz Was Worth The Hype

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By @adammcgill83twitter.com

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Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports

Sometimes when a player has a breakout fantasy hockey season, it is often difficult to match those numbers, let alone improve on them. Most players feel the pressure and they hardly ever mirror the numbers from their breakout season again.

One player that broke out last season was LW Jaden Schwartz of the St. Louis Blues.

Schwartz played in 80 games and impressively racked up 56 points (25 goals and 31 assists), which was a huge step up from the 13 points he ended with the year before. He wasn’t much of a contributor on the power play, as he racked up just 10 power play points, but he earned a spot on the team’s top power play line towards the end of the season.

Despite his strong year, though, the winger fell far in drafts. He wasn’t drafted within the top-20 left-wingers in most formats and many owners wrote the kid off as a one-hit wonder.

Through the first month of the 2014 season, Schwartz has proved that he is anything but a one-year sensation. In seven games, he has already racked up eight points (five goals/ three assists). He is shooting the puck much more frequently (3.3 times/game) and has matured into a top-tier fantasy forward.

Schwartz is leading the next wave of young, star wingers. He has a very bright future ahead of him and has many more goals in his future. Don’t be too surprised to see him finish with an 80-point season when it is all said and done.

 

Adam McGill is the Senior Fantasy Sports Writer at Rant Sports. Follow him on Twitter @adammcgill83, like him on Facebook, or add him to you networks on Google here or here.

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