Fantasy sleeper with EDGE stats<\/p>\n
Blake Coleman, F: A four-time 20-goal scorer, Coleman could slot into Minnesota’s top six forward group after being acquired by the Wild from the Calgary Flames this offseason. Despite being limited to 69 games last season, Coleman was one of two players with at least 20 goals and 150 hits (162) in fewer than 70 games (other: Brady Tkachuk<\/a>). Coleman, who\u2019s 34 years old, is a category coverage specialist; he has had at least 100 hits in each of the past nine seasons, and his four shorthanded goals last season ranked tied for second in the entire NHL (behind Ryan McLeod<\/a>\u2019s five). Per NHL EDGE stats, Coleman has ranked in the 90th percentile or higher among forwards in high-danger shots on goal in all five seasons of the League\u2019s puck and player tracking era (since 2021-22). Coleman could be the missing piece for the Wild, who are coming off their first playoff series win since 2015, and is a high-floor fantasy option attainable late in drafts (going undrafted on average) or off the waiver wire. — Troy Perlowitz<\/p>\n Projected lineup<\/p>\n Kirill Kaprizov — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy<\/p>\n Blake Coleman — Ryan Hartman — Maxim Shabanov\u00a0<\/p>\n Yakov Trenin — Danila Yurov — Bobby Brink<\/p>\n Marcus Foligno — Michael McCarron — Nick Foligno<\/p>\n Quinn Hughes — Brock Faber<\/p>\n Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon<\/p>\n Olli Maatta — Zach Bogosian<\/p>\n Jesper Wallstedt<\/p>\n Calvin Pickard<\/p>\n Injured: Filip Gustavsson (hip surgery)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fantasy sleeper with EDGE stats Blake Coleman, F: A four-time 20-goal scorer, Coleman could slot into Minnesota’s top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-853469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}