Fantasy Hockey Focus: Mining the waiver wire (Week 9)

Every year we see unheralded, underappreciated, and underrepresented fantasy players come out of the shoot hot and pay dividends for those who were fast enough to scoop them up off of the waiver wire. Some of those players fall back down to earth and end up back in the heap for anyone to take a stab at. Others continue to defy preseason expectations and turn into tangible pieces capable of helping your team charge toward the fantasy playoffs.

As we will do every week, I'll explore candidates who are rostered in fewer than 60 percent of all Fantrax leagues at the time of writing. They may have suddenly found themselves in better situations, with a hot hand, or facing an overly generous schedule.

We’ll be unafraid of taking swings in this piece. And that means the margin for error is wider. Bu