After missing three weeks of action with a groin injury, Saku Koivu has been playing very well in his first four games back.
Analysis: Koivu has four assists, one goal, an average of nineteen minutes of ice time and is a plus four in his four games since returning from injury. Koivu is only owned in about twenty percent of fantasy leagues and he is certainly going under the radar at the moment. He started the season without a point in twelve of his first fifteen games but since he has put up sixteen points in seventeen games.
Koivu isn’t a force on the power play nor does he rack up tons of shots but he is a reliable source of points. His plus eight rating on the year is exceptional when considering Ryan Getzlaf is a minus seventeen and Corey Perry is a minus eleven on the year. Koivu is about as consistent as they come and as far as lower tier fantasy centers go… he’s solid. He’s a great buy low option at this point in the fantasy hockey season.