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Fantasy Hockey Features: Is Travis Konecny the real deal?

The 2022-23 season saw Philadelphia Flyers winger Travis Konecny break out for over a point per game, managing 31 goals and 61 points in 60 contests. While it’s his first point-per-game campaign, it wasn’t his real breakout. That happened in 2019-20 when he posted a higher point per 60 minutes rate (3.3) than he did in his ‘breakout’ 2022-23 campaign (3.03). An extra 3:30 per game in ice time was the difference in the raw totals. In that sense, Konecny has just maintained what he’s shown to be capable of, he just finally got high-end minutes, and that’s a big deal in the fantasy game. 

One important aspect of Konecny’s potential fantasy value is there is not one single area in which he excels, but several areas in which he's quite good. His shots per 60 minutes from 2018-2021 was 8.04, whic

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