There is a fantasy equivalent to pulling the goaltender and this is the time of year to consider it as an option. As of Thursday morning, there are four days left of hockey that will determine which teams in your head-to-head league make the playoffs in default ESPN formats.
Maybe you adjusted the schedule and it's not this week; fine, but the principle to be discussed here still applies. Pulling your goaltender is an act in which an NHL team throws caution to the wind in an attempt to secure victory.
They know the odds are low, but they also know that losing by one goal is the same as losing by two in the record books. How do you pull this off in fantasy?
You drop J.T. Miller and add Tommy Novak. You drop Morgan Rielly and add Jake Sanderson. Blasphemous? That's pulling the goaltender — on this particular head-to-head week in fantasy leagues if you are on the verge of missing the playoffs.