Anybody who is a fan of the BS Report or read Bill Simmons of ESPN is familiar with the term Fantasy Kryptonite.Bill Simmons and Matthew Berry coined the term Fantasy Kryptonite as a way to assess those players who owners cannot resist. An underachieving player who year after year show just enough flashes of their potential that you will waste a high draft pick or waiver position on them . You know you shouldn't be making the selection, but you do it anyway only to complain all season to anybody who will listen.
For me that player is Martin Havlat. I owned Havlat for four seasons and every year he would explode out of the gate with a huge start only to fall prey to a strain, sprain or seperation. He is fantasy hockey's version of Britney Spears:
You know looking at the latest version that it is photoshopped to hell, she is still a redneck and smells like cheetos but you wonder....maybe this comeback will work. You know damn well that what made her a star was washed out with Kevin Federline and 40k of liposuction and wigs, but just maybe she has kicked the cheetos and is misunderstood.......no chance.
So to me Martin Havlat is my fantasy kryptonite and the Britney Spears of Fantasy Hockey. I finally made my seperation last season and allowed somebody else to fall prey to Marty's siren song. But I know that if Havlat finally stays healthy and puts up an 80+ point season, the lure of Kane and Toews on the Hawks may lure me back in. For now I am free of his tyranny, but I cannot make any promises about the future.
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