"Let's talk about consistency. Despite this piece usually being about fantasy hockey's centers, today we're going to discuss all the forwards and what it means to be a consistent performer. How important is it to fantasy owners for a player to be consistent? Do we care if they rack up four points one night and then go three straight games without a point, or would we rather see them post a point in each of the four games?

There are many ways to gauge how talented a player is, but his ability to perform at the same level night in and night out is one of the best ways to tell what kind of value that player carries. When some third or fourth-liner has a career night with three points, do we automatically assume he's going to perform like that for the rest of the season? Of course not. Odds are that night will be the lone time he posts three or more points all season long.

Consistency is what separates the elite from the good. A good player might break out for a big night, but he also might dig himself into a cold streak that lasts over a week -- and that's never a good thing for fantasy owners. We want our players to perform exactly how we hoped they would: If I draft Jonathan Toews in the first round, I want him to perform like a first-round player. If I select Tyler Bozak in the late rounds, I don't expect him to put up 80-plus points. It's just logic. Bozak might erupt with three or four points in one game, but it's just about a guarantee that he'll finish the season with more pointless nights than Toews -- and that's what we expect.

Let's take a look at which forwards have been the most consistent this year -- to do this, we went and figured out which players have had the most games with at least one point. Tomorrow, we'll take a look at which players have dominated the field of multi-point efforts."