What to do with Visnovsky?
 

Visnovsky has been rumoured by rotowire and twitter accounts to be staying in the KHL due to personal and family reasons. I have Visnovsky in my points only pool and I already have Gardiner hurt.. Should I drop him for Pitkanen or another dman soon while the picking is good? Or should I wait?

NHL has said they have an agreement with the KHL to stop this but because he is 36 he may just retire or convince NYI that he's staying anyway. I dunno if he would be effective if he did come anyway.

He isn't a keeper for you anyway so I think I would err on the side on dumping him while you have something to pick from. I have him in a deeper league than yours and there really isn't much left to pick up but my thinking is screw it - don't need the aggravation - but still I hesitate - could sure use his PP points.

You might get lucky and be able to slide Gardiner on Ir at the start of the season.

Pretty tough to convince the Isles to let him stay there without retiring as they just gave up a 2nd for him. Pretty big pick!

We don't have IR slots.

Oh shucks - scratch that piece of brilliance. Gardiner is supposed to be at 90% right now and has to go through concussion protocol before he can start camp so keep your ears open on him.

Yeah, remember their stance on Nabby.

How long do you think Pitkanen will remain a free agent? If you think someone is likely to scoop him up, I would drop Visnovsky for him now; if you believe no one will, I would wait to see how things play out with Visnovsky.

Visnovsky has said if the KHL won't allow him to play he will be an Islander. I just wonder how effective he will be if he does return.