Your prospect/farm teams and why you chose them.

[austeane]

Post any of your exceptional (good or bad) farm/prospect teams... Explain why you are so stacked or not so much. Do you have any specific type of prospect you go after? Long term or short term? Are prospects important to you or are they just trade chips?

[Clutch]

C
1) Sheahan, Riley
LW
2) Larsson, Johan
3) Pulkkinen, Teemu
RW
4) Akeson, Jason
5) Etem, Emerson
6) Petersson, Andre
7) Smith, Reilly


Defense
8) Almqvist, Adam
9) Nesterov, Nikita
10) Oleksiak, Jamie
11) Schultz, Justin


Goal
12) Holtby, Braden
13) Lack, Eddie
14) Visentin, Mark
15) York, Allen


20 team dynasty. I like goalie prospects as you can see but I do think I need some upgrades at F and D. Luckily I have the first pick in the 2012 draft, Yakupov here I come!

[SharkMeat]

Posted my roster and prospects below...You need to see both to understand what you need to be prospecting for...
Strategy I use is first I need to take lottery tickets when I can on potential 1st line players. These I can use in trades to get better players than I have currently. Second, I need to build replacements for my second tier players in the future. Finally, I need to know what talent is coming and having to pick and find 50 prospects requires you do that. I look for any reason to drop a prospect and replace them with another choice that just might make it.

Forwards (14)
Jarome Iginla --CGY-- $7,000,000
Alexander Semin --Was-- $6,700,000
Henrik Zetterberg --DET-- $6,083,333
Nathan Gerbe--BUF--$1,433,333
Jason Spezza--OTT--$7,000,000
Patrick Sharp --Chi-- $3,900,000
Lou Eriksson--Dal--$4,250,000
David Krejci --BOS-- $3,750,000
Ted Purcell --TB-- $2,362,500
Michael Frolik--Chi--$2,333,333
Ryan O'Reilly -- Col-- $900,000
Tuomo Ruutu--CAR--$3,800,000
Frans Nielsen--NYI--$525,000
Michael Grabner -- NYI - $3,000,000
Defencemen (6)
Dan Boyle --SJS-- $6,666,667
Cam Fowler--Ana-(158)-$1,400,000
Jack Johnson -CBJ-- $4,357,143
Ian White --DET-- $2,875,000
Matt Niskanen--PIT--1500000
Kimo Timonen--PHI--$6,333,333
Goalies (3)
Brian Elliott--STL--$600,000
Pekka Rinne --NSH-- $3,400,000

Cap Hit: $

Salary Cap: $101,725,000

22/23players

IR (0)
Nikolai Kulemin--Tor--$2,350,000
Inactive List (0)
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PROSPECTS ROSTER*- number in parentheses are games played at start of season

Forwards -32 - Under 125 game limit to start season
SIGNED
Luke Adam --BUF(71) -- $875,000
Carl Klingberg -- WPG (6) - $870,000
Brandon Kozun --LA(0)--$575,000
Andrei Loktionov--ANA(59)--$816,000
John McFarland - FLA (0) - $916,667
Andrej Nestrasil -- DET (0) - $585,000
Nick Palmieri --MIN(87)--$801,667
Magnus Paajarvi--EDM(121)--$1,525,000
Mathieu Perreault--WAS(120)--$525,000
Max Sauve--BOS(1)--$848,833
David Eddy--Cgy(0)--$525,000
Brandon Saad--CHI(2)--$925,000
UNSIGNED
* Seth Ambroz - CBJ
Austin Brassard--WPG
Alex Chiasson --DAL
Cory Conacher - TB
Danick Gauthier --TB
Alexander Guptil--DAL
Erik Haula - MIN*
Kevin Hayes, CHI
Yanoslav Kosov --FLA
Oscar Lindberg - NYR
Ryan Martindale--EDM
Brock Nelson - NYI
Travis Oleksuk--SJS
**Matt Puempel - OTT
**Rickard Rakell - ANA
* Alexander Ruuttu - PHX
Drew Shore - FLA
Sebastian Stalberg--SJS
Jeremy Welsh--CAR
John Persson--NYI
Defencemen - 13 - Under 180 game limit to start season
Signed
Brandon Burlon -- NJD (0) - $662,500
Justin Faulk -- CAR (66) - $843,333
Carl Sneep--PIT(0)--$850,000
Chris Summers --PHO(21)--$1,212,500
James Martin--CGY (0)--$575,000
UNSIGNED (6)
Jani Hakanpaa--STL
Justin Holl--CHI(0)--
Torey Krug--BOS
*Scott Mayfield - NYI
**Jamie Oleksiak - DAL
**Dillon Simpson - EDM
Patrick Wey--WAS
Matt Mangene--PHI
Goalies - 5 - Under 75 game limit to start season
SIGNED
Jhonas Enroth -- BUF (41) - $675,000
Jussi Rynnas -- TOR (2) - $1,950,000
Scott Stajcer --NYR -- $700,000
Keith Kinkaid--njd--(0)--$900,000
Scott Wedgewood --NJD--

[indianapwns]

Here's mine for the Dynasty league in my signature:

C - Markus Granlund
C/LW - Jonathan Huberdeau
C - Brandon Pirri
C - Victor Rask
C - Jordan Schroeder
C - Michael St. Croix
LW - Kirill Kabanov
LW - Magnus Paajarvi
LW - Teemu Pulkkinen
RW - Nikita Kucherov
D - Nathan Beaulieu
D - Jonathan Blum
D - Adam Clendening
D - Roman Josi
D - Martin Marincin
G - Sami Aittokallio
G - Jonathan Bernier
G - Magnus Hellberg
G - Mikko Koskinen
G - Calvin Pickard

Lost a few players to trades in the last couple years: Etem, Lack, Stepan, Lindback, Rundblad, and Couturier.

Just recently traded Eddie Lack with Derrick Brassard, Dimitri Kulilov and Evander Kane for Benn, Neal and a pick.

Traded Derek Stepan, Anders Lindback and David Rundblad for a pick that ended up being Jonathan Huberdeau.

Also traded Scott Hartnell for Jonathan Bernier to replace the goalie prospects lost in the previous two trades.

I don't feel like it is a particularly weak farm, but it is certainly not the strongest in my league. I typically try and draft one goaltender every year to have a revolving door of goalies that could make the jump in any given year. Also, I value the high end prospects so much more than middle of the road ones. Its so difficult to predict which players will do well that I would give up a lot of potential to get those high quality guys (like I did to get Huberdeau).

Dobber's 3 year window is a good guideline to go by. It helps you to try and be competitive year in and out and is a great way to keep yourself from getting wrapped up in basing a player's worth on pure potential and upside. Its a slippery slope and can bite you in the ass if you go purely off of upside (Filatov comes to mind).

As far as viewing prospects as worthy replacements or trade chips...its gotta be both. Use them to make your team better in any way you can - some are worth holding onto until they break out, others to help you acquire pieces that will get you there sooner. Best advice I can give is not to become too attached to any specific player in a way that would prevent you from making smart moves with your roster.

Hope it helps! Looking forward to reading other responses.

[Fast Tony DeNiro]

Forwards (30)
Vladimir Tarasenko - STL - 8.5C
Ryan Strome - NYI - 8.0C
Charlie Coyle - MIN - 8.0C
Chris Kreider - NYR - 8.0C
Rocco Grimaldi - FLA - 8.0D
Teemu Hartikainen - EDM - 7.5C (24 GP)
Matt Puempel - OTT - 7.5D
Tommy Wingels - SJS - 7.5D (33 GP)
Jakob Silfverberg - OTT - 7.0C
Drew Shore - FLA - 7.0C
Jesper Fasth - NYR - 7.0C
Mike Connolly - COL - 7.0C (2 GP)
Jean-Gabriel Pageau - OTT - 7.0D
Michael Ferland - CGY - 7.0D
Matej Stransky - DAL - 7.0D
Yaroslav Kosov - FLA - 7.0D
Paul Byron - CGY - 6.5B (30 GP)
Jordan Nolan - LAK - 6.5B (21 GP)
Marek Tvrdon - DET - 6.5C
Chris Wagner - ANA - 6.5C
Marek Viedensky - SJS - 6.5C
Gabriel Dumont - MTL - 6.5C
Brett Bulmer - MIN - 6.5C (9 GP)
Markus Sorensen - OTT - 6.5D
Justin Fontaine - MIN - 6.5D
Shane McColgan - NYR - 6.0C
Ryan Reaves - STL - 5.0B
Kale Kessy - PHX - 5.0D
Brian Flynn - BUF - NR
Jeremy Welsh - CAR - NR

Defense (11)
Brandon Gormley - PHX - 8.0B
Martin Marincin - EDM - 8.0C
Oscar Klefbom - EDM - 8.0C
Stefan Elliott - COL - 7.5B (39 GP)
Duncan Siemens - COL - 7.5C
Paul Postma - WIN - 7.0C (4 GP)
Eric Gelinas - NJD - 7.0C
Mattias Ekholm - NSH - 6.5C (2 GP)
John Klingberg - DAL - 6.5C
Alexei Marchenko - DET - 6.5D
Brendan Kichton - NYI - NR

Goalies (6)
Robin Lehner - OTT - 7.5C (13 GP)
Kevin Poulin - NYI - 7.0C (16 GP)
Anders Nilsson - NYI - 7.0C (4 GP)
Darcy Kuemper - MIN - 6.5C
Frederik Andersen - CAR - 6.0D
Iiro Tarkki - ANH - NR (1 GP)

50 prospect limit per team, forwards and defense graduate at 70 games, goalies at 45. It's a deep 20 team league.....30 players on active roster, and 50 prospects like mentioned....so roughly 1,500-1,600 players owned in my league. I like the high end talent I've put together, plus I have some sleeper types I'm holding onto and hoping.

My prospect pool is definitely one of the best in the league, really only one other team I can think of that might have me beat. I also own 5 of the top 9 picks in the 2012 draft and as of right now I'm leading the way for the 1st overall....at the very worst I'll pick up 2 of Yakupov, Grigorenko, Galchenyuk, and Forsberg but I can potentially grab 3 of them depending on how my picks turn out.

I'll be making some moves this summer to upgrade my prospects by moving some extras out. I have 13 picks in this draft so I'll need to cut roughly 10 prospects before next season starts....gunning for Hamilton, Huberdeau, and Hackett right now, if those don't work I have others in mind.

My active roster is in my signature so you can see what that looks like....explains why I'm a little thin with goalie prospects and why I've stacked up so much on forwards.

[Big Ev]

ASKL-10 team league. Mainly points only but also some minor points for PIM, hits, +/-.

Forwards

Mika Zibanejad
Sven Bartschi
Jakob Silfverberg
Joe Colborne
Nino Niederreiter
Stefan Noesen
Matt Puempel
Shane Prince

Defence

Dougie Hamilton
Dmitri Orlov
Jared Cowen
Nathan Beaulieu

I mainly pick the prospects that I know the most about. I look for steals, like getting Silfverberg 93rd overall and Bartschi 49th overall. I stick to the guys I am already going to follow for the most part.

[RippedOnNitro]

I used the Dobber Fantasy Prospect Report primarily to draft my prospects.

Since it was a brand new league, I drafted the first 12 rounds for my first team and then I drafted a lot of prospects, before I filled the rest of my first team...needless to say I did not finish high the first season, but I am confident I will be competitive from next season and beyond. It is a 24-team league with a 23-player roster and max. 60 minors.

Behind the player's name I mentioned HF's grade and between "()" I mentioned Dobber's Prospect Top 215 rank.

Centers:
Joe Colborne - 7.5C (10th)
Jonathan Huberdeau - 8.5C (1st)
JT Miller - 7.5C (69th)
Mark Scheifele - 7.5C (6th)
Jaden Schwartz - 8.0B (13th)

Left Wingers
Kyle Beach - 7.0C (83rd)
Phillip Danault - 7.0C (NR)
Nicolas Deschamps - 6.5C (150th)
Erik Haula - 7.0D (125th)
Brett MacLean - 7.0D (79th)
Shane Prince - 7.5D (146th)
Teemu Pulkkinen - 7.5C (88th)

Right Wingers
Joel Armia - 8.0C (49th)
Mitchell Callahan - 6.0C (NR)
David Dziurzynski - 6.5D (NR)
Tomas Jurco - 7.5C (55th)
Shane McColgan - 6.0C (161st)
Stefan Noesen - 7.0C (116th)
Christian Thomas - 7.5D (65th)

Defensemen
Adam Almqvist - 6.5C (NR)
Stefan Elliott - 7.5B (1st)
Ryan Ellis - 7.5C (3rd)
Maxim Goncharov - 6.5C (24th)
Oscar Klefbom - 8.0C (28th)
Brian Lashoff - 6.0C (NR)
Max Nicastro - 6.0C (NR)
Stuart Percy - 7.0C (NR)
Cameron Schilling - NR (NR)
Brendan Smith - 8.0C (4th)
Slava Voynov - 8.0B (13th)

Goalies
Martin Jones - 6.5B ()
Darcy Kuemper - 6.5C ()
Jacob Markstrom - 8.0C ()

[kenzle1r]

I'm in several 16-teams leagues that hold 10 prospects spots (I have two teams listed below). My prospect phylosophy is quite simple actually - use them as trade bait to help me win now. This phylosophy has helped me be competitive in all of my leagues. However it means I have one of the worst core group of prospects in the entire league, but that's fine with me as long as I remain competitve.

With this strategy I tend to trade all of my draft picks for upcoming drafts. I do this as I'm obviously able to better my team this year and my thoughts are that if we can only hold 10 prospect spots and we have 2-3 rounds in the upcoming draft that means another 60-90 prospects are going to held...then those teams have to drop their "lower-end prospects" and they are ripe for the picking.

With that in mind I've been able to pick up some rather decent prospects along the way such as Henrique, Shaw, Bishop, etc.

I look for guys that will have an immediate impact so that I can quickly flip them in trades before their "hot streaks" die down.

This has helped me a lot in past trades. I always look forward to the week after the NHL draft because that's when my hunt for prospects begins...lol...

The other note on my leagues is that we only have until they play 50 NHL games before we have to activate them. So it's really hard to determine whether or not a prospect is going to be a good player or not in that time frame (ie look at guys like Kadri - he's right at that mark and it's really hard to determine if he's going to pan out as a top-6 in TOR or not). That's also part of the reason I follow this strategy.

You'll notice on my team I do try to keep one or two really good prospects (Schwartz, Zibanejad, Allan, etc) for eventual replacements of my lower-end players but I'd gladly move them for a good roster improvement right now.

[dyzfunctioned]

All of my prospect rosters suck because I always trade away potential for proven.

[strider2k2]

16 Team league:

1 - Granlund, Mikael C Minnesota Wild
2 - Palmieri, Kyle C Anaheim Ducks
3 - Jarnkrok, Calle C Detroit Red Wings
4 - Khokhlachev, Alexander C Boston Bruins

5 - Paajarvi, Magnus LW Edmonton Oilers
6 - Beach, Kyle LW Chicago Blackhawks
7 - Beck, Taylor LW Nashville Predators
8 - Eakin, Cody LW/C Washington Capitals

9 - Jurco, Tomas RW Detroit Red Wings
10 - Ashton, Carter RW Tampa Bay Lightning

11 - Gormley, Brandon D Phoenix Coyotes
12 - Spurgeon, Jared D Minnesota Wild
13 - Rundblad, David D Ottawa Senators

14 - Bachman, Richard G Dallas Stars
15 - Campbell, Jack G Dallas Stars


I've also got the 1st and 5th overall picks in the upcoming entry draft, so my future is looking pretty bright. Generally I just worry about going after the highest ceiling prospects that are available. I figure I'd rather have one out of every 20 or so prospects turn into a legitimate top line player instead of having 10 out of every 20 turning into a respectable third line type guy I can probably just add off the wire. I also like to keep a few guys that are farm eligible but also in the NHL on my team so I can rotate them in and out of my active roster and work around the league's add cap (farm promotions don't count as an add).

[Mr. Guru]

In my main keeper league, my only prospect is E. Lack.

I've won the pool the last two years before coming in 2nd this year. I have picks 6,7,8 and will finally be restocking the cupboards.

For the most part, I like to trade my prospects for proven commodities.