Fantasy Mailbag - July Weekend Edition!

[angus]

TGIF... am I right?

Fire away with your questions! A few lucky ones will make it on to the main page.

[rataylor22]

Points projections for Joe Pavelski? And would you rather have Pavelski and Varlamov or Nick Backstrom and Nabokov?

[rookien]

We are starting a new 16 teams Dynasty league up and have finished the main draft going on to the prospect draw(between 0-82 NHL games played).

We are drafting 15 prospects for our minors now. at the moment we are in the 4th round. Sofar I got Kreider, Silfverberg and Teräväinen.

So we are going very deep in prospects...

I am going by dobbers prospect list but was wondering who the really hidden diamants (Forwards/defenders) down at dobbers chart/outside it are ?

[burnsy00]

Bryzgalov wins? Semin points ? 40 Goals and 45 Assists unreasonable expectations? OEL points this year and next?

[Jpappas]

$200 salary cap...+ $5 to keepers...up to 3 keepers per team...10 teams

league has very uneducated managers, issue I am looking at is with my goaltenders...Lundy for $38 or Fluery $17.

Right now my thought is keep Lundy and move on someone who 2nd tier in the league. With weird managers I might get lucky and find a gem.

Other thought is Fleury at $17, and through big money at Lundy. Last year top bid on a goalie was $36 for Rinne, $33 for Luongo, $33 Bryz.

What are your thoughts. My other 2 keepers will be Giroux $17 and Hall $8

[DerekReese]

With your standard stats, who would be your top 12 in a inagural draft with 12 teams?

[animalchin]

Marginal player...but would love to hear whether I can expect improvement from Dave Bolland? Projections for this year and beyond would be great.

Another one I would like to know about is Jeff Petry.

[Penguins WaterBoy]

Can you elaborate more about your "tempered expectations" for Jamie Benn. I'm questioning his value in a 1-year league with salary cap (goal heavy) . My projection was a 30G-50A-80Pts season for a salary I expect to be around 5M$. Am I too optimistic ?

Thank you

[Mater]

Keeper checkin?


Would you rather have Rask or Markstrom as your 3rd goalie where wins, sav% and GAA counts.

thanks
mater

[loco man]

Expectations for a few sleepers:

Turris
Mueller
A. Kostitsyn

thanks!

[JiminyCrickets!]

What to expect with Yakupov's rookie year? Point projection? Chemistry?

[Big Ben]

rank them please
pts only for next year:
Wheeler, Purcell, Hartnell, Oshie.

Thanks

[Twiggy]

Hey Angus

With my team below, have I made the right moves this summer so far? Or have I just been screwing my pooch?

Out:
2012 3rd Round (#67)
2012 1st Round (#7)
2013 1st Round (#?)
Jonas Hiller
Patrick Berglund
David Rundblad
Tomas Kubalik
Nikita Filatov
Eddie Lack
Marc Savard


In:
2012 1st (#2)
2012 3rd (#86)
2013 3rd (#?)
2014 2nd (#?)
Ryan Whitney
Jerry D'Amigo
Antoine Vermette
Tim Connolly
Yanick Weber
Sean Bergenheim
Eric Fehr


Thanks for sifting through that

[Excelsior]

Who would you rather own- Kevin Connauton or Max Reinhart for a points only league? Can hold on my farm team for a year or two.

[Dakkster]

Hey Jeff! Thanks for doing this just when I happen to need some advice

Trying to do what I can to improve the team in my signature over the summer. My main goal is to improve my wingers. My goalies are solid, my centers are quite good and my Dmen are the best and deepest in the league. My wingers need work. I need depth on the RW in case of injuries and I feel that I want more star power on the left side. I'm sending out a bunch of feelers and I'm having a bunch of discussion back and forth. My Spezza seems to be a wanted man. Right now I have two offers for him.

Spezza for Nash and one of Read or Johansson

OR

Spezza and one of my D for Parise and Turris or Stastny (the caliber of D decides what center I get back, I want Stastny)

Which one should I do? If I do the second one, which of the D would you offer to make it a fair deal if I get Stastny? HPG thinks Letang, Phaneuf, Seabrook, Suter and Garrison are all in the top 23 last year with my league settings...