Clarke McArthur or Jiri Hudler

[coldsquad2002]

H2H league. Should I drop McArthur for Hudler ?

[Maaaasquito]

Tough one...

If it's standard settings, I think I might be more inclined to go MacArthur...

I think Hudler is definitely more talented of the 2, but if you look at his situation.

He has to compete with Iggy, Tanguay, Cammalleri, Cervanka, Backlund, Glencross, Stempniak and Hudler, so you're looking at 8 players with 30+ point potential, and probably 6 with 50+ point potential. So there is a bit of competition there.

With that said, the Flames did have a bit of an offensive dropoff last campaign, they tallied only 530 points as a team. The previous 3 seasons prior to last year they tallied, 693, 543 and 662, so I mean there is a bit of room for improvement as a whole.

With MacArthur, there is less competition, Toronto has Kessel, Lupul, JVR, Grabovski, Bozak, Connolly and MacArthur, so I mean that's 7 players with 30+ potential, and probably 4 with 50+ point potential... So there isn't as much competition there.

They're also on the way up, 578, 572, 620 the last 3 years.

I generally place more emphasis on team depth as opposed to player skill, so I'd lean slightly more towards MacArthur than Hudler but only slightly.

[coldsquad2002]

Thanks Champ. I appreciat the insight.
Assuming by your name, you have no complaints.

[coldsquad2002]

Although you are counting Hudler twice.

[Maaaasquito]

Although you are counting Hudler twice.

What you talking about Willis?

[coldsquad2002]

Sorry, I have been hitting the sauce again. Think I am seeing double lol

[hockeyrobot]

This may be the Wing fan in me but even just looking at the title of this threat I thought to myself...."Hudler for sure". The thing with him is he doesn't work in a non scoring position, as you saw with the Wings when he was a healthy scratch quite a bit last season. I just think the Flames spent the money on him so they're prepared to play him a lot.