Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Goaltending will cost me the title this year

  1. #1
    VincentVega's Avatar
    VincentVega is offline
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    6,400
    Location
    Toronto
    Rep Power
    50

    Dobber Sports Wizard

    Default Goaltending will cost me the title this year

    First Hiller and Kipper leave big stinking dumps in the crease and then get injured. Then I missed picking up Fasth by a hair. Now I trade for Nabokov since I need to make up in Wins and he shits the crease in his first game playing for me: 7 GA is the most he's EVER given up. Man, it's like the goalie gods hate me. I'm kicking ass in pretty much every offensive category but I'm dead last in Wins and SPct. SPct is so hard to recover from, I've almost resigned myself to 2nd place now.

    I hate goalies.
    I can't promise I'll try but I'll try to try.

  2. #2
    islefan31's Avatar
    islefan31 is offline
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Posts
    3,955
    Location
    Lawnguyland, NY
    Rep Power
    41

    Dobber Sports Star

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by VincentVega View Post
    First Hiller and Kipper leave big stinking dumps in the crease and then get injured. Then I missed picking up Fasth by a hair. Now I trade for Nabokov since I need to make up in Wins and he shits the crease in his first game playing for me: 7 GA is the most he's EVER given up. Man, it's like the goalie gods hate me. I'm kicking ass in pretty much every offensive category but I'm dead last in Wins and SPct. SPct is so hard to recover from, I've almost resigned myself to 2nd place now.

    I hate goalies.
    If it makes you feel any better, I have 3 healthy goalies and I can't win any of my 4 cats. Killing on the Offense side too. I've tied or lost by 1 cat each week so far. 1 or 2 goalie cats and I'm near the top.
    Last edited by islefan31; February 18, 2013 at 6:47 PM.

    10 team H2H !Y League (4 keepers - at least 1 must be a D-man OR Goalie)
    Start - 2C, 2L, 2R, 1U, 3D, 2G, 6Bench,​ 2IR, 2IR+ (Daily) (5 moves per week)
    Skaters - G, A, +/-, PPP,
    PIM, HITS, BS, GWG, SOG
    Goalies - Wins, Saves, S%, GAA (Min. 4 starts)
    Championships 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017,
    2019*, 2023

    C-McDavid, Trocheck, Suzuki
    L-B.Tkachuk(C/L), Forsberg,
    Konecny(L/R)
    R-Hyman(L/R), Svechnikov(L/R), P. Kane
    D-Dahlin, ​Josi,
    G-​​DeSmith, Thompson, Hill
    IR
    -Demko

  3. #3
    bondon's Avatar
    bondon is offline
    Join Date
    Nov 2010
    Posts
    15,919
    Rep Power
    40

    Dobber Sports Ninja

  4. #4
    khiyasu's Avatar
    khiyasu is offline
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Posts
    1,551
    Rep Power
    22

    Dobber Sports Stud

    Default

    I don't have Nabby but I have Varly.. not the best start to the week. I guess at least he got the win.
    8 Team Yahoo Weekly H2H (1yr)
    3C, 3LW, 3RW, 6D, 1Util, 2G, 4BN, 3IR
    G, A, +/-, PPG, PPA, SHG, SHA, GWG, SOG, FW, HIT, BLK
    W, L, GA, GAA, SV, SA, SV%, SHO

    C: Tavares, Eric Staal, Getzlaf, Ribeiro
    LW: Lupul (LW,RW), Hartnell, Elias (C,LW), Cammalleri (C,LW), Ott (C,LW)
    RW: Malkin (C,RW), Backes (C,RW), Seguin (C,RW), Callahan
    D: Pietrangelo, Ekman-Larsson, Subban, Bouwmeester, Streit, Burns (D,RW), Wisniewski
    G: Rask, Backstrom, Bobrovsky
    IR: Spezza (C), Oshie (C,RW)

  5. #5
    Bubba55's Avatar
    Bubba55 is offline
    Join Date
    Sep 2008
    Posts
    5,319
    Rep Power
    50

    Dobber Sports Superstar

    Default

    Ah, this is too funny! Sad but true. We've all been there man! Goalies are flakes, the way coaches use their goalies is flakey the whole deal is flakey!! It only gets worse when your least flakey Goalie gets hurt. Then, flakey goes to a new level! The only way around this is to go out and get yourself 3 young superstar franchise goalies who will be sure fire hall of famers on the first vote! To Easy
    14 Team Roto; Keep 25; 12 F, 6 D, 2 G; 10 Farm; 5 Bench; 5 IR;

    Salary Cap - 102.5 Mil

    Scoring Cats: G, A, Pts, PIM, Hits, BS, SOG, F Points, D Points; Win+Ties+SO, GAA, SV%

    Keepers

    F: Aho, Larkin, DeBrincat, Vrana, Bennett, Scheifele, Kakko,Tolvanen, McBain,

    D: Heiskanen, Fox, Toews, Lundqvist

    G: Swayman, Andersen, Copley

    Drops

    F: Gaudreau, Terravainen, Puljujarvi, Kravstov, Zary

    D: Brannstrom, Cernak, Alexeyev

    G: Korpisalo, Merzlikins

    FARM: Rossi, Berggren, Holtz, Savoie, Clarke, Tarasov, Wolf

  6. #6
    VincentVega's Avatar
    VincentVega is offline
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    6,400
    Location
    Toronto
    Rep Power
    50

    Dobber Sports Wizard

    Default

    Yeah, kinda funny but mostly sad. The worst part is that this kind of outing isn't just costing me a weekly match-up since our pool is roto style, it's actually very close to costing my the season as it makes it so much more difficult for me to move up in the SPct category.
    I can't promise I'll try but I'll try to try.

  7. #7
    Rep Power
    0

    Dobber Sports Sophomore

    Default

    To be fair, your forwards and defence are probaby so good BECAUSE you skimmped out and picked goalies low

  8. #8
    VincentVega's Avatar
    VincentVega is offline
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    6,400
    Location
    Toronto
    Rep Power
    50

    Dobber Sports Wizard

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by JeanLucPicard View Post
    To be fair, your forwards and defence are probaby so good BECAUSE you skimmped out and picked goalies low
    Good point but not quite. It's a keeper league in its 6th year and I drafted neither of my goalies. They were both acquired in trades. In fact the only players I still have from the original draft are Malkin and Datsyuk. I drafted Giguere in the 2nd round in the inaugural draft, 1 spot after Lundqvist was drafted, whom I had targeted (urgh) so my bad luck with goalies has been running for awhile

    At the beginning of the year, I knew my goaltending wasn't my strongest part but at least I thought was good enough for middle of the pack at least for Wins and SPct so I didn't pursue to improve it. It's a 16 team league where we start 2 goalies so goalies demand a premium. And what were the odds of both Hiller and Kipper being so crappy and injured? I know, 100% in hindsight
    I can't promise I'll try but I'll try to try.

  9. #9
    JHM's Avatar
    JHM is offline
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Posts
    4,296
    Location
    Ontario, Canada
    Rep Power
    33

    Dobber Sports Genius

    Default

    Lehtonen, Hiller & Niemi isn't cutting it this week either. I did get a nice start though. I picked up Emery (and cross my fingers) that I sneak through in the mean time.

    That's what I have in one pool. Was all stacked out in my other pool with Luongo, Thomas & Howard. That's hardly cutting the mustard either.

    My son's pool had someone drop Bryz only to see the SO today.

    Goaltending is an odd beast.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •