Kadri vs. Datsyuk

[Harnish]

(Ignore team in sig.).

G, A, P, PPG, PPA, PIM, +/-

Keep 10, but can only keep 2C and I already have one in Malkin. Who is the odd man out? For some reason, I feel like this is much closer than when you initially read "Who vs. Kadri or Datsyuk?"

Don't forget about Datsyuk loving playing in Russia during the lockout.

Thanks for the help!

[Rocky71]

It's not that close. Datsyuk isn't going anywhere soon. Give me the proven player over the might be.

[4horsemen]

I completely disagree that this isn't even close. There are other factors that could come into play here. Do you guys have a salary cap? If so Kadri becomes much more attractive. Are you in a position to win next year? If not Kadri becomes much more attractive.

Hockey pools are not necessarily won by sticking with the guys everyone presumes are the safe pick. Datsyuk is past his prime and I'd expect a fairly linear regression from here on out. He certainly shouldn't be valued as anything better than a PPG player at this point and I'd have a very hard time paying that for him. I'd be confident to give Datsyuk about a 5-10 point edge over Kadri next year with their trajectories crossing the year after and Kadri being the better option from there on out.

[dmvincent]

Wings fan here, I'd take Kadri over Datsyuk in fantasy leagues. Datsyuk is an unbelievable player, but he's aging and past his prime. Kadri is the better choice here IMO.

[HockeyProphet]

It is a pretty close call.. Depending on how the rest of your team looks, I personally prefer Dats..

If you have a lot of older players, maybe keep Kadri instead, so that it gives you a nice balance.. I just feel as if it is pretty even so why not go with proven, even though age is creeping up to him.

Kadri would be the favourite, as of now, but shortened season and who knows what next season will hold, whereas I think Dats has pretty well established what he does per season..

So what does your team need? Youth/Potential vs Age/Consistency

[gfunkb7]

Imagine this thread on Jan 19th, on the first game of the season. People would be LAUGHING their asses off! Two months and a half later, after PPG performance, you peg him over Datsyuk? Kadri is a massive North Korean sky rocket selll high! We haven't seen him play against the best defensemen, on a regular basis, which Datsyuk has been doing for the past X years. Three years from now, that may be a different subject but he may still pull a Selanne on all of us...who knows.

Hand me Datsyuk over Kadri no questions asked.

[bigbabybuda]

Imagine this thread on Jan 19th, on the first game of the season. People would be LAUGHING their asses off! Two months and a half later, after PPG performance, you peg him over Datsyuk? Kadri is a massive North Korean sky rocket selll high! We haven't seen him play against the best defensemen, on a regular basis, which Datsyuk has been doing for the past X years. Three years from now, that may be a different subject but he may still pull a Selanne on all of us...who knows.

Hand me Datsyuk over Kadri no questions asked.

I'm not going to suggest to take Kadri over Datsyuk. If this is a cap league I would but other wise no. But this sell high crap on all these treads when we are talking about kids with PEDIGREE, and every other reason to believe they are not flukes is getting insane. He is a top 10 pick who has put up numbers at every level and is now doing it at the NHL with every single teammate he has played with, half of them being crap players. There is 0 I repeat O reason to believe he will not continue to put up numbers. People need to take into a count pedigree when telling people to sell high on kids. Just like real sports the way you create dynasty's is not be trading your young players. Sell high's should be on players like Hartnell who have 1 off years were they exceed there there career track records.