Maatta or Gelinas
Right now I am trying to sort out my keepers and I am thinking about keeping one of either Maatta or Gelinas to go along with Shattenkirk, Wisniewski and Chara as my keeper d-men. I am leaning towards keeping Maatta but Gelinas' offensive capabilities are also intriguing so which young d-man would you rather have as a long-term keeper prospect?
10 Team Keeper League, 15 Keepers (max 2 goalies), 10 prospects, Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 3 Utility, 4D, 2G
Stats: G, A, P, +/-, PIMS, SOG, STP; W, SO, SV%, GAA
C: MacKinnon, Scheifele, Larkin, Pavelski (RW)
LW Panarin, Ehlers , Ovechkin, Verhaeghe (C), Beauvillier, Killorn
RW: Kucherov, Pastrnak, Wheeler, Mangiapane (LW)
D: Makar, Hughes, Krug; Pietrangelo, Schmidt, Andersson, Gostibehere
G: Vasilevskiy, Hellebuyck, Bobrovsky
Prospects: Sorokin (G), Askarov (G), Raymond (LW), Kaliyev (RW), Perfetti (RW), Norris (C), Kaprizov (LW), Hayton (C), Brannstrom (D), Boqvist (D), Clarke (D)
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
I'm leaning Gelinas because of where he's at development-wise (same amount of pts in fewer games) and because he's not far from becoming the undisputed PPQB in NJ. I think Maatta is too good to just give up though. See if you can package him for an upgrade to other keeper spots. Maybe Maatta + Wiz for a less injury-prone dman?
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Re: Maatta or Gelinas
Maatta. I think the kid will be special. I don't trust Letang and also think Niskanen signs elsewhere next year. Letang, Maatta and Pouliot are the Pens future offensive threats and Maatta will be the best all-around IMO. Gelinas was kind of a wildcard this year. He did impress, no doubt, but Larsson, Severson and Merrill are still very much in the mix. It also sticks out that the Devils yo-yo'd Gelinas to forward at times this season which has future "Burns/Byfuglien" fingerprints all over it.
8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
I'll go with Maatta as well. Better offensive team and I feel Gelinas might not be able to keep up his offensive production
12 Team HTH Keeper
(F's G=1 A=1, D G=1 A=1, All Skaters PPG=.5, SHG=.5 Goalies W=2 SO=3)
Dress 8 F, 4 D, 2 G weekly
F's-Marner, Rantanen, Crosby, Panarin, Guentzel, Caufield, Kaprizov, Lundell, Tomasino, Holtz, Pavelski, Zuccarello, Hagel, Dach
D-Makar, Josi, Doughty Andersson, AP, Hutson
G-Hellebuyck, Fleury, Comrie, Kochetkov, Wolf, Primeau, Sogaard
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
Maatta for me as well. Sample size for Gélinas is still too small for me to fully trust him yet.
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
I think Maatta will be the better real-world NHL defenseman.
But I believe that Gelinas is going to churn out better fantasy-hockey-relevant statistics.
Better pts per game, PPP per game, SOG per game, PIM per game.
What stats will Maatta actually win besides +/-?
Tough one... because I think we have to separate what we see from what the numbers will reflect.
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
I appreciate the comments. Another option I am considering is to try and trade Chara (who still is putting up great stats but is getting up there in age) and keep both Maatta and Gelinas. I think I would be able to get more out of Chara than Wisniewski and I think at this point, although an injury risk, Wisniewski has more fantasy upside than Chara who stats have been declining. Its a bit of a gamble but I could pick up a veteran d-man in the 4th or 5th round.
10 Team Keeper League, 15 Keepers (max 2 goalies), 10 prospects, Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 3 Utility, 4D, 2G
Stats: G, A, P, +/-, PIMS, SOG, STP; W, SO, SV%, GAA
C: MacKinnon, Scheifele, Larkin, Pavelski (RW)
LW Panarin, Ehlers , Ovechkin, Verhaeghe (C), Beauvillier, Killorn
RW: Kucherov, Pastrnak, Wheeler, Mangiapane (LW)
D: Makar, Hughes, Krug; Pietrangelo, Schmidt, Andersson, Gostibehere
G: Vasilevskiy, Hellebuyck, Bobrovsky
Prospects: Sorokin (G), Askarov (G), Raymond (LW), Kaliyev (RW), Perfetti (RW), Norris (C), Kaprizov (LW), Hayton (C), Brannstrom (D), Boqvist (D), Clarke (D)
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
I definitely think Chara is a "sell high" right nowOriginally Posted by Oakville Squires
Re: Maatta or Gelinas
The reason I listed Wiz as a sell-high option is because of the amount of time he misses to injury. This was not a normal year for him.
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