Keeper League Forward Rank Em' - Would Appreciate Input
Just finished my expansion year and trying to figure out my depth chart for my young forwards. I would love to see how the great hockey minds here would rank my core forwards. Trying to see who doesn't make the cut if I start wheeling and dealing.
I plan on having 12 keeper forwards and theoretically I can just roll with the 12 I have - but I would like to land "the big fish" of young forwards - Nathan Mackinnon and I feel like I have a good shot.
If not Mackinnon - Seguin, Hall, Drouin, maybe even Barkov (or other suggestions?) might be upgrades over what I currently have - so I would like to see who is in the lower end of my totem pole to package in a deal.
Realistically I plan on competing for a championship 3 years from now and want to plan my team accordingly to be as close to a dynasty as possible (which is extremely hard to do in my league). Here is how I would rank my forwards in terms of value (upside/production) in order:
RNH
Duchene
Skinner
Yakupov
Johansen
Huberdeau
E.Kane
Granlund
Landeskog
S.Reinhart/S.Bennett (this draft - I have the 2nd overall pick)
Kuznetsov
E.Lindholm
REIGNING CHAMPION
15 Team Limited Keeper League (18 years)
32 Roster Spots, Protect 17,<41 games played;auto-protected
12 Forwards, 6 Defensemen, 2 Goalies
MY TEAM (4 years)
Forwards: Backstrom,Ovechkin,Kuznetsov,Forsberg,Tavares, Barkov,Huberdeau,Stamkos,Hall,J.Hockey,Dadonov,Carter,Perry,Kesler,Maroon
Defense: Karlsson,Hedman,OEL,Klingberg,Krug,Byfuglien,Keith,Seabrook
Goalies: Bobrovsky,Vasilevsky
Prospects: Bokk,Hayton,Dobson,Blackwood,Comrie,Hogberg
Scoring: G: 2 A: 1 +/-: 0.5 PIM: 0.2 W: 4 L: -1 SO:5 OTL: 1