So I've been trying to get Ehlers for a while now, but no luck. Tonight I just got 3 offers from the Ehlers owner.
OFFER 1
I trade: Pastrnak
I receive: Ehlers, Hertl.
OFFER 2
I trade: Tavares
I receive: Ehlers, Hertl/Montour
OFFER 3
I trade: MacKinnon, Boeser, Jost
I receive: Ehlers, Hertl, Schmaltz, Cirelli
I don't like the third trade at all so that's off the table.
I prefer love how Pastrnak looked last year, and at only 21 he's hard to lose, but I see Ehlers with a similar ceiling and Hertl is a sweet addition since I anticipate him getting an increased role in SJ this season.
If Tavares wasn't a center I would prefer to move him over Pasta because I'm thin on centers as is. Again, I like either add on option of Hertl or Montour.
Thoughts? Should I punt FOW, trade Tavares and keep Pasta? Or Move Pasta?
- 12 team, 40 keeper dynasty league
- Scoring categories for skaters: G, A, PIM, HIT, BLK, STP, FOW, SOG, +/-, DEF, ATOI
- Scoring categories for goalies: W, SV, SV%, SO, GAA
- Start 12F, 6D, 3UTIL, 3 min goalie starts a week
- Starters in bold
Forwards: MacKinnon, Tarasenko, Tavares, Panarin, Johansen, Ehlers, E. Kane, Lee, Huberdeau, Horvat, Kessel, Pastrnak, Keller, Pacioretty, Meier, Fabbri, Sikura, Zacha, Burakovsky, Spooner, Jost, Roussel, Kaprizov, Cirelli, Berglund,
Defense: Pietrangelo, Parayko, Dumba, Faulk, Provorov, Muzzin, McAvoy, Carlson, Nurse, Del Zotto, Borowiecki, Russell
Goalies: Jones, Vasilevskiy, Raanta, Keumper, Remier, Demko
Bottleneckers (12/16 in 2022)
16 team, points only. G: 2-W, 4-SO.
Top 9F, 4D & 1G . Keep 15, Max 23
F: J. Robertson, J. Hughes, Tavares, Lafreniere, Cozens, Newhook, Teravainen, Domi, R. Strome, Laine, Rossi, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti
D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy
What categories? Personally I'm not as big on Hertl as others - could you change Hertl to Montour in deal 1?
Experience is the teacher of all things.
I would do deal #1
12 teams dynasty, Points only ( G and A = 1pt)
F: McDavid (12.5M), Kucherov (9.5M), Boldy (7M), Kyrou (8.13M), J. Norris (7.95M), Zegras (5.95M), Kuzmenko (5.5M), Reichel (0.925M), P. Kane (2.75M), Lundell (0.925M), Rasmussen (1.46M), Rossi (0.86M).
D: Korchinski (0.925M), Byram (3.85M), Burns (5.28M).
G: Kochetkov (2M), Shesterkin (5,670M).
Bench: E. Karlsson (10M), Lucius (0.925M), Edvinsson (0.89M), Askarov (0.925M), Quinn (0.86M), Berggren (0.925M), Stankoven (0.81M), Knight (4.5M), Mitchkov (TBD), Athanasiou (4.25M), Samsonov (3.55M), Klingberg (4.15M).
Deal 3 is terrible, and I'd want more for Tavares than that offer. If you are hell bent on Ehlers, I agree trade A is the best approach.
I don't think you'll win this trade this season, maybe not next either. So if you are in win now, I'm not sure I'm crazy about it.
But beyond that, all the predictions are that this should swing your way.
Honestly, I'm not sold on Pastrnak hitting the 70 point threshold again. I would certainly put him in the 60 range, which puts him right alongside Ehlers. I would definitely take a chance on offer 1.
11 team keeper league with salary cap (points only)
MY TEAM (start 13F, 6D, 1G):
FWDS: N. Kucherov, S. Stamkos, R. O’Reilly, J. Hughes, W. Karlsson, P. Kessel, B. Point, F. Vatrano, E. Pettersen, R. Rakell, C. Keller, N. Niederreiter, K. Labanc
DEF: J. Trouba, J. Morrissey, T. Krug, F. Hronek, S. Jones, D. Nurse
GOALIE: A. Vasilevskiy
BENCH: V. Mete, S. Niku, R. Andersson, T. Hirose, C. Glass, T. Jurco, C. McElhinney
NOTES: We can only send players down if they get injured, otherwise they pass through waivers and we lose them for nothing + we have to pay half their cap.
I'd sub Montour in trade 1 and get rid of Russell if u have to drop someone
10 Team Keeper (5)
Head-to-Head
G, A, SOG, PPP, FW, HIT, BLK
3 C, 2 LW, 2 RW, 4 D, 1 UTIL, 2 GOALIE
C: Barzal, Mcdavid, J. Staal, Mackinnon, Matthews,
LW: Guentzal, Lee, J.T Miller, Rakell
RW: Point, Nylander, Perron, Marner, Laine
D: Carlson, Hedman, Petry, Byfuglien, McAvoy
G: M. Jones, Price
I have Ehlers and Pasternak pretty equal. Hertl wouldn't be enough to sway me to one or the other, but if I could get Montour I'd make the deal.
Offer 1.
I like Pasta. But Bergeron and Krejci are getting older. That will affect his production. Marchand has been surprising the everliving heck out of me for 2 seasons now. I never expected him to score like this, but he is turning 30 soon.
Schiefele + Laine however are young and getting better and they will be stapled at the hip, benefiting Ehlers.
Ehlers and Pasta have similar upsides.
#1 Yahoo Keep 5, 14 teams
C, C, RW, LW, F, F, D, D, D, Uti, G, G, BN, BN, BN, BN
G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, FOW~W, L, GAA, Sv%, saves, SO
McDavid C, Kadri C, Zibanejad C, Mackinnon C, Boldy LW/RW, Backlund C, Duchene C/RW, Fantilli C, Batherson LW/RW, Forsberg LW, Zegras C IR, Mintyukov D, Dunn D, Seider D, Hellebucyk G, Kochetkov, Bobrovsky G
Will echo the majority. I consider trade 1 only. Not enough for JT imo.
Set roster weekly in H2H (Mon to Sun) - 16 Teams - start 6F, 3D, and 1G per week - Keep 2
Points: 2 G / 2 A / 1 PPG / 1 PPA / 1 Hat Trick / 1 SHG / 1 SHA / 1 GWG - 3 Goalie Win / 2 Goalie Loss in SO or OT / 5 goalie SO
Forwards:
C. McDavid, N. Kucherov, R. O'Reilly, J. Schwartz, J. Toews, J. Huberdeau, T. Toffoli, M. Granlund
Defense:
B. Burns, J. Klingberg, R. Josi, J. Slavin
Goalie:
J. Binnington
IR (2 max):