You're bang on with Holtby and Kuch being locks. I think you need to keep Hamilton as well! This would leave you to decide between Pasta or Gaudreau. You can't really go wrong with either, I think I would go Gaudreau!
Kucherov
Holtby
Gaudreau
Hamilton
Looking at your current crop of D I'd say it's your weakest position and Hamilton is a player who will keep improving his numbers. Unless there are plenty of Dmen to pick in your next draft you should really consider holding on to him. You also enter you season with a pretty well rounded roster.
12 Team (Limited Keeper) Multi-Cat - Weekly Roster Lock (4C / 4LW / 4RW / 6D / 2G / 5 Bench / 2 IR)
Forwards & Dmen: Goals, Assists, Shots, Blks, Hits, FW (+ pts.), FL (-pts.), +/-, PIM (- pts.), HT, GWG, SHG, SHA
Goalies: Wins, Losses (-pts.), GA (-pts.), Saves, Shut Outs
C: MacKinnon, Cozens, Jenner, Kotkaniemi
LW: Svechnikov (LW,RW), Guentzel, Forseberg, Vrana, Raymond (LW,RW)
RW: Tolvanen (LW,RW), Debrincat (LW,RW), Wheeler, Wilson
D: Heiskanen, Q. Hughes, Bouchard, Sergachev, Durzi, K. Miller
G: Demko, Markstrom
Reserves: P. Kane (RW), C. Brown (RW), Sharongovich (LW), Andersen (G)
You're bang on with Holtby and Kuch being locks. I think you need to keep Hamilton as well! This would leave you to decide between Pasta or Gaudreau. You can't really go wrong with either, I think I would go Gaudreau!
12 team Keeper League.
25 man roster, 5 man bench, 2 prospects, keep 9. Must ice 4D, 1 Goalie
Skaters 1pt G/A,
Goalies .05pts per save, 1pts SO, .75pts per win -.25 for GA
Forwards
Crosby, Malkin, Seguin, Eichel, Backstrom, Svechnikov, Stone, Meier, Perron, Voracek, Wilson, Pearson, Vrana, E. Stall, Pajeau
Defence
Hedman, Klingberg, Letang, Yandle
Goalie
Bobrovsky
Bench
Ritchie (G), Zucker, Guentzel, Neal, Ekblad (D)
Prospects
Zegras, Kaprisov
I'd go Holtby, Hamilton, Kucherov, and Arvidsson.
Elite D are hard to come by and Hamilton is just that....particularly with your cats. Hamilton will be good with everything you score.
Arvidsson is money in the bank with SHP - a very hard cat to predict/win. Plus he'll improve on his G/A/PP stats from last year which were excellent to begin with.
I agree Giroux is in decline and I'm not even sure Philly is a playoff team this year.
Pastrnak doesn't have a contract yet and I don't like the feel. I doubt he'll be unsigned come camp but you never know with these things...and the possible fallout if the Bruins act like ass clowns about the whole thing...
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
Kucherov, Gaudreau, Holtby and Pasternak
I feel you though that it's hard to wrap your head around leaving Giroux, but that is your better younger talent. I'd rather the youth than the players pushing 30.