Aho, Niederreiter or Mantha?

[Qazzi]

Points only league. Would you drop Lindholm or Miller for Aho, Niederreiter or Mantha?

How would you rank these 5 players?

Miller seems to be slowing down and does not have much ice time while Lindholm has been a disappointement so far. Can Aho and Mantha keep it up?

Thanks.

[FrozenInferno]

I actually have all three on my roster as my league is fairly deep (10 teams, 22 man rosters). All three have so far been excellent depth guys and I honestly have a hard time ranking them.

Nino has been consistent since coming back from injury and has something like a seven or eight game point streak going.

Mantha tends to score in bunches and is capable of having good 3-4 point nights but may go a couple of games in between.

Aho was doing nothing out of the gate but last week exploded for nine points and scored again last night.

All three get top line minutes and are depended on to be scorers for their teams. Gun to my head I may rank them like this:

1) Nino (57 points last year so he's been there already)

2) Aho (Extremely talented, should score lots of goals)

3) Mantha (Only starting to break out so his ceiling and consistency level is an unknown)

[renello]

This is such a great 3 to compare. Have owned them all this season. Drafted Nino in both of my leagues as well as Mantha. Picked up Aho on waivers. Traded Mantha for nice piece in one league and put Nino on waivers in both. Probably a mistake. I really can't rank them they all seem fairly equal on a lot of different levels at this point. Would love to have crystal ball and see where they are all at 2 years from now. I think if waiver pick ups are not limited I would drop Lindholm for any of the three. I can't rank them. All close.

[Qazzi]

Thanks for your input.

Waiver pick up are in fact limited to 7 a season. I still have 6 left and feel comfortable using one (used one to drop Nino for Dadonov when Nino got injured given the absence of IR or Bench in my 20 players league).

I am leading towards dropping Lindholm for Aho or Nino. Lindholm may be a slow starter, but given that he is getting the stark treatment (defensive responsibilities) and has recently been downgraded to the third line, I do not see him reaching 55 pts. Aho may not reach it either, but has more upside than Lindholm. Nino should also be good for 55-60. What do you think?

Shooting percentage vs career average also tends towards Aho over Nino over Mantha.

[lucafen4]

I'd drop miller for any of them - Nino, Mantha, Aho in that order for me. Lindhom, if you can hold on to him, you'll be rewarded 2nd half (when you need the points the most)