Wood or Barlow
Which will be the best power forward?
Re: Wood or Barlow
Not an easy question for anyone to answer. I would say Wood has the slightly higher upside due to having a more dynamic skillset. Barlows stock price mostly comes from the fact that he's very physically mature and he has an amazing shot. If your league favors goals/sog, and has hits as a category it might be pretty close to even (assuming they both progress decently) but I would go with Wood every time if it came down to who to pick first.
16 team Pts only dynasty league
G, A, PPG, SHG, GWG, Svs, SO's, W's
Pro Roster Starters: 9 F, 6 D 1 G
FWD: Hertl, Forsberg, Quinn, Rantanen, Debrincat, Couturier, Dach, Trocheck, Larkin, Seguin
D: Chychrun, Grzelcyk, Trouba, Burns, Walman, Karlsson, Graves
G: Kahkkonen, Keumper, Reimer
Farm (notables):
F: Pekarcik, Dellandrea, Cowan, Puistola, Halttunen, Simoneau, Bolduc, Nadeau, Stankhoven
D: Brzustewicz, Alexeyev, Jiricek, Reinbacher, Minnetian
G: Fedotov, Tarasov, Kochetkov, Skarek, M. Gibson
Re: Wood or Barlow
Barlow projects as the better multi-cat forward for fantasy but your question is a tad vague. Could you be more specific.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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Re: Wood or Barlow
It's close but I like Barlow's game to translate in the NHL better. Wood is a better home run swing.
Ceiling: Wood
Floor: Barlow
Landing Spot: Barlow
Puck Skills: Wood
Shot: Barlow
Passing: Wood
Vision: Wood
Skating: Barlow (neither are burners but Wood really needs to improve)
Physicality: Barlow
200ft game: Barlow
Leadership: Barlow
I guess it depends which traits are more important to you based on your draft needs / GM style / league setup / personal preference
Re: Wood or Barlow
I would agree with this. I think Barlow does more things that are easily translatable but Wood does some things far better than Barlow.Originally Posted by rtstr
16 team Pts only dynasty league
G, A, PPG, SHG, GWG, Svs, SO's, W's
Pro Roster Starters: 9 F, 6 D 1 G
FWD: Hertl, Forsberg, Quinn, Rantanen, Debrincat, Couturier, Dach, Trocheck, Larkin, Seguin
D: Chychrun, Grzelcyk, Trouba, Burns, Walman, Karlsson, Graves
G: Kahkkonen, Keumper, Reimer
Farm (notables):
F: Pekarcik, Dellandrea, Cowan, Puistola, Halttunen, Simoneau, Bolduc, Nadeau, Stankhoven
D: Brzustewicz, Alexeyev, Jiricek, Reinbacher, Minnetian
G: Fedotov, Tarasov, Kochetkov, Skarek, M. Gibson
Re: Wood or Barlow
Real NHL Value: Matthew Wood
Fantasy Value: Colby Barlow
Barlow has a fairly high-end shot.
One of my favourite prospect analysts said he's the only guy beyond the 3 that is "NHL ready" now...
And that's because his top tools are in place.
In the WHL fantasy league draft, I wanted to take him at 12... but he was gone at 10.
Matthew Wood went at 13.
Re: Wood or Barlow
I would probably go Wood. I believe he has a higher upside.
31 TEAMS keep all multi-cat (lot of them) dynasty
Offensive stats : Goals, Assist , PPP, PPTOI, SOG...
Defensive stats : PKTOI, BLKS, TakeAway, Giveaway...
(basically best NHL player)
Re: Wood or Barlow
Thx for the advices! I will choose 13th and i should have the choice surely between these 2. Maybe Moore will be there too.
Re: Wood or Barlow
I would take either of those guys over Moore. I think the guys here are spot-on. Can't remember which prospect guru said it but he always views the 17-18 year-old with the full beard as a negative since they're likely more advanced physically and don't have as much room to grow. Don't know how valid it is but I thought it was interesting.
10 Team, 60 Player Roster
G, A, PTS, PPP, PIM, BLKs, Hits, +/-, Shots, W, GAA, SV%, Saves
C- JHughes, Trocheck, RThomas, Zegras, Norris, Bennett, PLD, Stephenson, Danualt
RW- Raymond, Stone, TWilson, Toffoli, KJohnson, Nyqvist, Zary
LW- Keller, Schmaltz, Bunting, Skinner, Barbashev, Duclair
D- QHughes, McAvoy, Doughty, Heiskanen, LHughes, Mintyukov
G- Shesterkin, Demko, Andersen, Kahkonen, Levi, Tarasov, Annunen
Notable Prospects- Nikishin, Kulich, Leonard, Wood, Perreault, Lekkermaki, Ostlund, Othmman, REvans, L-Heureux, Ivanov, Murashov
Re: Wood or Barlow
pretty sure sam cosantino said that during the sportsnet coverage of the draft.
I thought Barlow would have a deeper voice so maybe growing a bit more is in the cards
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