The guy seriously needs to play until he can't skate any more. He defies the laws of nature... unreal!!
One more year! One more year! One more year!
Without me, it's only "aweso".
The guy seriously needs to play until he can't skate any more. He defies the laws of nature... unreal!!
League:Fantrax 18 Team Dynasty, H2H (4C, 8W, 6D, 1G)
Cats:G, A, GWG, PPP, SHP, SOG, H+B, FOW, S, SV%, W, GAA
C: Backstrom,Giroux,MacKinnon,Seguin
W: D.Brown,Hartnell,Hossa,P.Kane
Kesler,Marleau,Perron,Zibanejad
D: Boyle,Del Zotto,Doughty,D.Hamilton,Hedman,Markov
G: Rinne
Bench: Braun,Comeau, Demers,DeHaan,Polak,Stempniak,Wingels --Fleury
the guy is just sick, I'm so happy to have nabbed him in my league (and surprised he was still on the board when he was)
if you haven't seen the highlights from last night, check em out...its the Teemu freakin Selanne show all over the ice, he's sniping, he's setting up his teammates, I love watching this guy play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtSh5IRb2bA
LOVE owning him. Got him cheap when he first contemplated retirement.
Crazy to see Jagr, Selanne, Hossa, and St. Louis atop the leaderboard (albeit on day 1).
Oldtimers ripping it up early.
Points-only, Full Keeper Dynasty League
Active roster (no starts, just total points): 12 FW, 6 D, 1 Goalie
Forwards: Kucherov, Barkov, Teravainen, Seguin, Hoffman, Lindholm, Gusev, Horvat, Meier, Perron, Schwartz, Johansen, Pavelski, Buchnevich, Hischier, Granlund, Bracco
Defense: Josi, Dahlin, Letang, Gostisbehere, Ekman-Larsson, Petry, Slavin, Keith, Matheson
Goal: Lehner, Holtby, Varlamov
Farm: Soderstrom, York, Woo, Tracey, Dorofeyev
Kovalev, Selanne and Jagr...all old men by hockey standards....all had incredible nights!
Head to Head League: 1 point for G, 1 point for A. 2 for Goalie win, 3 for SO.
Start 6 guys every week. 3 O, 2 D and 1G. No substitutions once they are in (before the first game starts on Monday).
Protect 3 players every year in keeper.
10 rounds of drafting
F: Crosby, Point, P. Kane, JVR, Kopitar, Rakell, Tarasenko,
D: Letang, Doughty, Karlsson, Grzelcyk, Faulk,
G: Bob, Shesterkin, Demko, Kahkonen
Still a period left and Teemu has 3 pts - what is there left to say? 10 2/3 GP, 13 pts. Just unreal.
12 Team Dynasty, H2H (points)
Dress 2C, 4W, 1F, 4D, 1G (Daily)
G (3), A (2), STP (1), SHOG (1), +/- (0.5), SOG (0.2), Hits (0.2), Blk (0.2), FOW (0.1); W (5), SO (2), Sv (0.2), GA (-1)
C - Draisaitl (W), Hughes, Larkin, Trochek
W - T.Thompson (C), Pastrnak, Reinhart, Nichushkin, Batherson, Sharangovich
D - Dahlin, Theodore, Bouchard, Faber, Werenski, Skjei, Forsling
G - Jarry, Gustavsson
Fm - Bordeleau, Barlow, But, G.Perreault, Morrow, Perunovich, Nikishin
4 points! Hoping for 1 more in OT!
Derek Reese - Future Hall of Famer
14 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty
H2H, Salary Cap 108 Mil, Player actual salaries
1 Week scoring period
G,A,PTS,GWG,PIM,SOG,STP,HT,BL,+/-,W,GAA,SV,SO
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies
F - Marchand, Marner, Marchessault, Stamkos, Tuch, Comtois, Farabee, Bennett, McCann, W. Nylander, Nugent-Hopkins, Kapanen
D - Barrie, Oleksiak, Suter, Gudbranson, Savard, Lyubushkin, Ferraro
G - Saros, Rittich
Bench - Mittelstadt, Reimer, Roslovic, Keller, Reaves, Toews
Prospects - Byfield, Mercer, Veleno, Chmelevski, Tippett, Comrie, Tomasino, Valimaki, Gustavsson, Wolf
10 Keepers
10 Team, 10 Keeper
Head to Head: G,A,P,PPP,SHP,BS,FW,GAA,SV%,SO
Daily changes: 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G
C: Malkin, Pavelski, Domi
LW: Gaudreau, Drouin
RW: Kessel, B. Ryan, Nyquist
D: Hedman
G: Holtby
Don't mistake opinion for fact.
Currently tied with Adam Oates for 16th in career points with 1,420 - 5 behind Trottier.
12 Team Dynasty, H2H (points)
Dress 2C, 4W, 1F, 4D, 1G (Daily)
G (3), A (2), STP (1), SHOG (1), +/- (0.5), SOG (0.2), Hits (0.2), Blk (0.2), FOW (0.1); W (5), SO (2), Sv (0.2), GA (-1)
C - Draisaitl (W), Hughes, Larkin, Trochek
W - T.Thompson (C), Pastrnak, Reinhart, Nichushkin, Batherson, Sharangovich
D - Dahlin, Theodore, Bouchard, Faber, Werenski, Skjei, Forsling
G - Jarry, Gustavsson
Fm - Bordeleau, Barlow, But, G.Perreault, Morrow, Perunovich, Nikishin
props...for sure....
REDRUM
-roto - 10 team - keep 20 of 24 - G, A, PTS, +/-, PIM, PPG, PPA, W, SV, SV%
C - Nathan MacKinnon, Aleksander Barkov, Nick Bjugstad, Jonathon Huberdeau
LW - Evander Kane, Jaden Schwartz, Brayden Schenn, Chris Kreider, Jonathon Drouin, Sven Baertchi
RW - Kyle Okposo, Valeri Nichushkin, Gustav Nyquist, Chris Stewart
D - Oliver Ekman Larsson, Dougie Hamilton, Viktor Hedman, Kevin Shattenkirk, Erik Johnson
G - Jonathon Bernier, Sergei Bobrovsky, Darcy Kuemper, Robin Lehner
Selanne is the ultimate ageless wonder.. He is simply amazing..
Zorro says "vote for Dobber"
Angus is my best friend at dobberhockey..
From Kevin Lowe, who might be a little biased:
"Selanne is getting recognized now for his longevity. But Kurri was in his own league. How many players in the NHL were the best offensively and defensively?”
Regular season
GP G A PTS PPG
Kurri - 1251-601-797-1398 1.12
Selanne - 1352-667-753-1420 1.05 (including last night's 4 pt effort)
Playoffs
GP G A PTS PPG
Kurri - 200-106-127-233 1.17 (5 Stanley Cups)
Selanne -111-41-38-79 0.71 (1 Stanley Cup)
Very interesting argument. Kevin Lowe is biased for sure and I watched a good number of Oiler games in Kurri's heyday. Damn, he was very good both sides of the ice.
In his first year without Gretzky, Kurri led the Oilers in scoring with 44 goals and 102 points. The year before, his last with the Great One, Kurri scored 43 goals and 96 points. All Gretzky? No way.
It's like saying Brett Hull was only good because of Adam Oates. False. They were just damn good together.
I would put Kurri ahead of Selanne, but I'm biased as well, being an Oiler fan. That and I have watched way more Kurri games than Selanne. In the games I have watched, I see Kurri's defensive prowess as the kicker. Fantasy hockey, sure, Selanne is better, but in the real world, Kurri was like having a Jonathan Toews; responsible and lethal.
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Kevin Lowe is a d bag. At least in my generation, Selanne will be remembered as one of the all time greats.
Let's not forget that Kurri played in the high scoring 80s on a high flying edmonton oilers team on a line with the last player in the NHL to wear 99.
I'm not taking credit away from Kurri, but if you put selanne in his shoes, he would have performed even better than Kurri.
I am a die-hard Avalanche fan!
PARTIAL DYNASTY (Keep 20 from year to year)
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2G every night
G ,A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SOG, Hits, Blocks
Wins, Saves, SV%, GAA, SO
C-Eichel, Marner (RW), Matthews
L- Skinner, Pacioretty, Vanek, Perlini, Palat
R- Hoffman, Byron, Tuch, Kerfoot, Sprong
D- Ekblad, Gostisbehere, Rielly, Borowiecki, Montour, Girard, Orpik, Schenn
G-Fleury, Rask, Brossoit, Saros, Kuemper, Appleby
Over the course of Kurri's career the leage produced an average of 6.09 goals per game. In Selanne's career (through last season) that number was 4.86 goals per game.
The upshot of this is that Kurri had about 25% more opportunities to score in his career (probably more since he played for one of the highest scoring teams at the time).
Selanne (end of 2012) 1341-663-743-1406-1.048
Add 25% and you get 1.31 points per game...
Obviously this isn't definitive as you don't know that Selanne would have availed himself of the opportunities, but I gotta think having 25% more chances to get on the score board is likely make an impact on one's career totals.
Oh, and yippee for the dead puck era...
(goal/game stats taken from: http://www.quanthockey.com/TS/TS_GoalsPerGame.php )
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Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
Would selanne have kept himself in good enough shape though? Back then, guys came to training camp to get in shape. They didn't work out in the summers, and they probably smoked and drank more than guys now. If selanne did that, would he have been as good? Hard to say. That's the problem with comparing eras. For every argument for, there's one against.
Writer of the weekly Top 10 column.
12-team Keeper pool, straight points for forwards & dmen. Goalies get: 2 points per win, 3 per shutout, 1 point per assist & 1 point per shootout loss.
League champ in 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2022.
Top 8 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies count.
We keep 15 players (any position) plus two rookies.
Forwards: Panarin, Ovechkin, Kopitar, Stamkos, Tuch, Rust, Marchessault, Pavelski, Miller, Bertuzzi, Stone, Kakko, Brown, Stankoven, Kovalenko
Defence: Hedman, Fox, Matheson, Thrun, Jiricek
Goalies: Kochetkov, Talbot, Vasilevskiy, Campbell, Schmid