Chicago in 6.
The Blues are decimated at the moment. As well as that the goalie that was supposed to take them to the next level has had a 900 SV% since joining the blues and looks even worse than Halak. If the Blues were healthy and not missing 6 of their 9 top forwards.. I'd say flip a coin. However, the Blues are limping into the playoffs, their goalie looks rattled, and they've lost their identity.
10 Team [keep 10 + 4 prospects]
Scoring F=1[g/a]; D=2[g], 1[a]; G=2[w], -1[L], 1[OT], 2[SO] Top 12 F, 6 D, 2 G count
Forwards
Crosby, Ovechkin, Backstrom, Wheeler, Byfuglien, Hornqvist, Simmonds, Ladd, Zuccarello, Ribeiro, Desharnais, Semin, MacArthur, Moulson, Purcell, Soderberg, Dupuis
Defense
Keith, Goligoski, Carlson, Krug, Trouba, Streit, Pouliot, Ceci, Nurse, Martinez
Goalie
Fleury/Price/Rask
I hope Toews is healthy as they have indicated he is. You know full well St. Louis is gonna be hitting him in that shoulder area. They will test him out for sure. Same with Kane's knee for that matter.
I worry about Reaves, Ott, and Backes attacking Toews shoulder / arm often.
With Chicago being beat up, even if they get through STL they're going to be in rough shape to go all the way again this year. I say Chicago in 5, Hitch gets fired, and Chicago bows out in the next round to a fresher team.
10 Team Limited Keeper (Keep 8) Points Only
SALARY CAP (Player Salaries) League
20 Player Teams = 12 Fwd 6 D 2 G
My team: ???
I'm rooting for the Blues, but the injuries and late season hammering does not bode well. Hawks in 5.
Hawks in 7.
Chi in 6. St. Louis is in trouble with all their injuries and Miller has seemingly lost his confidence, a bad combination at this point in the schedule. The Hawks are deep and experienced.
Kane's playoff mullet has arrived!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...3268567.column
I see a lot of the writers from this site are picking St. Louis with them being the consensus pick. As I recall most of them picked Boston in the Final last year.
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
I don't think people like picking Chicago because they don't really play that "playoff brand" of hockey. Guys love picking big, physical, defensive-minded teams in the playoffs, which is something Chicago is not. Add to that that St. Louis have been playoff favourites all year, and there you go.
10th year Keeper League, Fantrax
14 teams, H2H, keep 10, daily starts
G (3), A (2), +/- (1), PIM (0.1), PPP (1), FOW (0.1), FOL (-0.1), BLK (0.5), HAT (3), W (5), SO (3), SV (0.1), GA (-0.5)
C (3) - Schmaltz (LW, RW), Mercer (RW), Norris (IR), Domi (LW), T. Johnson (RW), Nosek (LW)
LW (3) - Keller (RW), Hagel, McCann (C), Zacha (LW), Kubalik (RW), N. Foligno (IR)
RW (3) - Fiala (LW), Vilardi (C), Ehlers (LW), Kakko
D (4) - Theodore, Orlov, Grzelcyk, T. van Riemsdyk, Clifton, Skjei, Weegar
Util (1)
G (1) - Montembault, Allen, Halak
The Flyers-Rangers game is some good hard hockey but MY GOD this Blues-Blackhawks game is brilliant.
Kane with a sick snipe.
8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka