Re:Lehtonen
Disclaimer: I don\'t know how your league works and/or the scoring you use, so take the following with a grain of salt.
sabresedge wrote:
If it\'s a keeper league and not knowing the point set up I\'d say keep Weber / Lets. Long term it will pay off. Plus Weber is the real deal and I think you would seriously regret moving him.
If you made that deal you would not be getting the best player in the deal. Sakic is a beast, but he will retire as soon as next year.
Wow, I have to hugely disagree... any time you can get 4 quality guys for two quality guys, you\'ve got to take it. Yes, Sakic may retire in a year or two, but then again, he may not. He isn\'t injury prone and has no nagging injuries (one of the main reason\'s guys retire), and he is getting better and better (it seems) with age. Normally I\'d say that a hockey guy\'s prime is his late twenties, but sakic\'s prime appears to be his mid thirties. He also has the drive to continue playing (hasn\'t once told the media he was considering retirement - ala scott niedermayer), and he\'s become a huge leader for his team. He could be around for as many as 4 or 5 more years. During that time he\'ll likely get 300 points at least.
Backstrom and Biron will both be beasts on their respective teams next year, giving you (quite arguably) the best goaltending in your league with 4 starters (Bryzgalov will almost definitely be moved now that Giguere is signed). Once the year starts, you could probably trade any one of these guys for a younger goalie prospect and some help elsewhere, and you\'d still make out at the goalie position.
Stuart is a wild card in this trade... He has the potential to be a 50 point guy, but he\'s floundered the last few places he\'s gone... Depending what happens come next sunday with him, he could either be a nice substitute, or a utter downgrade for weber. Your defense is probably your weakest area, but it\'s young for the most part, and you\'ve got some quality up and comers there. Free agency could either make or break your defense this year (depending where corvo, and preissing end up).
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I do think that you\'ll be better off taking this trade, as starting goalies are much rarer than starting defenders (there\'s at least 2 decent starting defenders for every 1 starting goalie). Lehtonen is one of the better young goalies in the leauge, but he is injury prone, he doesn\'t play for a very defensive team, and he\'s not even that much younger than Backstrom and Biron (who aren\'t old by any means). Stuart is also not old (and you already have a couple of blue chip young guys in Bieska and Letang) so you will be fine for years on defense as well.
My one suggestion though, would be to see if you can include selanne (I say selanne because no one in their right mind will take a chance on yashin or forsberg at this point in time) in the trade instead of your 2nd pick. You are giving him quite a bit of quality youth as it is, and I think that he\'d understand you not wanting to give up your 13th overall pick. Selanne should be attractive enough to him that he\'ll accept the swap, and just bite your lip for the next year or so selanne plays knowing that he\'ll be retiring sooner rather than later, and that you saved a good pick by dishing him. Also, I imagine that you have roster limits, meaning that the other GM giving you 4 guys for your 2 guys will likely mean you\'ll have to drop 2 guys to make space. If you send selanne the other way, you\'ll only have to drop 1 guy. Also, try to explain to him that you\'re taking a huge chance bringing on Stuart before you even know his fate, so he should be equally willing to bring in selanne (who in all likelyhood will be back next season).
Again, that\'s my suggestion based on my experience, but not knowing exactly how your league is run, I might be way off-base.
Just don\'t underestimate biron and backstrom going into next season, they will most likely be better than all but 5 or 6 goalies in the league.
Post edited by: lanky522, at: 2007/06/26 14:44
12 Team Dynasty League w/ Salary Cap (Updated: 3/23/2011)
(CBS Sports Commissioner's League)
Maximum Salary Cap: 70.5 million
Roster Limit(s):
Total: 23 + 2 available IR slot
Active: C, C, C, W, W, W, W, D, D, D, D, G, G
23 + 1 Man Roster (69.62 million) - 17 Keepers
- Crosby (IR), Carter, Tavares, Duchene, Anisimov, Desharnais
- Ovechkin, Giroux, Downie, Hall (LTIR), Tanguay, Samuelsson, Whitney, Justin Williams, Zuccarello
- Green, Phaneuf, Doughty, Letang, Carlson, Karlsson
- Price, Halak, Neuvirth, Varlamov
Scoring Setup: W, L, GA, Saves, SO
G, A, PIM, PPG, PPA, SHG, SHA, SOG, GWG, HT, FOW