All kinds of protection issues, brain may explode! Help!
I've been rebuilding now for 3 seasons after winning the league and selling off all my vets. Now I am at the point where I think my team is ready to compete but my young players are no longer exempt from protection rules and I have to make some hard decisions. My team and league scoring info is in my sig. We are currently doing our prospect draft and I can make trades up until it ends and then my 13 protected player list is due. I have bolded the guys I think I want to keep in my sig.
I am heavy stacked on Defense and am thinking I might have to explore trading one of them in a package for a LW. Also Goalie cats are huge and the teams that win usually have 3 solid goalies. Varlamov is exempt from protection still due to age and games played so I do not have to count him as one of my 13 keepers.
Do I keep guys like J.Staal, Spezza, J. Neal and Voracek over S.Downie, V.Leino, T.Vokoun? Staal, Neal and Voracek all have great upside if they play with the right guys but Downie brings other categories and I probably need Vokoun to solidify the goalie position with 4 out of 10 cats going to goalies.
Sorry my head is all over the place any help or thoughts on what I should do would be appreciated. again my full end of year roster is in my sig. We roster 20 players during the season
12 team H2H keeper league. Scoring: G, A, +/-, Hits, Blocked shots, PPP, SOG, GWG Goalie categories W, GAA, SV%, Saves
Keep 13 players and 6 Farm players must be under 24 and played less then 100 NHL career games. If under 24 but played over 100 games they cannot stay on farm but do not have to be protected in off season.
C: E. Malkin, R. Hartman, M. Zibanejad , J. Eriksson Ek M. Frost
LW: C. Keller, R.Thomas A. Kempe
RW: P.Kane, V.Tarasenko T. Bertuzzi
D: K.Letang, A. Fox, M. Rielly, S. Theodore
G: [/B], I.Shesterkin, F.Andersen, J. Oettinger
Farm: T. Foerster, A. Holtz, B. Clarke, Tyler Boucher, Lukas Dostal, Mavrik Bourque