Best Keeper Dmen

[BIGBADCATS]

Hey guys, I'm in my kepper league's opening draft and I'm looking for youth. Who would you take as the 5 first dmen.

Write your top 5!

(Points only) My team is in my signature

[Laendarian]

1. Green
2. Doughty
3. Yandle
4. Letang
5. Keith

[PrairieDog]

Yandle
Green
Karlsson
Keith
Doughty

(Welcome to DH!)

[DerekReese]

Yandle
Letang
Green
Doughty
Keith

[dyzfunctioned]

Green
Yandle
Doughty
Keith
Karlsson

Could make a case for Letang over Karlsson.

[ross10019]

Points only is key for me, it eliminates guys like Keith from the top 5, imo.

I'd go:

1. Green (elite offensive Dman playing with Ovy and Backstrom, killer)
2. Doughty (just because he'll play the most minutes of all these guys, most defensively sound, so will translate to bigger point opportunities - plus that Kings squad will be a powerhouse offensive squad as soon as this year, rivallng the Pens and Caps)
3. Letang (elite offensive Dman playing with Crosby and Malkin, killer)
4. Yandle (only reason he slips is that his Phoenix team will take a while to become part of the discussion as far as dominant offensive teams in the NHL goes)
5. Karlsson (just pure talent, possibly most out of all these guys)

Honorable mention: Subban, Keith, Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo, Fowler, Weber, Kulikov

[Supertoad12]

Guess I am sitting pretty (look at my D...).
Top 5 for me:

1.Green
2.Doughty
3.Yandle
4.Karlsson
5.Visnosky

[Nights]

Green
Doughty
Yandle
Letang
Karlsson

I remember my leagues inaugural draft... Doughty, Yandle, Letang, Weber, Phaneuf, Kaberle on D. Curses to me only being able to keep 2 out of them...

[bluteau]

Green
Doughty
Yandle
Letang
Karlsson

I remember my leagues inaugural draft... Doughty, Yandle, Letang, Weber, Phaneuf, Kaberle on D. Curses to me only being able to keep 2 out of them...

That is exactly my ranking and I ill be keeping Yandle and Doughty over one of my goalie (Lundquist or Rinne) my league is really special for the value of the goalie and they are really cheap I paid them 30$ each during the auction and I paid 50$ for Yandle and the goalie will be cheaper this year. The points for the goalie 2pts for a win and 1 more for SO. In my league we lost 2 guy so we will 6 teams league and we dress 4 defense and 2 goalie.

Whit the to 2 teams we lost we will a 2 rounds draft whit D.Sedin, N.Backstrom WAS, Perry, B.Richard, Semin, Giroux, Heatley, Nash, Letang, Karlson, Miller and Kipper. That will be an interesting 2 rounds draft and I hope to get Giroux and Letang, that will give Doughty, Yandle, Carlson who was a rookie last year and Letang a really really good defense group.

[CHR17]

Points only is key for me, it eliminates guys like Keith from the top 5, imo.

I'd go:

1. Green (elite offensive Dman playing with Ovy and Backstrom, killer)
2. Doughty (just because he'll play the most minutes of all these guys, most defensively sound, so will translate to bigger point opportunities - plus that Kings squad will be a powerhouse offensive squad as soon as this year, rivallng the Pens and Caps)
3. Letang (elite offensive Dman playing with Crosby and Malkin, killer)
4. Yandle (only reason he slips is that his Phoenix team will take a while to become part of the discussion as far as dominant offensive teams in the NHL goes)
5. Karlsson (just pure talent, possibly most out of all these guys)

Honorable mention: Subban, Keith, Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo, Fowler, Weber, Kulikov

Top 4 are spot on, 5 is Subban/Fowler IMO due to opportunity on better teams but all the guys are solid.

[CallMeJerry]

Any reason Weber hasn't been mentioned? Surely, he's in the top 5. (Yes I just called you Shirley).

[Atomic Wedgy]

Any reason Weber hasn't been mentioned? Surely, he's in the top 5. (Yes I just called you Shirley).

Points only is the reason for that.

[fungchen3]

Based on points-only w/ emphasis on youth:

1.) Doughty

2.) Green

3.) Karlsson

4.) Yandle

5.) Enstrom

[dmvincent]

1. Doughty
2. Green
3. Yandle
4. Karlsson
5. Letang/Weber (depends on league categories because Weber is a multi-cat beast).

[fungchen3]

I was torn between Enstrom, Letang, Goligoski, Fowler and Subban with the 5th spot. I had to go with Enstrom because it's hard to argue with consecutive 50-point years and Letang is way too dependent on Crosby for my liking.