I'd keep Trouba because he's a sure thing and already has the name/trade value. Schultz may end up a few points better annually but he also has a much lower downside, call it a spook factor, I'm avoiding.
Jacob Trouba
Justin Schultz
I keep Schultz and hope Edm figures themselves out.
But I think I'd keep Palat over either.
I'd keep Trouba because he's a sure thing and already has the name/trade value. Schultz may end up a few points better annually but he also has a much lower downside, call it a spook factor, I'm avoiding.
As long as Byfuglien and Enstrom are still in Winnipeg, you have to go with Schultz in a points only. I know Buff plays forward but he still mans the point on the top PP unit.
I don't know how you can come to this conclusion when Trouba has barely played a full season in the NHL. You're entering Tyler Myers territory with that statement. Trouba appears to be the better NHL defensemen, but in a point only league, Schultz has a higher upside with a similar floor, and has actually proven more then Trouba has. I take Schultz in points only out of the two.
However, as others have suggested, in a keep 12, I'm not keeping 3D. Palat is an easy choice over both of them.
Name-dropper!
(psh, seriously... I'm jealous. I can get to Jason Spezza in two-degrees... but not directly. I've always wanted a direct contact to the NHL just to ask them questions about stuff like: who do you like to sit next to in the lockerroom? who is fun to hang out with on road trips? who bangs the hottest girls? am I allowed to say that last one...?)
Side note:
Do you know what I think would be a really neat thing... but hasn't (to my knowledge) been done...
Lockerroom maps.
Just a website, with a plan view of each team's lockerrooms.
Then, you can also see where each player sits to get dressed.
I think that would be really neat.
Probably has to be one insider for each team that could get us that information.
It could even be pieced together from post-game interviews.
Shit from around the Penguins facility.
A good one:
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Fun project anybody?
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Weekly lineup changes (start 9F (3/4C and 6/5W) 5D 2G)
G, A, PPP, SOG, BS, +/-, GAA, W, SV%
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2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 League Champions
C: Tavares Hintz Larkin Jenner Seguin Schenn Backlund
W: Panarin Marchand Hyman Keller Forsberg Batherson Rust Moore Smith
D: Josi Hamilton Weegar Montour Ekholm Myers Parayko Pettersson Seeler
G: Vasilevskiy Swayman Kuemper