Fantasy Hockey Q&A - April 11, 2014

[Dobber]

Thanks for doing this, Dobber.

Two things:

How do you see the following three players producing next year (and only next year)?

Nyquist
Nichushkin
Johansen

Nyquist - 63 points if Datsyuk is healthy all year. 73 if Datsyuk misses time
Nichushkin - I would assume that high -40s is the safe play here, but this guy is gonna explode within the next three seasons. I wish I knew which one, but one of them will see him dominate for 75+, I really feel that way.
Johansen - he's a safe bet for 67 or so, unless he misses a few games. And I get the sense that he misses five or six games a year more often than not.

[Dobber]

Thanks for doing this, Dobber.
The following goalies figure to be available in the first round of my league's draft. Please rank them based on the scoring cats in my sig:

Hiller
Khudobin
Rinne
Lack
Howard
Ward
Harding
Schneider
Mason
Halak
Scrivens
Fasth
Anderson

Sorry for the giant list. Rinne obviously kind of jumps out there, but the Rinne owner also has Quick and Varlamov -- I can't see him keeping all three, and I'm thinking about working on a trade for one of them.

If I own Quick and Varlamov, I keep Rinne too. And I hold my position of strength until owners come crawling to me, begging for a deal

1. Rinne
large gap
2. Schneider
3. Howard
4. Anderson
5. Halak
6. Mason
7. Hiller
8. Ward
9. Fasth
10. Lack
11. Khudobin
12. Scrivens
13. Harding

[Dobber]

Here's one for ya.

Who do you think finishes 1,2,3 in playoff scoring this year?

According to my draft list it's

1. Krejci 22
2. Steen 21
3. Iginla 20

[Dobber]

Ty Dobber,

In a realy deep dinasty (24 team with 4 D as starter and 2 on the bench) would you be ok going forward with a D squad compose of Rielly, Schultz, Edler, Brodin, Voynov, Myers?

No, I would be very concerned about next year. I like those guys for two years from now (except Edler - sell him for the first bag of pucks that comes your way). Also in fantasy myers is overrated so may want to shop him

[Dobber]

Thanks! In the case that Miller signs with St. Louis is what I should've wrote. If that happens do you dump AP and keep the two goalies?

If he stays with STL then yes