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[Leafs2010]

More points (and PPP) next year - Tatar or Nyquist?

[metaldude26]

More points (and PPP) next year - Tatar or Nyquist?

It's neck and neck but I've got Tatar ahead by two points. More PPP for Nyquist though.

[horseflyhab]

Filling out the end of my salary cap roster with cheap guys that have some upside. Both players are making 800,000 and have similar roles for their teams this year as well as LW/RW eligibility. Who would you take? Beau Bennett or Emerson Etem?

[metaldude26]

Filling out the end of my salary cap roster with cheap guys that have some upside. Both players are making 800,000 and have similar roles for their teams this year as well as LW/RW eligibility. Who would you take? Beau Bennett or Emerson Etem?

Pretty close but I'll take Etem.

[Jordyr77]

I traded McDavid, Chabot, and Merrill for Mackinnon, Kuznetsov, and Yakupov. I maybe could've gotten more but it seems tougher in an 18 league team to get a massive amount of blue chip prospects from someone. I made the trade with another member of the Dobber community and didn't want to make a post pre-trade on what to do. I think I did alright?


Assists (A)
1

Blocks (Blk)
0.35

Faceoffs Lost (FOL)
-0.2

Faceoffs Won (FOW)
0.2

Goals (G)
2

Hat Tricks (HT)
3

Hits (Hit)
0.25

Penalty Minutes (PIM)
0.15

Plus/Minus (+/-)
0.25

Shifts (Shft)
0.01

Shots on Goal (SOG)
0.25

Power Play Points (PPP)
1

Short Handed Points (SHP)
1

Assists (A)
1

Goalies
Goals (G)
Default
1
Goalies
Saves (SV)
Default
0.09
Goalies
Shots on Goal Against (SA)
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0.025
Goalies
Shutouts (SHO)
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3
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Wins (W)
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2

[TheBigJankowski]

Just doing some planning for the up coming season. I have most of my 19 keepers locked in.
I am fore-surly keeping: Backstrom, Pacioretty, Galchenyuk, Kuznetsov, Wheeler, Malkin, Ovechkin, P. Kane, Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo, Weber, Varlamov, Lundqvist, and Crawford.

I need to choose four more from these players.

Granlund, Kesler, Vanek, Neal, Ribeiro, E.Kane, Markov, Brodie, and, Atkinson

League settings in Sig.

Thanks Laidlaw

[Jordyr77]

Also for team in sig, we may expand to six keepers. Locks for me are Holtby, Crosby, Malkin, Fleury. For the final two who should I keep? I was thinking Yandle/Carlson. Some people were saying keep Klingberg instead of Yandle. What do you think? Thanks! sorry to bombard with two!

[metaldude26]

I traded McDavid, Chabot, and Merrill for Mackinnon, Kuznetsov, and Yakupov. I maybe could've gotten more but it seems tougher in an 18 league team to get a massive amount of blue chip prospects from someone. I made the trade with another member of the Dobber community and didn't want to make a post pre-trade on what to do. I think I did alright?

Sorry to say that I was advising the other end of that deal. You may wind up totally redeemed here but I would've asked for more for McDavid/wouldn't have traded him period. The big thing is I would have asked for at least one established top-10 guy.

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Just doing some planning for the up coming season. I have most of my 19 keepers locked in.
I am fore-surly keeping: Backstrom, Pacioretty, Galchenyuk, Kuznetsov, Wheeler, Malkin, Ovechkin, P. Kane, Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo, Weber, Varlamov, Lundqvist, and Crawford.

I need to choose four more from these players.

Granlund, Kesler, Vanek, Neal, Ribeiro, E.Kane, Markov, Brodie, and, Atkinson

League settings in Sig.

Thanks Laidlaw

Granlund, Kesler, Neal, Markov.

[metaldude26]

Also for team in sig, we may expand to six keepers. Locks for me are Holtby, Crosby, Malkin, Fleury. For the final two who should I keep? I was thinking Yandle/Carlson. Some people were saying keep Klingberg instead of Yandle. What do you think? Thanks! sorry to bombard with two!

No worries, I'm taking all questions until tomorrow night. While the D bonus is tempting I'd go Carlson and Kucherov. Lots of borderline keepers here. I do think Carlson is a lock now that he's full time #1 PP guy on that Washington team with OV and Backstrom. Dynomite!

[Jordyr77]

Thanks!

[hockeey]

How much upside does Tanner Pearson have for this coming year?

Who is the safer pick between Lack and Martin Jones?

Ekblad or Seth Jones?

Thanks for doing this by the way. Very much appreciated!

[metaldude26]

How much upside does Tanner Pearson have for this coming year?

Who is the safer pick between Lack and Martin Jones?

Ekblad or Seth Jones?

Thanks for doing this by the way. Very much appreciated!

Pearson - 50 point upside.

Jones over Lack, better opportunity, better team.

Ekblad over Jones. There's little room for Seth Jones to produce.

[fungchen3]

MD,

Who finishes the season as the Top 5 scoring D in the NHL? Rank with projected points would be awesome! Cheers bud!

[metaldude26]

MD,

Who finishes the season as the Top 5 scoring D in the NHL? Rank with projected points would be awesome! Cheers bud!

Karlsson - 65
Letang - 60
Shattenkirk - 58
Subban - 56
Hedman - 56

[ztking]

Kessel+Shattenkirk for my Voracek+Kucherov

14 Team
Start 4C/LW/RW, 6D
Almost Identical Stats to my Sig League
14 Keepers
Pre-Draft

I currently have Voracek, Kucherov, Okposo, Ryan, Yak at RW.
I currently have Hedman, Letang, Rielly at D

I got the best RW and strengthened up big time at the hard to fill D position (14 team, start 6 is tough)

Kessel, Okposo, Ryan, Yak at RW
Hedman, Letang, Shattenkirk, Rielly at D

Thoughts? Would you do it?