Help me decide who to bench please!

[Potatoeman]

For the team in my signature.

Need to bench 3 of the following for this week (starting tonight, monday). Number of games in ().

D.Stepan (4), JTMiller (4), K.Hayes (4), B.Pouliot (4), S.Hartnell (3), J.Neal (3), T.Tatar (3), A.Anisimov (3), E.Lindholm (2).

Initial thoughts :

Hayes has scored a few points recently and will likely play with newly acquired E.Staal.

Miller has been hot lately, except last week where he scored zero points.

Stepan has been fairly consistent.

Also, dressing 3 forwards from the same team (NYR) seems sorta risky to me...

Pouliot plays with McDavid so is a must.

Hartnell has produced pretty well lately, remains to be seen if he's traded today.

Neal... Johansen's slow down has affected him, hasn't produced much lately but we know he can. Forsberg line has been stealing the show though.

Tatar has 2 points in his last game, but has been pretty cold before that.

Anisimov has great linemates, but has also slowed down recently,

Lindholm plays only 2 games and his quality of teammates has diminished with Staal and Versteeg gone.


Thanks for any help!

[Potatoeman]

I calculated each player's Fantasy points per game, then multiplied by the number of games for each in order to find out, statistically, how many fantasy points I could expect from each forward. Here's what I got :

B.Pouliot 2,98 Fpts
D.Stepan 2,85
JT Miller 2,65
K.Hayes 2,4
S.Hartnell 2,29
J.Neal 2,14
T.Tatar 2,11
A.Anisimov 1,88
E.Lindholm 1,20

So Anisimov and Lindholm would be heading to the bench and then Neal and Tatar are extremely close.

Neal has 3 games : at home against DAL and NJD, and one in COL, has zero points in his last 3 games, 2 points in his last 7 games and 5 in his last 9.
Tatar has 3 games : at home against CHI, then in CHI and DAL, has 2 points in his last game, but that makes 2 in his last 9.

Also, I'm aware that this is only statistics and those donc factor in streaks...

Still looking for other opinions though...

[19co19]

Pouliot may have a separated shoulder, arrived at the rink today in a sling, so he may be one you want bench this week.

[Potatoeman]

Pouliot may have a separated shoulder, arrived at the rink today in a sling, so he may be one you want bench this week.

I just read that via CBSSports, do you have another source?

[19co19]

video of him in a sling this morning

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/704352434001285120

[Potatoeman]

Yeah, just heard on TSN also that they said Pouliot would miss some time... this sucks...