Hellebuyck
Gibson
Murray
Pretty much the big three as far as goalie prospects go.
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Yahoo! 1 year league, 9 teams, Points only [G (3pts), A (2pts), PPP (1pt), Hits (0.1pt) *** W (4pts), Goals Against (-2pts), SV (0.2pt), SO (3pms)
C: McDavid, Couturier, Kopitar, D.Strome
LW: Guentzel, Connor, Miller, Kaprizov
RW: Stamkos, Stone, Teravainen, Tatar
D: Dahlin, Theodore, Andersson, Dumba
G: Shersterkin, Talbot
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I'll toss in Raanta as a name for consideration. He won't be the starter but Lundy's getting up there in age and Raanta just got re-signed so mgmt. has the confidence in him.
14-team Keeper w/custom salary cap
Keep btw 12-14, excl. Minors
Skater cats (weight): G (1.75), A (1.75), +/- (0.75), Hits (0.75), BS (0.75)
Goalie cats: W (0.25), GAA (1.00), SV% (1.00)
C : Colton Jenner Frost Novak ---Rossi Cooley MSavoie Fantilli Carlsson Yager
LW: Caufield Fiala Hagel Nichushkin ---Musty
RW: Tippett Necas Brink Kakko ---Yurov Lysell Stankoven ECowan Lekkerimaki
D : Theodore Seider Chabot Gostisbehere Liljegren Carlo ---Edvinsson
G : Montembault Hart ---Commesso Augustine
Bench/IR: Zellweger Fehervary
2024 entry draft picks: 3 1sts
2025: 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 1 3rd
Fantrax IHL Champion: 2018/19, 2015/16, 2011/12
I'm going to go out on a limb here (aren't most of these predictions doing this anyway) and say someone trades for the rights to Mikko Koskinen and he comes back over across the pond to dominate in his return to the NHL.
I know it's a reach as I think he just re-signed in the KHL for another season but he could have an out-clause (again, simply grasping here).
There's my guess.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, SBennett
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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I know that I may have a biased opinion on this one as I own him in my keeper pool, but I feel that Greiss may take a chunk of playing time away from Halak (if not most of it). Neuvirth is another ''backup'' I would keep my eye on as well as Pickard in Colorado; both have a chance to outplay the current starters.
Keeper league 14 teams (H2H, 20 active players keep 16 NHLers, 16 minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-HITS-BLK-SHP-SOG-FOW-GWG / W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO
C- Crosby, Barzal, Bennett, Schmaltz, Cooley, Novak
W- Forsberg, Batherson, Nichuskin, Tuch, Konecny, Maccelli, Sharangovich, Bertuzzi, Kaliyev, Neighbours, Reichel
D- Carlson, Rielly, Klingberg
G- Hellebuyck, Demko, Merzlikins, Vejmelka
Minors:
F: Fantilli, Bourgault, Perreault, Cowan, Ohgren, N. Foote, Goyette, Iskhakov, Denisenko, Tracey
D: Simashev, Willander, Lambos
G: Schmidt, Rodrigue, DiPietro, Gaudreau, McKay
Just started to read this thread and had to stop and comment on Bottleneckers comment here. LOVE IT! I've heard this a couple times and truth be told, never thought much of it. But caused me to look more into Pickard and Varly in Colorado.
Love this Pick Bottlenecker. And I bet a few guys who read this read and act on it will be calling this thread up in Jan/Feb next year and giving you some back logged rep!
Now I'll continue reading.
Last edited by havanablast21; May 26, 2016 at 3:46 PM. Reason: Happy to see many others felt the same way now that I had a chance to read this.
Thanks for the props, Havanablast. Much appreciated.
When I was thinking about the word "breakout", I guess I was thinking unexpected. I didn't pick Gibson or Hellebuyck because most people, I believe, expect them to improve their stats and lead their respective teams. I do like the Eddie Lack mention, and could certainly see him being that breakout guy. I think Demko is another year or two away from being relevant in the NHL.
Bottleneckers (12/16 in 2022)
16 team, points only. G: 2-W, 4-SO.
Top 9F, 4D & 1G . Keep 15, Max 23
F: J. Robertson, J. Hughes, Tavares, Lafreniere, Cozens, Newhook, Teravainen, Domi, R. Strome, Laine, Rossi, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti
D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy
signed with khl through 2018 (somewhere in the article)
he's buddies with bobrovsky , follows vasilevskiy,varlamov so that kinda tells me he's got interest in being an nhl'er someday .
http://thehockeywriters.com/qa-with-...-ilya-sorokin/
and Soderstrom signed a 1 year deal too so he'll also spend at least another season across the pond
Here is my list:
Buf - Robyn Lehner - if he can stay healthy finally.
CGY - whoever they bring in UFA/trade
CAR - Eddie Lack if he get the job, or whoever they bring in UFA/trade
WPG - Hellebuyck - if he can steal the no1 job from Pavs
UFA - James Reimer has starting potential, so if he signs w CGY or CAR, he will be your guy.
We will be much smarter on july 2 or 3 when the best UFA players signs their new deal.
Points only keeper league
7 teams
28 keepers
Weekly line up: 12 F / 6 D / 2 G
Goalie stats: W=2 / SO=2
20-team NHL cap keeper; auction salaries w/contracts; 4C, 4LW, 4RW, 6D, 2G, 3B, 18 farm
H2H Cat Wins: G, A, Pts, 2G+A, DPts, PIM, SOG, Hits, Blks, FO%, STG, GWG, G Wins, GAA, Save %, ShO
C: Stamkos, Toews, DRyan, Compher, Fisher, Haula
LW: Lucic, Tkachuk, Eriksson Ek, Connor
RW: Radulov, Tarasenko, JWilliams, Point, Callahan
D: Braun, Del Zotto, McNabb, CMiller, Petry, Subban, Butcher
G: Andersen, Rinne
Farm: Anderson-Dolan, Beaudin, O?Regan, Suzuki, Kayumov, Bastian, Pu, Meloche, Pionk, Poolman, Montembault, Hill
The duo of M Smith/Domingue......not sure it's a breakout by definition unless Domingue runs with it.....but I LOVE the tandem as a value play in 16-17......the coyotes are truely building a solid team in a division who's top tier teams are aging and saddling themselves with terrible contracts......
16 Team Dynasty Weekly H2H Fantrax (starters in bold)
G A P +/- PIM SOG PPP H+B FOW --- W SV SV% GAA SO
(C) Krejci, Spezza, Koivo, Statsny Faksa
(LW) Zetterberg, Duclair, Ehlers, M Domi Belesky, M Martin
(RW) Pastrnak, Oshie, Larkin, Toffoli S Reinhart, Brouwer
(D) J Honka, Seabrook, Goligoski, D DeKeyser, Vatanen, Parayko L Schenn, S Johns
(G) Ward, Lack
Prospects- W Nylander, C Dvorak, I Barbashev, C White, T Rattie, M Dal Colle, A Mantha, R Barber, L Crouse, M Barzal, C Keller, L Brown, C Fischer, B Point, J Forsbacka-Karlsson
I was going to post this anyway...but my pick is Berube. If the Isles do ship Halak out, as some insiders have eluded to, and Greiss either gets hurt or doesn't perform, Berube could step in. The Islander brass is very high on this kid for some reason. If I'm not mistaken, Sorokin still has 2 seasons on his KHL contract.
10 team H2H !Y League (4 keepers - at least 1 must be a D-man OR Goalie)
Start - 2C, 2L, 2R, 1U, 3D, 2G, 6Bench, 2IR, 2IR+ (Daily) (5 moves per week)
Skaters - G, A, +/-, PPP, PIM, HITS, BS, GWG, SOG
Goalies - Wins, Saves, S%, GAA (Min. 4 starts)
Championships 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019*, 2023
C-McDavid, Trocheck, Suzuki
L-B.Tkachuk(C/L), Forsberg, Konecny(L/R)
R-Hyman(L/R), Svechnikov(L/R), P. Kane
D-Dahlin, Josi,
G-DeSmith, Thompson, Hill
IR-Demko