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12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
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, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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It's funny that 90% of the folks here who have a clear favourite team are as bad or worse that Ev was. That's funny. Sad part is that most haven't the slightest clue they share the exact same qualities.
Anyway, I'm in the same boat as eric in thinking that what people are slowly coming to realize has been apparent at least since this summer. They do have an asset in Peice that can mask much of it though but I do think this is the season the big slide occurs.
And yes, I was being (massively)sarcastic in suggesting that Hemsky and Streit are more than enough to cover for Radulov and Markov. Those two guys were huge last year. Yes, even greybeard Markov was absolutely one of the better PPQBs in the league last year. Just look at his PPP ratio compared to other PPQB defenders in relation to their own teams PP success.
LOL. So you're saying when you put a bunch of mediocre guys together, they magically turn into a great group of players? I'm sure that happens all the time. We don't need to see them all play together when we have seen all of them individually to know what level of players they are.
And yes, I DO happen to know Price is on that team. And as long as Price is healthy, they have a chance to get to the playoffs. But if Price goes down, you should start looking at the 2018 draft rankings because it won't be pretty without him.
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
As a follow-up...Here are players who took shifts at D for the Pens during the play-offs...
Schultz
Cole
Daley
Dumoulin
Hainsey
Maatta
Ruhwhedel
Streit
Going in I'm quite sure lots of folks would have labeled most of that that group as mediocre. Yet they won the cup. Hmmm...
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
You're right but you know what Pittsburgh has? They have two elite centers. Montreal doesn't even have a single top line center. If you don't have elite centers, you need elite 'D'. If you don't have elite 'D', you need elite centers. Montreal has neither of those things, not even remotely close. Pittsburgh had probably the worst group of 'D' that has won a Cup but Montreal has at best the same level of blueline as they had, so all you need to do is add one Crosby and one Malkin and then maybe you can go somewhere. That shouldn't be too difficult to do, right?
Pittsburgh is a really bad example considering they have two players among the best all-time, not to mention a bunch of other high-end players.
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I believe they will make the playoffs but I think their 99.5 point line is way too high. I don't see how they're better than Tampa and Ottawa right now.
The Pens have Crosby and Malkin and the Habs have Price - and he is certainly important to their playoff fate. Everybody has strengths and weaknesses. Your assertion that their D is horrible is completely false. They have an NHL caliber D with several legit top 4 guys. So Alzner was a top 4 guy for last year's President's Cup team but isn't now that he's a Hab? For clarity's sake I'd enjoy seeing your rack and stack of all 30 NHL teams...or at least I'd enjoy seeing, using a three tier system, where all the teams in the NHL fall in order to show that the Canadiens are a bottom tier team. I feel your aspersions are based on the pre-season and an overly simple analysis of what is pretty complex thing.
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
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No - I was comparing the Habs D to the Pens D. The Habs lost to the Rangers in the first round. The Pens won the cup. No comparison there. I was simply trying to rebut the idea advanced that the Habs have horrible defense and that you can't win with mediocre D...but the Pens did that. With a much better F corps to be sure. Not comparisons made there.
I am not a Canucks fan but by far my favorite player ever to watch play the game was Pavel Bure. That's my avatar. My Father's side of the family comes from Quebec so I've been huge Habs fan from day one.
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
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