I'll take the more proven Couture.
Trying to weigh this points only dynasty league trade offer. It's my main league in sig. Thoughts on these 2 guys?
Couture is a reliable .75 points per game guy, who is having what looks like his best career season. maybe the add of Karlsson pushes the Sharks all ahead to up to a .85 points per game, which is about a 70 point pace.
Guentzel is having his best year, but is he really a 75 point guy going forward?
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I'll take the more proven Couture.
10 team pts-only keeper league - keep 10 plus 10 from past/present farm. No bench: entire active roster counts. Goalies: 2 pts/win + 3/shutout. 82 adds / year. NHL playoffs count for separate prize.
F: J Eichel, M Tkachuk, J Guentzel, E Pettersson, P Laine, R Thomas, C Kreider, M Boldy, J Kyrou, M Backlund, F Vatrano, N Niederreiter, R Rakell, M Marchment, M Domi
D: A Fox, S Theodore, R Andersson, B Montour, S Durzi, D Keith
G: F Andersen, S Knight, J Swayman
IR: J Hughes, M Stone, M Grzelcyk, S Perunovich
Farm: L Raymond, O Wahlstrom, S Skinner, C Addison, Y Chinakhov, J Perreault
That's a tough one. I do agree that Couture is more proven player right now but he is 30. Guentzel is 24 and isn't that far behind Couture. SJ likely has a better future than Pittsburgh, (Meier, Hertl, EK, Leblanc vs Pens prospects??). Guentzel has shown he's a point per game guy when he's on the top PP.
Couture is the more reliable option and will be on a better team than Guentzel over the next few years but I feel that Guentzel's ceiling is higher and he is younger by 6 years. I would go Guentzel.
It's closer than you think. Take out last year's regular season and look at Guentzal's numbers over his career:
33 points in 40 games (2016-17 season)
21 points in 25 games (2017 playoffs)
21 points in 12 games (2018 playoffs)
54 points in 59 games (2018-19 season)
Guentzel. I like that he's playing with one of the best centers to ever play and he's also got some serious talent. What I really like is that he has room for his deployment to improve, specifically pp deployment which I think becomes more permanent next season. He's still only 24 and some guys just take that long. I don't think he looks back from this season, only forward.
Set roster weekly in H2H (Mon to Sun) - 16 Teams - start 6F, 3D, and 1G per week - Keep 2
Points: 2 G / 2 A / 1 PPG / 1 PPA / 1 Hat Trick / 1 SHG / 1 SHA / 1 GWG - 3 Goalie Win / 2 Goalie Loss in SO or OT / 5 goalie SO
Forwards:
C. McDavid, N. Kucherov, R. O'Reilly, J. Schwartz, J. Toews, J. Huberdeau, T. Toffoli, M. Granlund
Defense:
B. Burns, J. Klingberg, R. Josi, J. Slavin
Goalie:
J. Binnington
IR (2 max):
I want Guentzel here. I think Couture has his limit of .75/.85 points per game but isn't going to go above that level.