I think I would lean to Smith here. I am not a believer in Koskinen and Koskinen was signed by the old management group. Smith was signed by Holland... and Holland is a smarty guy... I would go with Holland's goalie here.
For the team in the Sig.
I own Hart and Koskinen as my main starters. Our league rules are goalies under 85 games played can rotate in and out of the minors. Hart will likely be eligible for this most of the season. Koskinen will time out by Christmas give or take.
We can only have 2 goalies on our main roster. Assuming one spot is for one of the aforementioned pair, which handcuff should I hold onto for the time being.
Currently I have Smith as I feel he is in a better role to usurp the starting role. But should I get Elliott instead?
TL;DR
Mike Smith or Brian Elliott for the start of season with categories of Wins, Saves, SV%, and GAA
14 team Fantrax H2H keeper league
G, A, P, SOG, Hits, Blocks, FOW, - W, Gaa, Sv%, Svs
C - Crosby, Tavares, Kopitar, Toews
LW - Hall, Giroux(C), Vrana, Gaudreau
RW - Pastrnak, Kane, Stamkos(C), Kubalik
D - Burns, Murphy, Morrisey, Cernak, Whitecloud, Chiarot
G - Mrazek, Campbell, Brossoit, Greiss
Bench - Middlestat, Wennberg, Perron, Olofsson, Schwartz, Atkinson, Yama
I think I would lean to Smith here. I am not a believer in Koskinen and Koskinen was signed by the old management group. Smith was signed by Holland... and Holland is a smarty guy... I would go with Holland's goalie here.
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I would prefer Elliott & Hart.
Philly has better D.
Elliott wasn't bad when he played last year.. and well Hart's the best of the bunch
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Where is the Neither Button? It’s a roll of the dice with either tandem I’d say.
If you are picking between handcuffs I take Philly over Edmonton.
If you are picking between Smith and Elliott I pick Smith over Elliott. Hart is the best goalie of the bunch and it's clear he's the now and the future, he will get plenty of opportunities. Edmonton is much more of a dead heat IMO. The only reason Koskinen is the "starter" is his big contract and that he was the starter last year. With a new GM and new coach Koskinen does not have any claim to the starter's job and Smith could easily beat him out quickly and for the season. Obviously the risk in being wrong is that you don't have a starter from either team for short periods of time.
12 team H-2-H 1 year league, daily roster changes, 3 goalie start minimum/week
2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA, SVs
C: C. Keller, C. Mittelstadt, B. Nelson, R. Strome,
LW: K. Connor, B. Tkachuk, J. Gaudreau, J. Marchessault, E. Rodrigues, A. Lafreniere
RW: K. Fiala, J. Bratt, T. Jeannot V. Arvidsson
D: R. Josi, J. Trouba, E. Gustafsson,
G: L. Thompson, F. Gustavsson, V. Vanecek
NO IR
14 team Fantrax H2H keeper league
G, A, P, SOG, Hits, Blocks, FOW, - W, Gaa, Sv%, Svs
C - Crosby, Tavares, Kopitar, Toews
LW - Hall, Giroux(C), Vrana, Gaudreau
RW - Pastrnak, Kane, Stamkos(C), Kubalik
D - Burns, Murphy, Morrisey, Cernak, Whitecloud, Chiarot
G - Mrazek, Campbell, Brossoit, Greiss
Bench - Middlestat, Wennberg, Perron, Olofsson, Schwartz, Atkinson, Yama
I think I prefer Smith. I like Elliott a lot, but I'm not confident about either team's defense right now with the the Oilers sucking, and the Flyers making moves that seem to go backwards. The new coach will help there, though.
Smith is more likely to grab the job and run with it, which means Koskinen can float for you longer.
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your probably not going to win the g.a.a / sve pctg cats often so you may as well add the G who will seemingly get more starts so that you can pad the wins / saves cats .
out of the gate , my guess would be Smith over Elliott