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    In a couple of weeks we have to submit our keepers, and after that we have something called a "Replacement Draft", which enables each GM (in reverse order of last year's standings) to drop a player (any position) and replace that player with an unprotected player (any position).

    In talking to other GMs, I believe the following players will be left unprotected. In a points-only league, would you drop Ekman-Larsson for any of these players, considering the rest of my roster. Note that Forward positions don't matter (LW, RW, Center) and in this case salary doesn't really matter either. Ekman-Larsson earns a lot of money, so dropping him would enable me to pick up any of these players and still have lots of money left to draft the last player I need to fill out my Active roster. If, for example, I drop OEL and take Tarasenko, then I will have to draft a dman. If I keep OEL, or replace him with another dman (e.g., Ellis), then I'd need to draft a forward.

    Tarasenko
    Backstrom
    Mantha
    Ellis
    Pulock
    Morrissey
    Letang
    Hamilton
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    I would go with either Mantha or Letang, depending on which position you then want to draft.
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    I'd drop him for:

    Hamilton, if Faulk's gone
    Letang
    Mantha
    Tarasenko
    Backstrom is a maybe - I think I'd prefer to draft a forward from this rookie crop.

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    Backstrom - because it's points only
    Letang
    Mantha
    Tarasenko
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    Mantha for me. $3.4 projected over 60pts, contract year, #1PP with Larkin. Then, I would turn around and go after Theodore from Vegas, or Butcher from NJ. OEL makes around $8 you could nab both for the same amount of $

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevegamer View Post
    I'd drop him for:

    Hamilton, if Faulk's gone
    Letang
    Mantha
    Tarasenko
    Backstrom is a maybe - I think I'd prefer to draft a forward from this rookie crop.

    Do you think there will be a Varlamov upgrade out there?
    I highly doubt it. It's a 12-team league and most teams keep two goalies. By my count, the only goalies that will be available are:

    Binnington (will go before I get to pick...probably the first player taken off the board)
    Mrazek (will go before I get to pick)
    Anderson
    Koskinen
    Markstrom
    Lehner
    Kuemper
    Korpisalo
    Quick
    Blackwood
    Schneider
    Hutton
    12 team, H2H, salary cap
    1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO

    Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
    Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
    Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
    Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
    Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke

    League has been running continuously since 1997-98

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    Quote Originally Posted by NothnToulouse View Post
    Mantha for me. $3.4 projected over 60pts, contract year, #1PP with Larkin. Then, I would turn around and go after Theodore from Vegas, or Butcher from NJ. OEL makes around $8 you could nab both for the same amount of $
    Mantha's interesting...if I take him, I will have $13 million in cap space remaining to grab virtually any available dman (Theodore is not available, btw).

    Other than OEL, who would be available for me to re-draft, there'd also be Letang, Ellis, Pulock, Morrissey, Hamilton, Doughty, and Trouba.
    12 team, H2H, salary cap
    1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO

    Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
    Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
    Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
    Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
    Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke

    League has been running continuously since 1997-98

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