Keeper Help
Hi everyone,
I'm comfortably in second place in my league (the top team has McDavid, McKinnon, and Matthews and while I have much better depth, his team will get stronger as he shores up his squad) and now that the trade deadline has passed and I don't have any more pick-ups/drops my attention is going towards the keeper deadline.
Trades aside (it's a quiet league and trades are unfortunately rare due to owner inactivity), I'm mulling the last of my keepers:
I think it's ridiculous to keep 6 Dmen in a keep 16, but my D are studs so it's hard to drop them. I'm wavering between keeping Girard and Werenski over Teravainen (injury history now but is top line on a great team), or R Strome (he's been close to PPG the past two years and I love what NYR are doing). Dubois and Dahlin have been disappointments but I'm a believer in them long-term so I plan to keep them even though they're not currently producing at a keeper level for me.
Imagining that I can't trade anyone, who should I keep? Off the board suggestions for other guys I haven't mentioned (dropping a different guy or keeping a guy I hadn't considered) are also welcome, these are the players I think are the strongest candidates.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Team 1:
J Hughes, Cooley (r), Bratt, Laine, M Tkachuk, Necas, A Svechnikov, S Jarvis, M Michkov (r), W Johnston, Zegras, Giroux, Norris, Couturier, B Jenner, T Krug, Burns, M Weegar, Werenski, Sergachev, B Clarke (r), Theodore, Sorokin , Oettinger, Askarov (r), Ersson
12 teams, No salary cap
Keep 14 plus 4 rookies (under 150 GP) max 18 players
Scoring: G (1), A (1), +/- (0.25), H (0.1), B(0.1), PIM (0.1), SOG (0.1), GWG (1), PPP (1), SHP (1),
Goalies: W (2), SO (3), GA (-0.5), OTL (1), SV (0.1)