My pick would be Hubs or Panarin.
Hi all.
I'm in a league which is a 32-team Dynasty with 81.5 Salary Cap. Rules are all very similar to real life, as our the rosters (4LW,RW,C,6D,1G,4 Bench- to simulate healthy scratch).
Main pts are for Goals/Assists with a little extra for D Men, but there are plenty of stats such as Hits, Blocks, SHTOI, PPP, GV/TK, FOW/FOL(only for C position) and a few others.
I'll be on the clock after the next pick then again in another 23 picks. I'm honestly fine with building to win now (which most people seem to be doing) or to look at a shorter term rebuild - either work as I'm confident the league will last as it's my own league.
That being said, here are the best players available that I can see based on pts this year (in order of where they rank right now in our stats and whos left);
Forwards: Marchand, Bergeron, Pacioretty, Crosby, Scheifele, Ovechkin, Stone, Zibanajed, P.Kane, Debrincat, O'Reilly, Ehlers
Defence: Hedman, Nurse, Carlson, Chychrun, Barrie
Goalies: Fleury, Grubauer, Saros, Varlamov, Smith, Demko, Jarry, Lankinen, Nedeljkovic
Some other notable players not listed here are:
Lindholm, Laine, Miller, Panarin, Connor, Hall, Huberdeau, Tavares, Point, Horvat
Josi, Hamilton, Pulock, Rielly, Pietrangelo, Jones, Werenski, Dahlin, Q.Hughes
Sorokin, Samsonov, Andersen, Gibson, Binnington, Blackwood, Hart
How would you be using your 1st/2nd round picks here? At the moment I'm considering someone like Nurse/Saros/Samsonov/Demko/Scheifele to keep things youngish, my next pick after these two won't be for like 60 picks so I probably need to get a goalie here,
For anyone wondering what the draft has been so far:
Connor McDavid
Nathan MacKinnon
Auston Matthews
Leon Draisaitl
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Igor Shesterkin
Connor Hellebuyck
Cale Makar
Aleksander Barkov
Mitchell Marner
Brady Tkachuk
Jack Eichel
Sebastian Aho
Mikko Rantanen
Adam Fox
David Pastrnak
Nikita Kucherov
Elias Pettersson
Team One (Mercenaries Of Mandalore) 24T Dynasty, 4LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 4B - G, A1, A2, PPG, PPA, SHP, SOG, FOW, FOL, TK, GV, HIT, BLK, FT, ||| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Team Two (Hamilton Tigers) 16T Dynasty - 3LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 6B - G, A, PPP, SHP, SOG, BLK, HIT, FOW| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
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My pick would be Hubs or Panarin.
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I'd have to go with ovie. The mans still a stud and should be gone by now. Same with patty kane. I mean if you want to win. If you need a goalie the flower has been killing it.
Saros if you prefer rebuild
I’m considering Zib as he seems to be one of the highest fpts/g. I just don’t know if I can go for someone Ovis age haha. Panarin and Huberdeau are definitely up there too
Team One (Mercenaries Of Mandalore) 24T Dynasty, 4LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 4B - G, A1, A2, PPG, PPA, SHP, SOG, FOW, FOL, TK, GV, HIT, BLK, FT, ||| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Team Two (Hamilton Tigers) 16T Dynasty - 3LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 6B - G, A, PPP, SHP, SOG, BLK, HIT, FOW| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
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Maybe. Panarin is the best player on the rags by far though. Zibs is too inconsistent for me. Can either win or lose for you.
I cant remember for sure either but I think zibanejad only has this year or maybe next on his deal too but I'm too lazy and not committed enough to check.
Team One (Mercenaries Of Mandalore) 24T Dynasty, 4LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 4B - G, A1, A2, PPG, PPA, SHP, SOG, FOW, FOL, TK, GV, HIT, BLK, FT, ||| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Team Two (Hamilton Tigers) 16T Dynasty - 3LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 6B - G, A, PPP, SHP, SOG, BLK, HIT, FOW| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Click here for my teams (not up to date)
Links are too a google document.
Team One (Mercenaries Of Mandalore) 24T Dynasty, 4LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 4B - G, A1, A2, PPG, PPA, SHP, SOG, FOW, FOL, TK, GV, HIT, BLK, FT, ||| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Team Two (Hamilton Tigers) 16T Dynasty - 3LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 6B - G, A, PPP, SHP, SOG, BLK, HIT, FOW| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Click here for my teams (not up to date)
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If it's just between them I'd probably go zibanejad but cant go wrong.
I'd go with fleury myself. I think hes the best available. But seeing as how you dont like patty kane and ovie for their age you probably disagree. In that case I'd probably go sorokin 1st and saros if hes not available. Both great futures ahead.
I missed that it was a cap league. Whoops. Wouldn't have recommended Panarin then and it explains why Fox is gone. Hubs or Zibs probably would have been my pick, so you got a good one
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give us an update when your second round pick gets closer along with an update as to which goalies are still on the board . I probably would have drafted one of the young stud goalies with my 1st round pick in a 32 team league , but thats just my opinion .
8 picks out, all goalies left on the board apart from
Shesty, Hellebuyck, Vasi, Sorokin and Saros so far. I expect a few more will go in the next few picks (just got into the 2nd round) but right now I'm hoping for someone like Samsonov or Hart? Jarry, Binnington, Gibson, Merzlikens, Blackwood would be the ones I think after? (I don't really want an old goalie).
Team One (Mercenaries Of Mandalore) 24T Dynasty, 4LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 4B - G, A1, A2, PPG, PPA, SHP, SOG, FOW, FOL, TK, GV, HIT, BLK, FT, ||| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
Team Two (Hamilton Tigers) 16T Dynasty - 3LW/RW/C, 6D, 2G, 6B - G, A, PPP, SHP, SOG, BLK, HIT, FOW| W, L, GA, SV, SHO, A
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Links are too a google document.
If there are that many goalies left would it make sense to go for another skater? I'd put most of those pretty comparable so I'd rather get a goalie 3rd round myself. But if you're set on a goalie I'm a big Gibson fan. Hes the best goalie on the list by far and anaheim looks like they are finally turning things around in the next few years where he will be a stud for years. I don't trust philly and I'm not positive samsonov is ahead of vaneck. Could pay off but might not.