Thoughts on Keepers :)

[slypig11]

Good Day Everyone!

I'm in a 12 Team - Keep 8 - Keep 10 Minors.

Max Players 24

G / A / P / PPP / SOG / HITS /FOW / +/- / Blocks / Wins / Saves / GAA / Save %

MY TEAM

Sebastian Aho - C
Dylan Larkin - C
Sam Bennett - C,RW
Brayden Schenn - C,LW
Kevin Fiala - LW/RW
Jake Guentzal - LW
Oliver Bjorkstrand - RW
David Pastrnak - RW
Logan Couture - C
Phillip Danault - C
Dominik Kubalik - LW / RW
Josh Anderson - RW
Timo Meier - RW
Martin Necas - RW
Tyler Bertuzzi - LW / RW

Mikhail Sergachev - D
Rasmus Dahlin - D
Mattias Ekholm - D
Matt Grzelcyk - D
Josh Morrissey - D

Elvis Merzlikins - G

MINORS ( Just to show you what I have )

Anton Lundell - C
Yegor Sharangovich - C / LW
Janne Kuokkanen - C / LW
Evgeny Svechnikov (WPG ) - LW
Julien Gauthier - RW
Rasmus Sandin - D
Zach Whitecloud - D

Jonas Johansson - G
Kevin Lankinen - G
Ukko-Pekka Lukkonen - G
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For Sure Keepers

Aho - Pasta - Guentzal - Schenn - Larkin

Guys I like

Bennett - Fiala ( Second Line? ) - Bjorkstrand - Meier ( Bad Team ) - Bertuzzi ( Vax issues ) - Sergachev - Dahlin ( Love him but shitty team ) - Grzelcyk ( Boston PP? ) - Elvis ( Hard to say how defense will go )

[Pengwin7]

Necas
Bjorkstrand
Dahlin
(in that order)
Sergachev, Fiala... debatable... but I think one must keep the upside that is Dahlin.

Necas is an absolute MUST-KEEP.
He's not going to be a secret beyond this year.
I think he'll be a top50 fantasy player at end of this season.
Soooo good. Everybody in the deeper hockey world knows it.

Personally, I think Dahlin is MUST-KEEP too.

[Smurf54]

While I like Larkin and hope to see him rebound, I'm not sure I would have him as a "for sure" keeper. I would rank Fiala, Bennett, and Dahlin ahead of him. If it were my team, given the previous 3 mentioned keepers, my last keeper spot would be between Merzlikins, Meier, Larkin, Sergachev, and Necas. Depending on how hard it is to get goalies in your league, I would lean towards Merzlikins. But I could also see an argument for each of the others.

[slypig11]

Thanks for the Input !

I forgot to mention as well my draft picks

2021 - 1 (3rd), 1 (4th), 1 (6th), 1 (7th), 2 (13th), 2 (16th), 2 (17th), 3 (28th), 8, 13, 15, 16

[Bubba55]

Very strong draft!!! Necas and Dahlin should both be kept. Then it gets a bit tougher. As someone mentioned earlier, I think the decision to keep Elvis is based on whether or not you think you can draft a goalie of equal quality. If you think that's the case then based on your strong draft, I'm taking the BPA and not worrying about positional requirements. If not, keep Elvis. I also question whether Larkin is the BPA of the guys you already have. I would rank, in order, Bjorkstrand, Fiala and Bennett ahead of Larkin. Personally I am adding Bjorkstrand and Bennett to Necas and Dahlin as your keeps. Of all these guys I consider Bjorkstrand to have the highest ceiling and a safe floor and I'm taking a chance on Bennett who could be absolute gold in your format if he can build on what he did last year with the Cats.

[CutsLikeAKnife]

I dont know know about some of your already decided keeper choices. I dont see your team as competing right now, but you do have solid draft picks available. I wouldnt keep Schenn or Larkin. I'd be keeping Pasta, Guentzel, Aho, Necas, Bennett, Meier, Sergachev and Merz. Maybe id keep Larkin over Meier actually. With +/- as a stat in your league, if you kept Dahlin you are basically giving away that cat every week. That means youd have to win 7 or the remianing 12 to win your matchup. That's a tall ask with your current set of keepers id think.

[slypig11]

EDIT - Shutouts is not a Cat in our league. FOW is my bad! That's why Larkin in valuable in my mind, as well as Schenn as I can get FOW from the wing with C / LW

[zaz2712]

I agree with Pengwin7

Necas, Dahlin, Bjorkstrand and then one of Larkin (I am not sure he is a keeper even with FOW), Fiala, Sergachev, Merzlikin (depends on what is available in terms of G). I would also go either with Fiala or Sergachev.

I am in a similar league (keep 7) with PIM on top of the other skater stats. To give you an idea, Fiala, Necas and Schenn all went off the board before Larkin. I think you can redraft Meier in later rounds.

Is this a H2H league? If so, I wouldn't bother too much with +/- as they are even more random on a weekly basis, which is why I would keep Dahlin.