Sorting out my dynasty keepers, league 1: Rookies

[stevegamer]

I'm going to be posting about a few leagues over the next little bit, and I wanted to get some thoughts as the season winds down.

You can assume that any team I post about is a contender, and holding down a playoff spot, if it's not a season-long rotisserie league.

This league is a 16 team H2H dynasty multi-cat with the following skater categories:
G A +/- PIM SOG PPP SHP Hit Blk FOW

MINORS: I can freely move players up & down until they reach a games played limit.

I have 3 draft picks in the top 20, and am likely to use all 3. Given that I have 10 minors spots available, I need to cut or hold as a main roster player at least 4 of these guys, and I have determined 3 of which are absolute keeper locks in this format:

Keeper locks:
23 ARI Jack McBain C
24 PHI Noah Cates C,LW
20 MIN Jesper Wallstedt G

McBain is a top 200 player this year, and Cates is a top 300 guy, but closer to top 250. Wallstedt is too high end to cut. I could keep McBain and.or Cates as a main roster player and just flex them up and down until they hit games played limits.

That leaves me picking 4-6 of these to keep, skaters are listed in order of overall rank, age is to the left:
23 EDM Klim Kostin C,LW
26 TBL Mikey Eyssimont C,LW
22 NSH Juuso Parssinen C,LW
22 DAL Nils Lundkvist D
23 SJS Fabian Zetterlund LW,RW
22 COL Ryan Merkley D

21 VAN Arturs Silovs G
23 COL Justus Annunen G

As of this moment, I am leaning towards keeping:
Kostin
Parssinen
Lundqvist
Silovs
Annunen

I feel Eyssimont is just a streaming guy. Unsure about Zatterlund, and I think Merkley is looking like a longshot to have value buried in Colorado.

For full disclosure, my main roster goalies are Shesterkin & Vejmelka, and I can't roster goalies from 3 different NHL on the main roster.

Any thoughts would be welcomed.

[Rockies & Hockeys]

I think you're mostly right so far. I think it might be worth giving Zetterlund a shot next year, and I don't know anything about that Vancouver goalie so I can't comment besides saying their situation may be worth a drop. Best wishes!

[Pengwin7]

I like all of the reasoning above.

Generally, many find:
Goalies - can *pop* very late... even age 26-30, several finally bust through. So - if you've got a halfway decent goalie that could find NHL time in a deep league, keep 'em. [Look at a guy like Filip Gustavsson... 2016 draft pick and just now showing something at NHL at age 24.]
Defensemen - *pop* late sometimes too, maybe age 24+. Merkley feels very "Tony DeAngelo" to me. He didn't get a good shot in NHL until his age 23 season (2018/19). Ryan Merkley could be same. He's buried in COL - but he might pop elsewhere. TonyD is on team #5!
Forwards - often, if they haven't shown you something by 23... they probably won't. So - I agree on cutting Eyssimont. He found some starving opportunity this year... but he's nothing more than a 3rd liner & maybe PP2 on a really bad team.

I like your list... putting Merkley as your keeper #6 in front of Zetterlund & Eyssimont.

[Also in fairness - I can't say I've put my eyes on Zetterlund for more than one NHL viewing... so I don't have good eval there.]

[DangerCat]

I like every choice you made except keeping Silovs over Zetterlund. I’d take my chances on Zetterlund as I think he’s potentially a solid top 6 guy and in razor thin SJ it’s nearly a guarantee at this point. Silovs projects, to me anyhow, as nothing more than a backup.