Re: Semin or Gaborik?
Although you could argue that flipping the coin is the best way to decide I would go with..................................Semin. There are 3 reasons for this. The first is I really think that Semin and E. Staal have good chemistry and will both have a bounce back year next year. The second is Semin is signed long-term, which pretty much guarantee's he will continue to play alongside E. Staal, whereas Gaborik is a UFA and there is no guarantee LA will resign him. The third is that I think Semin is actually a lower injury risk than Gaborik (if that is even possible).
Any way you look at it I think both are worth a mid-round flyer but you aren't going to know if you are going to be getting the superstar version or the underachieving Band-Aid version of either player until the season begins.
10 Team Keeper League, 15 Keepers (max 2 goalies), 10 prospects, Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 3 Utility, 4D, 2G
Stats: G, A, P, +/-, PIMS, SOG, STP; W, SO, SV%, GAA
C: MacKinnon, Scheifele, Larkin, Pavelski (RW)
LW Panarin, Ehlers , Ovechkin, Verhaeghe (C), Beauvillier, Killorn
RW: Kucherov, Pastrnak, Wheeler, Mangiapane (LW)
D: Makar, Hughes, Krug; Pietrangelo, Schmidt, Andersson, Gostibehere
G: Vasilevskiy, Hellebuyck, Bobrovsky
Prospects: Sorokin (G), Askarov (G), Raymond (LW), Kaliyev (RW), Perfetti (RW), Norris (C), Kaprizov (LW), Hayton (C), Brannstrom (D), Boqvist (D), Clarke (D)