Which Player should I protect? Hanzal-Dawes-Grabov

[2ndliners]

In a roto league with the following scoring categories: G, A, Pts, PIM, Shots, +/-
I am debating on the last man I should protect for next season, I am down to the following players:

-Hanzal, PHO
-Dawes, NYR
-Grabovski, TOR
-Fehr, WAS

Thanks for your imput!

[ultrawhiteness]

might be an unpopular answer right now, but i\'ll say Fehr. injury history sucks, but high \'boom\' factor.

[canadiensatw]

i am thinking Grabo. He will see alot of ice time and has tremendous talent.

[Dakkster]

Just to throw another different answer into this, I\'ll say Dawes because I think he\'ll be the most reliable point producer even though his ceiling might not be as high as the others.

[Dakkster]

I\'m confused. Is this a keeper question? Because this is the one-year forum.

If it\'s for this year only, then I say Dawes hands down. Grabovski is not a sure thing at all and Toronto won\'t be scoring a lot as it is, especially not with Wilson coming in as coach. Fehr still has consistency issues plus Clark will be coming back healthy in Washington. Hanzal will be behind Jokinen and Turris, so he\'ll have mostly checking duties this year, even though I think he\'ll settle in as a fine 2nd line center in the future.

[Hardyvan123]

dawes would be the choice here only guy out of the 3 to have a decent plus/minus plus he is the most advanced and most likely will get decent PP time in NYR, could easily be a 25-35-60 plus 20 guy, too me Hanzel gets knocked out fo the top 6 in Phoenix and fehr is already injury prone and might not even be ready yet, Grabowski situation in tornot is still unclear maybe next year he might make a fantasy impact high risk this year.

[Shoeless]

I think you are only looking to this year based on the contract issue in your league, Dawes would be the surer pick for me but Grabovski could well be the sleeper pick here. I don\'t think just for this year that Fehr or Hanzal will produce for you.

[2ndliners]

It is a one year question because of the contract situation in our league.

I was figuring Dawes as well. I think he is the most ready. While Grabo might be the darkhorse, his +/- might be awful this year.

Fehr and Hanzal are still low on the development curve by all accounts but I wanted to see if someone has some extra info that I wasn\'t aware of (ie. coach\'s favorite, line synergies, or end of season trends).

Thanks guys, if anyone else has info or insight, please share!

[LeMatt]

nope, you\'ve got it right. Dawes is the only one who is almost guaranteed to get top 6 minutes.
Hanzel is somewhat buried in Phoenix (Jokinen, Mueller, Turris and possibly Reinnprecht).

Fehr might play in a more prominent rolebut is very injury prone and there is a lot of depth up front in WAS.

Grabovski might play top 6 minutes in TO but it won\'t be with players like Gomez, Drury or Zherdev. (Try Antropov, Blake and Hagman *cringe*)