Re: Handcuffs
If you have a playoff spot locked up and already have a pretty set lineup, it's a great strategy. If anything ever happened to Gordon or Hunt, those two guys would immediately step in to a RB1 situation in a great offense (I'd also add Malcolm Brown to the list). At this point in the season, with most BYE weeks out of the way, they're better upside investments than a lot of those one-week wonders, or high floor/low ceiling guys.
Think of them like insurance--you may not ever use them, but they'll definitely pay off if the opportunity arises that you'll need them. And if you roster them before they're valuable, it saves you from having to fight people on the waiver wire for them--where undoubtedly they'd be top commodities.
Yahoo, 1 yr, 10-team, H2H Pts
G 5, A 2.5, +/- 0.25, SOG 0.5, PPG 1.7, PPA 0.85, SHG 3.4, SHA 1.7, PIM -0.7, HIT 1, BLK 1, GWG 2, FOW .5, FOL -0.2
GS 1, W 5, L -2, GA -1.15, SA 0.10, SV 0.45, SO 2.5
C (2): O'Reilly, Kopitar
LW (2): Draisatl, B Tkachuk
RW (2): Stamkos, J Miller
D (3): Nurse, Pulock, Risto
Bench: Horvat, Glendening, Parayko, Seguin (IR)
G: Shesterkin, Blackwood, Koskinen