I would go with either Mantha or Letang, depending on which position you then want to draft.
For the league in my sig...
In a couple of weeks we have to submit our keepers, and after that we have something called a "Replacement Draft", which enables each GM (in reverse order of last year's standings) to drop a player (any position) and replace that player with an unprotected player (any position).
In talking to other GMs, I believe the following players will be left unprotected. In a points-only league, would you drop Ekman-Larsson for any of these players, considering the rest of my roster. Note that Forward positions don't matter (LW, RW, Center) and in this case salary doesn't really matter either. Ekman-Larsson earns a lot of money, so dropping him would enable me to pick up any of these players and still have lots of money left to draft the last player I need to fill out my Active roster. If, for example, I drop OEL and take Tarasenko, then I will have to draft a dman. If I keep OEL, or replace him with another dman (e.g., Ellis), then I'd need to draft a forward.
Tarasenko
Backstrom
Mantha
Ellis
Pulock
Morrissey
Letang
Hamilton
12 team, H2H, salary cap
1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO
Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke
League has been running continuously since 1997-98
I would go with either Mantha or Letang, depending on which position you then want to draft.
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I'd drop him for:
Hamilton, if Faulk's gone
Letang
Mantha
Tarasenko
Backstrom is a maybe - I think I'd prefer to draft a forward from this rookie crop.
Do you think there will be a Varlamov upgrade out there?
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Backstrom - because it's points only
Letang
Mantha
Tarasenko
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Mantha for me. $3.4 projected over 60pts, contract year, #1PP with Larkin. Then, I would turn around and go after Theodore from Vegas, or Butcher from NJ. OEL makes around $8 you could nab both for the same amount of $
I highly doubt it. It's a 12-team league and most teams keep two goalies. By my count, the only goalies that will be available are:
Binnington (will go before I get to pick...probably the first player taken off the board)
Mrazek (will go before I get to pick)
Anderson
Koskinen
Markstrom
Lehner
Kuemper
Korpisalo
Quick
Blackwood
Schneider
Hutton
12 team, H2H, salary cap
1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO
Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke
League has been running continuously since 1997-98
Mantha's interesting...if I take him, I will have $13 million in cap space remaining to grab virtually any available dman (Theodore is not available, btw).
Other than OEL, who would be available for me to re-draft, there'd also be Letang, Ellis, Pulock, Morrissey, Hamilton, Doughty, and Trouba.
12 team, H2H, salary cap
1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO
Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke
League has been running continuously since 1997-98