This could be an interesting series but Kucherov coming back makes the difference. Bolts in seven.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, SBennett
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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Another vote for Panthers in six. I think they'll surprise at the start of the series, and Tampa will then be trying to play catch up.
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12-team Keeper pool, straight points for forwards & dmen. Goalies get: 2 points per win, 3 per shutout, 1 point per assist & 1 point per shootout loss.
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Top 8 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies count.
We keep 15 players (any position) plus two rookies.
Forwards: Panarin, Ovechkin, Kopitar, Stamkos, Tuch, Rust, Marchessault, Pavelski, Miller, Bertuzzi, Stone, Kakko, Brown, Stankoven, Kovalenko
Defence: Hedman, Fox, Matheson, Thrun, Jiricek
Goalies: Kochetkov, Talbot, Vasilevskiy, Campbell, Schmid
Tampa in 7, but the series could just as easily go the other way.
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Florida in 7. I think don’t think Kuch and Stammer get it going quick enough...but then again I said that about Stammer last playoffs and look what he did
8 Team Dynasty - G/A/plusminus/PPP/SHP/SOG/FW/HIT/BLK ——
W/SV%/SV/SO
C: A. Matthews, E Pettersson, V Trocheck, A Kopitar, C Mittelstadt,
LW: B Marchand, B Tkachuk, K Kaprizov, J Huberdeau, V Nichushkin, E Kane, J McCann
RW: D Pastrnak, W Nylander, JT Miller, T Meier, Z Hyman, R Hartman
D: Q Hughes, B Burns, D Nurse, M Matheson, K Letang, B McNabb
G: D Kuemper, V Vanecek, J Woll
IR: L Couture, L Schenn
NA: P Kochetkov
Tampa in 7 after an all time classic series. I think the Panthers push them to their absolute limit but the returns of Stamkos/Kuch prove to be too much. I have my doubts either will beat 100% to make a deep run though.
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Florida in 7
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G, A, PTS, PPP, PIM, BLKs, Hits, +/-, Shots, W, GAA, SV%, Saves
C- JHughes, Trocheck, RThomas, Zegras, Norris, Bennett, PLD, Stephenson, Danualt
RW- Raymond, Stone, TWilson, Toffoli, KJohnson, Nyqvist, Zary
LW- Keller, Schmaltz, Bunting, Skinner, Barbashev, Duclair
D- QHughes, McAvoy, Doughty, Heiskanen, LHughes, Mintyukov
G- Shesterkin, Demko, Andersen, Kahkonen, Levi, Tarasov, Annunen
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Tampa in 7
I didn't even watch this one but I was keeping an eye on that scoreboard. It looked like a wild ride.
12 team H2H Most Cats Wins; Keep 6/winner keeps 7; G A PPP +/- SHP SOG HIT BLK PIM // W SV GAA SV% SHO
3 C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 6D, 2G, 5 bench
C - McDavid, Crosby, Tavares, Hertl
LW - DeBrincat, Boldy, Lafreniere
RW - Meier, Miller, Boeser, Nichushkin
D - Dobson, Karlsson
G - Jarry, Luukkonen
Yep it lived up to the billing for sure.
It was a dandy of a game.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, SBennett
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
"Cleavage is like the sun. You can look, but dont stare.. Unless you're wearing sunglasses."
Someones gonna get hurt badly if that type of physicality continues. There was quite a lot of hit from behinds.
Also, you can't tell me Kucherov wasn't healthy enough to play 1 month ago.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
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Sam Bennett will have a hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety. The Panthers center is facing discipline for boarding Lightning forward Blake Coleman in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup First Round.
Between Kucherov, the Leafs, and in previous seasons Kane i think the League takes a look at this and tries to limit it more. I don't think they force it going into this season because of just the leagues money situation right now, I don't think the League would try to stop any cap stuff right now.
But in a couple of yrs, maybe the league enforces "is a player legitimately hurt for LTIR" a bit more. I have NO idea how you would manage that though.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
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