With Philly decimated by injuries, I figured it would give Voracek a long look on the top line, but Laviolette knows his players better than I ever will, and he's elected to go with Read instead... Obviously panned out for them tonight, Read with a hattrick, and of course Voracek with a -1 for the game... Think I'm gonna cut the cord on him at this point... I can appreciate it's early in the season, but he does this each year... Comes with lots of promise, and simply doesn't translate it into on ice production...

Thinking I'm gonna drop him for Conacher at the moment, and then pick up a replacement RW after Pacioretty gets shifted to the IR... Maybe Hodgson, Purcell, Clowe, or even Read!

Thoughts?

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7 Team, One Year Y! Points Only: 4C, 4LW, 4RW, 6D, 4BN

Points:
Forwards: G(3), A(2), +/-(1), PPP(1), PIM(.5), SOG(.4)
Goalies: W(4), GA(-1), SV(.2), SO(2)

Current Roster

C: Stamkos(C), Seguin(C/RW), E.Staal(C), J.Thornton(C)

LW: J.Neal(LW/RW), M.Pacioretty(LW), L.Couture(C/LW), B.Ryan(LW)

RW: J.Pominville(RW), D.Brown(LW/RW), B.Wheeler(RW), J.Pavelski(C/RW)

Defence: K.Shattenkirk, T.Enstrom, A.Goligoski, J.Johnson, D.Wideman, M.Carle

Goalies: P.Rinne, M.Smith

Bench: J.Staal(C/LW), C.Conacher(C/LW), J.Benn(C/LW), J.Hiller(G)

Im frustrated with Voracek as well thinking of dropping him. Conacher would be a good pick up

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12 team h2h one year
G, A, +/-, PIM, SOG,PPP, HIT,FOW, BLK, W, SV%, GA,GAA, SO

F: Alex Ovechkin, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Marian Gaborik, Jamie Benn, Steve Ott, Bobby Ryan, David Perron, Martin Hanzal ,P.A. Parenteau,Matt Duchene,Jakub Voracek,Jarret Stoll, Devin Setoguchi

D: Kris Letang,Keith Yandle,Mike Green,Jack Johnson
G: Tuukka Rask,Braden Holtby
ir.

I know the feeling! I'm also getting very annoyed by this player. He really has a knack for always finding a way to do nothing. He's such a loser! No wonder Laviolette doesn't want to put him with Giroux.

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9-Team Keeper League Points Only
Weekly Start 12F 6D 2G

F: Malkin Giroux Neal Parise Lucic Benn Voracek Ennis Turris Clowe Little Berglund JVR Boedker Tlusty Conacher
D: Edler Fowler Gonchar Ellis Zidlicky Salo Martin Nikitin
G: Schneider Smith Bryzgalov

Gonna join the vent-fest...

I have been doubly hurt, since I own B. Schenn and Voracek, both who seem to have flopped off the top line after having their chances. Still, lines are changing around every ten seconds right now in Philly due to their poor start. I'd still suspect that Voracek get another long look in that spot, since most analysts think he has the right talents and playing style to complement Giroux/Hartnell.

Than again, if Conacher is available, you might want to switch. They're both similar fantasy players from a risk/reward standpoint, except we KNOW that Voracek can still put up 50 points plus on Phily's second line, whereas who knows where Conacher will be in two weeks if he cools off. My league also has several great players on the WW, so I might revisit this issue again in a week....

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In this league GMs sign their own contracts at an auction. Farm is drafted each year from the crop of that year's NHL entry draft.

Points
G(3) A(2.5) +/- (0.5) SOG(0.1) FOW/FOL (0.05) HTS(0.1) BKS (0.1)

2C - P. Kane(RW), Hodgson(RW), Roy, Schenn(RW)
2RW - St. Louis, Semin(LW), Voracek
2LW - Ovechkin, Hall, Pacioretty
3FWD - From above FWDs
6D - Goligoski, OEL, Visnovsky, Bogosian, Wisniewski, Hedman
2G - Ward, Holtby, Markstrom

4 OPEN SLOTS (offseason)

4FARM - Galchenyuk, Tarasenko, [empty], [empty]

In a 7 team league, dropping him isn't a bad move, especially with all the players that are available to be had.

I like the idea of adding Conacher and Hodgson and putting up Pacioretty on IR. But I personaly would hang onto Voracek a little bit longer, and only add Conacher putting Pacioretty on IR.

How many years are people going to hold onto the idea that he's primed for a breakout? He's a 45-55 point guy who might get 60+ in a career year from what I can tell. Don't call him a dissapointment....just accept what he is and draft accordingly

This is right on. There was a lot of optimism for Voracek before the season started because he was expected to line with Giroux. I've never been a fan of picking a guy cuz he's expected to play with the guy that's good. Now Voracek has talent coming out of his ears (and other holes possibly) but he just doesn't seem to be able to put it all together.

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