Can you please share some insight on Valentin Zykov.

He looked quite impressive in the top prospects game and I wonder if he could be a sleeper in the upcoming entry draft.

Teravainen. Purely high risk, high reward? Or is he a guy you fully expect to draw in and be at least a 60 point producer at some point in his career? Thx!

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10tm Dynasty Lg - $70M CAP
G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C: J. Carter, H Sedin, E. Staal
RW: P. Kane, Stewart
LW: Semin, Couture
D: Pietrangelo, Hamhuis, Subban, Carlson
G: Lundqvist, Price
UTIL: Plekanec, Ennis, Perron, D. Brown


Farm
D: B. Smith, Morrow
F: Brassard, Williams, Niederreiter, Little, Okposo, Whitney, Nyquist, Kesler
G: S. Mason, Ward

Prospect:
F - Z. Kassian, Spooner, Kuznetsov, Tatar, Teravainen, Stone, Connolly
D - Matt Dumba

Posted this in the trade forum, then I remembered this thread was here and thought "hey Dean would be the guy to go to for Gally advice!"

League in sig, a GM has been going bananas over Gally since the draft and pretty much told me to name my price. I said his 1st in 2013 and Ryan Murray would at least be a start. His first could go as high as 1st overall, but is guaranteed no lower than 4th so that gets me into the McKinnon-Drouin-Jones-Barkov tier. I could probably get him to throw in Ryan Sproul or another good prospect as well he's got a legit mancrush on Gally.

But it's hard to move Galchenyuk....I really like him and feel he's going to be a star in the future. Of course those four 2013 players I mentioned above should be stars too, but Gally is at least a little more "known" at this point and he's transitioned very well to the NHL. Please DY, any input?

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20 Team Dynasty (points per) - G (25, 50 for defense) A (25) PIM (3) +/- (5) PPG (15) SHG (25) OTG (15) GWG (25) HTr (50) GP (2) HIT (1) BLK (1) Use actual NHL salary

F: Malkin, Tavares, E. Kane, Parenteau, Havlat, Tarasenko, Galchenyuk, Brunner, Boyes, Kruger, Helm, M. Martin, Bergenheim, Carcillo, Stajan

D: Green, Ehrhoff, Ekman-Larsson, Coburn, Daley, Postma

G: Fleury, Mason, Montoya

Farm: Grigorenko, Grimaldi, Kucherov, D. Shore, Hartikainen, Stransky, Kerdiles, Joensuu, Pageau, Murphy, Ceci, Klefbom, Thrower, Donovan, Ekholm, Lehner, Dansk, Poulin, Nilsson, Andersen

Thanks in advance, Dean!

Of the following players, I get to keep 7 at the end of the year prior to an expansion draft. Who would you keep for the league in my sig, ignoring my team's positional needs? I placed an asterisk next to my decisions, but I'm a little lost after the first 4 or so choices.

Markus Granlund
*Mikael Granlund
*Jonathan Huberdeau
Jordan Schroeder
Michael St. Croix
*Kirill Kabanov
Magnus Paajarvi
Teemu Pulkkinen
Martin Frk
Nikita Kucherov
Nathan Beaulieu
Jonathan Blum
*Cody Ceci
Adam Clendening
*Mathew Dumba
Hampus Lindholm
*Ryan Sproul
*Jonathan Bernier
Sami Aittokallio
Magnus Hellberg
Mikko Koskinen
Calvin Pickard

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14 Team H2H Yahoo Dynasty (17 main/17 farm)
G, A, PPP, +/-, PIM, BS, SOG, W, GAA, SA%, SHO
2C, 2RW, 2LW, 2F, 4D, 2G, 3B, 5 IR

C: Crosby, Duchene, Stamkos
LW: Neal
RW: Gaborik
D:
G: Halak, Lehtonen

Farm: Huberdeau, Mikael Granlund, Kucherov, Ceci, Dumba, Sproul, Bernier

Thanks in advance Dean We are in a deep twenty team league each with a 20 man farm team and just wondering if they're all worth hanging onto or if there are one or two cuts in there.

1) Jankowski, Mark
2) Lee, Anders
3) Prokhorkin, Nikolay
4) Sheahan, Riley
LW
5) Hudon, Charles
6) *Kreider, Chris
7) Larsson, Johan
8) Pulkkinen, Teemu
RW
9) Akeson, Jason
10) Connolly, Brett
11) Grenier, Alexandre
12) Petersson, Andre
13) Smith, Reilly
14) *Yakupov, Nail
Defense
15) Byström, Ludvig
16) Merrill, Jonathon
17) Nesterov, Nikita
18) Oleksiak, Jamie
19) *Schultz, Justin
Goal
20) Andersen, Frederik
21) Grubauer, Philipp
22) Holtby, Braden
23) Lack, Eddie

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G, A, +/-, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, FW
W, GAA, SV, SA, SV%

C - Tavares, Krejci, Berglund, Santorelli
W - Skinner(C), Glencross, Latendresse, A.Kostitsyn, D'Agostini, Connolly, Smithson
D - Subban, Meszaros, McBain, Quincey, Schultz, Josi
G - Fleury

Bench - Perreault, Dubnyk, Khabibulin, S. Gionta, Daley, Bickell

FARM
F - Yakupov, Jankowski, Kreider, Pulkkinen, R. Sheahan, Reilly Smith, A. Petersson, Akeson, J.Larsson, Prokhorkin, Hudon,
D - Schultz, Oleksiak, Almqvist, Nesterov, Merrill, Byström
G - Holtby, Lack, York, Andersen

Two more to throw your way Dean since you were so helpful with the other guys. What the heck is wrong with William Butcher and J.T. Compher this year? Was wondering if you've seen them play at all this year? There stock seems to be plumeting.

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Loving this thread Youngblood. If you don't mind, what are your thoughts on some guys from the 2011 draft class that haven't really taken drastic steps forward this season.

Zack Phillips (MIN) - 2G, 12A and -13 in the AHL
Tomas Jurco (DET) - 6G, 7A and -4 in the AHL
Michael St. Croix (NYR) - 28G, 40A and +22 in WHL.

Phillips and Jurco seem to have struggled adjusting from their stacked QMJHL team to the AHL. Do these players still project as top 6 forwards for their teams? I'm assuming Phillips ETA is closer than Jurco based on how the Wings treat their prospects?

St. Croix isn't scoring at the same pace as he was last year in the WHL. Last year he led this powerhouse in scoring by a fair margin. This year, he is 3rd. Is this due to Henrik Samuelsson coming into his own? Do you see this guy playing in the NHL as a top 6 forward in the future?

All of these are long-term, points only..

Long-term: Nyqvist or Tatar??

Long-term: Morrow, Ceci, or Dumba?? (pick two)

Long-term: Bjudstad, Connolly, Niederreiter??

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Angus is my best friend at dobberhockey..
Bruins believer since BIRTH..
Fav player: Cam Neely..

Jason Zucker - will he become a productive NHLer and why?

Kyle Jean - now that he's been playing for a while in the AHL, do you have any new insights/thoughts on him?

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10 Team Yahoo Roto
Keep 6F, 3D, 1G (to max 4 years)
4C,4LW,4RW,6D,2G,5BN,2IR Roto-play 90games/position
Player: G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, FW
Goalie: W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO

C: 3-Backstrom, 1-Getzlaf, Kesler, Ribiero, Stepan
LW: 2-Zetterberg(c), 1-Hall, 2-Benn(c), Pacioretty,
RW: 1-P.Kane(c), Wheeler, Burrows, Brunner, Silfverberg
D: 2-Edler, 1-Yandle, 1-Subban, Carlson, Zidlicky, J.Faulk, Souray
G: 2-Quick, Brodeur, Dubnyk, Emery
IR: Malone

#- denotes number of years I have kept a player.

One more for ya, and I will even lob ya in an easy one.

what are your thoughts on Matthew Murray and his development this year in the Soo.

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10 Team, Points Only, $$ League, Keep 20/25 at seasons end
25 Man Roster, top 20 monthly point getters count
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt

Stamkos, Tavares, Hall, Couture, Hanzal, Wheeler, Stastny, Versteeg, Fisher, Hornqvist, Eriksson, Hodgson, Setoguchi, Turris, Steen, Letang, DRoy, Yakupov, Grabner, Byfuglien, Baertschi

G-Rask, Halak, Schneider