I am in a 12 team H2H Yahoo Keeper League entering it's third year. We kept 8 the first offseason, 10 this offseason and it will be 12 the following season and will stay there. I finished the regular season of the first year in second, but finished the postseason out of the money in sixth. This past year, I finished dead last. In mid December, I recognized my team was virtually sunk and attempted a rebuild on the sly with 5 trades between then and the mid March trade deadline. It didn't help me make the 8 teams in the playoffs, but I picked up some usable assests.

Both years I used Rotoworld's draft guide. I purchased the Season Pass as well the first season as I joined the league 8 hours before the draft and had never been in a Hockey pool before. I had used their Baseball, Basketball and Football draft guides with success in the past.

This offseason I bought the Dobber's complete keeper draft package before the draft. I kept Benn, Landeskog, Skinner, Lucic, J. Staal, Wheeler, Doughty, Subban, Crawford and Varlamov. I had the 1st, 12th, 25th and 26th picks in the draft. Prior to the draft, I accepted a trade to be completed during the draft. My Semin and #26 pick for his #18 and #76 picks. I just wanted to get rid of Semin, because if I didn't trade him I had to keep him. I got Ekman-Larsson at #18 and J. Carlson at #76. He got Saad at #26 along with Semin. After the draft, I bought the Fantasy Hockey Geek Tool and picked up two off of waivers, Hanzal dropping Kulemin and Foligno dropping S. Voynov.

Our league scoring & settings are: G A PPP SHP PIM GWG +/- W GAA SV SO SV% Min 4 goalie starts weekly. Daily transactions with no maximums. I apologize for the preamble and present my team;

C
Derek Stepan
(NYR - C)
C
Jordan Staal
(Car - C,LW)
C
Martin Hanzal
(Pho - C)
LW
Jamie Benn
(Dal - C,LW)
LW
Gabriel Landeskog
(Col - LW)
LW
Milan Lucic
(Bos - LW)
RW
Jeff Skinner
(Car - C,RW)
RW
Blake Wheeler
(Wpg - RW)
RW
Troy Brouwer
(Was - RW)
W
Nail Yakupov
(Edm - RW)
W
Marcus Foligno
(Buf - LW)
F
Sergei Kostitsyn
(Nsh - LW)
F
Artem Anisimov
(Cls - C,LW)
D
Drew Doughty
(LA - D)
D
P.K. Subban
(Mon - D)
D
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
(Pho - D)
D
John Carlson
(Was - D)
Util
Craig Smith
(Nsh - C,RW)
Util
Colin Wilson
(Nsh - C,LW)
G
Semyon Varlamov
(Col - G)
G
Devan Dubnyk
(Edm - G)
BN
Cam Atkinson
(Cls - RW)
BN
Marcus Johansson
(Was - C)
BN
Vladimir Tarasenko
(StL - RW)
BN
Corey Crawford
(Chi - G)
BN
Jonathan Bernier
(LA - G)

I know my goaltending is average at best, horrible at worst but I am doing the best with what I have available. I appreciate all critiques and any suggestions to get into the money this season. I currently have my eye on dropping Anisimov for Mark Scheifele. FHG value for Anisimov in this league is 29.6 and for Sceifele it is about 39. I have been offered Lindback and Grabovski for Yakupov and Bernier. M. Smith and Saad for Bernier and Foligno. Both since the draft and both countered, but ultimately rejected.