Thanks for the input. Yes, I countered his Lindback offer with John Carlson and Jonathan Bernier for Brendan Smith and Anders Lindback. The Smith offer, I countered with Sergei Kostitsyn and Artem Anisimov for Jonathan Huberdeau or Matt Duchene.

When cramming for this league before the initial draft, I got hung up on tiers and totally underestimated the value of goaltenders. This was my draft;

1. (10) Mike Green (Was - D)
2. (15) Drew Doughty (LA - D)
3. (34) Alexander Semin (Car - RW)
4. (39) Steve Mason (Cls - G)
5. (58) Dan Boyle (SJ - D)
6. (63) Zdeno Chara (Bos - D)
7. (82) Jonathan Bernier (LA - G)
8. (87) Mikko Koivu (Min - C)
9. (106) Wojtek Wolski (Was - LW)
10. (111) Jordan Staal (Car - C)
11. (130) Brenden Morrow (Dal - LW)
12. (135) Kristian Huselius (Cls - LW)
13. (154) James Neal (Pit - LW)
14. (159) Martin Havlat (SJ - RW)
15. (178) Troy Brouwer (Was - RW)
16. (183) Colin Wilson (Nsh - C)
17. (202) Nazem Kadri (Tor - C)
18. (207) Milan Michalek (Ott - LW)
19. (226) David Clarkson (NJ - RW)
20. (231) David Jones (Col - RW)
21. (250) John Carlson (Was - D)
22. (255) Colby Armstrong (Mon - RW)
23. (274) Justin Abdelkader (Det - LW)
24. (279) Pascal Dupuis (Pit - LW)
25. (298) Dan Hamhuis (Van - D)
26. (303) Marc Staal (NYR - D)

I made 2 trades during the season. Khabibulin for Elliot. Morrow and Boyle for Lucic and E. Johnson. I rode that team to second place got bounced in the playoffs and I kept Doughty, Green, Semin, M. Koivu, Crawford, Lucic, Skinner and S. Mason. I then drafted this team;

1. (7) Jamie Benn (Dal - C,LW)
2. (18) Mikko Koivu (Min - C)
3. (31) Jordan Staal (Car - C,LW)
4. (42) John Carlson (Was - D)
5. (55) Jonathan Bernier (LA - G)
6. (66) Gabriel Landeskog (Col - LW)
7. (79) Adam Larsson (NJ - D)
8. (90) Zac Dalpe (Car - C,RW)
9. (103) Derek Stepan (NYR - C)
10. (114) Blake Wheeler (Wpg - RW)
11. (127) Devan Dubnyk (Edm - G)
12. (138) Joffrey Lupul (Tor - LW,RW)
13. (151) Nino Niederreiter (NYI - RW)
14. (162) Tyler Kennedy (Pit - LW,RW)
15. (175) Colin Wilson (Nsh - C,LW)
16. (186) Martin Hanzal (Pho - C)
17. (199) Anton Babchuk (Cgy - D)
18. (210) Alex Burmistrov (Wpg - C,RW)
19. (223) Drew Doughty (LA - D)
20. (234) Mike Green (Was - D)
21. (247) Corey Crawford (Chi - G)
22. (258) Alexander Semin (Car - LW,RW)
23. (271) Jeff Skinner (Car - C,RW)
24. (282) Milan Lucic (Bos - LW)
25. (295) Martin Havlat (SJ - RW)
26. (306) Steve Mason (Cls - G)

When my team bottomed out in mid December, I started my series of trades. Lupol and C. Smith for C. Stewart and Kulemin. Kennedy, A. Larrsson, Koivu and Khabibulin for C. Smith, S. Kostitsytin, Subban, Johansson and Varlamov. Green and a fourth for Dubinsky and a first. And the aforementioned Semin trade. And my team is as it stands. I'm going to sleep on it and then most likely pull the trigger on the Scheifele waiver transaction.

The available FA goaltenders are;
Scott Clemmensen
(Fla - G)
Justin Peters
(Car - G)
Leland Irving
(Cgy - G)
Steve Mason
(Cls - G)
Ben Scrivens
(Tor - G)
Mark Dekanich
(Wpg - G)
Robin Lehner
(Ott - G)
Nikolai Khabibulin
(Edm - G)
Richard Bachman
(Dal - G)
Jason LaBarbera
(Pho - G)
Peter Budaj
(Mon - G)
Rick DiPietro
(NYI - G)
Al Montoya
(Wpg - G)
(Cgy - G)
Brian Boucher
(Car - G)
Ray Emery
(Chi - G)
Allen York
(Cls - G)
Mathieu Garon
(TB - G)
Johan Hedberg
(NJ - G)
Thomas Greiss
(SJ - G)
Martin Biron
(NYR - G)