I don't know if I would say no defenceman since Bobby Orr has arrived with such dominance. Tyler Myers was pretty awesome as a rookie. So was Nick Lidstrom. Phaneuf was loved as a rookie because of his scoring and hitting. Mark Howe had 80 points as a rookie (which is the record for defencemen rookie scoring). P.K. Subban had lots of media hype his rookie season after a strong playoffs the year before.

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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.

Top 8 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies count.

We keep 8 forwards, 5 dmen, 2 goalies & 1 rookie.

Forwards: Malkin, Stamkos, Getzlaf, Hall, Kunitz, St. Louis, Pavelski, Kadri, Purcell, Hartnell, Brunner, Weiss, Bouchard, McDonald
Defence: Letang, Enstrom, Schultz, Markov, Keith
Goalies: Price, Niemi, Brodeur

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