Do I Cut Elliott?
I'm having a really tough time keeping perspective on this situation as I recently acquired Elliott in a trade and I would HATE to drop him only to have him blow up again and ruin my handcuff on the St. Louis situation.
Here's the deal. I'm in an eight team keeper league with scoring as follows:
Goals, Assists, Plus/Minus, PPP, PIM, SOG, GWG, Wins, Save%, GAA
I have Halak, Smith, Ward and Elliott in goal and we start two daily. I also have Jake Allen stashed in my minors but this being a Yahoo! league it would cost me one of my two weekly moves if I ever wanted to call him up.
Ideally I would have the sort of goalie tandem where I just have two guys and crush the two averages categories while remaining competitive in Wins but that just isn't going to happen with my goalies so that makes three the more ideal number. I've kind of had to carry four because up until recently I had Kiprusoff instead of Smith. Now that I have Smith and Halak is healthy I am feeling some confidence in my goalies.
Just for perspective here's how the rest of the league shakes out in goal:
Team One
Lundqvist
Brodeur
Crawford
Lehtonen - IR
Team Two
Schneider
Price
Quick
Team Three
Howard
Dubnyk
Nabokov
Holtby
Team Four
Rask
Backstrom
Varlamov
Reimer - IR
Team Five
Niemi
Bryzgalov
Fasth
Team Six
Luongo
Fleury
Anderson
Thomas
Team Seven
Rinne
Miller
Theodore
So as you can see there isn't necessarily a team out there that would scoop up Elliott if I did ditch him but I still hate the idea of losing my handcuff. What are your thoughts? After losing Karlsson and Spezza and trading Semin for Smith I could definitely use the extra skater help.
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