Hey guys,

I'm looking to pull off a pre-season trade here. The league details are in my sig:


Niemi/Purcell

for

Eberle/Moulson

I see that Neuvirth is a free agent, so I can scoop him up and roll Quick and Holtby/Neuvirth as my main goalies, and perhaps even grab Theodore as well out of FA.

The team I'd be trading with doesn't have the strongest of goaltending: Price, Hiller & Nabokov.

I've talked to two people about this: one has me coming out on top, and the other has me losing by jettisoning Niemi.

What do YOU think?

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10-team One-Year H2H League - Daily transactions
G, A, PPP, SHP, GWG, PIM, Hits - W, GAA, SV%, SO
Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2Util, up to 3G
Minimum appearances to qualify for Goalie stats - 4
2 IR spots

C - Tavares, Getzlaf, Bozak, Nugent
LW- Hall, Benn, The Wizard, Pacioretty
RW- St. Louis, Eberle, Neil
D - Chara, Campbell, Enstrom, Voynov
G - Quick, Price, Reimer, Bernier

I really like Purcell. I think he's going to put up numbers this year, so don't underestimate what you're giving up. Of course there is nothing not to like about Eberle though. Yes, you could spare Niemi and Neuvirth would be a good handcuff as a replacement. I don't think the Caps know who their goalie will be, and they'll probably still be settling that 4 weeks into the season. But you won't go wrong with that tandem either way it goes. If you really love Eberle and Moulson, it's not a bad deal.

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FIVE Consecutive Championships!

C: Getzlaf, Ribiero, Stamkos
LW: Benn (C avail), Semin (RW avail), Pacioretty, Saad
RW: Burrows (LW avail), Brouwer, Lupul (LW avail)
D: Enstrom, Souray, Burns
G: Price, Rinne, Fasth
IR: Letang
RIP: Karlsson (aagghhh!)


10 Team H2H, one year, G, A, +/-, PPP, GWG, PIM, W, SVP, GAA, SO
Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G

I'm a big Purcell guy as well. 65 points last year wasn't an accident playing with Stamkos for a lot of the time. That's why I like having him and St. Louis as a duo. But with this trade I would make two more duos: Hall/Eberle as well as Tavares/Moulson. I'm a big fan of duos as you can tell.

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10-team One-Year H2H League - Daily transactions
G, A, PPP, SHP, GWG, PIM, Hits - W, GAA, SV%, SO
Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2Util, up to 3G
Minimum appearances to qualify for Goalie stats - 4
2 IR spots

C - Tavares, Getzlaf, Bozak, Nugent
LW- Hall, Benn, The Wizard, Pacioretty
RW- St. Louis, Eberle, Neil
D - Chara, Campbell, Enstrom, Voynov
G - Quick, Price, Reimer, Bernier

I like Purcell to, but I don't value him above either one of Eberle or Moulson. Sucks to lose Niemi with your goaltending, but this is a deal too good to pass up. In most leagues a swap of Eberle for Niemi straight up would be a big win, especially in a keeper. There's no doubt in my mind who I would want in a one for one trade of Moulson for Purcell, and the answer would be Moulson. Value wise you won big, and in terms of it helping your team you won as well.

Eberle > Niemi
Moulson > Purcell

Not a bad move if you can handcuff the WSH tandem.

Thanks for the input, guys. Do you think that Niemi is an improvement over Price, Hiller or Nabokov (well obviously it is over Nabokov)? Scoring in sig.

Again, I'm banking big time on the Holtby/Neuvirth tandem being pretty good this year after their playoffs that Holtby had. Ideally, he would run with the starting position as Neuvirth has never been able to solidify himself as their starter despite many opportunities.

And hopefully the team overall just plays better. I figure Oates would coach more to the strength of their best players, rather than the frustrating defensive approach of Hunter.

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10-team One-Year H2H League - Daily transactions
G, A, PPP, SHP, GWG, PIM, Hits - W, GAA, SV%, SO
Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2Util, up to 3G
Minimum appearances to qualify for Goalie stats - 4
2 IR spots

C - Tavares, Getzlaf, Bozak, Nugent
LW- Hall, Benn, The Wizard, Pacioretty
RW- St. Louis, Eberle, Neil
D - Chara, Campbell, Enstrom, Voynov
G - Quick, Price, Reimer, Bernier