Which of these 2 Avs D-men has the bigger upside this year? They would be filling out my last spot on a Dynasty roster. Yahoo league with standard settings.

Well last year was pretty well a career year for O'Brien with 20 points. Not sure you can count on him for output anywhere close to that again. He's pretty much just a decent PIM option.

I'd give Barrie a go as he just might get a shot at the top power play and could be a hit out of the gates. With the shortened season you just gotta gamble and hope you strike on someone who is hot out of the gates. If Barrie is a dud just switch him out for someone else. Maybe you end up using O'Brien just for the PIM while you wait for a hot option to come up on the waiver wire.

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If you're looking for a player like S.O.B. to bring you to the promise land, you are in trouble and probably beyond repair. Just go balls out with Barrie who is capable of doing damage.

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League: Yahoo 20 Team Dynasty, H2H (4C, 8W, 6D, 1G)
Cats: +/-, FOW, A, G, GWG, PPP, SHP, SOG, S, SPct, W, GAA

C: Kopitar,Nyquist,J.Staal,Strome
W: Atkinson,Benn,Brunner,Huberdeau
Iginla,Kessel,Seguin,Selanne
D: Beaulieu,DeKeyser,Despres,D.Hamilton,Leopold,Salo
G: M.A.Fleury
Bench: B.Bennett,B.Gordon,Petrovic,Stalberg - J.Bernier, J.Howard
Prospects: Andrighetto,V.Arvidsson,G.Carey,Filatov,Kabanov,Kuhnhackl,Omark,R.Schwartz
Shalunov,Stransky
Clendening,Deslauriers,Gauthier-Leduc,J.Morrow,R.Murphy,Postma,Reilly -- P.Bartosak,N.Lundstrom,J.Olkinuora,A.Wilcox

I'm riding both as starters- HA! I also have Elliott sitting on the farm waiting for his turn.