Hi all,

I'm in a 16 team keeper league where I feel I have a chance to make a slight push. Or at least I HAD a chance to make a push prior to Thomas taking a year off. I've been putting off this decision hoping he'd change his mind at the end of the lockout but it doesn't look like it.

So with that said is Thomas dropable in a keeper league? My team is below. Goalies get 10 points for a win with an additional 5 for a shutout plus smaller points for saves and minus' for goals against. To put things in perspective forwards get 5 for a goal and 3 for an assist and defence get 7 and 5. It's a head to head league and I just missed out on the playoffs last year in a tiebreaker.

Crosby
Marleau
Ribeiro
M. Koivu
Backes
Bergeron
Hodgson
Erat
Paajarvi
Boedker
Hodgson
Bozak

Ehrhoff
Giordano
Streit
Nikitin
Gardiner

Fleury
Thomas

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F - P. Kane, D. Sedin, Semin, Marleau, B. Richards, Ribeiro, Hossa, O. Jokinen, Lupul, Backes, Wheeler, Hall
D - Yandle, Suter, Timonen, Seidenberg, Gardiner, Nikitin
G - Ward, Quick
Bench - Hornqvist, Morrow, Little, Dupuis, Gagner, Markov, Colaiacovo, Seidenberg
Farm - Schenn, Kadri, Ellis, Connauton, Taormina, Merrill, Barberio, Petrov, Holland, Joensuu, Pirri, Cohen, Tokarski, Desjardins, Nilsson