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Skaters:
GP: 4802
G: 1016
A: 1786
+/-: +144
PIM: 3339
PPP: 960
SOG: 10057
HIT: 5647

Goalies:
GP: 406
W: 201
GAA: 2.51 (average)
SV: 10180

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Made a trade with Maters Taters today:

Maters Taters receives: Matt Moulson
Nosferatootoo receives: Scott Hartnell

MT needed more offense and I was looking for a bit more grit to boost a tightly fought PIM category (3 managers within 3 PIM) and to also gain some ground on the next highest group in hits and prevent the chaser from catching me. Of course, if he can also produce anything close to last season offensively then I'll be very happy. Moulson has been great and I'm sure he'll continue his offensive production but I was willing to part with some of it as I'm tops in G, SOG and PPP and very few are close behind for the moment. A small bonus to acquiring Hartnell is if the Flyers' offensive production continues to improve that could mean more wins for my Bryzgalov.

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Made another trade - this time with Great Whites.

Great Whites receives: Horton and Ryder
Nosferatootoo receives: Callahan and McGinn

My goal was to boost hits while still giving me some decent offense, and I wanted another depth LW for balance so McGinn helps there. Ryder has been solid but was willing to part with him. I think he tends to produce most often when he's been on my bench anyway! Horton has been average so far and although the Bruins have more games coming up I'd rather have something to show for it on quiet offensive nights. At least I'll get hits from Callahan.

Overall update:

I'm still leading the league by 15 points or so but I'm not complacent. Hopefully these moves, smart lineup decisions and waiver pickups will keep me in control. It's a long way to go though.

Here's my updated roster for those who care:

C: Tavares, E.Staal, Getzlaf, Bergeron
L: Marleau(C), Kunitz, Hartnell, McGinn, Beleskey
R: Iginla, Burrows(L), Callahan, Vrbata, Kopecky, Boll
D: Wideman, Robidas, Sbisa, McQuaid, Harrison, Morris, Erskine (managing with my mediocre D!)
G: Bryzgalov, Pavelec, Scrivens

Summary of trades:

Feb 3: Sent Fleischmann, Received Burrows
Feb 28: Sent Moulson, Received Hartnell
Mar 7: Sent Ryder/Horton, Received Callahan/McGinn

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Standings after 8 weeks [Last update on Feb 28 POS & Pts] (with top 6 rounds of draft picks):

1-121pts [1-121pts] Nosferatootoo (Tavares, Bryzgalov, E.Staal, Iginla, Marleau, Getzlaf) and Kunitz! I'm also dead last in GAA! (thank you offense)
2-104pts [4-98pts] RikkiTikki (Ovechkin, Price, Niemi, Lucic, Toews, Gaborik)
3-98.5pts [2-103.5pts] HOSERS (Neal, Fleury, Lindback, Seguin, Hossa, Datsyuk)
4-94.5pts [7-83.0pts] PsykoPucKiller (Stamkos, Smith, Luongo, Brown, Subban, Boyle)
5-91.0pts [5-94.0pts] The Flying Elbows (Crosby, Hiller, H.Sedin, P.Kane, Crawford, Keith)
6-84.0pts [12-68.5pts] Cyber Tuna (Lundqvist, Holtby, Chara, Eberle, Hall, Carter)
7-81.0pts [8-79.0pts] Nordiques (Rask, Howard, Byfuglien, Benn, J.Staal, Lupul)
8-80.0pts [11-75.5pts] Pad My Stats (Perry, Ward, Varlamov, Backes, E.Kane, Green)
9-76.5pts [9-76.5pts] Prkal8r (Miller, Schneider, Weber, Backstrom-Wsh, Couture, Doughty)
10-74.0pts [13-59.5pts] Vozzy81 (D.Sedin, Parise, Kessel, Nash, B.Richards, Skinner)
11-72.5pts [6-83.5pts] Great Whites (Malkin, Kiprusoff, Anderson, Sharp, Phaneuf, Callahan)
12-70.5pts [10-76.0pts] Roll Of The Dice (Rinne, Kovalchuk, Kopitar, Brodeur, St.Louis, Thornton)
13-68.5pts [3-98.5pts] Miami Blades (Giroux, Lehtonen, Letang, Zetterberg, Pietrangelo, Eriksson)
14-50.5pts [14-45.0pts] The Spezzaghetis (Quick, Backstrom-Min, Spezza, Landeskog, Edler, Suter)
15-33.5pts [15-39] Maters Taters (Karlsson, Halak, Hartnell, Ryan, Dubnyk, M.Richards)

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Damn hf, that's a BIG lead.
Can't believe you could pull this off with an auto-drafted team!!! Im-pressive!

I'm the king of autodrafts.

Seriously, I've been quite fortunate on some of the players that fell to me, have produced and are still healthy for now. Kunitz going apeshit, likely the best foursome at centre who are really producing (Tavares, Staal, Getzlaf, Bergeron), a few strategic trades to improve balance (acquiring Burrows, Hartnell and Callahan in separate trades) and half decent needs-based depth pickups especially for my crappy D have kept me in relative control.

But...the season is long from over. A few slumps and an injury or two could change things quite quickly.

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Just a quick update to mention that the gap between myself and RikkiTikki has now shrunk to 6 points (118-112), thanks to a 7 point swing last night. Should be an interesting final few weeks.

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Standings after 10 weeks [Last update on Mar 14 POS & Pts] (with top 6 rounds of draft picks):

1-119pts [1-121pts] Nosferatootoo (Tavares, Bryzgalov, E.Staal, Iginla, Marleau, Getzlaf)
2-107pts [2-104pts] RikkiTikki (Ovechkin, Price, Niemi, Lucic, Toews, Gaborik)
3-104.5pts [3-98.5pts] HOSERS (Neal, Fleury, Lindback, Seguin, Hossa, Datsyuk)
4-92.0pts [5-91.0pts] The Flying Elbows (Crosby, Hiller, H.Sedin, P.Kane, Crawford, Keith)
5-90.0pts [4-94.5pts] PsykoPucKiller (Stamkos, Smith, Luongo, Brown, Subban, Boyle)
6-88.0pts [7-81.0pts] Nordiques (Rask, Howard, Byfuglien, Benn, J.Staal, Lupul)
7-79.0pts [10-74.0pts] Vozzy81 (D.Sedin, Parise, Kessel, Nash, B.Richards, Skinner)
8-78.0pts [9-76.5pts] Prkal8r (Miller, Schneider, Weber, Backstrom-Wsh, Couture, Doughty)
9-74.0pts [6-84.0pts] Cyber Tuna (Lundqvist, Holtby, Chara, Eberle, Hall, Carter)
10-73.5pts [8-80.0pts] Pad My Stats (Perry, Ward, Varlamov, Backes, E.Kane, Green)
11-71.5pts [12-70.5pts] Roll Of The Dice (Rinne, Kovalchuk, Kopitar, Brodeur, St.Louis, Thornton)
12-68.0pts [11-72.5pts] Great Whites (Malkin, Kiprusoff, Anderson, Sharp, Phaneuf, Callahan)
13-67.5pts [13-68.5pts] Miami Blades (Giroux, Lehtonen, Letang, Zetterberg, Pietrangelo, Eriksson)
14-60.0pts [14-50.5pts] The Spezzaghetis (Quick, Backstrom-Min, Spezza, Landeskog, Edler, Suter)
15-28.0pts [15-33.5pts] Maters Taters (Karlsson, Halak, Hartnell, Ryan, Dubnyk, M.Richards)

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Brief update of the top five because I'm lazy:

Nosferatootoo 125.5
RikkiTikki 108.5
HOSERS 99
The Flying Elbows 98.5
PsykoPucKiller 92.5

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It's a two horse race:

Nosferatootoo 121.5
RikkiTikki 112.5

I still have a small buffer looking at the categories but need my core to remain steady as I can't afford big slumps now. Getzlaf - I need you back asap.

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