angus wrote:
Talent wise and based on the end of season performance - I doubt many could argue that Gabbie belongs in the upper echelon of forwards. Obviously he was healed enough to play well over the last weeks of last season and my guess would be he has done nothing to reinjure himself and he likely has indeed focused on trying to get injury-proofed if you will. I think you are bang on with Gabbie, Angus. He is a calculated risk, one worth taking - I have him marked for drafting but it will certainly depend on where I am in the draft and my draft strategy, as to whether I can get him or not.

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Yahoo weekly starts 12 team league, keep 17 plus farm

GS, W, L, SV, GAA, SV%, SO G, A, P, +/-, PIM, SOG, GWG, PPP, SHP, HITS, FOW

3C: H. Sedin,Stepan, Stastny, R. Johansen, Hanzal, Anisimov,
3LW: Burrows, Vanek, Ott, Lupul, Dubinsky
3RW: Doan, Pavelski, Brown, Okposo,
6D: Franson, Doughty, Voynov, Subban, Markov, Gonchar, Karlsson
1Util:
2G: Price, Emery


Farm: (< 100 games): S. Elliott, J. Bernier, Galchenyuk, Etem, Eakin, Atkinson

my league is projected to have 12 teams

this is what points are based on:
G A GWG PPP SHP +/- all points are even (by that i mean goals are worth 1 points and assists are worth 1 point and so forth)

would it be a bad idea to take him 2nd round due to the fact that there are still many skilled players that are less of an injury risk remaining?

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6 team one year H2H League
2C 2LW 2RW 4D 3UTIL 2G
Cats: G A PPP SOG +/- W GAA SV%
C Tavares/Krejci/Kopitar/Stepan
LW Parise/Ryan/Pacioretty/Duchene/Saad
RW Giroux/Wheeler/Voracek/Doan/Sharp
D Byfuglien/Chara/Keith/Gonchar
G Lundqvuist/Howard/Holtby
IR Spezza

Clearly would be a bold pick to take him early in the 2nd round. Since Dr. Angus thinks Gabbie is ready to play over 70 games then it just might be the right place to take him. Don\'t think I would take him before 25th in a draft myself. No guts.

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Yahoo weekly starts 12 team league, keep 17 plus farm

GS, W, L, SV, GAA, SV%, SO G, A, P, +/-, PIM, SOG, GWG, PPP, SHP, HITS, FOW

3C: H. Sedin,Stepan, Stastny, R. Johansen, Hanzal, Anisimov,
3LW: Burrows, Vanek, Ott, Lupul, Dubinsky
3RW: Doan, Pavelski, Brown, Okposo,
6D: Franson, Doughty, Voynov, Subban, Markov, Gonchar, Karlsson
1Util:
2G: Price, Emery


Farm: (< 100 games): S. Elliott, J. Bernier, Galchenyuk, Etem, Eakin, Atkinson