Hi all.. I am in a fantasy league where we have 6 keepers.. salary cap and fantasy points (usual fantasy score) Now my prob is I can only keep one of these 2 d-men.. what do you like???

Jordan Lopold or
Kimmo Timmonen..

Thanks in advance for reading..

Habs Fan,

Well, it all depends on your salary cap situation, how the rest of your D squad looks like, the money you have left and what would be the best investment considering the strong and weak points of your team.

If the cap is not a problem, the answer is easy :

TIMMONEN, KIMMO OR KIMMO TIMMONEN. Pick one of those three.

Leopold has potential, but he\'s a band-aid boy and I can\'t see him getting rid of that status (just my feeling...). With Timmonen, you get a proven producer, who doesn\'t miss that many games, and who will probably sign with a team where he\'ll be again a PP quarteback.

So again, if money is not a problem, go with Kimmo.

i agree smedley,leopold is a cheap gamble,timmonen is the real deal.

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Roto type keeper league.We keep any 6 ;15 teams , 3 div. of 5.We play 3 lines , 3 def. and start 2 goalies.6 BN.Stats are 1pt. for goals and assists , 2pts. for W , tie(O.T. or S.O. loss) 1pt. S.O. 1pt.Weekly line-up from Mon. to Sun.

LW - Malkin
LW - J. Skinner
LW - T. Ennis
LW - Conacher
LW - Raymond
C - Matthias
C - M. Richards
C - V. Filppula
C - Vermette
RW - B. Schenn
RW - M. Read
RW - J. Huberdeau
RW - M. Gaborik
Def. - Pietrangelo
Def. - B. Smith
Def. - Diaz
Def. - OEL
Def. - Stoner
G - Louongo
G - Markstrom
G - Neuvirth

Thanks for the input guys.. Kimmo it is as my cap is far from being a problem.. I figure he will sign between 4.5 to 5.5 M.. That reasonnable??

I first I thought “Hopefully his agent can\'t fool a GM into signing that kind of contract” but I suppose that NHL GMs have to overpay for top d-men. Out of curiosity I looked it up. Here are some of the big names (and big contracts) I can think of that signed contracts after the lockout. I don’t know that Timonen is quite on par with all of them but he is better then at least a few of these guys. The numbers are ‘cap-hits’ from nhlnumbers.com (don’t quote me on the fact that all these contracts are signed post lockout because I am not 100% sure on all of them.)

Lidstrom – 7.6 million
Chara – 7.5 million
Niedermayer – 6.75 million
Redden – 6.5 million
Jovanovski – 6.5 million
Pronger – 6.25 million
Blake – 6 million
McCabe – 5.75 million
Kubina – 5 million
Gonchar – 5 million
Foote – 4.6 million
Kaberle – 4.25 million
Rafalski – 4.2 million
Aucoin – 4.0 millions

Looking at that Timonen should fire his agent if he gets less then 4.5 million.

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Too many leagues this year... I think I own every player somewhere.