Thanks Pengwin....

....and I don't mean to champion Suter...it's not like I think he's going to explode like Yandle or Byfuglien did last year. But, you mentioned Greene two years ago and Leopold last year as guys that emerged into Suter's scoring bracket. The difference to me is consistency...Suter has done it 3 years in a row now and at 26 should be expected to continue to do it for many years to come (definitely this year, and probably regardless if he gets traded or Weber does). We saw Greene's massive drop-off and I expect Leopold will also come back to earth this season, but Suter is as reliable as they come. As a 4th D in this format he is gold. If I felt more comfortable being able to pick this years's Kubina or Foster or Leopold I would wait and take Pavelski...but I'm horrible at predicting guys about to have career years.

Pavs is definitely the sexier pick...I'm just not sure if he's the smart one.

I am with massengil about going for D. I think they hold more value.

Although with the goalies you have i would go more for a dman like Rundblad as he is the most hyped and up and coming dman right now, and i dont think you have the goalies to win the league. Build for winning next year.

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G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, FW; GS, W, L, GA, GAA, SA, SV, SV%, SHO

C: Backstrom, Carter (RW), Duchene (LW), Ribiero
LW: Hall, Ladd, Heatley, Clowe, Fleishmann, Stalberg,
RW: Yakupov, Tarasenko, Briere (C), Hemsky
D: Keith, Voynov, Schultz, Hamilton, Siedenberg
G: Hiller, Price, Bernier, Greiss

Farm:
C: Granlund
RW:
LW: Schwartz, Toffoli
D: Rundblad, Orlov
G: Lack, Visentin, Enroth

By any reasonable assessment, this team isn't a win now team, too young and developing - where are the studs that anchor a winning squad in a 12 team league? If you are close then yeah consider Pavelski, but I don't think you are. Rundblad in this league in a season or two is going to be scorching earth with those scoring weights - tuck him in now!

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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

Based on your heavy D-scoring, you need to swing for the fences and go with S.Elliott or Rundblad. Both have the potential to be monsters in your format, but I think S.Elliott will be the better goal scorer of the two - and 5 points a pop for D goals = cha-ching!

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[Skaters] G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1 / [*D-Men Bonus]: G=3/A=2
[Goalies] W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10

Start= 13F, 6D, 2G /Keep 40 [2G Max]
[F] Backstrom, P.Kane, Kopitar, Perry, E.Staal, Spezza, Z-berg, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, Tarasenko, JvR, T.Ennis, Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
[*D] Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, Visnovsky, J.Johnson, E.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, M.Rielly
[G] Price, Rask, M.Smith

Wow! Thanks for the responses guys. I am primarily a fantasy baseball player, but I love hockey this is my 3rd year in this league.

This site is invaluable and I love Dobber's guide!

I have to tell you when I opened up my fantasy hockey for the first time a couple weeks ago, assessed things; Pavelski jumped off the page at me. I can't believe the guy dropped him.

After I did about 20 or so hours of research, I decided to go young defense for some reason. When I tell you guys blow their loads for young players in this league, well lets put it this way....there was recently a Malkin for Taylor Hall straight up deal. Dude's not even an Oiler fan! That, and the D heavy weighted point system together made me re-think and flip flop to defense with all those young names available.

After reading your posts I am pretty sure I will go with my gut however and take Pavelski or Seguin.

There's a decent chance elliot or rundblad fall to me I upgraded to pick 13 in the 2nd round. If not them I could get a Mcbain Toarmina Hamonic Gio or Larsson almost certainly.

Been thinking this one over all night. My Draft isn't for a couple weeks. YES I may be over-thinking it and have too much time on my hand. (work night shifts).

My competitive spirit coined my team "win now". I value all of your opinions, and have come to terms with being a year or two away. If that's the case; should I not take Rundblad who will be available for sure when I pick? Pass on Pavelski for now because I can only keep one more player after this year.

Have 4 young, solid D core for then next couple years when my team hopes to compete?

Stop gaps at FW will be available when I pick 13 and I only need 1 more FW.
Some names are: Dubinsky, horton, lucic, franzen, doan, grabner, ladd, callaghan, connely berglund, alfy, and morrow. A couple possible keepers with upside even in that bunch I dare say.

Sorry, I didn't see that you already had a team. I thought this was a brand new league. Anyway, as the other guys have said, you should take Rundblad or Elliott (Rundblad first) with that fourth overall pick. You already have a pretty solid roster, so here's the time to figure out who to pick to fill out the rest of your roster. Looking at the available names I'd be going after Berglund, Lucic, Callahan, Grabner, Horton, Doan, Connolly and Franzen. I wouldn't want Alfredsson or Morrow. You also want to fill out those d spots early, because it is a d heavy league and I would be targeting Kulikov or Blum. Del Zotto is a guy you can probably get later in the draft, he's in an uncertain situation right now. Hedman won't be of much value in this format either.

I hope that helps.

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In your format and with your team being a couple years away, pass on Pavelski and pick a future stud D - I usually would go with Rundblad but with the heavy G emphasis in your leauge I think I'd go with Elliott (but both are great choices).