Wow, I have been busy in this forum over the past 72 hours .

Thank you for everyone's input thus far. So, I manage a team in a 24-team fantasy points-only league. We play head-to-head each week, dressing 2 LW, 2C, 2 RW, 4 D and 1 G.

I recently acquired RW Pat Kane and RW Corey Perry.

Another manager recently sent me a trade offer for Kane.

The deal looked like:

Pat Kane, RW

for

Drew Doughty, D
V. Tarasenko, RW

I currently have the following on D = OEL, Kulikov, Goligoski, Burns, Gardiner, Faulk.

RWers are normally hard to come by, but so are dmen.

Should I keep Kane or do the deal and gamble on Tarasenko?

This other gm also has the following d on his roster: Karlsson, Yandle, Letang, Doughty and OEL.

thanks for your time (yet again ).

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Dean Eastman
Montreal Canadiens' correspondent for OurHometown.ca
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Fantasy Pts-Only League (Protected in BOLD)
LW - E Kane, A Pacioretty
C - Seguin, Duchene, RNH, Granlund
RW - Yakupov, Perry
D - Edler, Weber, Hamilton, Fowler, Bogosian
G - Brodeur, Luongo

Keep Kane in this case, you have good defense already and Tarasenko will have to fight for ice time with the other 9 guys in mediocrity.

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Forwards: Fleischmann, Duchene, Ennis, Kessel, M.Koivu, Neal, Conacher, D.Sedin, H.Sedin, Bailey, J.Thornton, Bozak
Defense: Carlson, Gardiner, Kulikov, Franson, Dillon, MacDonald
Goalie: Rask, Crawford
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Prospects: Gallagher, Chiasson, Killorn, A.Larsson, Murphy, Rielly
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What does the rest of your roster look like? Right now I don't think I'd do it, you are already pretty set on d and with Perry and Kane you should be set at RW. It's close I guess I don't value Tarasenko as valuably as others.

Side Note why do you both have OEL?

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Centers - Duchene, Statsny Loktionov, Legwand Peverly

Left Wing- Vanek, Jokinen, Foglino Sullivan

Right Wing- Eberle, Hornquvist, Ovechkin

Defence- Letang , Hamonic, Bogosian, Seidenberg, B.smith , Hamilton

Goaltenders- Dubnyk,, Nabokov

Yes, thanks a bunch guys for your input.

I originally said 'no' to this GM when he first asked about Kane.

My starting 11 are:

LW - Kovalchuk, Hall
C - Getzlaf, E. Staal
RW - Kane, Perry

D - I own OEL, Goligoski, Kulikov, Burns, Faulk and Gardiner (of which I am only going to protect 4)

G - Luongo

On the dman thread, I enquired for comments on which 4 of the 6 dmen I should protect and one dobberite mentioned trading some of my young dmen for a productive 40+ dman as I can only really afford to protect up to 4 players.

All the comments got me to thinking perhaps I should beef up at my D position, plus the fact I love to deal .

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Dean Eastman
Montreal Canadiens' correspondent for OurHometown.ca
http://ourhometown.ca/sports/eastman/

Fantasy Pts-Only League (Protected in BOLD)
LW - E Kane, A Pacioretty
C - Seguin, Duchene, RNH, Granlund
RW - Yakupov, Perry
D - Edler, Weber, Hamilton, Fowler, Bogosian
G - Brodeur, Luongo

Sorry, I forgot to respond about the fact there are two OEL in the league.

This league is a combination of two previous separate leagues that were gelled into one. The GM's voted at the time (I was not part of the league then) that instead of disbanding the two fantasy leagues, the decision was to combine the two leagues and allow for duplicate players.

A bit confusing I know, but there you have it--2 OEL, 2 Crosbys, 2 Ovechkins...etc, etc...

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Dean Eastman
Montreal Canadiens' correspondent for OurHometown.ca
http://ourhometown.ca/sports/eastman/

Fantasy Pts-Only League (Protected in BOLD)
LW - E Kane, A Pacioretty
C - Seguin, Duchene, RNH, Granlund
RW - Yakupov, Perry
D - Edler, Weber, Hamilton, Fowler, Bogosian
G - Brodeur, Luongo

If they only knew!!! You just landed Kane no more than a week ago and he has yet to play a game for the Iceminers.

As this is a points only league, I think you'd lose the best player in the deal. Tarasenko is unproven at this point and Doughty could suffer from a bit of the hangover early on in the season. You're d-core that you built through trades is strong, no need to mess with it. Perry/Kane is a great 1-2 punch on the RW.

Keep it status quo. Behind Grioux & Eberle, Kane could be a top 3 RW in our league this year.

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Points only keeper League, weekly head to head, 2RW, 2LW, 2C, 4D, 1 G , (goalies 2pts for W +3 for SO)



LW: Gaborik, Landeskog, Burrows

C: Seguin, Skinner, Berglund, Nyquist, Lombardi

RW: Eberle, Oshie, Doan, Silfverberg

D: Doughty, Carlson, Ekman-Larsson, Carle

G: Price , Schneider, Nabokov

Don't do it Dean.

Kane is by far the better player in the deal considering your D are not that bad. You could be waiting e few years to see the real Tarasenko and we both know you do not have the patience for that.

Plus Kane and Perry are young. You'll be set for a while. I'd let your D develop and see where it takes you. There is a lot of potential on your blue line. Worst case scenario is still decent and best case scenrio is very very good with the group you have.

Let the other GM drop his Dmen and force him to use those 7 first round picks he has to get them back.

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LW - Parise, Benn, Marleau, Kulemin
C - Stamkos, RNH, Weiss, Hodgson
RW - Lupul, Oshie, Backes, Boedker, Stalberg
D - Letang, Karlsson, Pietrangelo, Hedman, Seabrook, Elliott, Faulk
G - Bryzgalov, Schneider, Ward

Fellow dobberites and Grumpy and Jag,

I love you guys ...

I hate dealing with the devil anyways (lol)...he just sent me another offer with Elliott, Tarasenko and Doughty for Kane and whomever to balance the rosters out.

It's those 7 first rounders that would also hurt me (the league as a whole). He'd be set for the season.

Thank you everyone...

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Dean Eastman
Montreal Canadiens' correspondent for OurHometown.ca
http://ourhometown.ca/sports/eastman/

Fantasy Pts-Only League (Protected in BOLD)
LW - E Kane, A Pacioretty
C - Seguin, Duchene, RNH, Granlund
RW - Yakupov, Perry
D - Edler, Weber, Hamilton, Fowler, Bogosian
G - Brodeur, Luongo

I 2nd this!!

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Points only keeper League, weekly head to head, 2RW, 2LW, 2C, 4D, 1 G , (goalies 2pts for W +3 for SO)



LW: Gaborik, Landeskog, Burrows

C: Seguin, Skinner, Berglund, Nyquist, Lombardi

RW: Eberle, Oshie, Doan, Silfverberg

D: Doughty, Carlson, Ekman-Larsson, Carle

G: Price , Schneider, Nabokov

Essentially you'd be giving up Kane for Doughty. Elliot and Tara. will both be dropped and available come draft day. Not buying the Elliot talk just yet.

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Points only keeper League, weekly head to head, 2RW, 2LW, 2C, 4D, 1 G , (goalies 2pts for W +3 for SO)



LW: Gaborik, Landeskog, Burrows

C: Seguin, Skinner, Berglund, Nyquist, Lombardi

RW: Eberle, Oshie, Doan, Silfverberg

D: Doughty, Carlson, Ekman-Larsson, Carle

G: Price , Schneider, Nabokov