I heard him last night on NHLN extolling the virtues of Seth Jones as his #1. Pleasantly surprised, I was.

EDIT: oh...and really gushed over Fucale too. A name with which I am unfamiliar.

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Commish - Twisted Wrister Fantasy Hockey League

12 team, $$$, 24 players, Weekly, H2H, limited keeper (8), multi-cat (G, A, PIMs, Hits, SOG, HT/ W, GA, SV%, SO)

Start: 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 2G

Fucale is a phenomenal goaltender

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Straight Points keeper league. 4th year. Keep 5 Forwards,3 defence,1 goalie. *Keeper

F: Nicklas Backstrom*, Zach Parise*, Joe Thornton*, Mikko Koivu*, Jason Pominville*, Blake Wheeler, Joe Pavelski, Stephen Weiss, Derek Roy, Jakub Voracek, David Perron, David Krejci, Ryan Kesler

D: Mike Green*, Erik Karlsson*, Alex Pietrangelo*, Alex Goligoski, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Dion Phaneuf

G: Ryan Miller*, Tuukka Rask

1- Seth Jones
2- Nathan MacKinnon
3- Jonathan Drouin
4- Aleksander Barkov
5- Valeri Nichushkin
6- Elias Lindholm
7- Sean Monahan
8- Hunter Shinkaruk
9- Nikita Zadorov
10- Adam Erne
11- Darnell Nurse
12- Max Domi
13- Rasmus Ristolainen
14- Ryan Pulock
15- Josh Morrissey
16- Frederik Gauthier
17- Zach Fucale
18- Anthony Mantha
19- Robert Hagg
20- Kerby Rychel
21- Ryan Hartman
22- Curtis Lazar
23- Bo Horvat
24- Alexander Wennberg
25- Eric Comrie
26- Andre Burakovsky
27- Nicolas Petan
28- Morgan Klimchuk
29- Anthony Duclair
30- Mirco Mueller

I came across this the other day, obviously everyones rankings are going to be different based on how you value the player and see his potential, so give poor craig a break haha

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Straight Points keeper league. 4th year. Keep 5 Forwards,3 defence,1 goalie. *Keeper

F: Nicklas Backstrom*, Zach Parise*, Joe Thornton*, Mikko Koivu*, Jason Pominville*, Blake Wheeler, Joe Pavelski, Stephen Weiss, Derek Roy, Jakub Voracek, David Perron, David Krejci, Ryan Kesler

D: Mike Green*, Erik Karlsson*, Alex Pietrangelo*, Alex Goligoski, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Dion Phaneuf

G: Ryan Miller*, Tuukka Rask

Anthony Mantha is one of the most NHL ready forward prospect in this draft. He missed the cut for last year draft by one day, and he is already built like a man.

He's got an absolutely great hockey mind and a wicked shot. I would love to see him on the Habs. I'm not a big fan of comparing players but Mantha reminds me a lot of Sean Couturier (Coots defensive game was more advanced though)

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16 team dynasty. Daily starts. 6F 4D 1G
F: RNH, Perry, Parise, Lecavalier, Brown, Weiss,
D: Chara, Doughty , Edler, Fowler
G: Hiller,Crawford
Reserves:Kulikov,Williams,E.Cole,McDonald
Prospects: J.Huberdeau, D. Brunner R. Cervenka, C.Eakin, J. Merrill,


12 team H2H, keep 17 + all farm
Daily starts 3C,3LW,3RW,6D,2G
C- Sedin,Thornton,Kopitar,Couturier,
LW- Vanek,Benn,Tanguay,Moulson, Baertschi
RW- Iginla,Sharp(C/RW),Hossa,Mueller(C/RW),
D-Weber,Yandle,Subban,Ehrhoff,J.Schultz,Barrie,Brodi n
G- Price,Kiprusoff,Brodeur

I like Fucale a lot and have watched him plenty in Halifax. Good goaltender....yes but phenomenal.....nope. I just don't see elite talent there. He's very smart and economical in his movements and he's got an icecold demeanor but he hasn't dominated the way I'd need a goalie to in order to call him phenomenal.

Sure his W-L record is insane but his team is out of this world.

I think he's worthy of mid to late 1st round consideration

I came to say the same thing. "Phenomenal" is not exactly the most accurate description. In all honestly, I am not sure I would draft a goaltender in the first round this year. Fucale is good but I don't see that "elite" goaltender status at this point in time like we did in Vasilevski and Subban last year. With the depth of first round skaters, I think Fucale would make a suitable mid-late first/early second (unless a team has multiple 1sts....ahem, Columbus). I think playing on a stacked Mooseheads' team probably hurts him more than it helps him this year.

Eric Comrie, Spencer Martin and Tristan Jarry seem to have as much upside as Fucale so I wouldn't be able to justify an early first round pick on him if you can land one of the others in the second round.

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Is this the year to stock pile some first and second round picks? For example in a 16 team league with 2 first round and 2 second round picks, you would be able to get 4 out of the top 32 players taken.

Any one else loading up on picks for this up coming draft?

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Dynasty League 16 Team Weekly H2H

G A PPG PPA SHG SHA FOW FOL SOG HIT BLK PM

W L GA SV SO OTL

C - Malkin Cogliano
Little Gagner Hanzal

LW - Vermette Filppula Gerbe
MacArthur Wolski Kadri Paajarvi


RW - Hansen Heatly Setoguchi
Kessel

D - Girardi Green Tyutin
Phanuef Niskanen Petry

G - Crawford Emery Bobrovsky

Farm Team
Dalpe Scheifele Beaulieu
Knight Grigorenko Pirri Hartikainen
Forsberg Forbort Granlund

Markstrom Pickard Bachman

After the top guys it will drop off like most drafts.

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I think this draft is very deep much like the 2010 draft. I'd be loading up on picks.

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14 Tm H2H Y! Dynasty
G, A, PIM, +/-, PPP, SOG, BLK
W, GAA, SV%, SHO
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 2F, 4D, 2G, 3Bn, 5IR

C: Giroux
LW: Parise, Hall
RW: Eberle
D: E.Karlsson
G: Lundqvist, Bobrovsky
IR:

Farm (17): Players < 164gp | Goalies < 82gp
Galchenyuk, Landeskog, Tarasenko, Kuznetsov, Silfverberg, Schultz, Vasilevsky

I personally don't see the reason to go overly gung-ho for picks. The draft pool is deeper but the same problems as usual are there: bust potential, development time, limited roster space, etc. At the right price by all means stock up but don't go out of your way to chase unproven assets.

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24-team H2H (roto G, A, GWG, SHP, PPP, PIM, +/, SOG, Hits, Blks, FOW, W, SV, SV%, GAA, SO)

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