Curious about thoughts re: Alex Semin this year.

I've invested in him this year because Carolina is going to be his Alamo. Either it's all on the table and he dominates, which he is absolutely capable of doing with a strong, physical C like Eric (or even Jordan) Staal, or he flops again with middling point totals and mental checkouts for games at a time, in which case no NHL team would match the offers he's likely to get from the KHL.

I'm betting on the former, largely because he took a short-term deal (albeit a $7 million one) to stay in NA and passed up what had to be some lucrative offers in the KHL. He got called out by teammates, which is a complete slap in the face in the hockey world. I think he's motivated to prove he belongs here, and I think he has a monster year (i.e. top-10 or thereabout) in store, especially in a shortened season.

Semin has (had?) Hall of Fame talent, and if he ever approaches the focus required to unlock that talent, he could be amazing.

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18 team league, keep 12 plus *4 1st/2nd year players (16 total)
Points Only (w/ NHL salaries), start 8F/4D/1G
Note: Defencemen receive 1 point per 45 mins of ice time.

Forwards:
Nash, Vanek, Couture, Berglund, Wheeler, Perron, P. Kane, *Baertschi, Semin, *Nyquist, *Atkinson, Tanguay, Cervenka

Defense:
Ehrhoff, Leddy, Voynov, *Orlov, Timonen, Postma, Brodin, Donovan

Goalie:
Halak, Dubnyk, Neuvirth

But everyone DIED at the Alamo....That would be a real bummer since I got him in a trade after last season ended.

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6Team/Points Only H2H Keep: 37+3goalies Start: 13F/6D/2G
FWD = G(2), A(1), PP/SH(+1), GW(+2), SHOG(1)
DEF = G(3), A(2), PP/SH(+1), GW(+2), SHOG(1)
GOAL = W(3), OTL(1), SO(+2), SV(.10)

FOR: Malkin Ovechkin Kessel Stepan Gaborik Carter Pacioretty Duchene Skinner Semin CStewart Hornqvist Lupul Ladd Yakupov Galchenyuk Grigorenko Granlund Burmistrov Etem Strome Kuznetsov Bjugstad DBrunner Burns
D: Phaneuf Letang Byfuglien Goligoski Voynov JustinSchultz DHamilton Fowler Gardiner Orlov RyanMurphy Barberio Sproul Bouwmeester
G: Lundqvist Schneider Nabokov Kiprusoff Brodeur

Not a believer.

I like Semin as a hockey deal for Carolina because it's only one year and maybe he gets motivated and produces but fantasy-wise, I'm not sure I buy it.

Semin has had every chance to succeed for many years and while he's done it early in his career, he just doesn't seem to care anymore. I have a hard time going for players like this in pools because they can kill your fantasy team like they do with their real teams.

He's the typical high risk/high reward player.

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8-team limited keeper. Pts-only (G-A = 1pt, W = 2 pts, SO = 3 pts).
Salary-cap league (12F-8D-3G). Keep 10.

F:
Giroux-Stamkos-D. Sedin
Ovechkin-Pacioretty-Landeskog
Eberle-Ennis-Huberdeau
Alfredsson-Wheeler-Tarasenko

D:
Doughty-Goligoski
Giordano-Ellis
Hamilton-Voynov
Faulk-Corvo

G:
Lundqvist
Rask
Lindback