The season has yet to even start and the goalie forum is littered with endless "Should I start Rask who's facing the Rangers or Pavelec against a shitty team?" threads.

In an effort to pre-emptively curtail the endless number of these type of posts that will inevitably litter the forum every night, I just thought I'd say:

START YOUR STUDS
START YOUR STUDS
START YOUR STUDS

It is hard to predict who will win game by game, but what you CAN predict with reasonable accuracy is that over the course of a full season your studs will come out ahead.

You drafted them high for a reason - play the long-term averages and you won't lose!

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Defense: Del Zotto / Garrison
Goalies: Lundqvist

so...should I start Rask?
jk jk

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gotta say i agree with this so much i actually started a thread about the same thing

agreed
agreed
agreed

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Amen! That needed to be said...

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ahhh I see that now... well said - but it's so much more convincing when you convey the message in BOLDED BIG FONTS (not to mention proper paragraphs and punctuation )

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12 Teams, Points Only (G/A = 1, DG = 2, W = 2, SO = 1)

The Motherpuckers (5 NYR, 2 PIT, 3 VAN)
Forwards: Neal / Iginla / Nash / Richards / Stepan / Roy / Higgins
Defense: Del Zotto / Garrison
Goalies: Lundqvist

they are still creating threads so i am not sure how much more convincing it is

and while i dont have punctuation there are no proper paragraphs in your thread either

I have Lundy, Hiller, Varlamov on my team. Goalie cats: W, GAA, SV%, SHO.

Starting Lundy is a no-brainer, but I'm torn between starting Hiller (@Van) or Varlamov (@MIN) tonight...any thoughts?

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RW: Voracek, Tarasenko, Seguin, Boyes
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I wholeheartedly support this announcement.

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Rinne or Holtby for today?

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