Have you ever dropped a player from your fantasy hockey team simply because you hated him?

I named my Dobber Entry team "From Russia with 'ov".
During the draft, it happened that the two goalies I drafted were Ilya Bryzgalov (PHI) and Semyon Varlamov (COL). 2nd & 4th round picks.
I was in first place from late-January to mid/late-March and then my team hit a wall.
Mostly due to my two Russian goaltenders, Bryzgalov & Varlamov, simply putting up terrible numbers and not pulling home enough wins.
[Oddly enough, two other Russian "OV" goaltenders went in later rounds and significantly outperformed these clowns: BobrOVsky and NabokOV. I blame bondon, we all do.]

A week ago I dropped Bryz in favour of S.Mason.
Last night, even though there was no reason for it, with 3 days left of hockey, I dropped Varly.

I don't want either of those clowns on my end of season roster!

That's my story.
Anybody else ever drop a guy off their roster just because they didn't want to see that player's name on their squad any more?

I've never done that, but in my one year league, after I was bounced from the playoffs, one team in the finals dropped guys that wouldn't be playing anymore (due to injury) and I added them off waivers (after the season was over) so that I'd look back on my team and think it was better than it was.

Added: Neal, Vanek, M.Smith, Moulson, Heatley, Hamhuis and Ward

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16 Team H2H League, Keep 23/25
Stats: G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SOG, W, GAA, SV%, SHO
Start: 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 2F, 6D, 1G

C: Crosby,Hodgson,Brassard,Couturier,Kadri,Mueller
LW: Hall,Burrows,Clowe,Bailey
RW: Malkin,Iginla,Skinner,C.Smith,Gaborik,Pavelski
D: Letang,Faulk,Hamonic,Boyle,Irwin,Muzzin,Diaz
G: Lundqvist,Luongo,Schneider,S.Mason,
Farm: F.Andersen,Armia,Ceci,Grubauer,Khudobin,Kostka
Lack,Murphy,Nilsson,Orlov,Peters,Pickard,J.Schultz ,Stone,Thomas,Vatanen
2010 WJC Pool Champion

You have no idea how bizarre I am when it comes to this stuff in my "darling" league. It's a keep-40 format so we basically build our teams the way we see fit and control our own destinies. I will only acquire player I "like" without exception. If I don't like a player, I refuse to have him on my team regardless of how talented he is - I traded Malkin for this very reason.

But, not only do I base my decisions on whether I like a player personally or not, but I refuse to have any Winnipeg Jets on my team because I can't stand their logo. When the Thrashers moved to Winnipeg, I traded Enstrom. About a month ago in my league's Holiday Draft, I was on the clock and the BPA was Andrew Ladd but I didn't want him because he was a Jet so I traded the pick for Nathan Horton so the other GM could draft Ladd. Yes, I know this was an awful "hockey move" but I didn't want Ladd anywhere near my locker room with that crest.

Traditionally, I don't like having many Russians on my team, and over the last 12 months or so I have tried to weed them all out. Gone are: Semin, Kuznetsov, Orlov and Voynov. The ONLY Ruskie I have right now is Tarasenko because I really like his game. I am a big fan of NA players and I love my Swedes!

The joys of owning a fantasy hockey team.

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6-GM, Wk-H2H, Keep 40
START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller

A couple years ago before my one-year redraft league turned in to a keeper format, after the Isles-Pens game where there were all those brawls I dropped Moulson because I hated the Islanders (I'm a huge Pens fan) and refused to have any Isles on my team for the rest of the year.

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12 Team Keeper, Keep 17, Keepers
Roster: 4C, 3RW, 3LW, 5D, 2U, 3B, 3IR, 4G (Start 2)
Stats: G(3), A(2), +/-, PIM(0.5), PPP(2), SHP(3), GWG(2), HITS(0.1), BLKS(0.2), W(3), L(-1), OTL (1), GA(-1), SV(0.2), SO(3)

C: Crosby, Tavares, Nugent-Hopkins, Johansson
LW: Hall, Parise, Silfverberg, Skinner, Conacher, Jokinen
RW: Seguin, Hossa, Wheeler, Burns, Pavelski, Yakupov
D: Doughty, Fowler, J. Johnson
G: Schneider, Hiller, Fasth, Nabokov

Good stuff.

I also loathe having any Preds or Jackets on my team. It kills me that Jack Johnson is a Jacket but I like him too much to bail - hoping for a trade to Detroit, NYR or Philly in the offseason.

As for the teams I like to load up on: Ottawa, St. Louis, LA, Montreal, Anaheim, Boston, Canes and Buffalo.

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6-GM, Wk-H2H, Keep 40
START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller

When I was younger (hence a long time ago), I used to get autographs from players before games in front of the arena. Back in the day, I had Jason Allison in my keeper league and during one weekend that year, the Bruins were in town to play the Habs. I had purchased a Boston jersey to get it team signed and all I needed was the elusive Allison that seemed to sneak by the day before (yes, I was outside in the cold the day before as well in order to get all the players to sign).

Long story short, on the second day, after most players had already entered the Bell Center (I think it was even called the Molson Center back then), Allison is spotted down the street, making his way to the arena to practice before the game. I get my Shapie out, place my jersey in a manner where Allison can easily (and nicely sign) and make my way up to him along with a couple of other fans. The second he saw us walking up to him, he takes out his cell phone and tucks it between his shoulder and his ear as he pulls out a banana from his pocket and begins to peel it. Once we gather around him and politely ask for an autograph, he ignores us and keeps walking. We walk a couple of steps just to ask him again and he stops, folds his phone and puts it in his pocket and says: ''Can't you guys see I'm eating a banana?!?''. I respond politely, ''Sorry Mr. Allison, I just needed your autograph to complete my jersey, can you please sign?'' He bites down on his banana, pulls out his phone (that was not ringing) and places it back between his shoulder and his ear, grabs my pen, makes a quick and quite large X right in the middle of the jersey's crest when I was clearly giving him a free spot next to the Bruins logo to sign, hands the pen to another person and slowly walks away.

Needless to say I was pissed off that he had ruined my jersey... I went online that same night and dropped him, even if he was a good contributor on my roster. Of course another manager got him off waivers a couple of days after and he ended up getting something like 90 points the following season, but I was sooo angry, I didn't want to have that douche on my team. He played a couple of years after that and then he just vanished from the hockey world.

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Keeper league (08-09 Champion)
16 teams (keep 18 NHLers, unlimited minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-PIM-SHP-SOG-FW-GWG
Goalie Cats: W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO

C- Crosby-Spezza-Ennis-Bolland
LW- Kovalchuk-Marchand-Landeskog-Boedker
RW- Pavelski-Oshie-Havlat-Burmistrov
D- Yandle-M.Green-J.Johnson-Carlson-Nikitin
G- Lehtonen-Varlamov-Hiller

Minors:
F: Brunner, Conacher, Adam, Nyquist, Phillips, Forsberg, Girgensons, Killorn, T. Johnson
D: Rundblad, Orlov, Sanguinetti
G: Greiss, Nihlstorp, Taylor, Zatkoff

Agreed, I refuse to have a Pred on my team and I hate JJ in CBJ. I also in general hate having Devils and Panthers. Loading my team with EDM players was more a matter of circumstance (talent available at draft position) more than any specific affinity to the team. I hope Nail gets traded!

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12 Team Keeper, Keep 17, Keepers
Roster: 4C, 3RW, 3LW, 5D, 2U, 3B, 3IR, 4G (Start 2)
Stats: G(3), A(2), +/-, PIM(0.5), PPP(2), SHP(3), GWG(2), HITS(0.1), BLKS(0.2), W(3), L(-1), OTL (1), GA(-1), SV(0.2), SO(3)

C: Crosby, Tavares, Nugent-Hopkins, Johansson
LW: Hall, Parise, Silfverberg, Skinner, Conacher, Jokinen
RW: Seguin, Hossa, Wheeler, Burns, Pavelski, Yakupov
D: Doughty, Fowler, J. Johnson
G: Schneider, Hiller, Fasth, Nabokov

Wow, Jason Allison sounds like a big league chump. He needs to learn a thing or two from this guy (great video, but most relevant from 4:30-6:40 mark).

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6-GM, Wk-H2H, Keep 40
START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller

Oh yeah, forgot about the Panthers. My team has a ZERO PANTHER policy. Even though I like Kulikov and Huberdeau - no thanks!

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6-GM, Wk-H2H, Keep 40
START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller

Great video! I have alot more respect for Hull now. I always liked him, but this really paints a great picture of how he was back in the day, on and off the ice.

Thanks for sharing!

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Keeper league (08-09 Champion)
16 teams (keep 18 NHLers, unlimited minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-PIM-SHP-SOG-FW-GWG
Goalie Cats: W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO

C- Crosby-Spezza-Ennis-Bolland
LW- Kovalchuk-Marchand-Landeskog-Boedker
RW- Pavelski-Oshie-Havlat-Burmistrov
D- Yandle-M.Green-J.Johnson-Carlson-Nikitin
G- Lehtonen-Varlamov-Hiller

Minors:
F: Brunner, Conacher, Adam, Nyquist, Phillips, Forsberg, Girgensons, Killorn, T. Johnson
D: Rundblad, Orlov, Sanguinetti
G: Greiss, Nihlstorp, Taylor, Zatkoff