UH OH! It's the quarterfinals of the Cage Match Rookie Tournament!

If you missed the opening round do not fret because you can still help choose the champion. Hopefully you know the drill with these but just in case let's brake it down. Each week there will be four matchups for you to choose a winner. The winner moves on to the next round. The last player standing is the top rookie.

The criteria for you to vote on are simple:

- No goalies

- No defensemen

- No positions

- Points only keeper league with one caveat - Don't be a perpetually rebuilding knucklehead. No one has ever won a fantasy league with just potential so value this season ABSOLUTELY matters. I cannot stress this enough.

Vote your hearts out!


#1 Nail Yakupov vs. #4 Mikhail Grigorenko
#2 Mikael Granlund vs. #3 Alex Galchenyuk
#1 Jonathan Huberdeau vs. #4 Cory Conacher

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Like Silfverberg but this is a mismatch.

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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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Brunner all the way...er....nevermind.

Tarasenko, if you please. Now someone has to block Ev from robo-voting.

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Four out of three people have difficulty with fractions

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

Right now, if we are talking about helping out for this year, this is probably closer then most expect. Tarasenko started out hot and Silfverberg was slow out of the gate. Now their situations seemed to have flipped flopped. Tarasenko slowed down (injured now) and Silfverberg has turned it on.

I voted Tarasenko because I think over the season he will be the better player.

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10 Team, Points Only, $$ League, Keep 20/25 at seasons end
25 Man Roster, top 20 monthly point getters count
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt

Stamkos, Tavares, Hall, Couture, Hanzal, Wheeler, Stastny, Versteeg, Fisher, Hornqvist, Eriksson, Hodgson, Setoguchi, Turris, Steen, Letang, DRoy, Yakupov, Grabner, Byfuglien, Baertschi

G-Rask, Halak, Schneider

Vladimir Tarasenko for me boss.

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Derek Reese - Future Hall of Famer
Studs N Duds - Sunday's

12 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty
H2H, Salary Cap 82mil, Player actual salaries
G,A,PTS,GWG,PIM,SOG,STP,HT,BL,+/-,W,GAA,SV,SO
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

F - Stamkos, Perry, E.Staal, Voracek, J.Staal, Simmonds, Ott, Downie, J.Jokinen, Eller, Nielson, Prust
D - Martin, Faulk, Brodie, Ellerby, M.Weber, Stone
G - Bobrovsky, Halak
Bench - Brunner, Brodie, Strachan, Khudobin, Lindback, Neuvirth, Ramo

Prospects - Calvert, Forsberg, Etem, Namestinikov, Kreider, Cundari

Tarasenko for me too. I like Silfverberg and have him on my roster, but I'd jump over my wife and kick my pets out of the way to click the accept button if anyone ever offered me Tarasenko for him.

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14 Team H2H Dynasty League (14 keepers, 21-man roster, no farm)
G, A, PPP, SOG, BS, +/-, GAA, W, SV%

C: Giroux/B.Richards/Ennis/Cullen/Grigorenko
W: Ovechkin/Neal/Nash/Skinner/Eriksson/Silfverberg/Samuelsson(IR)
D: Doughty/Boyle/Faulk/Seabrook/Martin(IR)/Seidenberg/Brodin
G: Fleury/Markstrom/Lehner/Khudobin

Tarasenko wins this one for me.

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12 Team keeper league, rosters cannot exceed 23 after the draft. We have to drop players in order to use our draft picks.
Stats: G(1) A(1) W(2) SO(1) OTL(1)
Count only the best 10 F, 4 D & 2 G
Pts traded with players

F - Ovechkin, Parise, Nugent-Hopkins, Couture, Lucic, Berglund, Couturier, Burmistrov, Brassard, Granlund, Strome, Grigorenko, Kassian, Nyquist, Kuznetsov
D - Burns, McBain, Faulk, Schultz
G - Howard, Schneider, Markstrom

Picks - 2013: 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 5th
2014: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

Tarasenko here.

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12 teams limited keeper (keep 6 + 1 Rookie)
Weekly H2H points only
13 round draft - Unlimited Trades - No Waivers
4 Team Playoffs (last 2 reg. season weeks)
Year 6 (2012-13)

Start : C RW LW Utility D D G
Points are : A - G = 1 pt W = 2 pts SO = 1pt

C - S.Stamkos, L.Couture, M.Granlund, D.Stepan, T.Ennis
LW - L.Eriksson, J.Frazen
RW - T.Purcell, B.Wheeler, K.Versteeg, J.Silfverberg
D- E.Karlsson, J.Johnson, A.Markov, S.Elliot, J.Spurgeon, JM.Liles, N.Leddy
G - A.Niemi, C.Anderson, J.Harding, S.Varlamov

Year 5 Playoff Champ
Year 6 Playoff Champ

Tarasenko for sure.

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Yahoo 10 team H2H classic.
1st place 2012-2013

G,A, PPP, SHG, SOG, +/-, PIM, Goalie stats: W, L, SO
Start: 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 4D, 2G

C: Toews, M. Koivu, Benn, M. Dubinsky
LW: Hall, Moulson, Ladd, JVR
RW: Michalek, Kopecky, Purcell, J. Carter
D: Chara, Pietrangelo, J-Bo, Markov
G: Fleury, Crawford, Holtby

This one is not close for me...Tarasenko easily...can't believe Silfverberg made it this far!

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12 Team Keeper (max 4 years) ($270 RLD)
Start 12 F, 6 D, and 2 G weekly
STATS: F (G,A,GWG) D (G,A,+/-) G (W,GAA,SV%)
FWD - Ovechkin, Tavares, Eberle, Neal, Hall, Iginla, Couture, Ennis, Tarasenko, Stepan, Weiss, Granlund, Boyes, Hanzal, Backlund, Baertschi,
DEF-Karlsson, Boyle, Shattenkirk, Carlson, Burns, Ekman-Larson, Josi, Larsen
GOAL-Rask, Schneider