if you could have 1 of the following players, who would you choose?

Toews
EJ
Havlat
Kariya
McDonald
Lidstrom
Pitkanen

points based on goals, assists and shots.

I would prefer Toews in a keeper league. Havlat is too injury prone, and Kariya is a 75-point guy in St. Louis.

If your league is positional...EJ would be tempting. Lidstrom has only two more seasons left before he\'s back to Sweden. Pitkanen...bandaid boy.

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DobberHockey Rules
14 Team Keeper, points only, best 12 skaters 2 dman 2 G count. Playoffs count.
F - Crosby, C.Smith, Wheeler, Parenteau, Hudler, Clowe, Grabovski, Atkinson, Frolik, S. Kostitsyn, Marchand, Peverley, Tavares, Read, Brouwer, Bickell, Gionta, Setoguchi
G - Anderson, Hiller, Markstrom, Brodeur
D - Letang, Del Zotto, I. White, Kronwall, Brodin, Nikitin

not much info , but i agree that toews in a keeper league would be hard to pass up , i also like mcdonald.

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Roto type keeper league.We keep any 6 ;15 teams , 3 div. of 5.We play 3 lines , 3 def. and start 2 goalies.6 BN.Stats are 1pt. for goals and assists , 2pts. for W , tie(O.T. or S.O. loss) 1pt. S.O. 1pt.Weekly line-up from Mon. to Sun.

LW - Malkin
LW - J. Skinner
LW - T. Ennis
LW - Conacher
LW - Raymond
C - Matthias
C - M. Richards
C - V. Filppula
C - Vermette
RW - B. Schenn
RW - M. Read
RW - J. Huberdeau
RW - M. Gaborik
Def. - Pietrangelo
Def. - B. Smith
Def. - Diaz
Def. - OEL
Def. - Stoner
G - Louongo
G - Markstrom
G - Neuvirth

i feel pretty safe with toews. it really came down to EJ or toews but i think toews is ready for the big time now and he can put in 70 points maybe. EJ will be good though too, i know a few people here were drawing similarities to Pronger....id hate to pass up on a chris pronger but toews is the man in chicago. put on a line with havlat, the two should be a nice duo. toews is my man, i think. thanks for the advice.

I have a bias to EJ if you are looking for a player who will be dominant at his position over the long term. As Dobber suggests there are inherent risks with Havlat and Pitkanen - just not worth the gamble even if the gamble happens to come home.

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Yahoo weekly starts 12 team league, keep 17 plus farm

GS, W, L, SV, GAA, SV%, SO G, A, P, +/-, PIM, SOG, GWG, PPP, SHP, HITS, FOW

3C: H. Sedin,Stepan, Stastny, R. Johansen, Hanzal, Anisimov,
3LW: Burrows, Vanek, Ott, Lupul, Dubinsky
3RW: Doan, Pavelski, Brown, Okposo,
6D: Franson, Doughty, Voynov, Subban, Markov, Gonchar, Karlsson
1Util:
2G: Price, Emery


Farm: (< 100 games): S. Elliott, J. Bernier, Galchenyuk, Etem, Eakin, Atkinson

I would go with Havlat, then toews

Havlat has always been frustrating in pools...too injury prone. I\'d go with Toews first, then EJ.