Rather than come up with our own topics to discuss on Dobber Nation, I thought we'd throw it out to you guys.

What do you want my opinion on? Ask it here and Walker and I will discuss some of the good ones on Dobber Nation.

Fire away!

Show is out on Friday. Thanks!

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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

Which 2nd year players do you see as experiencing the sophmore slumps like Gagner and Mueller experienced last season? Who are the top candidates for sophmore slumps this season?

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how about an update on your confidence in your Varlamov Prediction?

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Mooseheads: 14 team H2H (CBS)
+/-,G,A,DG,DA,PIM,PPP,GWG,GAA,SPct,W,
Dress 8F,4D,2Gweekly,roster22,
F:Ovie,Pavelski,Turris,Seto,Eberle,Okposo,Benn,Tav ares,Selanne,Ott,A.McDonald
D:Chara,Goli,Streit,Voynov,Yandle
G:Luongo,Price,Schneider,Emery
Jets: 12 Team Yahoo H2H
G,A,+/-, PPP,PIM,GAA,SPct,Sv,W
Dress 3C,3RW,3LW,4D,2G daily, roster20+5farm
C:Spezza,Lecavalier,Plekanec,Desharnais,Ott
RW:Backes,Downie,Pavelski,Clarkson,Hemsky,Stafford
LW:McGinn,Benn,
D:Subban,Garrison,Myers,Buff
G:Price,Halak,Khabibulin
farm:Atkinson,Enroth,Etem,Leblanc

Since angus mentioned 2nd year players. Will S.Mason get the sophomore slump like Price?

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"...It's pretty much impossible for a blind man and a German to ridicule me." -eyemissgilmour (aka LPW on Sept. 18,09)

How do you feel about the Coyotes' young players and how they will develop amidst all this BS with the team? Specifically Boedker, Turris, Hanzal & Yandle.

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16 Tm Dynasty,DailyH2H
3C,6W,4D,1G;G,A,PIM,+/-,STP,SOG,Hits,FOW,W,SO,GA,S
C-Kopitar,Carter,Zajac,Bailey
W-Perry,Parise,Neal,Oshie,JvR,Clarkson,M.Foligno,Sil vferberg,Chiasson
D-Yandle,J.Johnson,Carlson,Nikitin,Dillon,Barrie
G-Ward,Bernier
Fm-Holland,Shore,Pulkkinen,Teravainen,Jensen,Rundblad,Morrow,Barber io,Krug

10 Tm-8F,4D,2G Weekly
F-Stamkos,MSL,E.Staal,Toews,Seguin,Duchene,E.Kane,St epan,J.Staal,Brown,Silfverberg,Johansen
D-Keith,Seabrook,Voynov,Bogo,Wideman,Fowler
G-Price,Rask,Dubnyk
Fm-Tarasenko,Scheifele,Atkinson,Faksa,Smith,Orlov,Rie lly,Trouba,Markstrom

How can you tell the difference between a player who's "hot", and a player who's "breaking out". Inside tips on how to differentiate the two, taking advantage of trading "hot" players at the right time .vs. trading away future stars and kicking yourself for it to the grave.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

the season is about to kick off, how bout the straight dope on the injuries and interpretation thereof.

For example Getz is said to be 'progressing with his return to the lineup'..wtf does that mean? a week? 2 weeks? a month? sports hernias can be lingering

Pikanen underwent 'minor' knee surgery...is there even such a thing? Sounds like a couple months to me

Elias has 'hip/groin' issues...supposed to be out till mid-Oct, is this one of those injuries that never puts him out of commission but never lets him play 100 or even 80%?

Ditto on Gagne

etc etc

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P=1 DPts=1.2 +/-=.32 PIM=.08 PPP=.4 SHP=.6 S=.015 Blk=.2 Hit=.08
W=2 OTL=.8 GA=-.64 SV=.08 SO=3

Pro (23 keep 17)
C- Filppula,Turris,Stastny,Backstrom
D-Boyle,MDZ,Karlsson,Robidas,Goligoski,Schenn,Seiden berg
G-Anderson,Hiller,Rinne
LW-Malone,Parise,Rolston,Eriksson,Ruutu
RW-Alfredsson,Callahan,Setoguchi,Brown,Ryder,Vrbata

Farm (9 keep all, max 200 GP, 100 Goalies)
Colborne,Leblanc,Loktionov,Perreault,Tangradi,Blum ,Poulin,Markstrom

Coaching has a big effect on team production, we've seen that with many coaches over the years, prime example is Hitchcock in CLB. What effect will Clouston have on the Ottawa fantasty impact players? Is he one to award players playing hard with more TOI? Heatley lost time last season, is that a sign? When Kovalev slumps, is bench time awarded or will he try and play him more to kick the bug?

I'm from Ottawa and am interested in your take as Clouston is still new, and this being his first full season with this dressing room prima donna team! :-)

Thanks Lads!

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Keeper, Yahoo, 10 teams, Roto
F)Ovechkin, Heatley, Getzlaf, Nash, Backstrom, Giroux, Stamkos, Frolik, Stastny, Carter, Marleau, Stewart, Hornquist, Radulov
D) Kaberle, Kronwall, , Visnovsky, Goligoski, Stralman, Hedman, JML
G)Ward, S. Mason, Nabokov, Anderson

which 3rd year defensemen do you see as being in optimum position to have a break out season.

Berglund/Perron/Oshie or Brassard/Voracek/Filatov - which trio do you think performs better this year?