Oshie and Franzen. Not sure why...but I just don't like Ladd in Fantasy Hockey. Reminds me a bit of O. Jokinen...of late...(not Early Florida Days). HE's a marginal/borderline Fantasy Player if ever there was. Oshie on a line with Backes and MacDonald (likely) I think poses the biggest offensive upside. And Franzen...well...if he can stay healthy...He's proven his worth.

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Team:
C - Tavares, Getzlaf, Ribeiro, (C/R)
L - Hall, Semin, Macdonald(C/L), Healtey(L/R),
R - Perry, Yakupov, Voracek, Voracek, Williams, Boyes
D - Streit, OEL, Edler, Karlsson, B. Smith, Beauchemin, Seidenberg
G - Rinne, Bryzgalov, Anderson, Bernier, Vokoun
10 Team Keeper league with Yahoo

Roster (14 Kept Players): C, C, LW, LW, RW, RW, D, D, D, D, Util, Util, G, G,

(Weighted Category Points: see below).

Skaters -
(Points: G a/o A) 6
(+/-) 3
(PIM) 1
(PPP) 5
(GWG) 5

Goaltenders
(W) 15
(GA) -10
(SV) 1
(SHO) 15

My apologies for getting off track on this thread.

Why would you see an issue with Marcus Johansson?

My views are that I would expect pretty good things from him over the next couple of years. He's only 22 years old so young enough to get better. His first 2 seasons show point totals of 27, then 46 on a team that was leaning Defence first under previous coaches. Oates plans to bring in a more offensive system back to Was. so team scoring should go up. He's listed as a center, and I can see him centering one of the top two lines to start the season, assuming that Backstrom's still dealing with an injured neck (or whatever). When Backstrom comes back, he could slide over to the 2nd line wing position as the Caps don't appear to have the depth to replace Semin (yet). I multi position designation would make hm that much more valuable. I could see him getting 55-65 points (80 game pace) this year. Next season would be his 4th (some say magical) and it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect another push upwards. Maybe even 70+ depending on how his situation shakes out. Not huge improvements over last season but certainly doable.

I'd certainly like to hear your arguments against that. I'm always open to other points of view.

PS. I would keep any two of Ladd, Johansson or Stafford.

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20 team H2H full keeper: 4C, 4LW, 4RW, 6D, 1G, 6bench

G, A,+/-, PIM, PPG, PPA, SHG, SHA,
W, L, GA, GAA, SA, SV, Sv%, SO

Center: Getzlaf, Hodgson (RW), Shore, Killorn,
LW: Pouliot, Kunitz, Perron, M. Foligno
RW: Gaborik, Vrbata, Gallagher, Vorocek
D: Green, Josi, Brodin, Trouba
G: Rinne
Bench: Atkinson (RW), Johansen (C/RW), Orr (RW), Beck (LW), Miller (G), Lack (G)

Case could be made to keep any of these guys over the other, in my opinion.

Franzen might be getting long in the tooth but I feel like he has the best chance at hitting the highest single season point totals of the group, and thus would defiantly take him on as a keeper.

Between the others I could probably change my opinion on who to keep on any given day, as I think they are all very interchangable when just counting equally weighted goals and assists. I think I'd go Oshie because of the fact that he should put up similar totals to the rest of the group, and could quite possibly the most enticing option a couple years down the road as a keeper.

I'd keep Oshie and Stafford here. Simply not a fan of Ladd and Franzen and I think Oshie and Stafford have more upside.

I also like your choices for your D. Keep Schultz and MDZ.

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10 teams keeper/points only (keep 17)
12 FWD, 3 DEF, 2 G

FWD/DEF: G=1pt A=1pt
G: W=2pts OTL= 1pt SO= 3pts

Salary Cap league (players salaries) 64.3M

F: T. Seguin, N. Backstrom, J. Benn, J. Silfverberg, A. Semin, M. Grandlund, A. Ovechkin, E. Malkin, P. Dupuis, C. Eakin, D. Krejci.

D: S. Voynov, T. Barrie.

G: C. Schneider, B. Holtby.