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  1. What's new in this club
  2. For the first time since entering fantasy, I'm missing the playoffs.....arg
  3. For the goalies (unless you have an elite G like Öttinger, Hellebuyck, Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Shesterkin): Complete lottery ! (ok, I'm exaggerating a little bit) In an era where tandems (or 1A/1B) become more and more the norm, it's really difficult to have any clue on how a goalie will perform in the beginning of the season. Demko was injured and awful last season, now he's like God. Talbot was good for the dump, and now he's skating on the water. On the other side, Gustavsson has become an AHLer, Schmid and Vanecek are terrible, Markström has a hard time too. Even constant and top-tier goalies are not safe. Varlamov was about to claim a timeshare with Sorokin, Georgiev was fantastic in October and then horsesh!t in November, Detroit is currently running three goaltenders. Two or three bad starts in a row and your undebatable #1 position is in jeopardy. This position is so versatile. Maybe in February we will be all fighting to grab Kähkonen lol.
  4. Ive had a drink or three after work so I am going to blab a bit. Strike averted. My teams union just got them a $4 an hour increase and busy season is almost over and I finally get a vacation. im happy as a clam and so relieved. I was actually thinking of quitting for the last 2 months. I don't get anything because i am not in the union, but I don't care, I just wanted something for my team to show how valued they are and to combat the toxic attitude and lack of care that was sweeping through my department and stress I was feeling every second of the day at work and home where I constantly get called for help. On that note, here comes me blabbing like a pseudo intellectual dork lol. I like to look at categories in terms of sections. I consider offense section: G, A, PPG, PPA Peripheral section : SOG, FW, HIT, BK Lottery section: PIM, +/-, GWG, SHP Now you can control how many tickets you buy for the lottery Section, but its still a lot of variance. by buying tickets, I mean, you get more chances at a GWG if you have goalscorers. You have more shots at SHP if you have Pkers. You get more chances at PIM's if you have temperamental goons, but even a lady bing forward can get 5/10 and a game and snag that category circumstantially, and you can restrict your drafting to good teams to have a better chance at solid +/- but that restricts your scoring pool. But its still a lot less control than say, hits or blocks or faceoff wins where you can load up on guys who take faceoffs from the wing or shot blocking Dmen. Goalies are the same, but different. Their sections are reliant on the teams in front of them. Wins and Saves are volume Categories. So unfortunately are losses, so having a good workhorse can be a boon. Sv% and GAA are more variable in that you can get 3 good games in a week and bench goalies to retain the good GAA and sv%, so volume matters less. the real lottery category for goalies is SO. So the way I see it, goalies have 5 controllable categories, 1 Lottery, Forwards have 8 controllable categories, 4 Lottery, so despite goalies having 6 categories to 12 skater categories, I feel they are more valuable. Significantly so due to this league having 16 teams because the pool is so shallow to find a goalie. 2 or 3 goalies are going to decide 45% of the controllable categories. Currently, I have 2 workhorses and I hope its enough to keep going safely because in offensive categories i was getting beaten bad. in fact im one of the lowest scoring teams in the league. im also only middle of the pack for Peripherals. I had good FOW and SOG for awhile, but too many guys went down with injuries. Now I am combing waivers trying to improve some more. Come on down Kerfoot. Win some faceoffs from wing will ya? For Brewin, I think this will help quite a bit for goalie cats. He was relying on the Calgary duo and Jake Allen for starts and Kochetkov is a shot of adrenaline from a 3rd team. Where i would be looking to improve next is Peripherals, but it may be too late for that as the team is very scoring oriented from top to bottom. Hopefully scoring plus improved goaltending = wins
  5. I might have kicked myself if i gave up Eichel or DeBrincat, but this trade seemed fair enough.
  6. Trade announcement. Halifax trades Pyotr Kochetkov to brewin flames for Jason Robertson. With Andersen out with blood clots, Kochetkov the goalie of the future is being given opportunity now. Brewin needs a goalie with markstrom out week to week and I need firepower as my team has been sinking lately despite great goaltending. Kochetkov has played 7 of the last 10 games, once in relief of Raanta and won 4, lost 1 and had 2 where he did not get a loss credit. He's given up 2 or less goals in 5 of 7 appearances. Robertson doesn't look like the 47 goal 109 point +37 guy from last year as he is currently under a ppg with 22 points in 23 games and a -4, but I'm confident he will heat up. I still have 2 workhorse goalies to fall back on and Thompson finally just came off IR so I'm hoping to change my fortunes with a boost up front. Might shock those who know how much I love Koochie since ive hounded folks to get him in the keeper leagues. But this isn't a keeper and maybe I can draft him again next year lol.
  7. Yeah, we all said, "Dave, do it without drafting." Dave says, "I can do you one better, MoFos."
  8. @pilldoc The man is laid up in a recovery bed and STILL kicks all our sorry arses on here!
  9. @yave1964 is starting to pull away from the pack .... gotta keep it close. I only have 2 losses so far ....gotta keep the pressure on.
  10. Oh my. Thanks for the update, Please let Julie know that Dave is truly in my prayers and I wish him a complete and quick recovery.
  11. To All, It is with a heavy heard that I must deliver this news to everyone. Earlier this morning I was informed by @ruxpin via PM that sometime yesterday afternoon Dave suffered a stroke. From his wife Julie: In addition she then gave a brief update on his condition: To say that I am in a state of shock and a loss for words is an understatement. My heart aches for his family. Being a healthcare worker and dealing with strokes on a daily basis timing is everything. (We aim for treatment to occur in under 3 hours and pharmacologic treatment in under 1 hour at onset symptoms.) I know he is in the very best care. Hospitals today keep a very standard of care and accreditation when it comes to patients who have had a stroke. Please keep Dave and his family in your thoughts and prayers. After a brief discussion with @ruxpin for the time being I will set his line-ups. Please at this time I request that no trade offers be made and that if you have a trade offer out to Dave's team, I ask that you respectfully cancel the offer. I will keep everyone updated as I find out more information. Thanks ~doc
  12. Depends who you are offering and who you want. Goalies in a 16 team league are kinda like solid gold with platinum inlays lol
  13. Contrats @yave1964, I feel like playing against you is like trailing 5-1 with 3 minutes remaining and call all your bench with the back-up goalie to jump on the ice with the hope that no one will notice. Got blasted with Georgiev letting me down, I lacked a bit of everything which usually translates in a significant ass-whopping in match play format.
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