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I just finished a fantasy draft, and it occurred to me that a topic like this could be fun. It's exactly what it sounds like. Post your fantasy roster(s) here and let the conversation begin. What do you like? What do you not like?

 

Here's the one I just picked up to start:

 

Forwards:
Steven Stamkos
Johnny Gaudreau
Jonathan Toews
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Jarome Iginla
Nick Bjugstad
Matt Moulson
Nino Niederreiter
Tyler Bozak
Max Domi
Valeri Nichushkin
Tomas Hertl
 
Defensemen:
Erik Karlsson
Shea Weber
Kevin Shattenkirk
Aaron Ekblad
Dougie Hamilton
Cody Franson
Travis Hamonic
 
Goalies:
Jonathan Quick
Jonas Hiller
Ondrej Pavelec
 
The league has 9 active forwards, 5 active defensemen, 1 utility player, and 2 active goalies. I definitely feel that my defense will be my strongest spot, since barring disaster I'll have those top five guys active. It's a 12-team league, and I've arguably got four #1 blueliners and a top flight #2.
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My draft is still going. So far I have Giroux, Backstrom, Vrbata, Saad, Nash, Forsberg, and the Blues' goalie (we use team goalies instead of individuals). Our setup is 2 centers, 4 wings, 4 d, and 1 goalie active. Still need 4 defensemen and 3 bench players. Can't carry more than one goalie.

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I just finished a fantasy draft, and it occurred to me that a topic like this could be fun. It's exactly what it sounds like. Post your fantasy roster(s) here and let the conversation begin. What do you like? What do you not like?

 

Here's the one I just picked up to start:

 

Forwards:
Steven Stamkos
Johnny Gaudreau
Jonathan Toews
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Jarome Iginla
Nick Bjugstad
Matt Moulson
Nino Niederreiter
Tyler Bozak
Max Domi
Valeri Nichushkin
Tomas Hertl
 
Defensemen:
Erik Karlsson
Shea Weber
Kevin Shattenkirk
Aaron Ekblad
Dougie Hamilton
Cody Franson
Travis Hamonic
 
Goalies:
Jonathan Quick
Jonas Hiller
Ondrej Pavelec
 
The league has 9 active forwards, 5 active defensemen, 1 utility player, and 2 active goalies. I definitely feel that my defense will be my strongest spot, since barring disaster I'll have those top five guys active. It's a 12-team league, and I've arguably got four #1 blueliners and a top flight #2.

 

 

I think you have a pretty solid roster, as long as no one in your lineup gets hurt. I don't know that I would count on Cody Franson, Travis Hamonic, Ondrej Pavelec, Matt Moulson, Tyler Bozak, or Max Domi on a consistent basis.

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I think you have a pretty solid roster, as long as no one in your lineup gets hurt. I don't know that I would count on Cody Franson, Travis Hamonic, Ondrej Pavelec, Matt Moulson, Tyler Bozak, or Max Domi on a consistent basis.

 

Yeah, I intend to have those guys on the bench most of the time. I was still pretty happy that I managed to get Domi late. I think he's going to have a good rookie season. I almost took him one round earlier than I did, so I was especially happy to get him where I did.

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My fantasy boys

 

C: Derek Stephan, Mark Scheifele, Brayden Schenn

LW: Jamie Benn, Tomas Tatar, Loui Eriksson

RW: Jordan Eberle, Bobby Ryan, Justin Williams

D: Brent Burns, Shea Weber, Kevin Shattenkirk, Torey Krug, Sami Vatanen

G: Branden Holtby, Semyon Varlamov

B: Seth Jones(D), Jakob Silfverberg(RW), Tomas Hertl(LW), Tyler Ennis ©

 

Thinking about dropping Ennis for another Sabres Center Zemgus Girgensons.

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OK...my keeper league just re-drafted...you keep all the players on your roster except you cut 6 at the end of the year. Hits and PIM's count, so I tried to take them into account, but still leaned towards pts which is worth more...10 teams, each roster has 11 forwards, 7 dmen and 4 goalies. Wins do not count for goalies.

 

Forwards

 

1)John Tavares ...had the 7th pick overall, McDavid went #6  :(

2)Ryan Johansen

3)Nick Foligno

4)Chris Kreider

5)Nathan McKinnon

6)Sean Monahan

7)Mark Schieifele

8)Mark Stone

9)Scott Hartnell

10)Ryan Strome

11)Kikolaj Ehlers

 

 Defense

 

1)Victor Hedman

2)Tyson Barrie

3)Dougie Hamilton

4)Zach Bogosian

5)Ryan Ellis

6)Darnell Nurse

7)Risto Ristolaninen

 

 Goalies

 

1)Brayden Holtby

2)Martin Jones

3)Jonas Hiller

4)Petr Mrazek

 

 

 I tried to stay young, with upside, but not hurt my team this year, which was a fine balancing act....and you cannot roster a player who is not active in the NHL.

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C: Pavelski, Kesler, Bjugstad, Vermette

LW: Galchenyuk, Lowry

RW: Carter, ZIbanejad, Brouwer

D: Carlson, Boychuk, Girardi, Hamonic, Myers

G: Quick, Dubnyk, Smith

 

 

Had Backes, but traded him for Carter with Polaris.  Balances me better at RW

 

All in all, Very happy with my team. 3 workhorses for goalies, and even though Arizona sucks, Smith faces a ton of shots and it factors into the score.

 

Carlson will have the Caps PP all to himself this year instead of Green taking top PP time. Boychuk's peripheral stats makes him nearly as valuable as Carlson, as do Hamonic's. Had to adjust a bit on the fly since I only realized 20 minutes before draft time that SOG were now counted. Was sad Whiskey picked up Savard before me, as I had him a darkhorse. But I got my other Darkhorse on D in Myers.

 

I expect Bjugstad to improve off last year. Was not originally on my radar, but with SOG added, he popped out at me.

 

Vermette is terrific to have as backup, as he is a faceoff machine. I also wanted Mikko Koivu, but JR snagged him before me.

 

I did a bit of math on faceoffs and realized a 43 point Vermette who wins 900 faceoffs is almost equal in value to Tarasenko week after week and that I would be able to snag him waaaaay later. And quite frankly, players usually keep winning faceoffs regularly even if they have a cold week for scoring :)

 

Pavelski I picked first and people thought I was a crazy homer. But he gets a lot of PP points, goals and has over 260 shots per year and wins near 700 faceoffs.

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Here is one of fantasy teams...chosen in a different order obviously. Each night we play 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, and 1G

 

C - Kane, Stasny, RNH, Strome

RW - Eberle, Hossa

LW - Hall, Palat, Kuznetsov, Lucic

D - Karlsson, Keith, Josi, Reilly

G - Elliott, Anderson

 

Although I am an Oilers fan...the Oilers I took were the best option at the time...just worked out that way   LOL

 

I am weakest in net.... again just the way it turned out.

 

Kev

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Last nights draft I had pick number 5, went with Price, followed by Fleury. A premium is set for goalie wins, both should start 60ish games this year and get 40 or so wins.

 Then I built my defense, we start only 2 C, LW and RW while we start 4 d-men, I got burns, giordano, Ekblad and Faulk, all of whom should score 50 or more points this year, I would rather have a 50 plus point dman over a 60 point winger any day of the week, wingers can always be found but not elite defenseman.

 I took Backstrom who slipped to me in the third round because he might miss a week of the season, Paxioretty fell to me in the 5th round with his 37 goals, Simmonds and Nyquist will have 50 plus PPP between them, and my centers are not sexy but Plekanec, Little and Krejci behind Backstrom are certainly more than capable.

 

  Two areas I wish were better are my RWs, I have Nyquist and Gallagher only, that will be addressed, dangling a LW like Vanek to make it happen. The other is players in this league qualify at one position, I should have taken more wingers who get faceoffs for secondary points. This too, will eventually be addressed.

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Here's my drafted HF.net All Star Team which is the first of my 3 FHL teams. 

 

C     Giroux, McDavid, Stepan, Stastny

LW  Parise, Saad, Huberdeau

RW  Wheeler, Pominville, Nichushkin

D     Doughty, Muzzin, Yandle, Chara, Dumba

G    Holtby, Luongo

 

Really happy to get Giroux with the 7th pick of the Draft. And I picked up McDavid in the 5th round if his +/- isn't what Oilers' players of the past are I should be in good shape at Center.

I got 2 Goaltenders that will play 60 games  - Couldn't decide if I should grab a 3rd or not with my last pick but I figured I'd use Nichushkin more than a back up in this league with a weekly roster set. - That may bite me with a major injury to either netminder but we'll see how this all plays out.

 

The remainder of my wingers I'm happy with as they will all play on their respective team's first lines and first PP.  If anything, my wingers may be a bit lacking in Hits and Blocked Shots but I'll have to see how that plays out.  

 

My defense isn't too shabby either other than I'm totally depended on the Kings playing like they must make the playoffs.  My strategy on defense seems to be the opposite of some of the others who posted their rosters above :unsure[1]: .  Doughty was picked early 4th round, but after that I didn't address my defense much until some of the later rounds.  Yandle I chose in the 8th round.  Last years + / - was mostly due to his play with the Yotes.  Although I'm not going to get much for hits and blockshots with him he will put up a lot of SOG as the Rangers #1 PP d-man.   I snagged two late d-men picks - Chara (15th) round.  Seriously I've never seen him drop so low in a draft before. LOL.  And I chose Dumba in the 16th round.  Dumba is having a great pre-season and although he is slated to be the #5,6 d-men with the Wild I wouldn't be surprised one bit if he is moved up to the first line with Suter and if that happens he will be a steal for a pick at #16.

 

What is interesting so far with this ESPN league from Yahoo is there aren't any Dual position assignments which will make this a lot tougher than in Yahoo where players often get C, LW or  RW, LW status.

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C: Pavelski, Kesler, Bjugstad, Vermette

LW: Galchenyuk, Lowry

RW: Carter, ZIbanejad, Brouwer

D: Carlson, Boychuk, Girardi, Hamonic, Myers

G: Quick, Dubnyk, Smith

 

 

Had Backes, but traded him for Carter with Polaris.  Balances me better at RW

 

All in all, Very happy with my team. 3 workhorses for goalies, and even though Arizona sucks, Smith faces a ton of shots and it factors into the score.

 

Carlson will have the Caps PP all to himself this year instead of Green taking top PP time. Boychuk's peripheral stats makes him nearly as valuable as Carlson, as do Hamonic's. Had to adjust a bit on the fly since I only realized 20 minutes before draft time that SOG were now counted. Was sad Whiskey picked up Savard before me, as I had him a darkhorse. But I got my other Darkhorse on D in Myers.

 

I expect Bjugstad to improve off last year. Was not originally on my radar, but with SOG added, he popped out at me.

 

Vermette is terrific to have as backup, as he is a faceoff machine. I also wanted Mikko Koivu, but JR snagged him before me.

 

I did a bit of math on faceoffs and realized a 43 point Vermette who wins 900 faceoffs is almost equal in value to Tarasenko week after week and that I would be able to snag him waaaaay later. And quite frankly, players usually keep winning faceoffs regularly even if they have a cold week for scoring :)

 

Pavelski I picked first and people thought I was a crazy homer. But he gets a lot of PP points, goals and has over 260 shots per year and wins near 700 faceoffs.

 

It wasn't crazy at all, imo. I had Pavelski extremely high on my own list.

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It wasn't crazy at all, imo. I had Pavelski extremely high on my own list.

Looking at the Categories and basing it on last years stats,

Vermette(Who I drafted) and Koivu(Who you drafted) as an example.

Vermette: goals 13x3= 39, Assists 25 x2= 50, +/- minus 25 = -25, ppp 14 = 14, SHP 0=0, Hat 0 = 0, SOG 109 = 32.7, Faceoffs won 872 x0.2= 174.4, Hits 80 x0.3=24, Blocked shots 50x0.3=15 = Total 324.1 divided by 82 games = 3.95 points per game

Koivu ended up with freaking 402.8, = 4.9 points per game.

I feel stupid for taking Vermette first now. Both are faceoff specialists, but Koivu took nearly 1000 faceoffs and had more shots on goal. They went 148 and 161 in the draft.

But when compared to someone like Tarasenko, who outscores both by a country mile and went 6th overall in the draft, yet ends up with a score like 326.2. Which is equal to Vermette around 3.97 points per game.

hehehe. Faceoff wins generally don't go cold, so they will pull in a few points a week even if they don't score.

Your team scares me when I look at it. because Bergeron, Toews and Koivu faceoff Monsters, and Getzlaf is pretty darn good too.

But after close inspection, Claude Giroux is actually the most valuable player in the league based on last years stats. His score rounds out to 542.7, which averages to 6.9 points per game. Almost 300 shots and near 1100 faceoff wins..........

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Looking at the Categories and basing it on last years stats,

Vermette(Who I drafted) and Koivu(Who you drafted) as an example.

Vermette: goals 13x3= 39, Assists 25 x2= 50, +/- minus 25 = -25, ppp 14 = 14, SHP 0=0, Hat 0 = 0, SOG 109 = 32.7, Faceoffs won 872 x0.2= 174.4, Hits 80 x0.3=24, Blocked shots 50x0.3=15 = Total 324.1 divided by 82 games = 3.95 points per game

Koivu ended up with freaking 402.8, = 4.9 points per game.

I feel stupid for taking Vermette first now. Both are faceoff specialists, but Koivu took nearly 1000 faceoffs and had more shots on goal. They went 148 and 161 in the draft.

But when compared to someone like Tarasenko, who outscores both by a country mile and went 6th overall in the draft, yet ends up with a score like 326.2. Which is equal to Vermette around 3.97 points per game.

hehehe. Faceoff wins generally don't go cold, so they will pull in a few points a week even if they don't score.

Your team scares me when I look at it. because Bergeron, Toews and Koivu faceoff Monsters, and Getzlaf is pretty darn good too.

But after close inspection, Claude Giroux is actually the most valuable player in the league based on last years stats. His score rounds out to 542.7, which averages to 6.9 points per game. Almost 300 shots and near 1100 faceoff wins..........

 

Giroux was tops on my list, and it was looking like I'd have my chance to get him... But he was selected just before my turn came up. Overall, I'm relatively happy: I walked out with 3 of the top 5 players according to my pre-scouting. I was laughed at for taking Bergeron 8th overall, but there's way more to this than boxcar numbers.

 

Will it work out? Time will tell.

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Okay here we go...

 

C:  Crosby, Monahan, Backes, Staal, E. and Sutter, B. 

LW:  Nash, Hoffman, Kunitz

RW:  Vrbata, Hornqvist

D:  Letang, Daley, Wideman, Suter

G:  Crawford, Hiller, Pavelec

 

 

   I tried to focus on stats overall, not JUST scoring.  All of the centers have high stat categories, and Crosby's will only go up barring injury, as his stats last year were with missing a lot of games again.  Monahan is a rising star.  Sutter, though I didn't consider him really till the last pick, has solid stats across the board for faceoffs, hits and blocks, short handed points, and has a history of 20 goal seasons on a third line contract.

 

  Wingers I was a bit stronger till trading with Joe and giving up Carter, but I think Vrbata, and Nash are solid for goals and assists, and I'm betting on Hornqvist with Malkin, Kunitz starting the season with Crosby and Kessel.  If they fall apart, they were late picks so I can dump them for others.  Hoffman was a little noticed guy with Ottawa projected to make 30 goals this year, who really tore it up for spurts last year. 

 

Defense?  Well..  the defense went quickly.  I'm hoping Letang has an injury free season and can pull in a season high in goals.  He does get a fair amount of hits and with his ice time, working with the power play opportunities Kessel will add to the team?  I'm happy there.  Suter is steady, Daley will improve stats with Chicago over dallas I think, so the real question mark is Wideman.  IF Calgary comes off the way they did last year he will do well enough to be happy.  If he slumps or the team struggles as in the past he will disappoint I'm sure. 

 

Goal...  well...  Crawford when healthy gets a lot of ice time.  Hiller took over for Calgary last year so here's hoping he does it again.  Pavelec is all about shots against.  The guy plays non-stop and though he doesn't win as much, he faces a boatload of activity on any given night. 

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But after close inspection, Claude Giroux is actually the most valuable player in the league based on last years stats. His score rounds out to 542.7, which averages to 6.9 points per game. Almost 300 shots and near 1100 faceoff wins..........

 

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D

 

now you know why I asked you about Pavelski

 

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@BroadStBull
If preseason is any indication, it looks like Giroux will get more PK time than last year. #Flyers
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Here's my roster from our forum's league's draft: (Note: This is as it came from the draft. No adjustments made yet.)

 

C: Claude Giroux, Henrik Sedin

LW: Alex Galchenyuk, James van Riemsdyk

RW: Mark Stone, Jeff Carter

D: Shea Weber, Alex Pietrangelo, Johnny Boychuk, Dennis Wideman

Util: Patrick Marleau

Bench: Troy Brouwer, Mark Scheifele, Kris Russell

G: Henrik Lundqvist, Devan Dubnyk

Bench: Mike Smith

 

Faceoffs for forwards and blocked shots for defensemen were a big factor. For example, Russell was ranked in the 300's by ESPN, but his points totals are far higher than many above him because of the blocks.

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Here is mine..also as it came from the draft, non-adjusted.

This is for the HF.net Bantam "A" league

 

C-- R. Getzlaf, J. Spezza

RW- J. Pominville, N. Niederreiter

LW- P. Maroon, J. Huberdeau

D- D. Hamilton, A. Goligoski, M. Giordano, M. Dumba

 

Util: D. Girardi

 

Bench: C. Hagalin, A. Stralman, D. Weise

 

G--B. Holtby, F. Andersen

Bench Goalie: P. Mrazek

 

My first fantasy hockey league ever, so i tried hedging my bets and going with guys who could do a bit of everything, but did place a premium on hitters who can score and hitters who can block shots on D.

My D-men for the most part are 'workhorse' types and are out there usually for all situations, so gives me opportunity to pick up points whether its even strength or special teams.

I took a chance on some guys who I really expect to have either break out years (Dumba in Min, and  Mrazek in Det), or guys who I expect will have BETTER numbers due to being on a team that can better utilize them in their systems (Hagelin in Ana, Hamilton in Cgy for instance).

 

There were a couple players I was trying to get but simply weren't there (Lucic, Perry, Stamkos, Palat), but overall, I am pretty happy with my first foray into the world of fantasy hockey.

Like Matt Dumba in Minnesota, I can only get better from here on out... ;)

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I love all these different strategies here with both groupings.  

 

@ScottM 

I'm assuming you drafted Giroux with the first pick at #1  - How impressive is that  :D.   But wow that means Lundqvist then dropped to the end of the 2nd round. wow.

 

@TropicalFruitGirl26   

Nice draft!   Looks like you got players with good extra stats.   :)

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I love all these different strategies here with both groupings.  

 

@ScottM 

I'm assuming you drafted Giroux with the first pick at #1  - How impressive is that  :D.   But wow that means Lundqvist then dropped to the end of the 2nd round. wow.

 

Yeah, I couldn't believe my luck with Lundqvist. I really didn't think I'd get either of them, but I targeted him and Holtby for my back-to-back 2nd/3rd round picks. Price, obviously, was long gone. Holtby was gone when my turns came, but Lundqvist was still there, so I grabbed him and Dubnyk. Two Vezina finalists aren't so bad. Lol

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