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Yaya posted:Super Street Fighter 2 Turco (HHL) Keepers Sent you a PM, let me know how you want to arrange things tonight, if you still need to head out to the ferry mid-draft.
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:15 |
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1. (21) John Tavares (TOR - C) $69 2. (25) J.T. Miller (VAN - C,RW) $99 3. (41) Vincent Trocheck (NYR - C) $41 4. (49) Victor Hedman (TB - D) $42 5. (51) Jeremy Swayman (BOS - G) $42 6. (82) Cole Caufield (MTL - LW,RW) $11 7. (88) Darnell Nurse (EDM - D) $53 8. (97) Carter Hart (PHI - G) $21 9. (108) Tyler Seguin (DAL - C,RW) $16 10. (131) Boone Jenner (CBJ - C,LW) $18 11. (140) Owen Tippett (PHI - RW) $2 12. (145) Jared Spurgeon (MIN - D) $5 13. (155) J.T. Compher (DET - LW,RW) $4 14. (159) Scott Mayfield (NYI - D) $1 15. (229) Tom Wilson (K) (WSH - RW) $2 16. (230) Ryan Hartman (K) (MIN - C,RW) $3 17. (231) Pierre-Luc Dubois (K) (LA - C,LW) $68 18. (232) Hampus Lindholm (K) (BOS - D) $2 So, my plan going in was to target one top center who can also add in other categories, as well as a clear number one goalie. John Tavares went for cheaper than I expected, so I spent more on Miller, which was okay, because he's great in this format. Missed out on a ton of goalies, and ended up getting Swayman. Couldn't follow it up with another option, so had to go with Hart again (I drafted him last year and dropped him a month or two later, stupidly). My focus then became drafting multi-positional players, and wingers who could get me a lot of FW and other categories. The issue with my team is that I am depending on a few older guys, who I am hoping won't take big steps back this season. Of course, that will be balanced by Caufield and Tippett becoming elite. I really wanted Seider predraft, and he went for $50. Then I entered a bidding war and spent $53 on Nurse, who I also wanted, but I prefer Seider. I also stopped bidding on Bobrovsky around $20, and should have just kept going. But, I will forget both of these things very shortly.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 02:27 |
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Tage Against The Machine 1. (15) Brady Tkachuk (OTT - LW) $104 2. (19) Alex DeBrincat (DET - LW,RW) $41 3. (54) Joe Pavelski (DAL - C,RW) $48 4. (62) Joel Eriksson Ek (MIN - C) $53 5. (114) Luke Hughes (NJ - D) $20 6. (127) Radko Gudas (ANA - D) $23 7. (141) Arber Xhekaj (MTL - D) $14 8. (142) Zach Werenski (CBJ - D) $4 9. (150) Charlie Coyle (BOS - C) $3 10. (187) Blake Coleman (CGY - C,RW) $1 11. (197) Matt Roy (LA - D) $1 12. (204) Alexis Lafreniere (NYR - LW) $1 13. (210) Sam Montembeault (MTL - G) $1 14. (214) Barrett Hayton (ARI - C) $1 15. (285) Joonas Korpisalo (K) (OTT - G) $2 16. (286) Tage Thompson (K) (BUF - C) $39 17. (287) Jack Hughes (K) (NJ - C,LW) $56 18. (288) Elias Pettersson (K) (VAN - C) $84 I had a pretty poo poo draft, so my team will have to be buoyed by my keepers. My defense basically hinges on Luke Hughes and Werenski being good otherwise its contributing absolutely no offense. fancy stats fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Oct 9, 2023 |
# ? Oct 9, 2023 03:13 |
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Fooley Cooley 1. (9) Auston Matthews (TOR - C) $177 2. (47) Aleksander Barkov (FLA - C) $69 3. (73) Sam Reinhart (FLA - C,RW) $27 4. (86) Jacob Markstrom (CGY - G) $56 5. (129) Artturi Lehkonen (COL - LW) $5 6. (132) Phillip Danault (LA - C) $8 7. (144) Ivan Barbashev (VGK - C,LW) $9 8. (157) Brayden McNabb (VGK - D) $11 9. (170) Jonas Johansson (TB - G) $5 10. (176) Esa Lindell (DAL - D) $2 11. (178) Nikita Zadorov (CGY - D) $9 12. (182) Logan Cooley (ARI - C) $27 13. (188) Jake Middleton (MIN - D) $2 14. (194) Karel Vejmelka (ARI - G) $1 15. (281) Travis Konecny (PHI - RW) $2 16. (282) Mikael Backlund (CGY - C) $2 17. (283) Evan Bouchard (EDM - D) $6 18. (284) Bo Horvat (NYI - C) $72 weird draft. sure as hell won't argue with that forward depth, but that goaltending inspires very little confidence. had my eye on cooley for like five rounds and disappointed i didn't wait out a smidge longer, but he'll be worth that and more by next season.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 03:20 |
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Benn & Eller 1. (24) Adam Fox (NYR - D) $65 2. (29) Steven Stamkos (TB - C,LW) $85 3. (32) Dougie Hamilton (NJ - D) $35 4. (50) Elias Lindholm (CGY - C) $41 5. (67) Drake Batherson (OTT - RW) $22 6. (78) Adin Hill (VGK - G) $55 7. (94) Logan Thompson (VGK - G) $48 8. (118) David Perron (DET - LW,RW) $9 9. (146) Nick Schmaltz (ARI - C,RW) $1 10. (160) Casey Mittelstadt (BUF - C) $1 11. (184) Noah Hanifin (CGY - D) $1 12. (196) Filip Hronek (VAN - D) $1 13. (203) Valeri Nichushkin (COL - LW,RW) $1 14. (209) Jordan Staal (CAR - C) $1 15. (249) Josh Morrissey (WPG - D) $26 16. (250) Connor Hellebuyck (WPG - G) $95 17. (251) Jared McCann (SEA - LW) $4 18. (252) Jesper Bratt (NJ - LW,RW) $3 My game plan was to go for bargains. Nothing fancier than that really. I feel fairly happy with this team. The goaltending should be solid. I have good players at every position. My best bargains were probably Hamilton at $35 and Lindholm at $41. I think those could be steals for me.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 03:36 |
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I had both of my drafts tonight. First up we have the $15 league I joined. 10 teams Scoring: G, A, +/-, PPP, SOG, BLK W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO I had 1st pick. Friends league with 4 keepers (I kept Draisatl, Tage, Samsonov and Morrisey) 10 teams, same as above plus Hits, Goals Against and Shots Against. I had 2nd pick after keepers. I feel pretty good about both drafts, I don't think I screwed up too much. I was in a pretty good position going into both of them.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 03:45 |
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Twin Cinema posted:I really wanted Seider predraft, and he went for $50. Then I entered a bidding war and spent $53 on Nurse, who I also wanted, but I prefer Seider. I also stopped bidding on Bobrovsky around $20, and should have just kept going. But, I will forget both of these things very shortly. On mobile, so will have to share team later, but overall pretty impressed with the team I ended up with, considering I slept through the first hour (auto picks were Rantanen and Kucherov for 190 total or something, which is… ok, I guess). My team profile is pretty old so I suspect a middling finish unless everyone magically doesn’t get injured, or I snag some unknown person on the wire that takes off. Oh well, this year’s drafts coincided with some international trip prep so I’m not too invested in outcomes.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 05:18 |
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Me Zohorna! Love you long time 1. (2) Connor Bedard (CHI - C) $76 2. (5) Connor McDavid (EDM - C) $227 3. (28) Evgeni Malkin (PIT - C) $44 4. (36) Adam Fantilli (CBJ - C) $27 5. (48) Johnny Gaudreau (CBJ - LW) $26 6. (81) Andrei Kuzmenko (VAN - LW) $8 7. (113) Noah Dobson (NYI - D) $11 8. (117) Brayden Schenn (STL - C,LW) $15 9. (128) Marcus Foligno (MIN - LW,RW) $13 10. (136) Matt Duchene (DAL - C,RW) $2 11. (151) Jake McCabe (TOR - D) $3 12. (183) Zach Benson (BUF - LW) $2 13. (198) Connor Clifton (BUF - D) $1 14. (205) Brandon Carlo (BOS - D) $1 15. (269) Jacob Trouba (NYR - D) $3 16. (270) Jack Eichel (VGK - C) $36 17. (271) Filip Gustavsson (MIN - G) $2 18. (272) Jake Oettinger (DAL - G) $3 Centers baby! Cheap keepers on goaltending let me spend a lot of money quick. With Bedard, Fantilli, and Benson this team is very high risk, high reward. Hopefully cheaping out on defense to prioritize hits and blocks (I think I spent $19 total) works out. Only picks that I really feel like I messed up on were Kuzmenko (who I dunno will even crack 30 this year) and Duchene, but they’re both cheap and probably easily replacable. I also wish I had gone for some more positionally flexible players but ultimately that’s also a minor issue. Ultimately pretty pleased with it.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:21 |
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I should really just not do this league anymore. Another year of me not being able to make the draft and this team is thoroughly horrible and I don't even have exciting players to root for. This is gonna be brutal.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 13:22 |
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Osti Pastrnak 1. (3) Mitch Marner (TOR - RW) $77 2. (20) Juuse Saros (NSH - G) $100 3. (37) Ilya Samsonov (TOR - G) $67 4. (38) Mark Scheifele (WPG - C) $25 5. (68) Tomas Hertl (SJ - C) $29 6. (99) Pavel Zacha (BOS - C) $11 7. (111) Dylan Strome (WSH - C) $2 8. (115) Devon Toews (COL - D) $17 9. (147) K'Andre Miller (NYR - D) $9 10. (156) Nikolaj Ehlers (WPG - LW) $5 11. (158) Jamie Drysdale (ANA - D) $4 12. (169) Colton Parayko (STL - D) $3 13. (181) Wyatt Johnston (DAL - C) $1 14. (202) Matthew Poitras (BOS - C) $1 15. (225) Tyler Bertuzzi (TOR - LW) $4 16. (226) Akira Schmid (NJ - G) $2 17. (227) Charlie McAvoy (BOS - D) $20 18. (228) David Pastrnak (BOS - RW) $98 I am not super thrilled with this team but it's also not bad. I feel like Ehlers and Johnston could turn out to be good deals. I usually end up taking multiple rookies in this draft and I didn't really do that this year since it hasn't worked out all that well in the past. I really just took Poitras and at $1 if he ends up getting sent back to junior after 9 games it's not a huge deal.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 13:51 |
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Timo Money Timo Problems 1. (12) Chris Kreider (NYR - LW) $45 2. (23) William Nylander (TOR - RW) $60 3. (33) Brad Marchand (BOS - LW) $62 4. (39) Tanner Jeannot (TB - LW,RW) $32 5. (44) Andrei Svechnikov (CAR - LW,RW) $76 6. (46) Vitek Vanecek (NJ - G) $40 7. (92) Anders Lee (NYI - LW) $16 8. (110) Mathew Barzal (NYI - C,RW) $9 9. (120) Michael Bunting (CAR - LW) $10 10. (139) Antti Raanta (CAR - G) $1 11. (153) Erik Cernak (TB - D) $10 12. (164) Shea Theodore (VGK - D) $5 13. (166) Sean Durzi (ARI - D) $10 14. (190) Brenden Dillon (WPG - D) $1 15. (273) Tim Stutzle (OTT - C,LW) $59 16. (274) Tristan Jarry (PIT - G) $44 17. (275) Vince Dunn (SEA - D) $10 18. (276) Martin Necas (CAR - C,RW) $2 Seems fine, maybe lacking on the top end but a lot of good players. Goaltending is precarious if Jarry gets hurt yet again or Schmid outplays Vanecek significantly. Probably one too many LWs.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 20:15 |
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FAAB budgets should be updated in the HHL.
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# ? Oct 10, 2023 06:48 |
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fawning deference posted:I should really just not do this league anymore. Another year of me not being able to make the draft and this team is thoroughly horrible and I don't even have exciting players to root for. This is gonna be brutal. I slept through my first two picks, but I seem to have turned out ok overall? I think. 1. (7) Nikita Kucherov (TB - RW) $90 2. (13) Mikko Rantanen (COL - RW) $100 3. (63) Claude Giroux (OTT - C,RW) $50 4. (65) Sergei Bobrovsky (FLA - G) $21 5. (70) Anze Kopitar (LA - C) $32 6. (72) Alex Pietrangelo (VGK - D) $26 7. (79) Miro Heiskanen (DAL - D) $41 8. (130) Philipp Grubauer (SEA - G) $21 9. (133) Neal Pionk (WPG - D) $10 10. (143) Jack Campbell (EDM - G) $16 11. (161) Rasmus Sandin (WSH - D) $11 12. (172) Seth Jarvis (CAR - C,RW) $4 13. (173) Taylor Hall (CHI - LW) $1 14. (185) Ryan O'Reilly (NSH - C) $1 15. (245) Chandler Stephenson (VGK - C) $18 16. (246) Matt Boldy (MIN - LW,RW) $22 17. (247) Zach Hyman (EDM - LW,RW) $14 18. (248) Adam Larsson (SEA - D) $6 A lot of this will depend on my goaltending, which I spent very little on this year. If things work out there, I think this team will be competitive! I hope. Also, I wish my team was a little younger... Tried not to homer too much, only Hyman and Campbell this year. And Campbell is the third goaltender, so really no expectations there.
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 15:44 |
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I like that sometimes the AI will draft you Kucherov and Rantanen, and other times, the AI will wait until the very end and draft you $1 players.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 18:06 |
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Twin Cinema posted:I like that sometimes the AI will draft you Kucherov and Rantanen, and other times, the AI will wait until the very end and draft you $1 players. I know it takes a while, but people should really pre rank based on a $500 budget if they're gonna miss
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# ? Oct 15, 2023 15:37 |
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I know everyone has experienced this at some point, but I just love when a goalie stinks so bad for the first period he gets pulled and it tanks your goalie stats for the entire week. Thank you Juuse Saros and the Nashville Predators
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# ? Oct 18, 2023 02:26 |
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I know everyone has experienced this at some point, but I just love when a goalie stinks so bad for the first period he gets pulled and it tanks your goalie stats for the entire week. Thank you Juuse Saros and the Nashville Predators Yeah, hate this. At least in fantasy baseball, you have so many starters that one bad outing shouldn’t hurt that bad. But depending on how many goalies you have, you may only be getting 3-5 starts. One bad outing can ruin you.
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# ? Oct 19, 2023 03:45 |
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Probably gonna regret dropping Schmid at some point in HHL but god he stinks so far, and I know Quick isn't going to be this good forever but my goaltending is rear end. Turns out relying on Samsonov, just because he's on a good team, and a rookie, wasn't the best decision!
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 03:32 |
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Probably gonna regret dropping Schmid at some point in HHL but god he stinks so far, and I know Quick isn't going to be this good forever but my goaltending is rear end. Turns out relying on Samsonov, just because he's on a good team, and a rookie, wasn't the best decision! Yeah, Samsonov has hosed me over so far, I kept him in my keeper league because Vas was gonna be out for months. I also took him in my money league draft. But I think I recognized his suckitude in time to get some decent help off the wire, in the keeper league my goalies are Samsonov/Woll/Hart/Vanecek. I got Hart and Woll off the wire and they have been great so far (I dumped Skinner and Copley). My money league goalies from the draft have held up a little better, I've got Ullmark/Samsonov/Thompson, and Vejmelka I grabbed off the wire to replace Skinner. I'm gonna try to stay patient with Samsonov, I'm hoping he will settle into a groove soon. My offense in both leagues has been off to a slow start, so I'm having to climb out of the cellar just a few weeks in. I'm kicking myself for not finding room for Frank the Tank in my $ league... I grabbed him in the keeper, but I hesitated in my $ league and someone else grabbed him.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 03:59 |
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Mackenzie Blackwood may have been my worst pick-up of all-time. All I wanted was a goalie to get starts to replace Hart. I decided to choose the goalie on the historically bad team.
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# ? Nov 5, 2023 13:51 |
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Twin Cinema posted:Mackenzie Blackwood may have been my worst pick-up of all-time. I picked Stuart Skinner in three different leagues.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 05:37 |
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Ilya Samsonov
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 16:14 |
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It won’t make you feel any better, but those are two goalies I was targetting in the HHL before the price went too high. I feel like goalies are more of a “throw a dart at the board and hope you hit”.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 21:00 |
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I feel like my HHL team should be doing better than it is, but such is the mystery of fantasy hockey. My skaters are about middle of the pack in each category, in terms of raw totals, although goaltending has been sunk mostly thanks to Samsonov, who I still can't give up on yet because he's a goalie for Toronto - but the actual results have me at 15th overall. Luckily it's easier to turn things around in fantasy than it is in the actual NHL. I don't have a fantasy Woodcroft to fire.
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# ? Nov 13, 2023 15:32 |
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My Longstick team is horrendously bad. I guess that comes with the territory when you draft Kuemper and Markstrom.....except that Washington is at least winning lately. I'm still bad though. Just kinda middling in everything (and bad at goals) and my goaltending is horrific. Doing much better in the Hockiest (5th) and Denis Lemieux (2nd). In the Hockiest I appear to be getting propped up heavily by my goaltending, though. I'm first in the league in powerplay points and assists but I'm middling or worse in everything else except for goalie categories which I'm dominating. And this despite Hellebuyck sucking. But the Vegas goalies are just making up for it heavily by both doing extremely well. My Denis Lemieux team also seems to be mostly being propped up by goaltending. I guess the lesson here for me is to just draft goalies because the one league I didn't I'm sucking in. It's tough trying to figure out how long to be patient with guys too. In the LSL you're just hosed if you suck because the waiver there is dire but there's some guys in the Hockiest that have been very disappointing for me so far but I'm not sure yet if I want to make changes because I'm in a playoff spot and doing fine despite that. But the waiver in the HHL is pretty solid and there are good options there if I do decide to change it up.
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# ? Nov 13, 2023 21:35 |
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Yeah I'm never sure of how long to hold on to guys. In HHL have Samsonov, who I plan to hold on to just because he's Toronto's goalie and he should get wins if nothing else. But I've also got Nik Ehlers and Devon Toews who have been loving awful, like ranked 467th and 452nd respectively. I could definitely get immediate waiver help for them but Toews was a top-100 player in this format last year. Ehlers might just be broken at this point, I'll probably give him another week. LSL my whole team is kinda "meh" but the options on the waiver wire aren't great. Fine with DLML. I haven't lost since week one there, but I'm not winning by a lot, so I'm only 7th. Swayman, Georgiev, and Shesterkin is basically guaranteed goalie wins every week, which helps a lot.
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# ? Nov 14, 2023 00:14 |
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Yeah I'm never sure of how long to hold on to guys. In HHL have Samsonov, who I plan to hold on to just because he's Toronto's goalie and he should get wins if nothing else. But I've also got Nik Ehlers and Devon Toews who have been loving awful, like ranked 467th and 452nd respectively. I could definitely get immediate waiver help for them but Toews was a top-100 player in this format last year. Ehlers might just be broken at this point, I'll probably give him another week. I guess my position on it boils down to if I'm doing fine standings-wise I can afford to be patient with guys and if I'm not I have to weigh whether making some panic moves is worth it
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# ? Nov 14, 2023 00:44 |
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If I have learned anything in the HHL, it is to keep your goalies who get starts, unless it's like San Jose's goalies. I dropped Hart in November last year, and ended up having to juggle a lot of garbage. I also just spent the past week and a bit with Hart out, and that waiver wire is dire.
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# ? Nov 14, 2023 02:30 |
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I feel like my HHL team will be pretty good if the sabres ever figure out how to defend in front of Levi and if Draisaitl, MacKinnon, and Larkin remember how to score goals
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# ? Nov 17, 2023 19:47 |
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Don't feel great about the Buffalo part, but the rest seems plausible
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# ? Nov 18, 2023 03:55 |
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I really wish you could rank your goalies, to help choose who gets listed if more goalies are playing they starting spots. Shesterkin got benched today in favour of Schmid
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# ? Nov 19, 2023 02:33 |
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Hughes getting healthy should help, but I really thought my team would be better at outscoring the obvious goaltending problems
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 16:14 |
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my goaltending has been goddamn horrific
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# ? Nov 26, 2023 02:40 |
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Won my game 11-4-0 in LSL last week and...dropped in the standings. Pretty cool! My LSL team is weird too. I've been winning even though I don't have a single skater in the top 100. In fact I only have two skaters who are even ranked in the top 200. What I do have is Oettinger and Hellebuyck, so I usually win goaltending, and then my collection of junk skaters usually win at least a handful of categories to eke things out. Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Dec 4, 2023 |
# ? Dec 4, 2023 14:13 |
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I like how Markstrom gets hurt in the Longstick and I'm looking to pick up the Flames backup to weather the storm and someone already owns both Dan Vladar and Dustin Wolf. Such a hilarious cutthroat league. My LSL team sucks anyways though so not the end of the world
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# ? Dec 6, 2023 22:38 |
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I don't think I've ever been hit so hard by injuries in fantasy like I have been lately. HHL: Charle McAvoy, Pavel Zacha, Jamie Drysdale all on IR or Out. K'Andre MIller DTD. LSL: Kyle Connor, Trevor Zegras, Sam Girard, Kevin Korchinski, Arthur Kaliyev DLML: Pavel Zacha again, Seth Jones, Thomas Chabot
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# ? Dec 14, 2023 05:25 |
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Me and Kalensc had the funniest/dumbest trade in the Longstick. So I've got Markstrom and he notices that and I guess at some point he picked up Dustin Wolf. With Markstrom hurt, Wolf was getting some starts. But Kalensc wasn't satisfied with Wolf or his goaltending so he reached out to me asking if I was interested in making a trade for Wolf since I already had Markstrom. So we put together the Alex Lyon for Dustin Wolf trade and it finally went through today only for Markstrom to get activated (and thus, Wolf sent down to the AHL) and Alex Lyon also got immediately hurt after Kalensc got him. Gming is hard.
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# ? Dec 18, 2023 08:14 |
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Ginette Reno posted:Me and Kalensc had the funniest/dumbest trade in the Longstick. So I've got Markstrom and he notices that and I guess at some point he picked up Dustin Wolf. With Markstrom hurt, Wolf was getting some starts. The Mantha/Vrana of the LSL
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# ? Dec 18, 2023 08:33 |
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Other than Tom Wilson, I decided to keep 3 awful players, but have still managed to avoid disaster because I drafted well. I ended up dropping Lindholm a few days ago, but man, Dubois and Hartman are continually on the "I am just waiting for someone better" chopping block. Ginette Reno posted:Me and Kalensc had the funniest/dumbest trade in the Longstick. So I've got Markstrom and he notices that and I guess at some point he picked up Dustin Wolf. With Markstrom hurt, Wolf was getting some starts. In HHL, waiting for Dustin Wolf (or Spencer Knight) to be called up led to me picking up Kochetkov, so I thank Wolf for that.
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:15 |
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I let Dubois free. Go grab him if you want him!
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# ? Dec 20, 2023 23:36 |