Fantasy Hockey Forum

[Pitts]

Glencross is listed as IR (properly) on ESPN, but at Day-to-day on Yahoo. How's that?

[Idoit40fans]

Doesn yahoo update every status for the following day?

[Idoit40fans]

I have Lehtonen, Quick, Lehner, and Reimer playing today in the LGP Keeper.

Lehtonen is playing against the Blackhawks, but he seems like a must start at this point. Lehner is pretty lights out right now too and is playing Florida. I guess Lehner is a must start tonight as well. I guess this discussion doesn't need to occur.

[Idoit40fans]

Advice: Pavelec has allowed 10 or more goals in 10 of his past 14 games but he is now been in the Winnipeg net for two consecutive wins.

Wow, I can't believe I didn't notice how bad he has been.

[Steve]

I actually came here to ask about Pavelec.

For the third goalie on the roster: Pavelec or Backstrom?

[PghSkins]

Can they please lock Varlamov away already so Giguere can get more starts????

[PghSkins]

Brent Burns has been "Close to returning" from a mouth injury for a good 2 weeks now. Come on, dude.

[Malkamaniac]

Traded Perron (late round draft pick) and Granlund (FA pick up) for Bobby Ryan. Proceeds to lay an egg tonight. Womp womp.

[Kraftster]

This is sort of a fun one given all of the overlap. Pick two starters for each of my teams tonight:

Team A:
Ben Bishop @ LA
Henrik Lundqvist vs. Bos
Sergei Bobrovsky @ Edm
Kevin Poulin @ Tor

Team B:
Ben Bishop @ LA
Roberto Luongo vs. Fla
Craig Anderson @ Phi

Team C:
Ben Bishop @ LA
Ben Scrivens vs. TB
Henrik Lundqvist vs. Bos
Tuukka Rask @ NYR
Kevin Poulin @ Tor

I think I'm going with Lundy + Bob; Bishop + Lou; Rask + Bishop. But I'd almost rather go Bishop over Lundy on Team A. Any consideration to going Lundy + Rask to secure at least one win in what should be a low scoring affair. Scrivens (b2b shutouts) over Bishop in that league?

[MRandall25]

A:
Bobrovsky vs. Edmonton
Lundqvist vs. Boston

B:
Luongo vs. Florida
Anderson vs. Philly

C:
Scrivens vs. Tampa
Rask or Lundqvist (or possibly both)


That would be what I'd go with

[MRandall25]

I hope you didn't play Bobrovsky because of me

Did not expect the Jackets to look like a dumpster fire, especially against EDM

[Kraftster]

Bad, bad night all the way around.

[meecrofilm]

Scrivens was serviceable (for me at least).

So it looks like Burns might finally be returning. So... who am I dropping from my D?

Chara (nope)
Voynov (nope)
Fowler
Zidlicky
J. Johnson.

I know logic probably dictates Zidlicky, but he gets a lot more opportunity than someone like Johnson, who's been pretty disappointing so far. League also counts PPG, PIMs, and HITS, among other more basic categories.

[MRandall25]

Why bother dropping a D when Burns has forward eligibility?

[meecrofilm]

'Cause forwards score more than D, so dropping a forward for him would be pretty silly (he's curently stashed on IR, of course). The fact that you can have a forward taking up a D-spot is the whole point.

[MRandall25]

Right, but who are your forwards?

[meecrofilm]

Nobody who's scoring less than any of my D-men, which is part of the reason my D is so lackluster

[Idoit40fans]

Yeah, Burns is not valuable as a F, but as D, he's pretty awesome. Burns isn't better than someone you can pickup as a F I like Zidlicky though, he's doing well.

[MRandall25]

Pick 2:

Lundqvist vs. Dallas
Lehtonen vs. NYR
Scrivens vs. NJ


I'm leaning Lundqvist and Scrivens, but could hear arguments for Lehtonen over Lundqvist with the Rangers' offense.

[meecrofilm]

You really can't go wrong with either. I'll tend to play goalies against each other when the opportunity affords itself, since you're guaranteed a win and the combined stats will usually level out to be decent.

You'd think Scrievens was due for a stinker eventually, but NJD's on a back-to-back, so he's probably safe. I'd probably pick Lehtonen, TBH. He's been on a tear recently, and whenever it seems like a wash, I always go West over East.

[mikey287]

Devils don't score and the Kings are playing well defensively. Lehtonen should really be a Vezina candidate right now. Kari is the Stars. Hank is 3-3 lifetime vs. Dallas.

[mikey287]

My bad.

[MRandall25]

Eh, they were close enough. 3-2 isn't a big difference in terms of my overall GAA this week.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Why is the penalty minutes stat a positive category for fantasy? Shouldn't it be negative? I have a schmuck like Zac Rinaldo on my team for the sole purpose of getting PIMs, but should players like him really have fantasy value?

[mikey287]

Nope. I've been saying that for about ten or so years now...doesn't make sense. It's supposed to add value to power forwards or some such, but really it's garbage. I try to eliminate it in league's that I'm in...it's bologna, it doesn't make sense...