Fantasy Team Throwdown

12 team league.

Forwards:
Jonathan Toews
Bobby Ryan
Ryan Getzlaf
Patrick Kane
Phil Kessel
Matt Duchene
Teddy Purcell
Brayden Schenn
Justin Williams
Ryan Callahan
Dave Bolland
Andrei Kostitsyn
Mark Scheifele (got high hopes for this guy)

Defense:
Brent Seabrook
Jack Johnson
Ryan Suter
John Carlson
Ian White
Stephane Robidas

Goal:
Corey Crawford
Ryan Miller
Semyon Varlamov

/rosterbate

Jonathan Toews (Chi – C)
Vincent Lecavalier (TB – C)
Brenden Morrow (Dal – LW)
R.J. Umberger (Cls – LW)
Dany Heatley (Min – RW)
Patric Hornqvist (Nsh – RW)
Drew Doughty (LA – D)
Christian Ehrhoff (Buf – D)
Dennis Wideman (Was – D)
Jordan Leopold (Buf – D)
David Krejci (Bos – C)
Matt Moulson (NYI – LW)
Brian Gionta (Mon – RW)
Patrice Bergeron (Bos – C)

Goaltenders
Tim Thomas (Bos – G)
Marc-Andre Fleury (Pit – G)
Michal Neuvirth (Was – G)

My D is my biggest concern. This is from auto draft but I’m pretty happy minus all the two cannots on my team.
C- Ryan Kesler (Van)
C- Patrick Marleau (SJ)
LW- Andrew Ladd (WPG)
LW-Renee Borque (CGY)
RW- Phil Kessel (TOR)
RW- Milan Hejduk (COL)
D- Dan Boyle (SJ)
D-Tobias Enstrom (WPG)
D- Mark Giordano (CGY)
D- Andrej Meszaros (PHI)
Util- John Taveres (NYI)
BN: Statsny COL
BN: Parenteau NYI
BN: Glencross CGY
G: Lundquist NYR
G: Reboundo VAN
G: Varlamov

Entertaining trades for Reboundo or Varlamov, Tavares or anyone, for some better defensive players.

Categories: G, A, +/-, Hits, PIM, Special Teams Points. Only eight of us, so 8 points up for grabs in each category. If you finish first in every category by end of season you’d get 48 points. If you finished first in 5 of them and second in the sixth, you’d get 47. Worst possible total is 6.

You have to use 12 fwds and 6 d, and that’s the minimum team, but you could draft up to 18 fwds and 10 d (which I opted to do). My team:

Toews
D. Brown
E. Staal
Backes
Sharp
Kesler
Kulemin
Carter
Ott
Stafford
Hossa
Bolland
Stastny
Fisher
Roy
Franzen
Leino
Simmonds

M. Green
Visnovsky
M. Staal (a risk)
Markov (a bigger risk)
Phaneuf
Leopold
Shattenkirk
E. Johnson
E. Brewer
Montador

I know it’s tough to evaluate when it’s not your league or team. But like Qtips says, it’s not Friday, and this is hockey.

C Anze Kopitar
C Henrik Zetterberg
LW Milan Lucic
LW James van Riemsdyk
RW Ryane Clowe
RW Michael Grabner
D John-Michael Liles
D Ryan Suter
D Kimmo Timonen
D Matt Carle
LW Andrew Brunette
RW/LW Rick Nash
D Ryan Whitney
LW Dustin Penner
LW Ryan Smyth
G Jonathan Quick
G Niklas Backstrom

My D leaves a little to be desired, but overall I’m fairly happy with the team. I think in the past the largest league I was in was 10 teams. SCH having 14 teams certainly made the draft interesting. It kinda lets you take a flier on someone and not get too badly burned.

Cafucks lose, albeit in an overtime that should have never happened…and BryzzNasty shuts down the defending champs!