HFWings Keeper Fantasy Hockey League: Season Seven

[saska sault]

Sorry guys, way too busy these days. Just looking at keeper selections now.

@saska sault you have some keepers selected (just four), but you need to pick eight. It's going to be in your best interest to pick eight, because if you don't, you're just going to get the last four picks in the draft...basically trading four keepers for four players that would probably otherwise be free agents.

I'd be also keeping Aho, Svech, Seider and Bouchard if it were me (damn that roster is stacked, lol)

Clarke, Levi and Wolf still have keeper eligibility too if you want to keep them

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Thank you for that, mighty neighbourly. I'm hardwired for my old league with 4 keepers.

 

[jaster]

Yeah keep him, we don't really care about draft year anymore. People have goalies that are like 26 years old in NA slots once the season starts, lol

Wait, when did we abandon the draft year stipulation? I'm all for it, I think a "games cap" is all you need, but I didn't realize we changed anything. I thought you had listed it as a rule just a couple posts previously lol.

 

[saska sault]

Struggling at work to use my phone browser without access to a computer... I'm missing something. Where is the tab to select keepers. Thanks in advance.

 

[Sparty]

The keeper selection screen probably gone for you now because we're past the deadline, you can just post in this thread who you want to keep and I can tag them. That was why I posted the list for you to view, I probably should have told you that though, lol

Wait, when did we abandon the draft year stipulation? I'm all for it, I think a "games cap" is all you need, but I didn't realize we changed anything. I thought you had listed it as a rule just a couple posts previously lol.

Sorry jaster. I was just looking through the older threads and there was a conversation in advance of the 2022 draft, I kind of forgot to finalize things before the 2023 draft apparently, but when I was approving keepers last year I wasn't turning away any keepers regardless of draft year.

 

[saska sault]

The keeper selection screen probably gone for you now because we're past the deadline, you can just post in this thread who you want to keep and I can tag them. That was why I posted the list for you to view, I probably should have told you that though, lol


Sorry jaster. I was just looking through the older threads and there was a conversation in advance of the 2022 draft, I kind of forgot to finalize things before the 2023 draft apparently, but when I was approving keepers last year I wasn't turning away any keepers regardless of draft year.

As expected, Svech, Seider, Aho and Bouchard. Thank you

 

[jaster]

Sorry jaster. I was just looking through the older threads and there was a conversation in advance of the 2022 draft, I kind of forgot to finalize things before the 2023 draft apparently, but when I was approving keepers last year I wasn't turning away any keepers regardless of draft year.

All good. So just to be clear, the only criteria for prospects is the 50-game threshold, yes? Less than 50 NHL games and we can consider them a "prospect" and keep up to 3 of them in addition to our regular 8 keepers?

 

[Sparty]

All good. So just to be clear, the only criteria for prospects is the 50-game threshold, yes? Less than 50 NHL games and we can consider them a "prospect" and keep up to 3 of them in addition to our regular 8 keepers?

Yup, that's it!

As expected, Svech, Seider, Aho and Bouchard. Thank you

Did you want to keep any of those three prospects or throw them all back?

 

[saska sault]

Yup, that's it!


Did you want to keep any of those three prospects or throw them all back?

Throw them back, I'll try starting that fresh.

 

[turkleton85]

Nice draft guys, looking forward to yet another year! Good luck to everyone

 

[Sparty]

Indeed, good luck everyone!

Trying to roll with a much younger team this year, so we'll see how that goes.

 

[turkleton85]

I noticed, you took lafrienere and byfield just moments before i wanted to had both players tagged and was ready to take them. With celebrini you really have a standout player for the future now

I drafted younger this year as well. I have jake sanderson the 3rd year now, michkov, byram bowen and jj peterka might be potential keepers, with crosby and forsberg getting a little older now

 

[jaster]

I think I drafted the same team I had last year, so watch out

Actually, I didn't have time to prepare much, and didn't do a good job identifying young guys/breakouts/sleepers, which will probably come back to bite me.

Stamkos.... I know there's not much trading in this league, but surprised no one wanted the guy before Wyzer Plan took him 1st overall. I don't think a single team had 8 keepers better than him. Oh well.

Also, who didn't keep Dahlin? He was 1st overall on my board going into this draft, surprised he dropped to 4th. Huge steal there by Ypsi.

 

[Electric Eric]

I think I drafted the same team I had last year, so watch out

Actually, I didn't have time to prepare much, and didn't do a good job identifying young guys/breakouts/sleepers, which will probably come back to bite me.

Stamkos.... I know there's not much trading in this league, but surprised no one wanted the guy before Wyzer Plan took him 1st overall. I don't think a single team had 8 keepers better than him. Oh well.

Also, who didn't keep Dahlin? He was 1st overall on my board going into this draft, surprised he dropped to 4th. Huge steal there by Ypsi.

I honestly had to do a quick google on Dahlin to make sure I didn’t miss a major injury or anything.

 

[Sparty]

I just don't know what to expect from Stamkos on Nashville. I think he probably won't be as good and he's getting up there in age, so I didn't want to trade my chance at Celebrini or Michkov for that. Maybe if my first rounder wasn't so high I might have been trying to make that deal, but then even still I just wasn't crazy about Stamkos. My keepers need to be better than they were last year or I'm not really contending this year anyways, so I don't have high expectations for this year and didn't want to pull out all the stops to try to win now.

I noticed, you took lafrienere and byfield just moments before i wanted to had both players tagged and was ready to take them. With celebrini you really have a standout player for the future now

I drafted younger this year as well. I have jake sanderson the 3rd year now, michkov, byram bowen and jj peterka might be potential keepers, with crosby and forsberg getting a little older now

Yeah, I wanted to pick a bunch of guys that could trend a lot higher this year. I need a year to kind of reset my keepers and I'm tired of keeping all the same guys every year, lol. I guess Draisatl is the only guy that's been on my team from the start now though.

 

[jaster]

I just don't know what to expect from Stamkos on Nashville. I think he probably won't be as good and he's getting up there in age, so I didn't want to trade my chance at Celebrini or Michkov for that. Maybe if my first rounder wasn't so high I might have been trying to make that deal, but then even still I just wasn't crazy about Stamkos. My keepers need to be better than they were last year or I'm not really contending this year anyways, so I don't have high expectations for this year and didn't want to pull out all the stops to try to win now.

Stamkos being a question mark is totally fair, it's largely why he fell to basically "9th" in terms of my own keeper rankings. I also don't think every team should necessarily have been jumping at him. I just figured someone with like the 7th/8th/9th pick would be interested in upgrading their keepers and getting a guy who is almost certainly better than whoever went 7th/8th/9th.

Buuuuuuuut, on the other hand, I realize that our league consists of posters on a prospect message board, ya'll hate the geezers LOL!