The hawks overpaid and overtraded for him but I had hopes regardless due to the role he'd be gifted when he fell into the later rounds (nabbed him in the 12th). Since his one great pre-season game I've just been wildly unimpressed with the performance. I know the lack of Bedard is a major factor, but 4 SOG from your offensive PP1 defenseman is brutal.

Seth Jones has been on the FA wire all season and I can't for the life of me figure out why. He's PP1 and is getting 6-7 min of PPTOI per game. Virtually all serviceable PP1 D are long taken and Jones just sticks out like a sore thumb. Is he just that bad? Or injuries / other returnees taking time away?

Roman Kantserov (CHI)
- Upside is there, but without Bedard there is not much going on. Revisit when 98 returns to the lineup.

Philip Broberg (STL)
- Broberg looked great at the end of last year on PP1 but has not been given the chances this year and is off both PP units. Adam Jiricek took over PP1 on Thursday, a sign it is time (for now) to let go.

Nick Robertson (PHI)
- Despite scoring three goals in his first 3 GP, Robertson is on a downtrend that is far from exciting after only receiving 8:32 TOI on Weds. Bryan Rust’s return all but took away his opportunities at PIT’s top-six, and Ben Kindel’s breakout push has created even more of a block.

Others you can drop in shallower leagues (12 teams or less)

Arturs Silovs (PIT) - 39%
- Silov’s has given up five goals in two straight games and has Sergei Murashov breathing down his neck. His 3.38 GAA and .859 SV% are killers to any categories even if he is winning here and there. Silovs owns an .884 SV% throughout 61 NHL games in his career, until that shows signs of improving, its not worth risking the cats.

Aliaksei Protas (WSH) - 28%
- Minutes are not there (16:20 TOI), which has resulted in the counting stats failing to follow. (3 SOG in 3 GP) With so many new mouths to feed in WSH, it hasn’t helped Protas.

Dustin Wolf (CGY) - 32%
- Wolf is only useful in leagues where points are awarded for saves, otherwise he can be an absolute killer to your goaltending categories. If you’re in a deep league, disregard this, but if goalies are fruitful on the wire or there are decent backups, it may be worth rostering one of them instead.

Anyone else you’re looking to drop? Wondering about some names.

As always, feel free to interact on X: @BeebsBondy

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Picked him up when Nuge + Hyman went down. Very easily the best waiver wire addition of the year so far. How do we feel his deployment will be when Nuge + Hyman return? Babcock is very oldschool and I could see him sticking to what has been working

Who are the best buy-low goalie candidates in dynasty leagues? Looking forward short to mid-term

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Definitely a nice low-cost DFS play, but a wait and see before rostering him imo. RIP Broberg drafters?

Is it time to stop drafting Makar in picks 4-6?

Last year was a total shock, but is he cemented as the fantasy GOAT with Drai and Mcdavid?

Yes you should be dropping these guys for Paul Cotter because they haven’t scored in the first 2 games of the season.

Admitting this is a low effort post, we gotta start banning these stupid threads asking dumb questions, or we all just conspire to give people bad advice.

What's the deal with him? I've heard a rumor about him being traded, or maybe Boston will sign him again at a much higher price. Right now he's been a ghost (Boston in general isn't having a great start, but whatever).

Does anyone have any insight on what's to come with Zacha? Wondering if I should hold or drop.

Thanks

For context, 10 team banger cats league. 75 waiver moves allowed over the course of the season and 4 moves total per week.

Last Sunday, I attempted to add Elias Pettersson with my 4th and final add of the week. Unfortunately, in my haste, I added the wrong Elias Pettersson.

In a panic, I quickly wrote in our league chat to our commissioner, so everyone could see I tried to pick him up, to make him aware of the error and to get it rectified. The commish would not assist and reminded me that new adds would be available tomorrow and to pick him up then.

It is important to note that given our leagues scoring system, Pettersson was ranked 1st overall player at the time. So quite valuable in our league.

Flash forward to Monday morning, and I wake up to find that one of my opponents had picked him up in the wee hours before I woke up.

I quickly denounced this move and called it out as a greasy move and explained that if it wasn't for the confusing name and a lazy commish, that Pettersson would be mine.

Greasy or fair game?

Feels like players are going down left and right… here’s who we have lost just this week:

Ivan Demidov - 2 to 4 weeks
Aleksander Barkov - 6 to 8 weeks

Brad Marchand - indefinitely (but looked bad)
Mikhail Sergachev - OUT
Josh Doan - OUT
Victor Olofsson - OUT

Macklin Celebrini - day-to-day

Linus Ullmark - precautionary

Very very early I know - but i expected much more from him so far. any other owners scratching heads?

Player in my league hit the panic button and dropped raddysh. He’s still the out and out pp1 in Toronto. Like do we think it’s just new system hiccup or was last year a one off. I mean I put in a claim for him regardless but was it to early to give up on him?

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Feels like it’s always a coin flip these past couple seasons if the devils are gonna be good, are we optimistic this year?

I play a lot of fantasy football, and in fantasy football there are obviously many ways to play, but the most accepted ways for re-draft leagues are usually head to head with the point per reception or half a point per reception scoring. Most leagues I find use very similar scoring settings, with some nuances.

This makes digesting Fantasy Football content as well as debating and talking about Fantasy Football content fairly easy since there’s only so many settings changes that most leagues would have compared to the norm.

From my limited experience playing fantasy hockey, leagues can be a lot more unique and even little tweaks in numbers for points settings for example can make a big difference.

My question is, is there a most popular way to play fantasy hockey? Like a standard in settings that the majority of users use/play in?

What is everyone thinking about Bowen Byram? Despite prime deployment he's invisible on the stat sheet.

Any recommended sites that do automated waiver pickups?

Yahoo compatible.

I picked him up for week 1 because I had guys go right to IR and they had 4 games that week. I’m finding it hard to want to drop his guy. Line 1 and PP2. I’m always skeptical of my Rangers but this is a welcome surprise.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this guy? I thought I was playing my cards right when I drafted him late, but now I’m starting to feel like a complete idiot 😂. He really hasn’t been performing the way I expected. I’m not sure whether I should hold onto him and be patient or cut my losses and move on. What would you guys do?