Your best fantasy roster this season

[nashville]

Hey guys, I'm in an elite 1-year Yahoo H2H league, which works as a ladder systems, with winners of lower divisions moving up to the next league up next season. This is my first year in it, and I'm in pretty good shape.

It's an 18-team league, with 30 (+5 IR) man rosters. Really, really deep. 4-appearance rule for goalies too... they really come at a premium.

Check out my lineup:

Center
Crosby
Forsberg
H. Sedin
Stoll - IR
Handzus - IR
Umberger
O'Sullivan

Left Wing
Ovechkin
Gaborik (RW)
Hecht
Fedoruk
Tjarnqvist
S. Thornton - IR

Right Wing
Doan
G. Murray
Kovalev - IR
Kobasew - IR
Upshall
Bondra
Tenrkat
Barch (LW)


Visnovsky
Schnieder
Spacek
Sopel
Beauchemin
Nummelin
Stuart
Hutchinson
Tjarnqvist

Goaltenders
Kiprusoff
Backstrom
Niittymaki
McLennan

Not bad, eh?

[nashville]

Weird, can't seem to edit the OP.. there's a few typos there and I forgot to write the word "Defense"... heh. Ah well.

[chgorman]

A little weak in goal, but otherwise a pretty solid team. I assume you traded a goalie away for one of your amazing forwards...? Or does every team only have one bonafide #1 goalie? (Nitty doesn't fall into that category IMO.)

And how'd you manage to get The Kid AND AO?

[nashville]

chgorman said:

A little weak in goal, but otherwise a pretty solid team. I assume you traded a goalie away for one of your amazing forwards...? Or does every team only have one bonafide #1 goalie? (Nitty doesn't fall into that category IMO.)

And how'd you manage to get The Kid AND AO?

There's a 4 appearance rule in an 18 team league, so tenders come at a HUGE premium. Insane. Esche was recently swapped for Yannic, and earlier on Alfredsson + was swapped for CuJo. 2-3 teams forefeit goalie stats weekly because of the goalie thing.

I drafted Emery, Holmqvist, Backstrom, and Mike Morrison, and managed to swap them all out as they took over #1 jobs (except Backstrom, who I'm looking to move right now).

I recently swapped a Jokinen, A. Carter, B. Smolinski and spare parts package for Ovechkin, Stoll (while injured) and Upshall (who has been awesome in Philly since I got him).

[chgorman]

Nice work! Your team looks solid. Yeah, you better get some help in goal for Backstrom before Fernandez gets back into action.

[Washington Captals]

nashville said:

I recently swapped a Jokinen, A. Carter, B. Smolinski and spare parts package for Ovechkin, Stoll (while injured) and Upshall (who has been awesome in Philly since I got him).

that is super rape! Maybe I am miss judging it cuz it is an 18 though.

[nashville]

Lots of stat categories too. Smolinski is a faceoff monster, and racks up SHG and SHP. Actually, some people in the league thought I was overpaying. If Stoll never comes back I probably did, and Ovechkin is slumping. Although, now Jokinen is having nerve problems and may need surgery.

[chgorman]

nashville said:

Lots of stat categories too. Smolinski is a faceoff monster, and racks up SHG and SHP. Actually, some people in the league thought I was overpaying. If Stoll never comes back I probably did, and Ovechkin is slumping. Although, now Jokinen is having nerve problems and may need surgery.

Really? Crap. That's the first I've heard of this. Which Jokinen? Olie (sp?) I assume? Is it serious? I can't afford to lose him right now.

[darkvaliant]

This is my best team. It's only 9 teams, points league, but I just love all the superstars I've accumulated.

C - Gomez, Lecavalier, Arnott, Forsberg
LW - Zetterberg, Kovalchuk, Malkin
RW - Alfredsson, St. Louis, Gaborik, Cole
D - Lidstrom, Niedermayer, McCabe, Phaneuf
G - Fleury, Turco, Vokoun, Giguere

My 14 Team H2H looks like this

C - Richards, Gomez, Bergeron
LW - Ovechkin, Sedin, Tkachuk
RW - St. Louis, Hejduk, Gionta
D - Redden, Kaberle, Pronger, Visnovsky
G - Raycroft, Vokoun, Turco
IR - Bertuzzi