shakes wrote:
I just went and picked Maroon up for my fantasy team. Its a 20 team league so anyone playing on a first or second line is a must pick up. And even if he sucks and gets dumped back down in a couple games all it cost me was Eric Belanger. I could always go back to the wire and get Cody McCloud who I seem to have on my team every season. Needless to say, I haven't won a championship. But, PIMS and hits count so McCloud isn't completely useless.
How did this wind up working for you?
Game 3 of 4 with the Ducks tonight. Ben Smith is back up to dress for Carcillo, who hurt himself being bad the other night in St. Paul.
The Ducks have Bruce Boudreau coaching them now, bringing a new flavor of eventual disappointment to a squad that was already more or less doomed for the year. Their defense/goaltending is bad at 3.1 per (24th). Their scoring is worse at 2.33 (26th). They're still as deep as a duck pond, despite splitting up RPG. Lubomir Visnovky and Cam Fowler are pretty good at the blue line, but that's about it back there.
Ray Emery's starting again, against the team with whom he further protracted his career, dragging a terribly mediocre team to 4th place in a vertigo-stricken Jonas Hiller's stead.
prospective lines:
Stalberg - Toews - Kane
Sharp - Kruger - Hossa
Bickell - Bolland - Frolik
Brunette - Mayers - Smith
Good ol' 2 - 7
Leddy - Hjalmarsson
Montador - O'Donnell
Emery
Niklas Hagman - Ryan Getzlaf - Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano - Bobby Ryan - Teemu Selanne
a third line
a fourth line
Lubo Visnovsky -Cam Fowler
Luca Sbisa - Tony Lydman
two more guys
either Jonas Hiller or Dan Ellis, I dunno, Ducks have a back-to-back with Selanne returning to WINNIPEG tomorrow
For the year, the Ducks are playing worse than every team in the league but Carolina and Columbus. SHOULD be the night the Hawks remember that they can indeed have regulation wins, but the Ducks played us close both times and Carolina shut us out so you never know
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