ESPN TBL Fantasy Hockey 2008/09

bobmcgoo · Post by **bobmcgoo** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:46 pm

Fair enough. Can't think of any other deals though...better leave it.

Post by **archibalduk** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:03 pm

Man my team sucks

Anyway, the Kent Might Turnips are proud to unveil their logo and jersey for the 08/09 season:

Logo (Large):

Logo (Small):

Jersey:

Lets go Turnips!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:25 am

I have a feeling Vancouver has been manager-less recently. They missed another goal and PPG from a benched Goligoski. Both of which appear to be a weak point for the team.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:58 pm

Archi, I've taken over last place from you!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:02 pm

I thought I was in last?

Oh no, wait... I'm all the way at the other end of the table.

Post by **batdad** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:58 pm

Corinthian..YOu wanted Turris..you get Turris. Hopefully his 11 minutes per game won't kill you. Not to mention the NCAA wall he will hit in 20 more games. I love Kyle, but well..he is a rookie. Staal can get 75 points too, and plays more minutes with a better plus minus, and well...Beauchemin/Volchenkov should at least help my PIM totals a little. Good dealing with you.

For others...we spent over a week back and forth on this. Kyle started hot, so I liked him. But now with my problems in other areas....bye bye Kyle. Maybe I could have got more from others...dunno...but oh well.

Devils88 · Post by **Devils88** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:44 pm

i'm really widdled off by the effort of my most players so far.

derek roy and b.morrisson from whom i expected some assists are really invisiable "fantasy like".
also jovocob and bouwmeester are pretty bad, except ice time. connolly is injured and was a risk draft pick that didn't pay off til now. won't mention my goalie tandem of gerber and thomas who gave up minimum 4 goals each night.

also my trades didn't turn out the way i hoped.
brind amours doing ok but vrbata is a scratch right now for tampa. but aucoin (dropped), clowe and budaj who i gave up in that trade didn't do much so far also. (really thought budaj could be a no1 goalie for the avs, strange)

hope that horcoff for lupul trade will bring some positives for me. lupul was really bad so far.

....but it's a long season and i hope some guys could pick up their game.

it's the voros', dubinskys, mikko koivus,miettinens, webers and kotaliks who light up the league at the moment.

corinthian · Post by **corinthian** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:45 pm

Well Batdad. Turris won't hurt me playing 11 min. since he's playing with Jokinen & Doan on PP line.
I guess it was a good trade since Beauchemin is getting hotter and I like how Minnesota and Sabres are playing in this season so far so Lydman & Bergeron should be good additions to my roster.

Just time will tell if Turris will fulfill my faith on him.

Post by **B. Stinson** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:22 am

Turris won't hurt me playing 11 min.

Actually, he could.

If you have two guys playing one night, and they average 20:00 and 23:00 on the ice, your final team average for the day would be 21:30.

But throw Turris into the mix with 11:00 that night, and your final team average for the day drops to 18:00.

I had this happen a couple times already where I started a player who only got low ice time in his game, and as a result he dragged down my team average for that day.

Post by **batdad** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:30 am

Which is why I gave up Turris in the end.

Anyway..WAHOO!!! I finally got a goalie win, even though my GAA went up and Save percentage down! WAHOO!!!

Post by **batdad** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:29 pm

If you would be interested in James Sheppard..who is off to a slow start...let me know. He will be fine, just starting slow and I need a bit of a sniper now.

Also, anyone who needs assists..make me an offer for anyone other than Thornton or Stastny...with someone who has high ice time and scores..and we shall see.

corinthian · Post by **corinthian** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:57 pm

Hi! Batdad. I know you're trying to improve your team but Sheppard for Cammalleri ?! ':-p' nice try '=D>' it took me no more than a sec to say NO ':-D'

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:20 pm

WOO-HOO!!!!!!

I've moved out of last place and into 19th! Enjoy your stay at the bottom, Archi. I'm sure I'll be back there soon enough.

Post by **batdad** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:24 pm

Heh..Yeah I knew it would not wash...but we negotiated before...and you have Sheppard on your want list..so...gotta try.

Post by **archibalduk** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:04 pm

bruins72 wrote:WOO-HOO!!!!!!

I've moved out of last place and into 19th! Enjoy your stay at the bottom, Archi. I'm sure I'll be back there soon enough.

Hehe seems I really suck at this. It probably doesn't help that I hadn't rated a goalie high enough and passed-up the opportunity to have Crosby/Ovechkin in favour of Zetterberg. My team feels distinctly average. If anyone fancies offering me a trade, I'm particularly interested in a goalie who sees a lot of games!

Post by **archibalduk** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:15 pm

How do I turn off the daily e-mail updates?

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:37 pm

archibalduk wrote:
bruins72 wrote:WOO-HOO!!!!!!

I've moved out of last place and into 19th! Enjoy your stay at the bottom, Archi. I'm sure I'll be back there soon enough.
Hehe seems I really suck at this. It probably doesn't help that I hadn't rated a goalie high enough and passed-up the opportunity to have Crosby/Ovechkin in favour of Zetterberg. My team feels distinctly average. If anyone fancies offering me a trade, I'm particularly interested in a goalie who sees a lot of games!

Ovechkin was gone before your pick but Crosby was available. I got Crosby but he's not helping me all that much.

My goalies haven't been exactly solid either. And to make matters worse, I think I've got about 6 guys who are out with injuries. One is for about a month but the others are all supposed to be DTD. I just wished they'd hurry up and start playing again. It's killing me!

Post by **archibalduk** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:58 pm

Injuries aren't helping me, either. Zetterberg has been out for a while and is still DTD. Viktor Kozlov is out for a few weeks. That's probably my best two forwards out.

bobmcgoo · Post by **bobmcgoo** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:47 pm

Archi

Daily updates can be turned off on the "Edit Team Settings" header under the "My Team" tab.

Free agency is one way of curing team suckitis...

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:24 pm

I'd love to hit free agency but there isn't an option to put our players on the IR. If I want to replace an injured player, I'll have to waive him. I don't know that I want to lose these guys for the long term. In the short term it hurts me because I've got 6 players that aren't generating points for me at all.

Post by **joehelmer** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:34 pm

I put Jack Johnson on the waiver because I can't have a player who's gone until after the all-star game.

Post by **getzlaf15** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:43 pm

Saturday is going to bring some tough choices for people, every team in the NHL is playing!

Post by **archibalduk** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:16 pm

bobmcgoo wrote:Archi

Daily updates can be turned off on the "Edit Team Settings" header under the "My Team" tab.

Free agency is one way of curing team suckitis...

Cheers dude - those daily e-mails have been driving me nuts

Regarding the free agency - I've been dabbling in that quite a bit in an attempt to patch things up a little. Though I'm still rock bottom

Post by **batdad** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:30 pm

So Andrew Ladd for Cam Barker has now become Andrew Ladd for a "waived" Cam BArker, which in turn has become Brian backup Bobby Boucher!! Nice deal B72...

Since I have goalies who only seem to win once in awhile...and when they do...they let in a bucketful, I went out and got two backups for solid teams today. I will have to pay attention to the scheds of Dal/SJ and hope Stephan and Boucher get some ice time. Stephan was going to play tonight in NYI, but now that Turco got yanked 1/2 way through last night not so sure.

Hoping Bobby Boucher gets the start vs Florida (not Tampa, because then I have a losing goalie for sure)

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:21 pm

That's okay. Ladd hasn't done anything for me yet. He's got 1A, 6 PIM, and 10 SOG. All in all, he's been useless. I'm hoping he turns it around soon though. Higgins and Gaustad haven't played a game yet this season due to injuries. Higgins should be back soon though. Stempniak just came back from injury. Hanzal has been DTD as long as I can remember but he's managed to play 5 games.

Oh I might as well not even have goalies. Biron and Ward have 1 win between the two of them! Ward has a 3.29 GAA and Biron has a whopping 5.00 GAA!

The one player who hasn't been a disappointment for me is Kessel. He's been everything I hoped for when I drafted him. He's got 6 goals already in just 6 games. Sure, he can't be expected to keep up that pace but I wouldn't be too surprised to see him eclipse the 30 goal plateau.