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Brendan Shanaban
10-21-2011, 06:57 AM
A buddy of mine offered me Zetterberg and Couture for M. Richards and James Neal...now, I'm not pulling the trigger on that because Couture would be a #5 center on my team, but I'm debating offering Mike for Zetterberg (C, LW) straight up as Zetterberg only has 1 point through 4 games this year but I expect this pace to pick up

I'm a bit confused at where I should be valuing Mike's production, though. He's been a 60-65 point guy the last couple of seasons in Philly, but was an point/game player the two seasons previous to that. I think a lot of this had to do with the added responsibilities of the Captaincy in Philly/Pronger/etc.

Do you guys think he can get back to a point/game in LA playing on the top PP line? He's at 5 points and 13 shots through 6 games.

With Backes eligible at center now, I currently have a team last looks like the following:

Positions are: C, C, LW, LW, RW, RW, D, D, D, G, G, BN x 6
Categories: G, A, plus/minus, PIM, PPP, SOG, Wins, GAA, SV%, SO

C - Nicklas Backstrom (WSH)
C - Mike Richards (LAK)
LW - James Neal (PIT)
LW - Max Pacioretty (MTL)
RW/C - David Backes (STL)
RW - Marion Gaborik (NYR)
D - John-Michael Liles (TOR)
D - Brian Campbell (FLA)
D - Ryan Whitney (EDM)
G - Tim Thomas (BOS)
G - Jaroslav Halak (STL)
BN/G - Tuuka Rask (BOS)
BN/G - Johan Hedberg (NJ)
BN/C - Derek Roy (BUF)
BN/LW - Tomas Fleischmann (FLA)
BN/RW - Chris Stewart (STL)
BN/D - Marek Zidlicky (MIN)

I think that's pretty solid for a 14-team league. Do you think a trade for a stud C, LW like Zetterberg puts a team like this over-the-top? LW is clearly where I'm weakest at the moment.

Rocketman9
10-21-2011, 09:15 AM
I have Zetterberg and wouldn't take MR straight up for him.

mbr311
10-21-2011, 12:14 PM
It's good that you turned down the first trade because Neal is on fire and I think he's leading the league in goals right now...without Sid or Malkin. The guy is a gem for whomever was smart enough to grab him early in their drafts (not me lol)

The Zetterberg for Richards trade..I mean if you can get Zetterberg straight up for Richards it sounds like Rocketman9 is saying go for it so...

Brendan Shanaban
10-21-2011, 12:23 PM
yeah, just talked to the guy and he would be interested but this would give him 5 C's or somethin'

I actually just looked and I got Neal in the 10th round of a 14-man draft...amazingggg

I think his goal production will dip w/ the big 2 back in the line-up, but his assists will come up...don't see why he doesn't get ~70 pts