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Well, with the dry spell in hockey news, it’s time once again to tap into the forum. “rack55” asks if he should trade Pavel Datsyuk straight up for Rick Nash in a league that counts your main offensive categories (including SOG). It’s a keeper league and he is pretty deep at center and needs a winger badly. Nash has dual winger eligibility.

Given that information, that’s a good deal for rack55. I’m not the biggest Nash fan, as his hype exceeds his fantasy value. But even if he has another poor year, he racks up the shots on goal like nobody’s business.

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And here, “Wotan” is in trouble with his lack of RW and since Ryan Kesler is still C/RW he is wondering if he should trade Patrick Sharp (who lost RW) for him. The answer is “no”. Yes, you have too many centers and yes trading Sharp is the right move, but you can do better than Kesler. Sharp has a ton of value right now and if you shopped him around you can get a less injury-prone player.

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In case you missed it last week, Rob Vollman and I released an interesting way to look at players – by comparing them to other players throughout recent NHL history and arriving at a window of projected production (highest number and lowest number). A very interesting read if you like stats, and just $4.99 in the shop.

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Work will begin on the website in a test environment starting today. I have eight issues on the list and hope to have the resolved and going live by the weekend. Just minor stuff like the weird code that logged out users see at the top, etc. Just an FYI.

Also – I have cleared my site up with some of the email providers (hotmail, outlook, earthlink, etc) and now you can receive emails from my site again. For the last month or two, readers who used those emails were unable to receive emails from the site such as “registration verification” or “forgot password”. It’s all good now.

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Look at this guy – he scores a goal and then slides down the ice on his head in celebration. On his head.