Deadline activity in my own keeper league, thoughts on Wingels, Faulk, Giroux and more…

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Breaking news: Kyle Okposo is out 6-8 weeks with a UBI, per several sources on Twitter. Right now it looks like Grabovski is in his spot on the big line. Look for Nielsen to get back on the PP1 unit.

Also – the Kings have placed Mike Richards on waivers. Look for him to go unclaimed, but the act of waivers should get some teams calling the Kings for a trade that will see salary move back and forth. With this big contract now on waivers, how long before others follow suit? With the trade deadline approaching, teams need the cap space. 

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I’m not a huge All-Star game fan, mostly because there’s nothing on the line. And if anything, I resent the break in my fantasy hockey league. An ASG pool started in the forum by Praba piqued my interest a little more. What is it about fantasy sports that draw eyeballs to the games? And what took the pro leagues so long to notice this?

That was a nice touch with the fantasy draft trading Kessel for Seguin. Before the draft took place, I was just thinking that it would be funny to swap a third and sixth for a fourth and fifth

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Last ramblings I was asked in the comments about my trade involving the Sedin twins so I’ll discuss it here, seeing as there are no games to discuss. I was in a bit of panic mode. Not panic yet, but approaching. As noted in those ramblings, the twins had a sharp decline in the second half and while I don’t believe it will happen to that extent this year – it will still happen. My preseason projection had them at around 70 points. And Midseason I still had them around there. But I’m starting to think it will be closer to 62 or 63. A small decline, nothing to panic over (like last year’s 10 points in the second half). My approaching panic was a mix of that slight decline, the potential for it being worse, and the potential for David Perron to take off better than Patric Hornqvist has.

I had an offer given to me the week before that gave me Perron, Chris Kunitz, Andre Burakovsky and Brandon Gormley just for the twins. This is a points-only keeper league that does count roster positions and does count the postseason. I should have taken the deal right then, but in gauging his response and replies to me, I felt that he would give more. So I pretended to hmm and haw over it for a couple of days before going back to him with an offer of a bit more. We went back and forth for a couple of days and then I decided I needed to go back to the deal that I had put in my back pocket.