Coming in early-mid August. I still have dibs on Crosby being the Pen fan around.

..... can we sign up now?

Yeah, more details here please. Where is the league hosted and such?

I doubt anything is available yet, it's way too early. We usually use Yahoo's free fantasy sports. Don't worry, something will be posted here in the next month or so.

count me in...

open draft, right? no "holds" or "dibs" from 2 years ago, right?

Yea, it should start over from scratch. Im in of course. Crosby is going to be great, but I doubt he will have substantial fantasy impact in his first year. (20-25 goals, 65 points)

We should have a discussion on which stats are included in this years league.

Skaters: Goals, assists, plus/minus, penalty minutes, PPG, PPA, SHG.

Goalies: GAA, GA, Save%, Wins, Saves.

discuss

talk is Crosby will center the front line with Mario and Rechi... so I would think he would get far more than 65 pnts.

So i guess no one found there list of keepers?
can we go into this season knowing this will be a keeper league? that will avoid people dropping injured players for short term gain.

http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey

Whoever starts one here, count me in.

I've run yahoo leagues (football and hockey) for awhile now, so I'm pretty familiar with how they are run. I can volunteer to start one, unless someone else wants too.

I prefer these settings:

Goalies: 2
Centers: 2
Left Wings: 2
Right Wings: 2
Defensemen: 4
Utility: 1 (this can be a forward or defenseman)
Bench: 3 (this could be goalies or skaters. You rotate them in and out of your active lineup as desired)

A typical league would have stat categories like:

Goals
Assists
plus-minus (combined for everyone on your team)
Penalty minutes (yes, more is better)
Shots on goal
Special-teams points (PP + SH. Some people like to split up PP and SH points and have them as separate categories)

and for goalies you'd have:

Wins (or points, 2 points for a win, 1 for a tie)
Save %
GAA
Shutouts (optionally)

No, I haven't located the keeper list yet, but I was under the impression that everyone, or most, wanted to start all over.

What is the majority opinion? Start over or try and go with the keeper league.

I think trying to go with the keeper league will be difficult because it is two years later and I don't know where I placed the list, if I still have the list.

And yes, lets get together and set the scoring categories and player amounts before time.

I say scrap the keeper idea alltogether. If a person wants to take a chance of dropping due to injury someone that may help someone else down the line, deal with it.

I liked the categories MB had up there.

we had discussed doing:

Goalies: 2
Centers: 1
Left Wings: 1
Right Wings: 1
Forwards: 2
Wings: 2
Defensemen: 4
Bench: 2

but i'm pretty open.

Last time we ran pp an sh seperate and it worked well.

in fact we ran PPG and PPA which i really liked.

NOTE: Goalie(1 pnt for tie) is gonna be irrelevant as no ties are possible.

Playing (scoring) at any given time:

Goalie: 2
Center: 2
Left Winger: 2
Right Winger: 2
Defensemen: 2
Utility: 1
Bench: 6

Yeah, I forgot about that. Force of habit I guess. I'm so used to ties that the shootout will be pretty wild to watch for the first time in a NHL game.

Speaking of the shootout, I think it would be cool if the NHL allows camera crews onto the ice during the shootout. Give the fans watching on TV a close up view.

yup, a direct behind the shooter shot.

What about IR, is that a set position? how many IR slots... I'd say 2. we had 1 last time and it sucked sometimes... especialy if we are lookign at a keepe rleague... ditching a injured superstar to save one season would hurt.

Yeah, an IR position is a must. I agree that 2 is probably a good number.

Also something to consider, whomever is picked to set this up....try to schedule the draft as close as you can to the opening season start date (Oct 5th). That way if anyone is injured during the mini-camps or pre-season games, people won't pick them. I've been in some leagues that drafted a few weeks before the season opener, only to see my first round pick blow out his knee one week before the season even started.

i dont agree on this, but thats only if we do a keeper...

i REALLY want to do a keeper, purhapse i will start a keeper league with slightly different rules... then if people want to play both they can...

I'm not sure I really like the idea of a keeper league, but that's probably because I'm pretty new to the fantasy sports thing. And as far as the drafts go, I would prefer to not do a live draft. Just too difficult to schedule.

I think all the stats/positions yall've talked about are good ones. Again, being new to this, I'd like it as simple as possible, but will play along anyway.

I agree with evanbio. Maybe we can do like we did with the baseball...2 leagues. A keep it simple league, for those who prefer it that way, and a "keeper" league who prefer that. I know the simple league setup we have on the Yahoo! side has made it easier for me to learn, and alot easier for those who know what they are doing to manage.

I like the 2 league setup as well ..... I am definitely in for the keeper league!!!!

Two leagues sounds good. I don't know if hockey had the IR. I know football doesn't have it this year.

Sounds like the 2 league setup is the way to go. I'm interested in both.

2 it is...
sounds like it, anyways...

I'll volunteer to commish the basic league.

oh i'll likely play both league but i will commish the keeper.

Live Draft - it isn't a problem to shcedule, if some people can't make it then they simply prerank their players and let the computer do it off of their list.

I need to go through the possible stats/positions and figure it out.

I honestly can not even remember all the stats from last time.

I'm game for both leagues. Please hold a spot for me.

Thanks!