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The Awkward Team: set at forward

Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:58 PM.

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So I was able to find a Eric Staal for 11k and 22 games. He was switched to the Dallas Stars but that doesn't bother me as I was not going to build a Carolina line. Big Staal will center my Flyers line! so I will give it a week hoping to find a cheap change team for the Flyers... but him being a Stars is helping me out at the moment as I am trying to win that Pacific division tournament.

This purchase completes my wishlist regarding my forwards... at least until I start going for the very expensive superstars like Toews, Crosby or Gretzky.

So here is my lineup for the foreseeable future:

Tatar - Backstrom - Iginla

JVR - Staal - Voracek
Ladd - Little - Wheeler
McGinn - O'Reilly - Hedjuk

I am quite happy and confident with this group. I'll still struggle against teams stacked with Gold players but against pretty much everybody else, I won't be easy to beat.

So it's time to turn our attention to the backend... and that won't be as easy.

Right now, I play with:

Ekman-Larsson - Klesla
Hedman - Vlasic (or Alzner or Demers or Blum)
Goligoski - Babchuk (or Hannan)

A few guys on my shop list: Subban (around 15k), Letang (50k at least), Edler (12-15k) and Kronwall (?).

I'd like to keep Ekman & Klesla, they play very well... and Hedman is very good also so we need to upgrade the other 3.

In goal, for now, I am going with Brodeur, LaBarbera & Karlson but I guess we will need to think about an upgrade at some point. I think I want to wait until my D is settled though then I can decide on an elite goalie that will fit with them.