Looking for a little pool help.

[tmlfan67]

Hopefully this is the correct section to throw this, still getting used to the sections here. Need some friendly advice in the following areas. Because we are unorganized lumps at work we couldnt put together a draft so we ended up with a pick 'em pool. Who would you take in the following areas;

Rookies - total points counts. Allowed to grab 2 here.

Choose 1 goalie from the following; POints for win, ot loss and shutouts.
giguerre
hasek
mason
backstrom
lehtonen
nabakov
turco

The checkers - total points count. can only choose 1
fisher
plekanec
pahlsson
madden
c. kelly
lehtinen
lombardi
lapointe
r. malone
cleary
k. calder
c. higgins
hartnell
gratton

The young d-men - points and +/- count can only choose 1
whitney
phaneuf
meszaros
suter
pitkanen
bouwmeister
white
klesla
campoli
letang
colaiacovo
carle
weber
paetsch

and finally the goons - points but more importantly PIMS count!! can only choose 1
brashear
laraque
simon
avery
eager
gratton
peters
o'brien
barnaby
ivanans
svitov
neil
shelley
bieksa
tootoo
belak

Thanks for the help and insight.

 

[stab107]

Nabakov

Lombardi (Likely to center the second line this year)

Phaneuf or Whitney

Avery (I hate the guy but he will rack up the PIMS while getting a few PP points along the way)

 

[Bossy22]

Turco

plekanec

whitney

avery

 

[lawbick]

Rookies - total points counts. Allowed to grab 2 here.
Toews (CHI); Cogliano (EDM)

Choose 1 goalie from the following; POints for win, ot loss and shutouts.

nabakov


The checkers - total points count. can only choose 1

fisher


The young d-men - points and +/- count can only choose 1

phaneuf

and finally the goons - points but more importantly PIMS count!! can only choose 1

avery

 

[Nathan7070]

I would go:
Nabokov
Lombardi
Phaneuf
Avery

 

[jaywings19]

Rookies - total points counts. Allowed to grab 2 here.
Nicklas Backstrom (WSH)
Jonathan Toews (CHI)

Bobby Ryan (ANA)

Choose 1 goalie from the following; POints for win, ot loss and shutouts.
backstrom

The checkers - total points count. can only choose 1
fisher

The young d-men - points and +/- count can only choose 1
whitney

and finally the goons - points but more importantly PIMS count!! can only choose 1
avery - if your focus is on Points with good PIM contribution, then he's your guy
neil - similar to avery
eager - would be your guy if focus is on PIM with decent point contribution

 

[lawbick]

I didn't see that "checkers" is simply a list of players and only points count. In that case, do go with Lombardi. He will probably be between Iginla and Tanguay on the first line for a while and will do no worse than second line. Take care, though, because he is presently injured and hasn't played at all lately.

Also, like Jason said, Backstrom may be the first rookie you should take IF he plays with Ovechkin.