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I have Cleary of the Red Wings on my team and he hasn't been productive at all in the last month. I want to drop him but I don't know for who. Also I have an 18 move limit in my league, and I have used 15 so far. So I'm not sure if it's too soon to use another one. The three guys I am looking at are:

Pominville of Buffalo. He seems to be consistant, even at his young age. Every third game or so he may go pointless, but he seems to make up for it with multi point games fairly often. Not much of a PP threat, but a very solid +/-. I like a guy who can play even strength.

Todd Bertuzzi of Florida could be back in 2 weeks. He is a solid veteran, but in my opinion he's not yet completely proven on his new team (not that he's had much oppportunity either). After this injury is he worth the risk when I only have 3 moves left?

Clowe of San Jose. His role on his line with Thornton and Marleau has proven very effective. But will he stay here for the rest of the year? I like his PIMs too.

Any advice?

I picked up Clowe 2 weeks ago and have reaped the benefits ever since. I've heard they want to keep him there also because Thornton wore down at the end of last year because he was the guy on that line doing the physical work. Now they got Clowe there to do that. I'm thinking he'll stay there the rest of the year. Don't count me 100% on that as anything could happen, but his ice time is still really high, he's producing every game, and he brings a physical presence to that line that they were hoping Mark Bell would bring but hasn't. I say pick up Clowe over the others, he has the most upside.

Clowe if you are going to pick someone up, but I would save your moves. They still have 30 games left and you don't want to be limited to 2 moves.

Pominville, but probably wait a while

I think you need to wait. Try and make a move around the trading deadline. You also have to look at what your league is scoring on and where your strengths and weaknesses are. Is it a very big league so your options are limited?

I don't know if it's a big league. It's my first year playing, I don't have basis for comparison, but 10 teams, 16 guys to a roster. I suppose I could wait, I do have enough depth on my team to hopefully carry me along. Granted, the NHL is deep enough that every team in our league has as much depth. Take a look at my roster below and see if you guys think I should make the move now, or if I can wait it out on the rest of the guys. (I am in 5th place, top 6 make the playoffs)

C: Mats Sundin, Chris Drury, Daymond Langkow

LW: Ilya Kovalchuk, Thomas Vanek, Henrik Zetterberg

RW: Jarome Iginla, Steve Sullivan, Daniel Cleary

D: Sergei Gonchar, Sami Salo, Kevin Bieksa, Wade Redden

G: Dwayne Roloson, Andrew Raycroft, Evgeni Nabokov

Do you start all of them at once or just 6 or what? If it is all of them look for where you need help in how your league scores and pick up a guy that will help you in that category. Also look for who they will be playing the rest of the way. It may help once you get to the playoffs.

We start 2 lines (2 RW, 2 LW, 2C, 4D and one goalie). We have head to head scoring, our categories for offense:

Goals, Assists, +/-, penalty minutes, PPG, PPA, SHG, SHA, GWG

for goalies:

wins, GAA, save%, shut outs

My team is actually very balanced. The only category I fall behind in is penalty minutes. I figure sacrificing that one category for pure goal scoreres benefits every other category. So in that perspective Clowe or Bertuzzi would rack up more penalty minutes than Pominville would.

Either way, I'm just looking for anyone who can put up SOMEthing other than the bagels that I'm used to seeing next to Cleary's name.

The biggestsleeper in the nhl is rory fitzpatrick..................... nah jjust playing but really brian rolston is a g and then j pominville is real consistent. My roster has him and the whole entire sharks first line. You know cheecho, thornton and marleau