Bill Nye's boys would easily lead the league in scoring. I'm not sure how that team isn't getting respect for a win now (with potential for solid future). I'm a big proponent of speed and agility over toughness and grit (see: Blackhawks 2 rangz over Philly and Boston's gay teams). They would put up some serious points. The defense isn't anything great, but they are young with some solid puck movers and most of the forwards are two-way players. I am a little biased because I'm really high on Jonathan Drouin and Bernier. Those two plus Stepan, Gagner and an aging Ovi could be a nice core that keeps them in the mix for the duration of the dynasty. A hot goalie and devistating power play could help this squad cheese a cup.

Their forward group is suspect. Their D is straight aidsin' it up.

Ay bros, been real busy the past week or so. I'll try and get up the picks I owe later tonight.

For now, here's one

I know people have lives and things come up but bleh, 4 teams not being finished two days after the draft ends is lame and kinda ruins it for everybody else. We can't pursue any kind of voting or end game resolution until those picks are made, and with two of those guys not having picked in over a week I don't know when that's ever going to happen.

As fun as the actual draft is, I think discussing teams after they've been drafted can be a lot of fun too, as can the entire voting process. Questions like, which teams figure to be the best off right away, or 5 years down the road, etc. are interesting to consider, as is the most important question - who has the most overall cup equity? Unfortunately the momentum for people wanting to get involved in any kind of post-draft shenanigans tends to be relatively short-lived, at least with all the previous drafts we've done on here that's been the case, so it sucks to see that it's practically DOA at the front door.

In the future I think we need to have a few people in charge of making picks for inactive owners, because inevitably it seems to happen, even to generally active and reliable posters. I don't mean immediately afterwards, but if a few days go by and they haven't made their selections, a pick needs to be made - period. If you don't like this, then you should consider getting a co-owner so the picks made best reflect how you want your team to look.

I agree but I'm not sure there is a right answer. Maybe just cut the teams, throw the players back in the pool, and settle up as it is right now. idk there should be some closure though.



I had fun in this draft but each one has it's shelf life. Maybe if we did the draft closer to the season we might have a bit more talk.

I'm not sure if I would go that far but it was a bit like anarchy at some points...I think the biggest issues I saw were lack of PMs to the next person and a "what if" committee to sort **** out when it hits the fan.

What I would say is if a player gets skipped and hasn't made a selection in a while then see if someone who isn't actively participating in the draft want's to jump in and start picking. If the other person eventually comes back they can co-own together.

Gonna chip away at a few owed picks:

Daniel Winnik - LW - 28 years old
Mark Letestu - C - 28 years old
Justin Abdelkader - LW - 26 years old

Final picks:

Grant Clitsome - D - 28 years old
Thomas Hickey - D - 24 years old
Jaroslav Halak - G - 28 years old

Final Roster:

van Riemsdyk - Couture - Gallagher
Toffoli - Turris - Brunner
Winnik - Letestu - Abdelkader

McDonagh - Bogosian
Carle - Gustafsson
Clitsome - Hickey

Halak

Quite a dynasty of scrubs you've built there.

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2...s-it-a-career/

lulz

anyway, if you guys wanna try to do something with this thing, here's what i propose.

step 1: everyone post their lineup with the age of their players at the end of 2013 (so like on December 31st, 2013) in parenthesis. like so...

Team 72off

Nielsen (29) - Bergeron (28) - Perry (28)
Clowe (31) - M.Koivu (30) - St. Louis (38)
Ribeiro (33) - Kesler (29) - Hornqvist (26)

M.Staal (26) - Bieksa (32)
Seidenberg (32) - Boyle (37)
Pitkanen (30) - Wisniewski (29)

Schneider (27)

full team writeup

drafters who haven't completed picking their team by the time most/all have finished this task are out, sorry. once we are ready the teams will be put up for a vote, something like rank the top 5-10 teams each year, and maybe the bottom 5 (with everyone having to abstain from voting their own team). from there we can try to determine winners year by year.

sound good? if not, other ideas?
maybe some kind of bracket playoff format, but that'd take a lot more work, voting, etc, and i don't really know if ppl are still up for that at this point. or this tbh.

Palffy knew he had no chance of winning a cup playing on a team with so many Sharks, so i understand

Taylor Hall (22) - Alex Galchenyuk (19) - Filip Forsberg (19)
Sven Bärtschi (21) - Aleksander Barkov (18) - Sebastian Collberg (19)
Sean Monahan (19) - Mikhail Grigorenko (19) - Alexander Khokhlachev (20)

Dougie Hamilton (20) - Luke Schenn (24)
Griffin Reinhart (19) - Hampus Lindholm (19)
Derrick Pouliot (19) - Duncan Siemens (20)

Jake Allen (23)

Don't feel like doing a full write-up right now, but all elite upside guys, plus Taylor Hall who is already a top 10 point scorer in the league & should lead the league in goals regularly in the future.

In a few years, this team will be ridiculously stacked & talented both offensively & defensively, and we won't be very good for a year or two, so will be able to add a couple more top-end talents.

Will be fun year 5 when all my guys are in their prime & dominating while other teams are aged, and even more fun in year 10 when my guys are all stars, and everyone else's stars are retired.

Couple other good young teams, but none have a scorer like Hall or the caliber of prospect.

bump

bump for the top 6 that is crushing year 1

yeah diving Dusty Brown is killin' it brah

(and Little is dragging down your 2nd line)

Nielsen (29) - Bergeron (28) - Perry (28)
Clowe (31) - M.Koivu (30) - St. Louis (38)
Ribeiro (33) - Kesler (29) - Hornqvist (26)

BOOM

Uh, he's a + player on the Jets and has 1 less goal than your entire 2nd line.

hudler, hertl

I think we can all agree that I won the draft, having TJ GOATSHIE playing alongside the KID.

****ing brown taking out my team, one knee at a time

Landeskog - Ryan Johansen - Kucherov
Nyquist - Bjugstad - Coyle


Ekman Larsson - Seth Jones

My retired dude still looks like he could play!

Any openings in this league?

i think he just retired again

it's a fictitious draft that has been completed, not some kind of ongoing league

so no, sorry, it's game over man

2-Year Retrospective:

a few teams didn't finish, and a few didn't post nice final team writeups for me to quote here so i didn't bother killing myself digging around for them (if they want to do that now then go ahead), but we're 2 years into this so why not take a look at how we did?

not a bad win now + future team, a few that should be solid throughout
- good goalie obv, but how many more years?
- solid D for ~5 years
- weak forward depth
peak: years 2-5

solid but unspectacular team of players with good dynasty age
- who scores? all grit team
- nice defense
- goaltending reach might have cost him a bit
- what's a Bud Holloway?
peak: years 2-6

quite a solid team of players with good age
- nice forward group that could age well
- D depth is lacking
- goaltending is a question mark
peak: years 1-6

peaks and valleys
- a lot of sick young talent, should have 2 very good lines throughout
- a lot of misses, particularly half the D
- goaltending?
peak: years 4-8

a nice team let down by centers/Leafs
- like most of it outside of Bolland, Bozak & Lupul really
- move Helm/Bennett to C? nice winger group
- solid defense of good age
- HOF goaltender ldo
peak: years 3-6

old team that needs to ship titles early
- very good center group
- a few misses on wing and D
- dynamic enough D?
- very good dynasty goalie
peak: years 1-4

solid team with some good young picks
- lines need to be re-jigged now (Saad & Nino up, Cody down)
- enough scoring?
- pretty solid D
- goaltending a question mark
peak: years 2-6

unspectacular team looking to be around at the end
- enough scoring up front?
- D group still needs seasoning
- is Lehner good or no?
- team could be a threat from middle years on
peak: years 4-8

solid team built from the back out
- another one where the lines need to be re-jigged (Backes & Zajac best Cs)
- a few misses up front
- pretty good D group, decent ages too
- strong dynasty goalie
peak: years 2-6

team built to win when?
- good 1st line, but many misses afterwards up front
- nice D picks of a good age
- solid goaltender
- team's best year will be when?
peak: years 2-5

solid team with good age
- only a couple old guys to phase out
- some good scoring wingers
- is the D good enough?
- goaltender still not ready
peak: years 4-7

young team looking to be around at the end
- very few misses
- team should really start to take off in the next couple years
- goaltender will ever be NHL caliber?
peak: years 4-8

young team looking to the future
- not many misses
- dynamic enough forward group?
- good, young D
- goaltender will be ready soon?
peak: years 4-8

win now team has how many years in them?
- very nice centers
- very solid D core
- good dynasty goalie
- a few out of place olds
peak: years 1-5

a team ready to win from the start
- very few misses
- nice forward mix
- solid D
- solid dynasty keeper
peak: years 2-6

veteran team looking to compete in the middle years
- a few misses up front
- dynamic enough offensively throughout the lineup?
- solid D, but not without question marks
- nice dynasty keeper
peak: years 2-5

team of solid talent throughout
- not a lot of misses
- D group is strong enough?
- dynamic enough offensively?
- decent dynasty keeper
peak: years 2-6

PRETTY YOUNG TEAM
- LOTS OF YOUNG TALENT
- NOT A LOT OF MISSES
- WILL ALLEN BE GOOD ENOUGH?
PEAK: YEARS 4-10