Guess I'm last to pick...I'm gonna be a while but since I'm last to pick there should be no clock right???

They are all left shooting.
And their ages are 28, 30, 29, 27, 30, 36. In 3 years, you will have an over the hill D.

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E. Kane - Strome - Eberle
Pacioretty - Lindholm - Ryan
Domi - Hanzal - Rattie

Fowler - Rielly
Niskanen - Ristolainen
MacDonald - Petry

Markstrom

Being at the bottom of the draft, it was obvious that in order to get any shot at winning some RANGZ the best strategy was to not even bother focusing on the first 3 years. So I made it a point to not go for any players aged 27 and up. Turned out to be a good strategy seeing as how team 72off and team switch0723 (unless he gets banned for picking an illegal) already have those years locked up. I also didn’t want to go full team JMurder3 style by picking every single highly touted prospect out there because when we do that in real life, come every September we get “Oil Change”, and that’s just not fun. (It actually turned out to be a great strategy for him as he was the only one who really went at it like that which really increased his odds at his prospects hitting instead of busting).

And so even though I was left with a bit of a half-assed approach at building for the later years, I still feel like my team has a chance at some success down the road. Teams that scare me down the line are team JMurder3 and his high school band, team rafiki/Effen with two potential generational types in MacKinnon/Yakupov playing on a line together, team DatFirefly/Yell Fire! also built an awesome all-around young team.

Ultimately I feel that all I need for my team to win some RANGZ is two things: for one of Strome/Lindholm to become a future stud C (either Strome becoming 80pt+ scorer or Lindholm a two-way 70pt type) and for future Captain Morgan Rielly to maximize his potential and become the next generation’s Brian Leetch. Any of the other young guys (Domi, Rattie, Ristolainen) can amount to serviceable types and I’d still have a decent chance. If they amount to anything more then you can lock up at least a RANG in Years 5 through 10 with a small chance of an actual DYNASTY on full display.

Switch's first line is Marleau-Thornton-Burrows. What exactly does he have locked up? A consistent conference semifinals exit?

72o's team is obv legit in the early years, thanks to winners like Bergy and St. Louis. But after that it gets dicey. Clowe, Ribeiro, Keslah all on the same team brings quite a bit of WIL.

team switch might have a bad case of too many Sharks on his team but his D is absolutely ridiculous: Suter/Keith/Bouwemeester/Edler is an absurd top 4, (Tyutin/Mitchell as your bottom two is not too shabby either). Add them up with Rinne and it more than makes up for all his Shark forwards choking it up.

Ya, his D is the best in the league for sure. And Justin Williams def brings some playoff WIM to the top 6.

I actually think my team has a reasonable chance to compete right away. I quite like my top 6.

wait until i cash in all my Western Conference Regular Season Champs banners for Cups

No doubt team Geddy Lee would be crushing in the early years if this guy



didn't swerve his ass all the way to Russia.

Vagos has an odd team, will never be top 3 or bottom 3 in any year. I don't hate it but it's not gonna win any awardz.

pfff

My team has veteran leaders with a championship pedigree, youth and skill at both C and D, top caliber special teams and all the GOAB grit you can handle.

I don't see how anyone else has a chance really.

Yeah, I felt like I had to go hard in that direction because I'm probably the only one in the draft who doesn't actually follow hockey (although I enjoy watching the Bruins in playoffs).

Being able to get a huge chunk of the top prospects in the minors right now based on a variety of scouting services seemed like the optimal solution to that problem.

Every guy might not turn into a star, but they all have elite upside & non-terrible floors, so worst case scenario we'll have a team full of pretty good players & Taylor Hall GOATing it up in 10 years.

I still owe a full write-up sometime soon.

Is the spreadsheet updated?

Hey thanks for the props. I have to look at your players more (given their age), but I know you sniped at least 5 I wanted in the late stages. Your whole 3rd line is great value I think, and your 2nd D pairing looks a lot like what I was hoping to do.

Btw I give credit to people who took the time to look at left hand shot vs right hand shot for their D. By the last 3 picks near the bottom there, I was lucky to even find 2 great D prospects left. You guys all picked pretty ruthlessly.

Also Effen, looks like our goalie getting invited to USA Olympics camp

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=428207

OK making my last picks now starting w/









next 2 coming shortly

Next Pick:

This is the most actual debate I've seen at the end of one of these things. I say we use that momentum to vote on winners instead of abandoning our teams and then doing it all over again next year. Who's with me?

seconded

thirded

speaking of thirds....last pick coming:





Final Team:

Fleischmann - Stamkos - Clarkson
Martin - Carter - Pominville
Ryder - Loktionov - Silfverberg

Greene - Green
Nurse - Erixon
Oduya -Daley

Bobrovsky


Will do write up later but would like to hear comments so flame away

Daley is a nice pick, considered him for my final D-man as well

think i might have an idea for how to end this thing too, but it'll take a little bit of effort from everyone still

I'm not conviced that basically forfeiting 3-5 years of a 10 year time span is a good strategy. Some of your teams have ridiculous talent for the first few years or for the last 5-7 years. But I'm not sure this makes up for the years you give up on. The flipside of this is of course that it's very hard to build a team with top end talent that will compete for 10 years. I think our team will have a fighting chance for all of the years but we'll always be the underdog to win it all.

I also wonder what the effect will be on the development of the young players if you have no veterans on the team.

Punkrock's team is like Stamkos (awesome), Carter (niiiice), Bob (lolgoalies but niiice), and ????

I feel like he did the worst of all possible worlds trying to compete for all 10 years and as a result will compete for none of them. Harsh, probably. Maybe a bit unfair. I find a hard time seeing that team take a title though.

basically I'm not very much in favor of teams that don't have a coherent plan, though the ones who are the "great for the next 3 years, woteva after" I think are in violation of the spirit of the league. It's a 10 year dynasty, Ziggy Palffy at 51, really?

Can we fill out the rosters on the spreadsheet? I find it hard to follow who has what.



How did the rest of Plzbealevel's win now team turn out? Can it beat 72off's team in 7 games?


I feel like the win later teams is Jmurder, rafiki/effen, and I'd have to look up more of marek's players, but that team looks good. Triumph's team looks like it will be good during the regular season then get pummelled in the playoffs.

Man Geddy probably had the best shot of winning it all before taking the quitter. If you sub in Nash/Richards/Semin/Brown etc... who were all still on the board, I think he wins it fairly easily.