Yeah I'm ready but might have to go to bed soon. I'm going to get one of the two players I really wanted so I'm happy.

jus wanted to throw in an extra lol that epi said kevin martin was an average defender when he well knows kevmart is one of the worst defensive SGs eveeeeeeer

wat

from the NBA modern draft thread, some write-ups from that thread were used on the previous page

I say next time we do a live draft imo.

Ok cool. Please PM a mod and ask them to edit my OPs in both threads to include you at #19 in the draft order.

Will do a write up tomorrow, as I'm about to hit the hay (Vegas/Finals are killing me,) but with the #4 pick, I'm going to take, IMO, the best defenseman of this era, Nicklas Lidstrom.

qft. kevmart is probably (if not certainly) the worst defensive rotation player in the league currently.

Whew..

Looks like I stayed up just long enough (I'm a modern era draft degen). With the 5th overall pick, SarcasticRat selects...







"The Dominator" -- Dominik Hasek

Haven't done a ton of research about goalie depth but I have a feeling there's not much compared to other positions. I couldn't pass up the chance to take (imo) the best goalie of this era.

Hasek broke into league late at age 26 after playing in the Czech Republic. He began his stretch of dominance in 1993, posting a 1.95 goals against average in 58 games for the Chicago Blackhawks, and continued to dominate from there. From 1993-2001 Hasek probably had the greatest goaltending peak of all time, winning six Vezina trophies, two Hart trophies, and leading the lead in save percentage 6 times.

With the Sabres, Hasek was almost literally a one man team, and pretty much singlehandedly carried the 1999 Sabres to within inches of the Stanley Cup. Later in his career with the Red Wings Hasek finally did win a cup. He also turned in one of the most dominating olympic performances ever, leading the Czech Republic to the 1998 gold medal while posting a 0.97 goals against average.

Known for his unorthodox, flopping style of play, Hasek has the highest save percentage, goals against average, and adjusted goals against average of the modern era. No goaltenders in this draft were capable of taking over games and simply being unbeatable like Hasek was, and in this league that will have some scary offenses I think he's incredibly valuable.

Goaltender is imo the most valuable position in hockey, and I'm very happy to get the guy who I feel is the best one with the 5th pick. Even the most elite offenses in this league will have a hard time getting the puck by The Dominator.

Nice pick with Lidstrom, he is definitely hands down the best defenseman available. He's pretty much a perfect player.with the exception of not playing a physical game, though that's probably the biggest reason why he's ben able to play at an elite level for almost 20 years.

I didn't think Hasek would be the first goalie taken, and I'm not a fan of building around a goalie to begin with. That being said though, there's no denying Hasek's talent and career accomplishments, taking an average Buffalo team all the way to the finals,, back to back Harts, and so on. There's no clear cut best goalie but he's definitely one of the best. So if you want to go goalie I can't argue with the pick but I still think it's a little high to take a goalie.

Also "The Dominator" is definitely one of the best nicknames in all of pro sports.

I feel like I'm at a disadvantage because I didn't start watching hockey until a decade ago, and not religiously since the lockout, but I'll still give this a shot. Count me in as an owner.

Those goalie pics scared me.

With the 6th overall pick, I select:









Patrick Roy

I'm not sure with the Lidstrom pick. For one thing, I didn't even consider him the best defenseman in the draft. Next is that he's a defenseman. I think his lack of positional value makes picking him at #4 a considerable reach.

I am very thankful that SR did not take Roy over Hasek. There are 3 goalies in this draft that are far superior to all the others and among the 3, there isn't much of a clear cut winner. I'll go into this with my write up shortly.

Are you saying defensemen have less value in this league?

In my opinion, yes. If you have a defenseman and center of equal skill level, I would take the center without question. Even if the center was slightly weaker, the positional value of a center offsets that skill difference.

Also, I don't even think Lidstrom is the best defenseman in this draft. I'm sure the guy I'm thinking of will be picked in the first round though.

There are 2 players I want. One is a pretty Vanilla pick, but the other might be a little surprising. I hope vanilla doesn't get picked ahead of me.

we know we are up, 99% sure who we want just want just want to talk to assani and confirm

ah sick lot of picks happened while i was asleep

told you messier might go high, SUB!

That you did, that you did.

you don't have to do your writeups right away with the pic, infact it's encouraged if u can't do the writeup quickly to just post the pick and do the writeup later in order not to hold up the draft

i'll hope everyone does that from now on

also fwiw I also believe goalies are the most valueable position like sarcastic and just like SUB believe there is an elite group of 3 with Roy, Hasek, and unnamed and after that there is a dropoff.

Also believe that goalies is by far the thinnest position in this draft so you guys prob know who me and assani are 99% sure to take now

ok i'll make a note - can we transfer the writeups to the Picks thread, there's only two posts in there right now

This is probably a "duh" post, but I was just looking at career stats, and realized that Gretzky has more Assists than any other player has points.