I wanted to give the participants in this mock first dibs on spots in the new GM game I'm going to be starting shortly. The idea will be to make the best U25 roster possible using your existing players/prospects, this year's draft and a small number of trades.
Step 1 - Sign up for an NHL team, list your U25 players/prospects (1991 birthdate and younger)
Step 2 - Trades --> make up to 3 trades involving only players/prospects from your list above
Step 3 - Submit a final list of 10-16 protected U25 players
Step 4 - Once the protected lists are posted, everyone will PM their rankings of the other nine teams lists (this will determine our draft order - worst ranked list picks first etc)
Step 5 - 2016 NHL draft, using the above draft order. Every team continues to select until they have a total of 20 players (12F, 6D, 2G) on their roster (which means each team will make between 4-10 picks depending on how many they protected)
Myself and Jax Teller will be taking Anaheim and Toronto again, all other teams are open to you guys on a first come, first serve basis.