Tidbits: HFWild Armchair GM's

[gphr513]

I need something to quench my hockey thirst in the dog days of summer.

I don't know if there will be any interest in this or not, but CapFriendly has a pretty cool Armchair GM tool: https://capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/

You can create a team, and put any lineup out there that you want. If enough people do it, we could make a bracket and see who's team comes out on top!

I want to see what people come up with. Whether it be the best possible lineup you can put together, or an experimental roster of British Columbia born players who were born on a Tuesday.

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[gphr513]

Here's one I threw together.

NCAA alums

Pacioretty, Max ($4,500,000) - Eichel, Jack ($925,000) - Kessel, Phil ($8,000,000)
Gaudreau, Johnny ($6,750,000) - Lee, Anders ($3,750,000) - Wheeler, Blake ($5,600,000)
Zucker, Jason ($2,000,000) - Nelson, Brock ($2,500,000) - Oshie, T.J. ($5,750,000)
Larkin, Dylan ($925,000) - Guentzel, Jake ($734,167) - Coyle, Charlie ($3,200,000)

Suter, Ryan ($7,538,462) - Shattenkirk, Kevin ($6,650,000)
Keith, Duncan ($5,538,462) - Faulk, Justin ($4,833,333)
Skjei, Brady ($925,000) - Hanifin, Noah ($925,000)


Elliott, Brian ($2,750,000)
Stalock, Alex ($650,000)


Cap hit: $74,444,424
Cap space: $555,576

 

[Arturia Pendragon]

I'll do this after work tonight

 

[Digitalbooya]

Going for the best team in a cap world...

Gaudreau(6.75)-Crosby(8.7)-Kucherov(4.77)
Pacioretty(4.5)-McDavid(.925)-Nylander(.894)
Aho(.925)-Matthews(.925)-Marner(.894)
Ehlers(.894)-Eichel(.925)-Simmonds(3.975)

McDonagh(4.7)-Karlsson(6.5)
Josi(4)-Doughty(7)
Werenski(.925)-Ellis(2.5)

Price(6.5)
Bobrovsky(7.425)

PP1
Gaudreau-Crosby-McDavid
Werenski-Karlsson

PP2
Pacioretty-Matthews-Eichel
Josi-Doughty

PK1
Crosby-Pacioretty
McDonagh-Doughty

PK2
Matthews-Simmonds
Josi-Ellis


Cap: $74.624m
Cap Ceiling $75m
Cap Space:$0.375m

 

[gphr513]

Going for the best team in a cap world...

Gaudreau(6.75)-Crosby(8.7)-Kucherov(4.77)
Pacioretty(4.5)-McDavid(.925)-Nylander(.894)
Aho(.925)-Matthews(.925)-Marner(.894)
Ehlers(.894)-Eichel(.925)-Simmonds(3.975)

McDonagh(4.7)-Karlsson(6.5)
Josi(4)-Doughty(7)
Werenski(.925)-Ellis(2.5)

Price(6.5)
Bobrovsky(7.425)

PP1
Gaudreau-Crosby-McDavid
Werenski-Karlsson

PP2
Pacioretty-Matthews-Eichel
Josi-Doughty

PK1
Crosby-Pacioretty
McDonagh-Doughty

PK2
Matthews-Simmonds
Josi-Ellis


Cap: $74.624m
Cap Ceiling $75m
Cap Space:$0.375m

Haha, I noticed this was the last year you can get McDavid at that <$1mil salary.

It would actually be fun to do an armchair GM league of sorts. So longevity would come in to play. Drafts, trades, contracts, etc.

 

[Wild11MN]

It's more interesting when you restrict the number of ELC contracts to just a couple, otherwise there are a handful of players that are just auto-includes.

 

[Digitalbooya]

Haha, I noticed this was the last year you can get McDavid at that <$1mil salary.

It would actually be fun to do an armchair GM league of sorts. So longevity would come in to play. Drafts, trades, contracts, etc.

Gotta max out on all those guys on ELCs. McDavid, Matthews, Eichel, Marner, Nylander, etc. I'm actually surprised you didn't have McDonagh on your NCAA team. Low cap hit for a #1D.

No idea how that would work but I'd be down to participate

 

[Digitalbooya]

It's more interesting when you restrict the number of ELC contracts to just a couple, otherwise there are a handful of players that are just auto-includes.

Yep. Then I'd actually have to do my homework on players.

 

[gphr513]

Gotta max out on all those guys on ELCs. McDavid, Matthews, Eichel, Marner, Nylander, etc. I'm actually surprised you didn't have McDonagh on your NCAA team. Low cap hit for a #1D.

No idea how that would work but I'd be down to participate

I'm pretty sure there are some of the team boards here that do leagues like this. I might poke around and just take a look at the structure and how they run it.

edit: whoaaaa man I just found the Flames' board where they do this and wow does it look like a lot of work

I might try to make a roster with a limit of like 2 ELC's this afternoon if I'm bored at work though.

 

[Wabit]

If you want to see some in-depth stuff look at the https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/gm-game section of the site. I didn't have the time or desire to be a part of that game.

The mods for the site are pretty cool. If you have questions they can help you setup what you're looking for. Most of the "best team formats" limit the ELC's to 3 max otherwise the teams all look the same.

 

[Victorious Secret]

Nelson-Stepan-Wheeler
Lee-Backes-Kessel
Haula-Bjugstad-Guentzel
Schroeder-Middelstadt-Hirsch(Tyler, he's got miles left)

Buff-Leddy
Faulk-Johnson
Skjei-McDonagh

Stalock
McIntyre

$73,342,500 Space $1,657,500

 

[Wabit]

Just messing around for a 1 year team then fire sale it.

Line order doesn't matter:
Marner/Matthews/Nylander
Marchessault/McDavid/P. Kane
Aho/Crosby/Simmonds
Granlund (Markus)/Eichel/Laine
Larkin

OEL/EK
Werenski/Burns
Slavin/Headman
McAvoy

Price
Murray
Miller (just for fun)

Cap hit:$74,717,501
Space: $282,499
Performance bonuses: $15,215,000 lol

 

[BagHead]

Here's one I threw together.

NCAA alums

Pacioretty, Max ($4,500,000) - Eichel, Jack ($925,000) - Kessel, Phil ($8,000,000)
Gaudreau, Johnny ($6,750,000) - Lee, Anders ($3,750,000) - Wheeler, Blake ($5,600,000)
Zucker, Jason ($2,000,000) - Nelson, Brock ($2,500,000) - Oshie, T.J. ($5,750,000)
Larkin, Dylan ($925,000) - Guentzel, Jake ($734,167) - Coyle, Charlie ($3,200,000)

Suter, Ryan ($7,538,462) - Shattenkirk, Kevin ($6,650,000)
Keith, Duncan ($5,538,462) - Faulk, Justin ($4,833,333)
Skjei, Brady ($925,000) - Hanifin, Noah ($925,000)


Elliott, Brian ($2,750,000)
Stalock, Alex ($650,000)


Cap hit: $74,444,424
Cap space: $555,576

Shockingly good team, and very few ELC's (seems like cheating when people use a ton of those). Those forwards could go out against anybody and win, and the defense is both solid defensively and great offensively. The only issue is that goaltending could be... sketchy. When Elliott is on, he's darn good, but man, I wouldn't expect him to be on all season, and Stalock is a guy I like, but he's also shown inconsistency in the past. Still, I'd take that team over the current Wild roster any day. Well made roster, sir.

 

[Wabit]

No ELC team:

JVR/Crosby/Simmonds
Kreider/Scheifele/Kucherov
Zucker/Staal/Rakell- grrr Phillips drafted instead of Rakell
Granlund (Van)/Marchessault/Panik

McDonagh/EK
OEL/Ellis
McCabe/Dumba

Murray
Pickard

Cap hit: $74,281,111
Space: $718,889

 

[Puhis]

Finnish Front, Swedish Back

Laine - Barkov - Aho
Mi. Granlund - Koivu - Rantanen
Teräväinen - Haula - Puljujärvi
Jokinen - Kossila - Lehkonen
Ma. Granlund, Pakarinen

Hedman - Karlsson
Brodin - Klingberg
Lindholm - Stralman
Oduya

Lehner
Markström

Cap hit: $73,332,224
Space: $1,667,776

 

[gphr513]

Finnish Front, Swedish Back

Laine - Barkov - Aho
Mi. Granlund - Koivu - Rantanen
Teräväinen - Haula - Puljujärvi
Jokinen - Kossila - Lehkonen
Ma. Granlund, Pakarinen

Hedman - Karlsson
Brodin - Klingberg
Lindholm - Stralman
Oduya

Lehner
Markström

Cap hit: $73,332,224
Space: $1,667,776

Ha, that's a neat idea! Pretty decent team too, well done!

 

[Sharppi]

Quebec Buyouts

Moulson - Dubinsky - Hossa
Callahan - Soderberg - Brouwer
Abdelkader - Bolland - Brown
Chimera - Kruger - Franzen

M. Staal - Seabrook
Bieksa - MacDonald
Orpik - Lovejoy

Lehtonen
Luongo

Cap hit: 97,062,878 $
Cap space: -22,062,878 $

 

[Wabit]

I just wanted to see what the cap space and team would have been if all the Wild did for offseason trades was let Vegas have Granny.

Nino/Staal/Coyle
Parise/Koivu/Zucker
JEE/Haula/Pommer
Winnik/Cullen/Stewie


Suter/Spurgeon
Brodin/Dumba
Scandella/Quincey
Olofsson

Dub
Stalock

Cap space $1,806,409 Callups: Kunin, Reilly, Tuch

 

[Wabit]

I was playing around and came up with this for next year:
Cap hit: $70.3m + $3.8m in possible bonuses.
Dumba signed for $5.5m

Trades (not 100% even because I dislike dealing with draft picks to even things out):

EDM/Wild:
Poolpart/Larsson for Zucker/Spurgeon

CGY/Wild:
Bennett/Lazar for Coyle

NJD/Wild (total flyer on this one):
Santini/Olofsson

Nino/Staal/Poolparty
Parise/Koivu/Granny
Bennett/JEE/Kunin
Foligno/Greenway/Lazar
Ennis

Suter/Dumba
Brodin/Larsson
Seeler/Santini
Prosser

Dub/Stalock

It leaves some cap space to sign a couple of bottom-6 players if Kunin/Greenway end up in the AHL.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Just messing around for a 1 year team then fire sale it.

Line order doesn't matter:
Marner/Matthews/Nylander
Marchessault/McDavid/P. Kane
Aho/Crosby/Simmonds
Granlund (Markus)/Eichel/Laine
Larkin

OEL/EK
Werenski/Burns
Slavin/Headman
McAvoy

Price
Murray
Miller (just for fun)

Cap hit:$74,717,501
Space: $282,499
Performance bonuses: $15,215,000 lol

Love this team! Make it happen Wabit! lol

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

US Olympic team:

Kane - Matthews - Wheeler
Gaudreau - Eichel - Kessel
Connor - Trocheck - Boeser
Tkachuk - Larkin - Tuch
Zucker

Suter - Jones
Werenski - McAvoy
McDonagh - Trouba

Quick
Gibson

Space: $532,371

Probably had to lean on too many ELC's, but whatever.

He's a great player, but Kane's $10.5M is a dagger.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Traded Dumba + Zucker + 2018 1st for Draisaitl + 2018 3rd (one Oilers fan on the trade board didn't hate it)
Bought out Ennis
Signed Folin 3 x $2.5m

Nino - Draisaitl - Granlund
Parise - Staal - Kunin
Eriksson Ek - Koivu - Coyle
Greenway - O'Reilly - Foligno

Suter - Spurgeon
Brodin - Folin
Seeler - Prosser
Oloffson

Dubnyk
Stalock

$3.5M in cap space.

~$11M to $13M in cap space the next year to re-sign Staal (if necessary), Eriksson Ek (bridge), two 4th liners, #6 and #7 D and a backup goalie.

 

[Bazeek]

Traded Dumba + Zucker + 2018 1st for Draisaitl + 2018 3rd (one Oilers fan on the trade board didn't hate it)
Bought out Ennis
Signed Folin 3 x $2.5m

Nino - Draisaitl - Granlund
Parise - Staal - Kunin
Eriksson Ek - Koivu - Coyle
Greenway - O'Reilly - Foligno

Suter - Spurgeon
Brodin - Folin
Seeler - Prosser
Oloffson

Dubnyk
Stalock

$3.5M in cap space.

~$11M to $13M in cap space the next year to re-sign Staal (if necessary), Eriksson Ek (bridge), two 4th liners, #6 and #7 D and a backup goalie.

Wow, that O'Reilly threw me for a hard loop for a second there.

I don't hate it. The right side of our defense is pretty spotty, but maybe Murphy or Belpedio will step up. We'll just have to hope we grab about 4 more Lodnia's out of the third round this year.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Wow, that O'Reilly threw me for a hard loop for a second there.

I don't hate it. The right side of our defense is pretty spotty, but maybe Murphy or Belpedio will step up. We'll just have to hope we grab about 4 more Lodnia's out of the third round this year.

No joke, aside from Carlson, Folin was the best RHD on the market. 3 x $2.5 might not even be enough.

 

[Bazeek]

No joke, aside from Carlson, Folin was the best RHD on the market. 3 x $2.5 might not even be enough.

Yikes... I'd almost rather just risk Murphy in that spot. Still, getting some sort of stop-gap RD for 2-3 years shouldn't be that hard.

Edit: To clarify - no problem with Folin at $2.5m for 3 years. Moderate problem with jumping into a UFA RD market where Folin is #2 on the list.