Super Draft - New Hockey - VanIslander vs. BenchBrawl

[BenchBrawl]

Tom Johnson for the PK, and Boris Mikhailov

 

[VanIslander]

Valeri Vasiliev for the PK
&
Theo Fleury and his ten seasons of 100+ PIMs to complete the nasty line: Tikkanen - Messier - Fleury

 

[BenchBrawl]

Bryan Hextall Sr. and Cam Neely

 

[Thenameless]

Bryan Hextall Sr. and Cam Neely

Yikes. Neely replacing Renberg on the Legion of Doom line. That's a lot of beef, skill, and nastiness all rolled up onto one line.

 

[VanIslander]

609 of his career points were scored on the PP, so there goes Phil Housley !

The 6-time Selke finalist was great at even strength but was actually even better on the PK, so here comes Craig Ramsey!

 

[BenchBrawl]

Am amazed we both forgot Pierre Pilote for the PP, Im taking him for non-PP, + Ching Johnson.

 

[Thenameless]

Okay guys, make these last few count.

 

[VanIslander]

I thought you had Pilote. Oh well...

Aurele Joliat
&
coach Anatoli Tarasov

 

[BenchBrawl]

Well I have two goalies to pick, and he has none left.Just need my PK center too.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I thought you had Pilote too LOL

I'll Doug Jarvis and Ken Dryden

 

[BenchBrawl]

So I guess I have the Big 3 goalies from Montreal, Roy, Plante and Dryden.

 

[Thenameless]

I'm not as knowledgeable as you guys, but I thought Frank Mahovlich was considered to be one of the best left wingers of all time. Is he not as good as I thought, or did he just not fit in with either of your plans?

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'm not as knowledgeable as you guys, but I thought Frank Mahovlich was considered to be one of the best left wingers of all time. Is he not as good as I thought, or did he just not fit in with either of your plans?

No, he could have easily be taken ahead of some guys, but either he didn't fit my plan, or I missed him by scanning quickly.

But in the last few lines, I wanted two-way LWers, which is why I took a guy like Tommy Phillips ahead of him.As for Cy Denneny, chemistry with Nighbor.LeClair, chemistry with Lindros.Busher Jackson, thought he was a better fit with Morenz-Lafleur.Same for Toe Blake with Beliveau-Conacher.

 

[VanIslander]

I'll take a couple of Broadstreet Bullies!

coach Fred Shero

Shero was a devotee of the hockey philosophies of Anatoli Tarasov, “the Father of Soviet Hockey”. For well over a decade leading up to the game against CSKA, Shero absorbed all he could read, observe and discuss about Russian-style hockey. Even in the early 1970s, when the Iron Curtain was still firmly in place and travel between North America and the Soviet Union was difficult, Shero twice made trips during the NHL off-season to attend coaching clinics and to trade hockey-related ideas and observations...

& Dave "Hammerhead" Schultz

 

[BenchBrawl]

My only real regret is not taking Scott Stevens ahead of Zdeno Chara, but I just forgot him and missed him while scanning.Stevens-Harvey would have been great.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I wrap this up by taking Vladislav Tretiak

 

[BenchBrawl]

Congratulation VanIslander, good job! This was a fun format.

I think it's certainly appropriate:

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[Thenameless]

Tretiak. What a lovely final pick for your team. A Habs heavy roster (especially in net), and then the one goalie who actually gave the Habs trouble on that one fateful night.

 

[VanIslander]

I'm not as knowledgeable as you guys, but I thought Frank Mahovlich was considered to be one of the best left wingers of all time. Is he not as good as I thought, or did he just not fit in with either of your plans?

I looked at him a couple of times but just couldn't see how he would fit on any of the lines I was building.

If we did a Super MLD I can see a Frank Mahovlich - Doug Gilmour - Marian Hossa line doing well.

He needs speed, backchecking and hustlin' grit on his line.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Your team has better high-end talent, better goalie depth, better PK most likely, better center BUT my centers are ALL two-way and thus more homogeneous, my RWer are better, and my LW are wayyyy better, I think my defense is slightly better but nothing too crazy.Not sure about PP.I have the best goon of all-time, the better coaches.

Not sure who would win.

That says nothing about line construction though.But I'm exhausted so I dont have the energy to do it lol

 

[Thenameless]

Do these teams "play games" or does it end here?

 

[VanIslander]

Do these teams "play games" or does it end here?

Oh, we play!

 

[BenchBrawl]

It pretty much ends there usually after our marathons, cause we are tired lol

 

[VanIslander]

... I think my defense is slightly better...

On this I highly disagree! I feel this is the one area my team certainly rocks it!

Our forward lines are built very differently. There is two clearly different styles of play going on between the clubs.

 

[BenchBrawl]

BenchBrawl:
Zdeno Chara-Doug Harvey
Slava Fetisov-Ray Bourque
Denis Potvin-Chris Chelios
Larry Robinson-Serge Savard
Sprague Cleghorn-Eddie Gerard
Ching Johnson-Pierre Pilote

VanIslander:
Tim Horton - Bobby Orr
Chris Pronger - Eddie Shore
Niklas Lidstrom - Paul Coffey
Scott Stevens - Red Kelly
Borje Salming - Brad Park
Earl Seibert - Al MacInnis