The ATD 2014 REDUX Game

[VanIslander]

Inspired by the $20 game,...

The Off-season ATD REDUX Game

Select any team's draft position from ATD 2014 and re-construct a new squad using only players drafted AFTER that draft position for each round (e.g., if you choose Guelph they drafted 1st (Orr) and 56th (Apps) so your two picks for the first two rounds can be no higher than the 2nd (Gretzky) and 57th(Chara) player picked.

Resources:
The ATD 2014 draft picks: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1625237
The ATD 2014 rosters: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1586879

Click to read more...

 

[VanIslander]

REDUX NYR

Art Ross, Coach

Ted Lindsay - Phil Esposito (C) - Marian Hossa
Sid Smith - Pavel Datsyuk - Helmut Balderis
Herbie Lewis - Doug Jarvis (A) - Ed Litzenberger
Ed Sandford - George Sullivan - John McKenzie
Johnny Wilson - Dick Irvin - Ken Randall

Serge Savard - J.C. Tremblay
Jim Neilson (A) - Carol Vadnais
Gennady Tsygankov - Andrei Markov
Vasili Pervukhin

Georges Vezina
Paddy Moran

vs.

ATD NY Rangers

coaches Billy Reay & Father David Bauer

Aurel Joliat - Joe Sakic (C) - Yvan Cournoyer
Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Rick Tocchet
Johnny Gottselig - Frank McGee - Blair Russel
Smokey Harris - Marty Walsh - Reggie Leach
Louis Berlinguette, Brian Skrudland

Brad Park (A) - Rod Langway
Harry Howell (A) - Sergei Zubov
Albert Leduc - Dollard St. Laurent
George McNamara

Clint Benedict
Normie Smith​

Which would win a 7-game series? The REDUX or the ATD squad? The ATD squad has a stronger blueline but the REDUX has a more solid second line, more traditional third line and more nastiness.

 

[BillyShoe1721]

Coach: Jack Adams

Hull-Petrov-Fleury
Bucyk-Ratelle-Heatley
Madden-Luce-Aurie
Secord-Murray-Ward

Salming-Grant
Stuart-Schoenfeld
Bergman-Harmon

Hall
Kiprusoff

vs.

Coach: Pete Green

Jackson-Beliveau-Dillon
Ramsay-N. Stewart-Martinec
Marcotte-Colville-Nesterenko
Kapustin-Bergeron-Tremblay

Quackenbush-Kasatonov
Keith-Weber
Burrows-Liapkin

Sawchuk
Rollins

Definitely like the ATD squad more, but that second line is oddly intriguing.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Actual...

Coach: Cecil Hart

Henrik Zetterberg - Mario Lemieux - Charlie Conacher
Busher Jackson - Milan Novy - Ace Bailey
Brian Sutter - Walt Tkaczuk - Bob Nevin
Brendan Morrow - Bill Thoms - Tony Amonte
Craig Conroy, Alf Skinner

Vladimir Lutchenko - Bill Gadsby
Ebbie Goodfellow - Bob Goldham
Jerry Korab - Jiri Bubla
Bob Dailey, Brian Campbell

Charlie Gardiner
Percy LeSueur

VS.

REDUX...

Coach: Cecil Hart

Busher Jackson - Jean Ratelle - Charlie Conacher
Kevin Stevens - Mario Lemieux - Cecil Dillon
Igor Liba - Walt Tkaczuk - Bob Nevin
Brendan Morrow - Patrice Bergeron - Jack Darragh
Bill Thoms, Alf Skinner

Bill Gadsby - Alexei Kasatonov
Duncan Keith - Bob Goldham
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Bill Hajt
Jay Bouwmeester, Brian Campbell

Charlie Gardiner
Percy LeSueur


Not as many changes as some of the others...I definitely think the REDUX team is better.


EDIT: Think I did this wrong...now that I re-read the OP it doesn't sound like I was suppose to pick any players that were on my team. Still a fun exercise to go back and do what I did. If I have time I will make an attempt at doing it the correct way.

 

[ResilientBeast]

Alright I'm going to redo my team, just doing the starting lineup and this was a pretty quick redo.

Edmonton Eskimos

Coach : Fred Shero

Alexander Ovechkin- Peter Forsberg - Hooley Smith
Claude Lemieux -Vladimir Petrov- Alexander Mogilny
Pavol Demitra - Mike Peca - Trevor Linden
Zach Parise - Patrice Bergeron - Mario Tremblay

Denis Potvin - Ott Heller
Carl Brewer - Kevin Lowe
Glen Harmon - Ron Stackhouse

Jiri Holecek

Compared too

Coach : Jacques Lemaire
Assistant coach: Pete Muldoon

Woody Dumart --- Stan Mikita --- Cam Neely
Vincent Damphousse --- Peter Stastny --- Lanny McDonald
Harry Watson --- Igor Larionov --- Marian Gaborik
George Mantha --- Pit Lepine --- Jerry Toppazzini


Bill Quackenbush --- Tim Horton
Si Griffis --- Adam Foote
Hamby Shore --- Gennady Tsygankov

Ed Belfour

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Doing it the correct way this time

Actual...

Coach: Cecil Hart

Henrik Zetterberg - Mario Lemieux(C) - Charlie Conacher
Busher Jackson - Milan Novy - Ace Bailey
Brian Sutter(A) - Walt Tkaczuk - Bob Nevin
Brendan Morrow - Bill Thoms - Tony Amonte
Craig Conroy, Alf Skinner

Vladimir Lutchenko - Bill Gadsby
Ebbie Goodfellow(A) - Bob Goldham
Jerry Korab - Jiri Bubla
Bob Dailey, Brian Campbell

Charlie Gardiner
Percy LeSueur

VS.

REDUX...

Coach: Dick Irvin

Paul Thompson - Jean Beliveau(C) - Martin St. Louis
George Hay - Newsy Lalonde(A) - Vladimir Martinec
Jiri Holik - Ralph Backstrom - Eric Nesterenko
Igor Liba - Patrice Bergeron - Jack Darragh
John MacLean, Clint Smith

Borje Salming(A) - Marcel Pronovost
Duncan Keith - Bob Goldham
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Ryan Suter
Brian Engblom, Ed Jovanovski

Turk Broda
Percy LeSueur


EDIT: Fixed my spares on the REDUX team

 

[ResilientBeast]

Really bored so I'll pass some time doing another couple. This time the New York Rangers (kinda cheated, but darn they made some good picks)

Coach : Jack Adams

Roy Conacher - Joe Sakic - Pavel Bure
Kevin Stevens - Phil Esposito - Alexander Mogilny
Nick Metz - Blair Russel - Jere Lehtinen
Brenden Morrow - Patrice Bergeron - Ryan Kesler

Serge Savard - Art Coulter
Harry Howell - Sergei Zubov
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Keith Magnuson

George Hainsworth

Didn't dig in too much, just grabbed players I had looked into before the draft.

Extremely strong top 6 offensively
Strong bottom six defensively
Defense is lackluster but reasonable
Below average goaltending.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

NJ Swamp Devils

Head coach: Dick Irvin

Syd Howe - Howie Morenz - Sergei Makarov
Baldy Northcott - Frank Fredrickson - Dany Heatley
Jiri Holik - Bill Thoms - Wilf Paiement
Ed Sandford - George Sullivan - Jerry Toppazzini
Lynn Patrick - Paul Haynes - Kenny Wharram

Ching Johnson - Mark Howe
Duncan Keith - Terry Harper
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Shea Weber
Wade Redden

Charlie Gardiner
John Vanbiesbrouck

VS

Head coach: Tommy Ivan

Toe Blake (A) - Bill Cowley - Bill Cook (C)
Gordon Roberts - Peter Forsberg - Gordon Drillon
Tony Leswick - Patrice Bergeron - Frank Finnigan
Sergei Kapustin - Vladimir Shadrin - Todd Bertuzzi

Babe Siebert - Red Kelly (A)
Herb Gardiner - Harry Cameron
Ryan Suter - Kevin Hatcher

Grant Fuhr
Chuck Rayner

Spares: Ray Getliffe (LW/C), Ryan Kesler (C/RW), Alexei Kovalev (RW/C), Ed Van Impe (D)

___________

I just went through all that and realized there wasn't a natural captain on my redux team. Oh well

 

[VanIslander]

Head coach: Dick Irvin

Syd Howe - Howie Morenz - Sergei Makarov
Baldy Northcott - Frank Fredrickson - Dany Heatley
Jiri Holik - Bill Thoms - Wilf Paiement
Ed Sandford - George Sullivan - Jerry Toppazzini

Ching Johnson - Mark Howe
Duncan Keith - Terry Harper
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Shea Weber

Charlie Gardiner
John Vanbiesbrouck

Wow. That is a mighty fine club.

 

[BenchBrawl]

NJ Swamp Devils

Head coach: Dick Irvin

Syd Howe - Howie Morenz - Sergei Makarov
Baldy Northcott - Frank Fredrickson - Dany Heatley
Jiri Holik - Bill Thoms - Wilf Paiement
Ed Sandford - George Sullivan - Jerry Toppazzini
Lynn Patrick - Paul Haynes - Kenny Wharram

Ching Johnson - Mark Howe
Duncan Keith - Terry Harper
Lars-Erik Sjoberg - Shea Weber
Wade Redden

Charlie Gardiner
John Vanbiesbrouck

That top 6 is not bad

 

[monster_bertuzzi]

Chose Montreal..

coach: Jack Adams

Sweeney Schriner-Milt Schmidt-Jaromir Jagr
Dany Heatley-Bill Cowley-Cecil Dillon
Adam Graves-Ken Mosdell-Frank Finnigan
Vic Hadfield-Kris Draper-John Pie Mckenzie

Valeri Vasiliev-Marcel Pronovost
Herb Gardiner-Eric Desjardins
Leo Reise Jr-James Patrick

George Hainsworth
Lorne Chabot

Jack Portland, Louis Berlinquette, Lorne Carr

 

[King Forsberg]

Modo Hockey
General Manager: King Forsberg
Coach: Glen Sather
Assistant Coach: Larry Robinson

Captain: Darryl Sittler
Alternate Captain: Chris Pronger
Alternate Captain: Danny Gare

Steve Shutt --- Sidney Crosby --- Jaromir Jagr
Anatoli Firsov --- Darryl Sittler (C) --- Danny Gare (A)
Gilles Tremblay --- Jacques Lemaire --- Bobby Rousseau
Fleming MacKell --- Keith Primeau --- Kevin Dineen
Alexei Yashin, Anze Kopitar

Chris Pronger (A) --- Jan Suchy
Shea Weber --- Eric Desjardins
Frantisek Tikal --- Al Iafrate
Glen Wesley


Bill Durnan
Chris Osgood



New Modo

Fred Shero

Toe Blake -- Mark Messier -- Marian Hossa
Bill Barber -- Joe Thornton -- Joe Mullen
Nick Metz -- Joel Otto -- Mario Tremblay
Dennis Hull -Brian Skrukland - Corey Perry


Al MacInnis -- Mark Howe
Frantisek Pospisil -- Barry Beck
Eduard Ivanov -- Kevin Hatcher

Grant Fuhr

Kind of lost track after round 20. I've been working awhile on this.

 

[VanIslander]

It looks like the redux Modo has an improved first line (Toe Blake - Mark Messier - Marian Hossa), 4th line (Dennis Hull - Brian Skrudland - Corey Perry) and 1st pairing (Al MacInnis - Mark Howe).
However, the original Modo's 2nd line (Anatoli Firsov - Darryl Sittler - Danny Gare), 3rd line (Gilles Tremblay - Jacques Lemaire - Bobby Rousseau) and defensive depth seem clearly better.
Goaltending and coaching are debatable.

 

[monster_bertuzzi]

Wow. That is a mighty fine club.

*VI see's that someone picked Makarov* ''Wow, thats a mighty fine club!''