2018 franchise draft Quarterfinal series: Brooklyn Americans vs. California Golden Seals

[VanIslander]

Coach: Joel Quenneville

Sweeney Schriner - Mark Messier (C) - Jaromir Jagr
Anatoli Firsov - Phil Esposito - Bryan Hextall, Sr
Jiri Holik - Dave Keon - Daniel Alfredsson (A)
Zach Parise - Nicklas Backstrom - David Backes

Red Kelly - Chris Chelios (A)
Moose Johnson - Mark Howe
Marc-Eduouard Vlasic - Phil Housley

Ken Dryden
Roberto Luongo



vs.

Coach: Al Arbour

Bobby Hull - Frank Nighbor - Martin St.Louis
Tommy Phillips - Steve Yzerman (C) - Helmut Balderis
Bun Cook - Eric Lindros - Glenn Anderson
Dave Trottier - Rod Brind'Amour (A) - Todd Bertuzzi

Börje Salming - Eddie Shore
Rod Langway (A) - Sergei Zubov
Gary Suter - Adam Foote

Jacques Plante
Tom Barrasso

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[VanIslander]

Brooklyn:

PP1: Mark Messier - Phil Esposito - Jaromir Jagr - Red Kelly - Phil Housley
PP2: Sweeney Schriner - Nicklas Backstrom - Bryan Hextall Sr - Chris Chelios - Mark Howe

PK1: Dave Keon - Jiri Holik - Moose Johnson - Chris Chelios
PK2: Mark Messier - Anatoli Firsov - Mark Howe - Red Kelly

vs.

California:

PP1: Bobby Hull - Steve Yzerman - Martin St.Louis - Sergei Zubov - Eddie Shore
PP2: Tommy Phillips - Eric Lindros - Helmut Balderis - Gary Suter - Börje Salming

PK1: Rod Brind'Amour - Frank Nighbor - Rod Langway - Adam Foote
PK2: Dave Trottier - Steve Yzerman - Börje Salming - Eddie Shore​

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Brutal first round, I had your team as my biggest competition in the division, among several great teams.

I'll start off by picking on a weakness, since that's what we do here : Tommy Phillips in he top 6 in a draft this size. Elite defensively, clutch player yes. But he really has only 1 impressive regular season as a scorer against decent competition; the rest of his (relatively short) regular season career was spent being AMONG the best scorers of a pathetically weak western league. Generally matched in scoring by his center, Billy McGimsie.

I believe i was the first GM to use Phillips on a scoring line in the main ATD, but that was a left wing lock team and it was merely an "adequate" option. I'm not sure how much better he is than Jiri Holik, to be honest. Again, Phillips was definitely a clutch player, however.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

I guess Zubov defending against either the Messier line or the Jagr line is a weakness too, though Langway sure helps.

Swamp Devils Brooklyn obviously give our bottom pairing as little even strength ice time as possible. Housley gets big ice time on the PP.

 

[Theokritos]

Swamp Devils obviously give our bottom pairing...

Swamp Devils? Wrong draft.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Haha oops. Yeesh

 

[Iceman]

Brutal first round, I had your team as my biggest competition in the division, among several great teams.

I'll start off by picking on a weakness, since that's what we do here : Tommy Phillips in he top 6 in a draft this size. Elite defensively, clutch player yes. But he really has only 1 impressive regular season as a scorer against decent competition; the rest of his (relatively short) regular season career was spent being AMONG the best scorers of a pathetically weak western league. Generally matched in scoring by his center, Billy McGimsie.

I believe i was the first GM to use Phillips on a scoring line in the main ATD, but that was a left wing lock team and it was merely an "adequate" option. I'm not sure how much better he is than Jiri Holik, to be honest. Again, Phillips was definitely a clutch player, however.

Ditto, I had you and another team leading the charge in your division. As far as Phillips goes, yeah, possibly. What year was it when you had him btw? Probably before I joined the ATD (2014?).

I like your first pairing, if for nothing else, would be impossible to achieve in the real ATD.

My 1st pairing probably would be achievable, maybe with a forward sprinkled in if lucky. Regarding your first line, nothing on it that I'm against, wasn't it Schriner and Jagr that a few people were opposed to when I tried to put them together in the ATD before, eventually leading me to put Schriner on the 2nd line with Forsberg(?).

 

[BenchBrawl]

Incredibly tough first round match up

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Good series, Ice Man. I thought your team was finalist worthy.