ATD2019 - Draft Thread I

[BenchBrawl]

Glenn Anderson

Great choice, he was on my list for sure.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'm here, ready to pick. What an awkward window of time for a run of quick picks!

True

Your clock runs out between 22h30 and 6h30

 

[Johnny Engine]

True

Your clock runs out between 22h30 and 6h30

Midnight to 8 in Newfoundland.
The 3 picks before mine all happened after 11.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Midnight to 8 in Newfoundland.
The 3 picks before mine all happened after 11.

Right, always forget that you guys have a slightly different timezone.

Must be windy in Newfoundland, everytime I go to Rimouski I'm amazed how windy it is.Also wild and rapid change of temperature.Like it's 15 celcius degrees, then 20 minutes later it's 5 degrees, then another 20 minutes and it's 15 again.Insane place.

You just don't see that in Montreal.

 

[Johnny Engine]

Right, always forget that you guys have a slightly different timezone.

Must be windy in Newfoundland, everytime I go to Rimouski I'm amazed how windy it is.Also wild and rapid change of temperature.Like it's 15 celcius degrees, then 20 minutes later it's 5 degrees, then another 20 minutes and it's 15 again.Insane place.

You just don't see that in Montreal.

I’ve never been to Rimouski, but I’d expect it to have a similar climate to Corner Brook, which is right across the gulf. St. John’s is substantially more windy and unstable - as evidenced by the fact that we couldn’t keep our ski hill at Logy Bay going despite having 10 times as many people here.
I’ve spent weeks here and there in winter in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and the 905 and just love it. I also lived in New Brunswick for a while and the winds going across the swamp are just excessive. Not as wacky and unpredictable as Newfoundland, but just relentless.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I’ve never been to Rimouski, but I’d expect it to have a similar climate to Corner Brook, which is right across the gulf. St. John’s is substantially more windy and unstable - as evidenced by the fact that we couldn’t keep our ski hill at Logy Bay going despite having 10 times as many people here.
I’ve spent weeks here and there in winter in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and the 905 and just love it. I also lived in New Brunswick for a while and the winds going across the swamp are just excessive. Not as wacky and unpredictable as Newfoundland, but just relentless.

St. John is that bad huh? It's really at the edge of the Atlantic ocean, next stop is basically... France.I wouldn't like living in such crazy weather.

Rimouski seemed like the relentlessly windy type, but then again I'm only there for a few days when I go.

Montreal is hotter, but it's humid as hell.Some summer days are excruciatingly suffocating, and some winter days the cold just penetrates the bones.Otherwise not so bad.

Unfortunately Montreal is changing for the worse I think.In a boiling frog way.Homelessness is sharply on the rise, and everytime I walk late at night I cross path with people with severe mental health problems.There is a decay going on and a ''laissez-faire''.There were always problems of this sort, but it seems more pronounced and consistent today.At least on the east side of the island.Most people I know who started a family got off the island to the periphery.

 

[ImporterExporter]

St John's in Newfoundland might be my favourite foreign city I've ever been to and I've been to quite a few.

Might seem like an odd choice but there is something about being on the edge of the North Atlantic, big rolling hills and cliffs, lots of old European structures. And the people were always incredibly friendly.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I was reading the book about the North Pole Hermit in Maine.The guy that lived for 27 years in the woods in Maine, survived by stealing from cabins, never started a fire (else his spot would be discovered), spent the entire winters at his spot else he'd leave traces in the snow, revealing his location.

This is a crazy achievement.Maine winters are basically Montreal winters.To live outside without fire all the time is insane.He stole propane tanks though.

 

[BenchBrawl]

@Voight is up

 

[Voight]

Yup will pick shortly.

 

[ResilientBeast]

Sweet and we're off and rolling again

 

[Voight]

Orlando Solar Bears select Defensemen Dan Boyle.

 

[BenchBrawl]

@Leaf Lander is up

 

[Doctor No]

Would @Doctor No be one of the goalies?

I played ACHA Division II and III in grad school - hopefully there's someone out there who can carry the load better than me (Killion's a good guess).

I was a hell of a backup, though - no one opened and closed doors while pointing out girls in the stands like me (and I even broke up one fight between teammates on the bench).

 

[Doctor No]

I was once was a top 5 leading scorer in Bantam non-contact house league. I feel like that’s a solid resume.

I admittedly read this as a "Batman non-contact house league" at first, which legitimately sounds awesome and now I want to patent the idea.

 

[Leaf Lander]

select Mike Gartner

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

I'll take Bob Pulford !

I considered him when I drafted MacKay. Not a great scorer on this level, but a lot better than Gainey or Lehtinen I would think.

 

[VanIslander]

Could we comment on ATD bios here?

(I don't want to waste my time commenting on the wrong thread only to see it immediately be deleted. We wouldn't want that.)

 

[ResilientBeast]

Could we comment on ATD bios here?

(I don't want to waste my time commenting on the wrong thread only to see it immediately be deleted. We wouldn't want that.)

Yes,

We've never had comments made on the structure of bios in the bio thread in my time doing this...on top of that your comment wasn't useful or constructive

 

[Dreakmur]

I considered him when I drafted MacKay. Not a great scorer on this level, but a lot better than Gainey or Lehtinen I would think.

Certainly better than Lehtinen. Not sure about Gainey.

 

[VanIslander]

....on top of that your comment wasn't useful or constructive

To separate the wheat from the chaff, what is significant from the noise, is both useful and hopefully constructive.

 

[ResilientBeast]

To separate the wheat from the chaff, what is significant from the noise, is both useful and hopefully constructive.

Should bios be as complete as possible?

You sliced out all the VsX and other scoring finishes because you don't find them important

@Dreakmur we're talking about your Kopitar bio, he sliced out about 75% of it

 

[VanIslander]

@Dreakmur we're talking about your Kopitar bio, he sliced out about 75% of it

I honored the effort by reading it and picking through and profiling in my post what I thought was significant.

Ignoring it all is an option, eh?

 

[ResilientBeast]

I honored the effort by reading it and picking through and profiling in my post what I thought was significant.

The key part of this sentence

 

[VanIslander]

I am not entitled to an opinion.