Fantasy Draft Finals - The Battle of C Depth

[hockeynorth]

After a gruelling tournament where we thought we may FINALLY see a team that selected their 1C outside R1 win the cup, we are now down to two teams. Instead of a cinderella narrative, we are left with two teams that used the 2 elite C strategy patented in the very first fantasy draft. The one consolation? 1D Mac Weegar vs 1D Sam Girard... who will be the champion (and will they remain the champion 12 months from now)?

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Matthew Thachuk - Auston Matthews - Rielly Smith​

Jason Zucker - Nico Hischier - Bryan Rust​

Nikita Gusev - Chris Tierney - Zach Kassian​

Yakov Trenin - Cody Eakin - Blake Comeau​

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Sam Girard - Connor Murphy​

Ryan Murray - Jacob Trouba​

Jon Merrill - Trevor van Riemsdyk​

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Semyon Varlamov​

Troy Grosenick​

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Zach Hyman - Sean Couturier - Viktor Arvidsson
Matthew Boldy - Dylan Larkin - Conor Garland​

Ilya Mikheyev - Radek Faksa - Corey Perry​

Peyton Krebs - Riley Damiani - Alex Barabanov​

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Hampus Lindholm - MacKenzie Weegar​

Brayden McNabb - Filip Hronek​

Marc Staal - Ian Cole​

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Jacob Markstrom​

Jonathan Quick​

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[ConnorMcMullet]

Dallas's top line has Boston beat; Boston is equal or better everywhere else.

Better 2nd line, much more effective bottom-6. Far superior defense—each player in the top-4 outmaches their Stars' counterpart: Weegar > Girard, Lindholm > Trouba, Hronek > Murphy, and McNabb > Murray. Goaltending is a wash.

Matthews over Couturier is really the main advantage Dallas has to Boston, and that's not enough to offset the rest of the matchup.

 

[hockeynorth]

Good 1st liner - Franchise C - low end 2nd liner
average 2nd liner - low end 1C - high end 2nd liner
high end 3rd liner - average 3C - 3rd line grunt
high end 4th liner - #13 forward - no clue wtf Comeau is anymore

low end #1 - low end #3
average #4 - average #2
average #5 - low end #5

elite starter
low end backup

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elite 2nd line grunt - defensive 1C - high end 2nd liner
3rd liner with potential - average 1C - low end 1st liner
4th line defensive winger - low end 3C - COREY PERRY
3rd line play driver - #13 F, useful for a skill line - complimentary 3rd liner

high end #2 - low end #1
high end #5 - average #3
average #7 - high end #5

low end/average starter
backup

 

[5cotland]

DAL - DAL - DAL
DAL - BOS - DAL
DAL - DAL - BOS
DAL - DAL - DAL

BOS - BOS
BOS - DAL
BOS - BOS

DAL
BOS

 

[Ainec]

Looks at thread title

MacKinnon
Eriksson-Ek
Benn
Thomas

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both teams Cs combined

Matthews
Couturier
Larkin
Hischier

hate to see it

 

[hockeynorth]

Looks at thread title

MacKinnon
Eriksson-Ek
Benn
Thomas

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both teams Cs combined

Matthews
Couturier
Larkin
Hischier

hate to see it

AINEC... you really his 1-4 are all better, right... right?

 

[LT]

Again with awful defenses making it this far

 

[Ainec]

AINEC... you really his 1-4 are all better, right... right?

Mack > AM
JEE + Benn > Couturier Hischier
Thomas < Larkin

 

[Panda Bear]

Couturier > JEE + Benn

 

[Ainec]

Couturier > JEE + Benn

Goat >> Panda + Couturier

 

[Gecklund]

I feel like my team was better than both of these. That said DAL

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

Cs that have won cups >>>>> Cs that don't get to the 2nd round.

Kopit

 

[belair]

Again in the finals. A team that would never score any goals. Honestly, look at Boston's forward group and you just might get 20 out of three guys there. Add to that the suspect D core and the bottom six that would get absolutely crushed and you wonder what people are thinking when they vote in these games.

 

[OB5]

Honestly I'm shocked both these teams made it this far. Good on the GMs.

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

Again in the finals. A team that would never score any goals. Honestly, look at Boston's forward group and you just might get 20 out of three guys there. Add to that the suspect D core and the bottom six that would get absolutely crushed and you wonder what people are thinking when they vote in these games.

I had 7 of my top 9 as 20+ scorers and one of them is the greatest goalscorer of all time. The other 2 were on pace for 17 and 14 goals last season.

Is this how it normally works? Haha

 

[Nucker101]

Again in the finals. A team that would never score any goals. Honestly, look at Boston's forward group and you just might get 20 out of three guys there. Add to that the suspect D core and the bottom six that would get absolutely crushed and you wonder what people are thinking when they vote in these games.

“Which GM is my best friend?”

 

[Panda Bear]

Again in the finals. A team that would never score any goals. Honestly, look at Boston's forward group and you just might get 20 out of three guys there. Add to that the suspect D core and the bottom six that would get absolutely crushed and you wonder what people are thinking when they vote in these games.

Boston beat New Jersey, which automatically means that they somehow must be the best team in the game.

 

[Panda Bear]

“Which GM is my best friend?”

Belair and I are best friends. We like to argue over who's Will and call each other Carlton.

 

[Ainec]

Will delete acc if seattle loses to any of u on main polls

 

[Panda Bear]

Will delete acc if seattle loses to any of u on main polls

you can just wait long enough to start the poll yourself.

 

[Ainec]

you can just wait long enough to start the poll yourself.

Leafs past rd 1 by then...

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Again in the finals. A team that would never score any goals. Honestly, look at Boston's forward group and you just might get 20 out of three guys there. Add to that the suspect D core and the bottom six that would get absolutely crushed and you wonder what people are thinking when they vote in these games.

Hampus Lindholm - MacKenzie Weegar
Brayden McNabb - Filip Hronek

How is that a suspect D-core?

 

[hockeynorth]

Congrats @AveryStar4Eva

As a heads up, next time I run one of these I will be having trades completely open and I’ll try to think up some improved way to do voting. Should be a long ways away though.

 

[OB5]

Congrats Avery!

 

[belair]

Hampus Lindholm - MacKenzie Weegar
Brayden McNabb - Filip Hronek

How is that a suspect D-core?

The second pair, mostly. Hronek is pretty bad and he's paired with a shutdown defenseman that gets buried in DZ starts. But I'm being a little too critical.

The whole team would just drown from not being able to score goals, which is the much bigger problem.