Fantasy Draft Round 1

[hockeynorth]

Please consider all aspects of a team when voting, not just the stars. You are to select the winning team from each matchup. Pick the team for each matchup that you feel would win in a 7 game series.

Matchup A:


Jake DeBrusk - Auston Matthews - Pavel Buchnevich
Nikolaj Ehlers - Logan Couture - Patric Hornqvist
Liam Foudy - Travis Zajac - Kyle Palmieri
Kyle Clifford - Johan Larsson - Ryan Reaves

Hampus Lindholm - Josh Manson
Jakob Chychrun - Shayne Gostisbehere
Christian Djoos - Tim Heed

MacKenzie Blackwood
Henrik Lundqvist

vs


Kreider (6.5) - Stamkos (8.5) - Fiala (3)
Ovechkin (9.54) - Dvorak (4.45) - C. Smith (3.1)
Cousins (1.5) - Bonino (4.0) - Grigorenko (1.2)
N. Paul (1.35) - N. Roy (0.75) - Barabanov (0.925)

Krug (6.5) - Weegar (1.6)
Gustafsson (3.0) - E. Johnson (6.0)
Romanov (0.895) - Foote (0.925)

Varlamov (5.0)
Dubnyk (4.5)

Matchup B:


Johnny Gaudreau - Patrice Bergeron - Brandon Saad
Max Pacioretty - Vincent Trocheck - Connor Brown
Jordan Greenway - Chandler Stephenson - Ivan Barbashev
Tomas Nosek - Cody Glass - Michael Amadio

Esa Lindell - Alex Pietrangelo
Ben Chiarot - Mathew Dumba
Marco Scandella - Noah Dobson

Ilya Samsonov
Jack Campbell

vs


A. Lee - M. Zibanejad - J. Eberle
J. Kyrou - D. Larkin - A. DeBrincat
M. Calvert - O. Sundqvist - B. Coleman
P. Engvall - B. Lizotte - T. Thompson

Z. Werenski - TJ Brodie
I. Cole - C. Murphy
S. Koekkoek - Z. Whitecloud

A. Vasilevskiy
J. Oettinger

Matchup C:


Jonathan Drouin - Mark Scheifele - Brock Boeser
Warren Foegele - Eric Staal - T.J Oshie
Josh Leivo - Erik Haula - Joonas Donskoi
Jordan Martinook - Alex Turcotte - Morgan Geekie

Jaccob Slavin - Colton Parayko
Darnell Nurse - Jason Demers
Nikita Zadorov - Jordan Oesterle

Antti Raanta
Linus Ullmark

vs

Alexis Lafreniere (0.925)	Sidney Crosby (8.700)	Josh Anderson (5.500)
Tyler Ennis (1.000)	Adam Henrique (5.825)	Vladimir Tarasenko (7.500)
Jason Dickinson (1.500)	Charlie Coyle (5.250)	Jake Virtanen (2.550)
Jujhar Khaira (1.300)	Mark Jankowski (0.700)	Colton Sceviour (1.200)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Oliver Ekman-Larsson (8.250)	Jacob Trouba (8.000)
Brayden McNabb (2.500)	Rasmus Ristolainen (5.400)
Juuso Valimaki (0.894)	Trevor Van Riemsdyk (0.800)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Connor Hellebuyck (6.166)

Malcom Subban (0.900)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Matchup D:


Zach Sanford - Sebastian Aho - Mikko Rantanen
Jonathan Marchesseault - Ryan Getzlaf - Zach Hyman
Nikita Gusev - Nolan Patrick - Ryan Hartman
Brendan Lemieux - Jason Spezza - Troy Terry

Jake Muzzin - John Klingberg
Alexander Edler - Tyler Myers
Bowen Byram - Justin Braun

Corey Crawford
Chris Driedger

vs


Jamie Benn / Tyler Seguin / Kevin Labanc
Teuvo Teravianen / Pierre-Luc Dubois / Drake Batherson
Anders Bjork / Martin Necas / Grigory Denisenko
Mattias Janmark / Calle Jarnkrok / Barrett Hayton

Markus Nutivaara / Shea Weber
Niklas Hjalmarsson / Ryan Pulock
Nicolas Hague / David Savard

Robin Lehner
Carter Hutton

Matchup E:


Andrew Mangiapane - John Tavares - Sam Reinhart
Artemi Panarin - Paul Stastny - Conor Garland
JT Compher - Carl Soderberg - Marcus Foligno
Jansen Harkins - Jesperi Kotkainiemi - Nicholas Aube-Kubel

Mattias Ekholm - Jeff Petry
Adam Pelech - Adam Boqvist
Jon Merrill - Justin Schultz

Ben Bishop
Curtis McElhinney

vs


K Connor (7,142,857)—— A Kopitar (10M)——C Atkinson (5.88M)
J Farabee (925,000)——N Schmaltz (5,85 M)——R Smith (5M)
M Joseph (728,333)——J Hughes (925,000)—K Kapanen (3.2M)
J Vesey (900K)—-M Raffl (1.6M)----M Grabner (3.25M)

B Pesce (4,025,000)——S Jones (5.4M)
J Bean (863,333)——D DeMelo (3M)
B Hutton (1.5M)——M Seider (894,167)

C Talbot (3,666,667)
T Greiss (3.6M)


Matchup F:


Dominik Kahun (0.975) - Leon Draisaitl (8.500) - Jakub Vrana (3.350)
Tomas Tatar (5.300) - Nazem Kadri (4.500) - Tanner Pearson (3.750)
Miles Wood (2.750) - Radek Faksa (3.250) - Alex Chiasson (2.150)
Joakim Nordstrom (0.700) - Jordan Weal (1.400) - Brock McGinn (2.100)

Shea Theodore (5.200) - Brandon Carlo (2.850)
Ryan Murray (4.600) - Jared Spurgeon (7.575)
Olli Juolevi (0.863) - Matt Benning (1.000)

Darcy Kuemper (4.500)
Anders Nilsson (2.600)

vs


Filip Forsberg / Elias Pettersson / Ondrej Kase
Marcus Johansson / Mikael Backlund / Jason Zucker
Valeri Nichushkin / Tyler Bozak / Alex Tuch
Maxime Comtois / Cody Eakin / Zach Aston-Reese

Thomas Chabot / Jonas Brodin
Jake Gardiner / Adam Fox
K'Andre Miller / Colin Miller

Ilya Sorokin
Pekka Rinne

Matchup G:


Jaden Schwartz - Ryan O'Reilly - David Perron
Filip Chytil - Phillip Danault - Brendan Gallagher
Trevor Zegras - Jeff Carter - Rocco Grimaldi
Milan Lucic - Lucas Wallmark - Pat Maroon

Victor Hedman - Anton Stralman
Alec Martinez - Henri Jokiharju
Calvin de Haan - Mikko Lehtonen

Igor Shestyorkin
Jonathan Bernier

vs


Gustav Nyquist (5.5M) - Nicklas Backstrom (9.2M) - David Pastrnak (6.67M)
Ilya Mikheyev (1.65M) - Ryan Johansen (8M) - Blake Wheeler (8.25M)
Andreas Johnsson (3.4M) - Mikko Koivu (1.5M) - Vinnie Hinostroza (1M)
Tyson Jost (0.87M) - Logan Brown (0.86) - Colin Blackwell (0.73M)

Travis Sanheim (3.25M) - Brent Burns (8M)
Michal Kempny (2.5M) - Justin Faulk (6.5M)
Jan Rutta (1.3M) - Robert Bortuzzo (1.38M)

Alex Georgiev (2.43M)
Cal Petersen (0.86M)

Matchup H:

Matthew Tkachuk ($7.000M) - Evgeni Malkin ($9.500M) - J.T. Miller ($5.250M)
Adrian Kempe ($2.000M) - Mikael Granlund ($5.750M) - Joel Armia ($2.600M)
Carl Hagelin ($2.750M) - Pavel Zacha ($2.250M) - Sammy Blais ($1.500M)
Alex Texier ($0.898M) - Zemgus Girgensons ($2.200M) - William Carrier ($1.400M)

Sam Girard ($5.000M) - Aaron Ekblad ($7.500M)
Cam Fowler ($6.500M) - John Marino ($0.925M)
Rasmus Sandin ($0.895M) - Radko Gudas ($2.500M)

Elvis Merzlikins ($4.000M)
Louis Domingue ($0.700M)

vs


Andrei Svechnikov - Jack Eichel - Travis Konecny
Denis Gurianov - Roope Hintz - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Artturi Lehkonen - Alex Wennberg - Bobby Ryan
Joakim Nygard - Artem Anisimov - Nick Bjugstad

Ryan Suter - Erik Cernak
Keith Yandle - Travis Hamonic
Caleb Jones - Conor Timmins

Anton Khudobin
Matt Murray

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[hockeynorth]

Help

I think Philly takes the offence, but is it just me who really dislikes their blueline

 

[hockeynorth]

I also have SJ and ANA basically even

 

[m0pe]

For those who voted Blues 1st in rankings, continue doing what you are doing.

For those who voted Blues 5th, reconsider how wrong you were and correct your mistake.

That is all.

 

[DropTheGloves]

For those who voted Blues 1st in rankings, continue doing what you are doing.

For those who voted Blues 5th, reconsider how wrong you were and correct your mistake.

That is all.

Done. m0pe gang 4 lyfe.

 

[hockeynorth]

Done. m0pe gang 4 lyfe.

How does @m0pe gain so many followers, he's like a cult leader.

I'm willing to bet he wins the GM award next game.

 

[DropTheGloves]

How does @m0pe gain so many followers, he's like a cult leader.

I'm willing to bet he wins the GM award next game.

He appeals to us common folk who are held down by the system. m0pe has a dream, and it's that people who make bad, franchise-altering trades like me can still overcome the odds and win.

 

[m0pe]

How does @m0pe gain so many followers, he's like a cult leader.

I'm willing to bet he wins the GM award next game.

 

[Panda Bear]

For those who voted Blues 1st in rankings, continue doing what you are doing.

For those who voted Blues 5th, reconsider how wrong you were and correct your mistake.

That is all.

I bet that was me. I rushed my votes pretty fierce

 

[Panda Bear]

Help

I think Philly takes the offence, but is it just me who really dislikes their blueline

Probably. Every single pairing has above average zone exits, transitions/puck movement and shot generation in the offensive zone. Weegar and Johnson are both able to handle physical players well.

Krug-Weegar is legitimately good, Johnson has become underrated, Gustafsson remains underrated, and both Romanov and Foote have breakout potential for playoffs 2021 as legitimate top four players to supplant someone on second pairing.

And then you remember Krug is a powerplay god who gets to play with Ovechkin, Fiala and Stamkos on it.

 

[Panda Bear]

Who's the jerk who voted for St Louis but nobody else?

 

[m0pe]

Who's the jerk who voted for St Louis but nobody else?

Probably the St. Louis GM.

Oh wait...

(Jk, but I love whoever it is)

 

[emptyNedder]

I think the matchup with Vegas is fairly even.

Vegas has a touch more playoff experience (17-18 through 19-20), but scores at a slightly lower rate:

Forwards
Vegas 111 points in 208 games
Chicago 91 points in 151 games

D

Vegas 33 points in 106 games
Chicago 24 in points in 45 games

Might come down to a hot goalie.

 

[DropTheGloves]

Who's the jerk who voted for St Louis but nobody else?

I have NO idea.

Edit:

 

[Paralyzer008]

I'm okay with losing to St. Louis, but looking at the two teams they are fairly comparable and ultimately the biggest problem is when you let a team trade up into the 1st round, you give them a massive advantage over other teams in the voting. In theory, two teams should have one position better than the other and vice versa, but Blues got to draft ROR and Hedman round 1. So, no chance to beat that.

Unless you're Vegas, who also traded up into round 1 look at that.

Philly would probably be in the same boat but Panda mixed up his teams.

 

[Panda Bear]

Philly has both Stamkos and Ovechkin. The other team, Winnipeg, was dead in the water as soon as Ovechkin didn't join Josi.

 

[Paralyzer008]

Philly has both Stamkos and Ovechkin. The other team, Winnipeg, was dead in the water as soon as Ovechkin didn't join Josi.

So 3/3 of the teams who had two 1st round picks made it to at least round two.

Colour me shocked! Shame other GMs, shame.

MIN dealt down, missed playoffs.

BOS dealt down, missed playoffs.

CBJ dealt down and drafted as well as you could have considering, in a tight battle here but losing.

 

[m0pe]

So 3/3 of the teams who had two 1st round picks made it to at least round two.

Colour me shocked! Shame other GMs, shame.

MIN dealt down, missed playoffs.

BOS dealt down, missed playoffs.

CBJ dealt down and drafted as well as you could have considering, in a tight battle here.

3/4

Isles had Kucherov and Couturier.

 

[Paralyzer008]

3/4

Isles had Kucherov and Couturier.

Yeah but you didn't pick both of them, you traded for Kucherov in a mega deal.

 

[m0pe]

Yeah but you didn't pick both of them, you traded for Kucherov in a mega deal.

True that.

Either way, trading away the chance to pick elite talent doesn't work well.

 

[DropTheGloves]

True that.

Either way, trading away the chance to pick elite talent doesn't work well.

Oh NOW you tell me.

 

[hockeynorth]

I think the matchup with Vegas is fairly even.

Vegas has a touch more playoff experience (17-18 through 19-20), but scores at a slightly lower rate:

Forwards
Vegas 111 points in 208 games
Chicago 91 points in 151 games

D

Vegas 33 points in 106 games
Chicago 24 in points in 45 games

Might come down to a hot goalie.

Vegas would comfortably be the hardest team in these playoffs to play against. They will absolutely crush any team physically, be stingy defensively, and I have the elite forwards... plus Big Ben in net

 

[hockeynorth]

I'm okay with losing to St. Louis, but looking at the two teams they are fairly comparable and ultimately the biggest problem is when you let a team trade up into the 1st round, you give them a massive advantage over other teams in the voting. In theory, two teams should have one position better than the other and vice versa, but Blues got to draft ROR and Hedman round 1. So, no chance to beat that.

Unless you're Vegas, who also traded up into round 1 look at that.

Philly would probably be in the same boat but Panda mixed up his teams.

I wanted to be different Para

Also originally wanted a Panarin-Tavares-x line

 

[hockeynorth]

ONE SEED MONTREAL IS ON THE VERGE OF ELIMINATION TO 8 SEED PHILADELPHIA

 

[hockeynorth]

@DropTheGloves you know you can, uh, change your picks, right?

Also I just realized I have to reveal who votes for who cause siblings and such, sorry guys

Edit nvm cant, so @BeLeafing if you could not have Dats note for you and @ConnorMcMullet @Llamamoto and @BumDum same deal, I trust all of you though after this long so I doubt we have that problem here