Fantasy Draft Tournament R1

[hockeynorth]

Please select the team that'd win head to head for each matchup (2020-2021), please analyze all parts of each team. Take your time.

Matchup 1:

Gabriel Landeskog (5.571)	Artem Anisimov (4.550)	Patrick Kane (10.500)
Gustav Nyquist (5.500)	Jeff Carter (5.272)	Jake Voracek (8.250)
Ryan Donato (1.900	Zemgus Girgensons (2.200)	Marcus Johansson (4.500)
Alexander Barabanov (0.925)	Gaetan Haas (0.915)	Troy Terry (1.450)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Ryan Suter (7.538)	Rasmus Dahlin (0.9250)
Ryan McDonagh (6.750)	Niklas Hjalmarsson (5.000)
Jack Johnson (1.150)	Mikko Lehtonen (0.925)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Thomas Griess (3.600)

Mike Smith (2.000)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

vs


Kirill Kaprizov - Mark Scheifele - Brendan Gallagher
Evander Kane - Max Domi - Patric Hornqvist
Alex Galchenyuk - Trevor Zegras - Ilya Kovalchuk
Milan Lucic - Pius Suter - Julien Gauthier

Ben Chiarot - Kris Letang
Quinn Hughes - Jason Demers
Jake Gardiner - Radko Gudas

Tristan Jarry
Aaron Dell

Matchup 2:



Conor Garland (0.78)- Sean Couturier (4.33) - Oliver Bjorkstrand (2.5)
Alex DeBrincat (6.4) - Joe Pavelski (7) - Ondrej Kase (2.6)
Marco Rossi (0.93) - Andrew Copp (2.28) - Alex Steen (5.75)
James Neal (5.75) - Joe Thornton (0.7) - Dylan Cozens (0.89)

Adam Pelech (1.6) - Dougie Hamilton (5.75)
Shayne Gostisbehere (4.5) - Rasmus Andersson (4.55)
Bowen Byram (0.89) - Ty Smith (0.86)

Ben Bishop (4.92)
Kaapo Kahkonen (0.73)

vs



Alex Killorn (4.45) - Jonathan Toews (10.5) - Kaapo Kakko (0.925)
JT Miller(5.25) - Ryan Strome (4.5) - Matts Zuccarello
Danton Heinen (2.8)-Tyson Jost - Jack Roslivic (0.894)
Antoine Roussel (3) - Johan Larsson (1.4) -Martin Kaut (0.863)

Ryan Graves (3.166) - John Carlson (8)
Marco Scandella (3.275) - Neal Pionk (3)
Olli Juolevi (0.863)-Robert Bortuzzo (1.375)

Tuukka Rask (7)
Chris Driedger (0.850)

Matchup 3:

‎

Jeff Skinner - Evgeni Malkin - Bryan Rust
Frank Vatrano - Anthony Cirelli - Travis Konecny
Carl Hagelin - Alex Wennberg - Josh Leivo
Michael Grabner - Casey Cizikas -
Austin Wagner

Thomas Chabot - Dylan DeMelo
Dmitry Orlov - Kevin Shattenkirk
Juuso Valimaki - Olli Maatta

MacKenzie Blackwood
James Reimer

vs



Jakob Silfverberg-Anze Kopitar-Pavel Buchnevich
Jakub Vrana-Evgeni Kuznetsov-Paul Byron
Conor Sheary-Kyle Turris-Sean Kuraly
Darren Helm-Victor Rask-Micheal Raffl

Duncan Keith-Shea Weber
Vince Dunn-Dante Fabbro
Christian Djoos-Sebastian Aho

Joonas Korpisaalo
Henrik Lundqvist

Matchup 4:



Brad Marchand - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Kyle Palmieri
Zach Parise - Eric Staal - Jaden Schwartz
Brendan Lemieux - Oskar Sundqvist - Kevin Stenlund
Kyle Clifford - Brad Richardson - Mattias Janmark

Miro Heiskanen - Damon Severson
Nikita Zadorov - David Savard
Erik Brannstrom - Justin Braun

Sergei Bobrovsky
Carter Hutton

vs



C. Kreider - J. Tavares - E. Dadonov
J. DeBrusk - N. Kadri - C. Smith
R. Grimaldi - C. Sissons - J. Virtanen
J. Harkins - T. Blueger - C. Rowney

Z. Werenski - A. Martinez
J. Edmundson - J. Trouba
M. Mueller - T. Barrie

A. Khudobin
J. Allen

Matchup 5:


Johnny Gaudreau / Auston Matthews / Dominik Kahun
Yanni Gourde / Paul Stastny / Jordan Kyrou
Richard Panik / Chandler Stephenson / Vitaly Kravtsov
Maxime Comtois / Mark Jankowski / Tyler Motte

Josh Morrissey / Jared Spurgeon
Alexander Romanov / Nate Schmidt
Jonas Siegenthaler / Scott Mayfield

Frederik Andersen
Alex Stalock

vs


Kyle Connor-Elias Pettersson-Josh Anderson
Zach Sanford-Tomas Hertl-Sam Reinhart
Miles Wood-Jared McCann-Dillon Dube
Noah Gregor-Lukas Wallmark-Liam Foudy

Vladislav Gavrikov-Brett Pesce
Will Butcher-Adam Larsson
Mario Ferraro-Dean Kukan

Semyon Varlamov
Martin Jones

Matchup 6:

Marchessault ($5M)---Zibanejad ($5,350M)---E Lindholm ($4,850M)
Mi Granlund ($5,750M)---Monahan ($6,375M)—Oshie ($5,750M)
Ennis ($1M)---Steel ($863,333)---Compher ($3,500M)
Sörensen ($1,500M)---Glendening ($1,800M)---T Pitlick ($1,750M)

Fowler ($6,500M)---Carlo ($2,850M)
de Haan ($4,550M)---A Boqvist ($894,167)
Oesterle ($1,400M)---Miller ($3,850M)

Crawford ($3,900M)
Hogberg ($700,000)

vs

‎

Ilya Mikheyev - Sebastian Aho - Mikko Rantanen
Adrian Kempe - Logan Couture - Alexander Radulov
Nick Robertson - Noel Acciari - Andrew Shaw
Matt Nieto - Nic Dowd - Colin Blackwell

Brian Dumoulin - Brent Burns
Patrick Nemeth - Brandon Montour
Slater Koekkoek - Cal Foote

Thatcher Demko
Mikko Koskinen

Matchup 7:



Anders Lee - Steven Stamkos - Josh Bailey
Filip Chytil - Matt Duchene - Viktor Arvidsson
Gabriel Vilardi - Erik Haula - Jesse Puljujarvi
Jordan Martinook - Alex Turcotte - Tage Thompson

Jaccob Slavin - John Klingberg
Brendan Dillon - P.K Subban
Dennis Cholowski - Tucker Poolman

Antti Raanta
Pavel Francouz

vs



Jamie Benn (9.5) - Jesperi Kotkaniemi (925) - Joel Armia (2.6)
Max Pacioretty (7) - Phillip Danault (3,083,333) - Zack Kassian (1.95)
Cody Glass (863,333) - Lars Eller (3.5) - Joshua Ho-Sang (874,125)
Patrick Maroon (900,000) - Jordan Weal (1,400,000) - Nicolas Aube-Kubel (700)

Victor Hedman (7.875) - Erik Johnson (6)
Derek Forbert (2,525,000)- Drew Doughty (11)
Travis Dermott (874,125) - Brett Kulak (1,850,000)

Robin Lehner (5)
Devan Dubnyk (2,525,000)

Matchup 8:



Artemi Panarin - Dylan Larkin - Tyler Toffoli
Tomas Tatar - Nick Suzuki - Connor Brown
Nick Cousins - Derek Stepan - Marcus Foligno
Jimmy Vesey - Nick Bjugstad - Trevor Moore

Morgan Rielly - Filip Hronek
Brayden McNabb - Justin Faulk
Mark Borowiecki - Justin Schultz

Ilya Samsonov
Jonathan Bernier

vs


A. Ovechkin (9.538) - B. Nelson (6) - B. Ryan (1)
J. Drouin (5.5) - D. Strome (.863) - V. Tarasenko (7.5)
S. Milano (1.7) - M. Koivu (1.5) - J. Fast (2)
D. Brassard (1.2) - B. Howden (.863) - W. Simmonds (1.5)

D. Nurse (5.6) - A. Ekblad (7.5)
M. Vlasic (7) - R. Ristolainen (5.4)
D. Kulikov (1.15) - I. Mitchell (.925)

J. Quick (5.8)
A. Georgiev (2.425)

Matchup 9:



M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen

Matchup 10:


Oskar Lindblom-William Karlsson-Mitch Marner
Robby Fabbri-Christian Dvorak-Martin Necas
Sam Bennett-Derek Ryan-Brett Connolly
Matthieu Joseph-PE Bellemare-Dmytro Timashov

Roman Josi-John Marino
Matt Grzelcyk-Alex Goligoski
Jake Bean-Jan Rutta

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jake Oettinger

vs


Taylor Hall-Jack Eichel-Dennis Gurianov
Filip Zadina-Kevin Hayes-Kevin Labanc
Joel Farabee-Alex Kerfoot-Zach Aston Reese
Max Jones-Mikhail Grigorenko-Michael Amadio

Mattias Ekholm-Matt Dumba
Brady Skjei-Erik Cernak
Jake McCabe-Noah Dobson

Jacob Markstrom
David Rittich

Matchup 11:



Nikolaj Ehlers - Brayden Schenn - Teuvo Teravainen
Jon Huberdeau - Vincent Trocheck - Owen Tippett
Andrew Mangiapane - Nick Bonino - Drake Batherson
Morgan Geekie - Travis Zajac - Cal Clutterbuck

Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Devon Toews - Matt Roy
Nicolas Hague - Erik Gudbranson

Carter Hart
Cam Talbot

vs



O. Palat - M. Barzal - B. Boeser
T. Pearson - R. Johansen - C. Atkinson
N. Gusev - T. Bozak - E. Bemstrom
T. Nosek - B. Sutter - D. Simon

J. Brodin - C. Makar
N. Leddy - C. Tanev
J. Benn - H. Jokiharju

M.A. Fleury
L. Ullmark

Matchup 12:


Zucker - Giroux - Pastrnak
Foegele - Hughes - Coyle
Texier - Lizotte - Roy
J. Robertson - Hayton - Saarela

Weegar - Ellis
Girard - T. Myers
Mete - Lyubushkin

Hellebuyck
Schneider

vs



Alexis Lafrenière - Tyler Seguin - Mark Stone
Rickard Rakell - Adam Henrique - Valeri Nichushkin
Barclay Goodrow - Vladislav Namestnikov - Grigori Denisenko
Pierre Engvall - Jujhar Khaira - Colton Sceviour

Esa Lindell - Erik Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson - Sean Walker
Rasmus Sandin - Zach Bogosian

Ilya Sorokin
Jack Campbell

Matchup 13:


Alex Iafallo / Nicklas Backstrom / Blake Wheeler
Anthony Beauvillier / Nick Schmaltz / Timo Meier
Anders Bjork / Joel Eriksson-Ek / Brandon Tanev
Mathieu Perrault / Morgan Frost / Christian Fischer

Markus Nutivaara / Seth Jones
Jake Muzzin / Zach Whitecloud
Carson Soucy / K’Andre Miller

Darcy Keumper
Casey DeSmith

vs



Blake Coleman-Nico Hischer-Nikita Kucherov
Mike Hoffman-Bo Horvat-Andreas Athanasiou
Ryan Dzingel-Chris Tierney-Josh Archibald
Joakim Nygard-Travis Boyd-Ryan Reaves

Hampus Lindholm-Josh Manson
Michal Kempny-Nick Jensen
Andrej Sekera-Matt Benning

John Gibson
Petr Mrazek

Matchup 14:


James van Riemsdyk - Sidney Crosby - Jordan Eberle
Luke Kunin - David Krejci - William Nylander
Scott Laughton - Calle Jarnkrok - Kasperi Kapanen
Jayce Hawryluk - Adam Gaudette - Drake Caggiula

Travis Sanheim - Shea Theodore
Ryan Lindgren - Adam Fox
Caleb Jones - Trevor van Riemsdyk

Jordan Binnington
Ryan Miller

vs



Kevin Fiala - Pierre-Luc Dubois - Andrei Svechnikov
Victor Olofsson - Roope Hintz - Tyler Johnson
Andrew Cogliano - Radek Faksa - Blake Comeau
Nick Ritchie - Jason Dickinson - Derek Grant

Noah Hanifin - Alex Pietrangelo
Ryan Murray - Anton Stralman
Troy Stetcher - Evan Bouchard

Matt Murray
Matiss Kivlenieks

Matchup 15:

Boone Jenner (3.750)	Connor McDavid (12.500)	Patrick Laine (6.750)
Filip Forsberg (6.000)	Michael Backlund (5.350)	Nino Niederriter (5.250)
Anthony Duclair (1.650)	Quinton Byfeild (0.925)	Corey Perry (1.500)
Patrick Marleau (0.700)	Cody Eakin (2.250)	Ty Dellandrea (0.863)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Alex Edler (6.000)	Jeff Petry (5.500)
Keith Yandle (6.350)	Travis Hamonic (3.857)
Ron Hainsey (3.500)	Timothy Liljegren (0.863)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Elvis Merzlikins (4.000)

Curtis McElhinny (1.300)

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

vs



Tyler Bertuzzi - Brayden Point - Reilly Smith
Jesper Bratt - Ryan Getzlaf - Kailer Yamamoto
Jordan Greenway - Pavel Zacha - Alex Chiasson
Loui Eriksson - Riley Sheahan - Evan Rodriguez

Oscar Klefbom - Colton Parayko
Jakob Chychrun - Ethan Bear
Kris Russell - Moritz Seider

Braden Holtby
Jaroslav Halak

Matchup 16:



David Perron - Ryan O'Reilly - Sammy Blais
Brandon Saad - Patrice Bergeron - Andreas Johnsson
Arturri Lehkonen - Nolan Patrick - Joonas Donskoi
Nick Paul - Adam Lowry - Joel Kiviranta

Ivan Provorov - Philippe Myers
Haydn Fleury - Sami Vatanen
Andy Greene - Connor Timmins

Igor Shesterkin
Pekka Rinne

vs



J.Guentzel - L.Draisaitl- A.Tuch
D.Kubalik - K. Dach - P.Kessel
N.Foligno - C.White - A.Nylander
J.Nordström - J.Studnicka - R.Hartman

OEL - R.Pulock
Z.Chara - A.DeAngelo
J.Merill - J.Lauzon

J.Saros
B.Elliot

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[Panda Bear]

quick look

Boston has the most impactful player going forward in Pastrnak

Hughes, who's spent the entire year bulking up and getting stronger, to carry the second line as a #1 OA

Better bottom six

Better defence on every pair

Best goalie in game

Feel free to fall victim to board overhype on a Laf-Seg-Stone tho clouding your view of actual teams

 

[Makaveli]

quick look

Boston has the most impactful player going forward in Pastrnak

Hughes, who's spent the entire year bulking up and getting stronger, to carry the second line as a #1 OA

Better bottom six

Better defence on every pair

Best goalie in game

Feel free to fall victim to board overhype on a Laf-Seg-Stone tho clouding your view of actual teams

See also:

Also, unless I'm missing something, I am going to get smoked by @Makaveli once the voting starts.

 

[Panda Bear]

See also:

you ever underrate something you do until you see your competition? that's what I did

 

[Kent Nilsson]

Really Im losing 10-0

Toronto is a 1 line team, his D is slightly better but gets crushed by my truculence. Goaltending is equal. Aight.

 

[hockeynorth]

M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen



M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen

L1: TOR > OTT
L2: OTT > TOR
L3: TOR > OTT
L4: OTT = TOR

D1: TOR >>> OTT
D2: TOR > OTT
D3: TOR > OTT

G: TOR >> OTT

And tbh Toronto annoyingly isn't soft. Like at all. His top pair will by nasty, Mack is mean in the playoffs, Brown is mean, Mantha big, Thomas chippy, Crouse mean, Soderberg chippy, Robinson/Hathaway make a chippy L4, Cole/Holden hold their own.

I love Ottawa but tough draw.

 

[Kent Nilsson]

M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen



M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen

L1: TOR > OTT
L2: OTT > TOR
L3: TOR > OTT
L4: OTT = TOR

D1: TOR >>> OTT
D2: TOR > OTT
D3: TOR > OTT

G: TOR >> OTT

And tbh Toronto annoyingly isn't soft. Like at all. His top pair will by nasty, Mack is mean in the playoffs, Brown is mean, Mantha big, Thomas chippy, Crouse mean, Soderberg chippy, Robinson/Hathaway make a chippy L4, Cole/Holden hold their own.

I love Ottawa but tough draw.

I disagree completely, Barkov is the perfect counter to MacDeus and Matthew is by far the 3rd better player between L1s, Tor 2nd line is possession trash, my 3 rd line is elite (but I always draft the same guys there and clearly theyre not that populr I cant win a vote anymore lol. Ottawa has so mucb hustle guys its not even funny). I love your “Mantha is big” point btw .

My D gets the job done. Ott wins the game with cycling/grinding, dirty goals and painfully exhausting other team. Can you imagine having to face 2x Tkachuks + Wilson 40 mins a game backed by 3 elite 2-way Cs ?

Dont forget this is a playoff round with no whistle. Usually Im ok with losing as long as I get mope and panda votes but 11-0 ? Daym

/marvel

 

[emptyNedder]

I disagree completely, Barkov is the perfect counter to MacDeus and Matthew is by far the 3rd better player between L1s, Tor 2nd line is possession trash, my 3 rd line is elite (but I always draft the same guys there and clearly theyre not that populr I cant win a vote anymore lol). I love your “Mantha is big” point btw .

My D gets the job done. Ottawa wins the game with cycling/grinding, dirty goals and painfully exhausting other team. Can you imagine having to face 2x Tkachuks + Wilson 40 mins a game backed by 3 elite 2-way Cs ?

Dont forget this is a playoff round with no whistle. Im ok with losing but 11-0 ? Daym

/marvel

I feel your pain--while not 11/0, Vegas is losing despite:

• first line LW having 38 points in 54 playoff games; opposition 1 LW has 0 points in 5 playoff games
• 3rd LW having numerous better scoring seasons than the best season from opponent's 2rd LW.
• goalie having won 2 STANLEY CUPS and coming off strong season; opposition goalie is a rookie
• having a 2C who has been a productive 1C most of his career

 

[m0pe]

I disagree completely, Barkov is the perfect counter to MacDeus and Matthew is by far the 3rd better player between L1s, Tor 2nd line is possession trash, my 3 rd line is elite (but I always draft the same guys there and clearly theyre not that populr I cant win a vote anymore lol. Ottawa has so mucb hustle guys its not even funny). I love your “Mantha is big” point btw .

My D gets the job done. Ott wins the game with cycling/grinding, dirty goals and painfully exhausting other team. Can you imagine having to face 2x Tkachuks + Wilson 40 mins a game backed by 3 elite 2-way Cs ?

Dont forget this is a playoff round with no whistle. Usually Im ok with losing as long as I get mope and panda votes but 11-0 ? Daym

/marvel

After further evaluation your team is built well and you get my vote Kent.

 

[Panda Bear]

M. Tkachuk - A. Barkov - T. Wilson
B. Tkachuk - JG Pageau - Z. Hyman
M. Calvert - J. Staal - I. Barbashev
W. Carrier - C. Paquette - C. Wagner

T. Krug - C. Murphy
J. Oleksiak - J. Holl
V. Heinola - M. Pysyk

P. Grubauer
A. Nilsson

vs



Andre Burakovsky - Nathan MacKinnon - Anthony Mantha
Clayton Keller - Robert Thomas - Dustin Brown
Lawson Crouse - Carl Soderberg - Vinnie Hinostroza
Eric Robinson - Jason Spezza - Garnet Hathaway

Mikhail Sergachev - Charlie McAvoy
Ian Cole - Erik Gustafsson
Ben Hutton - Nick Holden

Carey Price
Cal Petersen

L1: TOR > OTT
L2: OTT > TOR
L3: TOR > OTT
L4: OTT = TOR

D1: TOR >>> OTT
D2: TOR > OTT
D3: TOR > OTT

G: TOR >> OTT

And tbh Toronto annoyingly isn't soft. Like at all. His top pair will by nasty, Mack is mean in the playoffs, Brown is mean, Mantha big, Thomas chippy, Crouse mean, Soderberg chippy, Robinson/Hathaway make a chippy L4, Cole/Holden hold their own.

I love Ottawa but tough draw.

dude Ottawa's third line trounces Toronto's and his fourth line is better too

he loses it on his defence where he has people like Conor Murphy on his first pair and Oleksiak-Holl are both third pair guys who can stint on the second with better players

montreal was very lucky to have had the COVID-19 break where Price could physically recover after the season. dudes durability sucks, and he won't have the same advantage going into 2021 playoffs even if he does start less often this upcoming season with Allen

edit: on review you took Grubauer way early and missed out on Rasmus Andersson. Colorado also boned you by taking Philippe Myers one pick ahead of Hyman.

Conor Murphy sucks, tho, and you could've grabbed DeMelo/Cole/etc over him

 

[Kent Nilsson]

dude Ottawa's third line trounces Toronto's and his fourth line is better too

he loses it on his defence where he has people like Conor Murphy on his first pair and Oleksiak-Holl are both third pair guys who can stint on the second with better players

montreal was very lucky to have had the COVID-19 break where Price could physically recover after the season. dudes durability sucks, and he won't have the same advantage going into 2021 playoffs even if he does start less often this upcoming season with Allen

edit: on review you took Grubauer way early and missed out on Rasmus Andersson. Colorado also boned you by taking Philippe Myers one pick ahead of Hyman.

Conor Murphy sucks, tho, and you could've grabbed DeMelo/Cole/etc over him

My D is designed to not be in trouble in their own zone for too long while the forwards will win most board battles and the top 3 Cs are far above average defensively. Oleksiak held his own on a first pair (sure with Heiskanen), Holl did fine on a top4. Murphy has become my go to guy for a reliable RD who goes later than he should. None of my top 4 are anywhere near as bad as Gustafsson defensively. Man my top 6 would feast on that guy.

Yeah the Myers pick f***ed me hard, kinda gave up my D at that point.

After further evaluation your team is built well and you get my vote Kent.

Thx bro, changing a vote is a lot of work. I would never do that.

Probably my favorite team Ive drafted so far yet the one thats doing the most poorly.

 

[Llamamoto]

Klefbom - Parayko
Chychrun - Bear

vs



Edler - Petry
Yandle - Hamonic

One of these teams is going to give up a lot more goals, and they're somehow winning 10-9

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

I feel your pain--while not 11/0, Vegas is losing despite:

• first line LW having 38 points in 54 playoff games; opposition 1 LW has 0 points in 5 playoff games
• 3rd LW having numerous better scoring seasons than the best season from opponent's 2rd LW.
• goalie having won 2 STANLEY CUPS and coming off strong season; opposition goalie is a rookie
• having a 2C who has been a productive 1C most of his career

To address those points:

• That stat does not paint a fair picture of Ilya Mikheyev, and also fails to mention that he'll be playing with Aho and Rantanen.
• I'm an Oilers fan, and Ennis is not better than Kempe. Not by a long shot.
• Antti Niemi has a Stanley Cup, doesn't mean he's better than Connor Hellebuyck. Heading into next year there's a decent chance both Koskinen and Demko are better than Corey Crawford.
• My 2C has also been a productive 1C for most of his career. I think most would agree that Couture > Monahan.

I think my team is winning because I have more firepower up front (Aho, Rantanen) as well as a #1 d-man in Brent Burns and another defenseman in Brian Dumoulin who is better than any of yours. Voters also likely have more confidence in a Koskinen - Demko tandem than in Crawford - Hogberg.

I will say that you managed to build a very impressive team despite a restriction and this being just your second game. Your team matches up well against mine and I wouldn't fault anyone for voting for you.

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

And @Blinny, your team is comfortably in my top-10 and has some of my favourite players in Draisaitl, Dach, and Pulock. I think you just ran into a tough matchup, the Avs are the stronger team I built this game.

 

[Panda Bear]

Klefbom - Parayko
Chychrun - Bear

vs



Edler - Petry
Yandle - Hamonic

One of these teams is going to give up a lot more goals, and they're somehow winning 10-9

probably because they're scoring even more goals

 

[emptyNedder]

That stat does not paint a fair picture of Ilya Mikheyev, and also fails to mention that he'll be playing with Aho and Rantanen.

I like Mikheyev quite a bit. But his ceiling is Marchessault. Right now in a 7-game series Marchessault is a better asset by a signficant margin.

I'm an Oilers fan, and Ennis is not better than Kempe. Not by a long shot.

Granlund is my 2LW and is better than Kempe and Ennis is definitely better than Nick Robertson at the moment, I think Robertson will likely be close to Granlund in the future. Though I will give you Robertson's upside if you give me Boqvist being the best D on either team!

Antti Niemi has a Stanley Cup, doesn't mean he's better than Connor Hellebuyck. Heading into next year there's a decent chance both Koskinen and Demko are better than Corey Crawford.

Crawford will fall off--but he didn't in 19-20 and that is really all voters have to go by. Crawford was a top 10 goalie this past season. Crawford was 10th in Point Share (hockey-reference) and 6th in quality starts for goalies with at least 20 starts. In a 7 game series Crawford is clearly the best goalie and Hogberg doesn't play.

I think my team is winning because I have more firepower up front (Aho, Rantanen)

As a Canes fan I love Aho, but willingly admit that Zibanejad has become a beast.
Mikheyev/Aho/Rantanen has fire-power, but not "more" than Marchessault/Zibanejad/Lindholm.

as well as a #1 d-man in Brent Burns and another defenseman in Brian Dumoulin who is better than any of yours.

Fowler is not a stud, but this past season he was as good as Burns. Both teams have good special teams (VGK a little better PK), Edmonton doesn't take tons of penalties so even that won't be an advantage for Vegas. That means the games might be decided at even-strength. Burns and Fowler had almost identical strength of competition. Burns was -22 and Fowler was even. The Sharks (180 GF/225 GA) and Ducks (182 GF/225 GA) were amazingly similar overall. In this case +/- is a decent stat to compare impact. Fowler is as advantage at even strength, Burns is an advantage on the power play, which Edmonton will see rarely.

This is a good matchup and is reflected in the closeness--so I can't let the voters decide based on incomplete information.

 

[Gecklund]

Twas a good run. Neither of my teams should have been knocked out but whatever y’all are dead to me now anyway.

 

[hockeynorth]

I disagree completely, Barkov is the perfect counter to MacDeus and Matthew is by far the 3rd better player between L1s, Tor 2nd line is possession trash, my 3 rd line is elite (but I always draft the same guys there and clearly theyre not that populr I cant win a vote anymore lol. Ottawa has so mucb hustle guys its not even funny). I love your “Mantha is big” point btw .

My D gets the job done. Ott wins the game with cycling/grinding, dirty goals and painfully exhausting other team. Can you imagine having to face 2x Tkachuks + Wilson 40 mins a game backed by 3 elite 2-way Cs ?

Dont forget this is a playoff round with no whistle. Usually Im ok with losing as long as I get mope and panda votes but 11-0 ? Daym

/marvel

Toronto really is just better

You move on in a lot of matchups

 

[hockeynorth]

I feel your pain--while not 11/0, Vegas is losing despite:

• first line LW having 38 points in 54 playoff games; opposition 1 LW has 0 points in 5 playoff games
• 3rd LW having numerous better scoring seasons than the best season from opponent's 2rd LW.
• goalie having won 2 STANLEY CUPS and coming off strong season; opposition goalie is a rookie
• having a 2C who has been a productive 1C most of his career

I nearly picked you but... Fowler-Carlo

 

[hockeynorth]

And @Blinny, your team is comfortably in my top-10 and has some of my favourite players in Draisaitl, Dach, and Pulock. I think you just ran into a tough matchup, the Avs are the stronger team I built this game.

Yes Columbus is also a comfortably top 10 team for me I feel for @Blinny

I feel like he's gotten tough draw after tough draw lately

 

[hockeynorth]

I like Mikheyev quite a bit. But his ceiling is Marchessault. Right now in a 7-game series Marchessault is a better asset by a signficant margin.


Granlund is my 2LW and is better than Kempe and Ennis is definitely better than Nick Robertson at the moment, I think Robertson will likely be close to Granlund in the future. Though I will give you Robertson's upside if you give me Boqvist being the best D on either team!

Crawford will fall off--but he didn't in 19-20 and that is really all voters have to go by. Crawford was a top 10 goalie this past season. Crawford was 10th in Point Share (hockey-reference) and 6th in quality starts for goalies with at least 20 starts. In a 7 game series Crawford is clearly the best goalie and Hogberg doesn't play.

As a Canes fan I love Aho, but willingly admit that Zibanejad has become a beast.
Mikheyev/Aho/Rantanen has fire-power, but not "more" than Marchessault/Zibanejad/Lindholm.

Fowler is not a stud, but this past season he was as good as Burns. Both teams have good special teams (VGK a little better PK), Edmonton doesn't take tons of penalties so even that won't be an advantage for Vegas. That means the games might be decided at even-strength. Burns and Fowler had almost identical strength of competition. Burns was -22 and Fowler was even. The Sharks (180 GF/225 GA) and Ducks (182 GF/225 GA) were amazingly similar overall. In this case +/- is a decent stat to compare impact. Fowler is as advantage at even strength, Burns is an advantage on the power play, which Edmonton will see rarely.

This is a good matchup and is reflected in the closeness--so I can't let the voters decide based on incomplete information.

I think you were reallyyyyy close to better, I really agree your F are very strong, and your G is better, but it came down to the blue line for me, it was just too big a hole to vote through, a lot like @Kent Nilsson

 

[hockeynorth]

@42 jerks I really like Vegas but I just can't take Vegas without a better D, one better D and I pick them hands down

 

[hockeynorth]

@tinyzombies we need you to vote

 

[hockeynorth]

I'm closing this round at 4 EST.

@Panda Bear, @42 jerks, @Llamamoto you have until then to swing a vote.

 

[hockeynorth]

Moving on:

WPG
FLA
CGY
NYI
PHI
EDM
STL
PIT
TOR
MTL
NYR
CAR - tie breaker
VAN
TB
SEA
COL