Fantasy Mock Draft Part 5

[Panda Bear]

I thought Comtois was a two way guy?
Comtois every-time I have seen him play, I was impressed with his range.
Grabner would add speed to that third line for sure, but has never been considered a two way guy.

hmmmmmm

As for my Defense - I screwed up my Yandle pick honestly, needed a pure shutdown guy, had enough firepower. Don't have many places to put him really, really hurts my balance.
At least my PP is gonna be stupid.

Hutton has good mobility and was a shutdown guy before, maybe have him with Anton, move Leddy to play with Klingberg, both guys are pretty mobile.

He's a two-way guy against soft competition. He's not ready to be a two-way guy against good competition, though.

I like Comtois. He's going to be good.

 

[BeLeafing]

@AveryStar4Eva Watson was taken in round 17 by NYI if my list is right

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Alex Killorn	Nicklas Backstrom	Reilly Smith
Kappo Kakko	Nazem Kadri	Colin White
Andrew Coglino	Carl Soderberg	Jesper Fast
Jujhar Khaira	Johan Larsson	Austin Watson

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Esa Lindell	John Carlson
Jakob Chychrun	Tyler Myers
Ron Hainsey	Nick Jensen

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Robin Lehner

Matt Murray

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Cap Hit: 75.175
Cap Ceiling: 79.500
Cap Space: 4.325

Alright guys I’m done. I hope you like defencive teams. Wish my top six was a little stronger, but I’ve got plenty of offence coming from the back end and the bottom six can chip in on the score sheet as well

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

@AveryStar4Eva Watson was taken in round 17 by NYI if my list is right

Dam should have known I’ll check it out and change

 

[Makaveli]

My Punjabi brother Khaira, you def get extra points for that @AveryStar4Eva

 

[hockeynorth]

Give me a sec! @donut on auto so I'm up. Just getting to my list now

Was between Jones and Khaira for me

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

My Punjabi brother Khaira, you def get extra points for that @AveryStar4Eva

That’s what I was going for! Had a rough year, but he was pretty sick last season

 

[Panda Bear]

So I have completed my absolute nightmare to play against team. Just missing my back up.

Zucker-McDavid-Palmieri
Gaudreau-E. Staal-Armia
Lowry-Jenner-Ferland
Clutterbuck-Paquette-McGinn

Girard-Hjalmarsson
Heiskanen-Fabbro
Ferraro-Coburn

Khudobin
Xxx (I know who I’m taking here and no one else should pick him)

Jenner-Lowry-Ferland > Lowry is better at centre, Jenner is better as a winger (which is what he played during his 30 goal season)
McGinn-Paquette-Clutterbuck > McGinn and Clutterbuck were on wrong wings

No matter what you do, your second pairing is going to have a weak link. All of Fabbro, Ferraro and Coburn played sheltered minutes this season, and all of them lost the dangerous scoring chances battle.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Swapped Watson for Rodrigues. 1st ninja edit

 

[Panda Bear]

I'm also not sure about a Krug-Brodie top pairing.

That's fair. Let's call Chiarot-Makar the top pairing, then--they both played against elite competition this season and came out ahead. If Chiarot can do that with Weber, then he can do that with Makar.

 

[Panda Bear]

Swapped Watson for Rodrigues. 1st ninja edit

didn't want a wife beater?

(sure he did anger management but yeah)

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

didn't want a wife beater?

(sure he did anger management but yeah)

No he was picked in the 17th round didn’t take him off the list, but I forgot about that and it makes me feel less bad that I couldn’t pick him

 

[hockeynorth]

Finally got a wolf for that good luck, though not quite my first, or second choice I'll take him and my defence was already dirty anyways

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Hockeynorths left side of brain: "man, last spot, how do we hit a homer..."
Hockeynorths right side: "buddy its the last round just take someone with character, people love character"
Left side: "Character... more like offence yummy, me want Rasmus Sandin"
Right side: "yeah gone, how about some positive chi and we take Sudbury Wolves Superstar Marc Staal?"
Left side: "Panda won't like that..."
Right side: "screw panda man this ones for you, spoil yourself, he can still play well enough"
Left side: "true and our defence is insane... and better than our 3LD last time we took 5 rounds earlier"

Buffalo selects: Marc Staal

@belair

Love it. I was low on cap this game so didn’t get to add any of these late round superstars like Staal, Seabrook, and Lucic

 

[belair]

My Punjabi brother Khaira, you def get extra points for that @AveryStar4Eva

Solid PKer. He gets points from me.

 

[hockeynorth]

So final roster:


Kevin Labanc - Anze Kopitar - Brendan Gallagher
Jesper Bratt - Kevin Hayes - Cam Atkinson
Bobby Ryan - Dylan Strome - James Neal
Max Jones - Jason Spezza - Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Josh Morrissey - Seth Jones
Devon Toews - MacKenzie Weegar
Marc Staal - Stephen Johns

Corey Crawford
James Reimer

With a cap hit of: $ 72,943,690.00

I'll do a write up tomorrow because it's really late for me now and I'm logging off, but I'd love to hear peoples thoughts on this team. I'm extremely pleased with how this team came out! Seems super improved on my team from last time. Thanks for a great draft guys! Also suggestions would be really appreciated. I think I tanked my PandaScore with some of my last few picks mind you, but they're all guys I like for a change, especially L4.

 

[belair]

I'll be a bit to pick. Not anywhere near a reliable internet source.

 

[hockeynorth]

Love it. I was low on cap this game so didn’t get to add any of these late round superstars like Staal, Seabrook, and Lucic

Staal can play, if he was even 2 million dollars people would like him a lot more (though league min ideally) so I'm happy with him in my 6 slot. Only 1 other guy I liked and I decided to be a homer.

 

[hockeynorth]

I'll be a bit to pick. Not anywhere near a reliable internet source.

Oh sorry I forgot to pm you!!!

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

I'll be a bit to pick. Not anywhere near a reliable internet source.

I can pick for you

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

So final roster:


Kevin Labanc - Anze Kopitar - Brendan Gallagher
Jesper Bratt - Kevin Hayes - Cam Atkinson
Bobby Ryan - Dylan Strome - James Neal
Max Jones - Jason Spezza - Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Josh Morrissey - Seth Jones
Devon Toews - MacKenzie Weegar
Marc Staal - Stephen Johns

Corey Crawford
James Reimer

With a cap hit of: $ 72,943,690.00

I'll do a write up tomorrow because it's really late for me now and I'm logging off, but I'd love to hear peoples thoughts on this team. I'm extremely pleased with how this team came out! Seems super improved on my team from last time. Thanks for a great draft guys! Also suggestions would be really appreciated. I think I tanked my PandaScore with some of my last few picks mind you, but they're all guys I like for a change, especially L4.

I like the Kopitar-Gallagher connection feel like that would be instant chemistry. Not sure about Lebanc’s fit on that line. 2nd line is solid and would look hilarious on ice, two small wingers and I giant centre. 3rd line I really don’t like, sorry. Feels like they are all offence and would get eaten if they ever touch the neutral zone or defence zone. 4th line I like, but would have gone for a shut down centre considering you have three scoring lines.

1st pair is very legit would be hard to score on. 2nd pair is unproven, but solid. 3rd pair looks oddly good. Johns didn’t look out of place when playing on the 2nd pairing in Dallas so he would dominate on the 3rd pair. The goalie tandem is great considering you got both later on. You’re lucky you got ahead of the goalie run

 

[Makaveli]

I'll be a bit to pick. Not anywhere near a reliable internet source.

Aw man

 

[BeLeafing]

Aw man

To be honest you could probably just pick. You need a defenseman while every skipped pick and @belair have 6 D already

 

[Makaveli]

To be honest you could probably just pick. You need a defenseman while every skipped pick and @belair have 6 D already

I’m going to just send my player to @belair . He can post it whenever he’s ready.

 

[BeLeafing]

I’m going to just send my player to @belair . He can post it whenever he’s ready.

Whatever works, we could technically proceed with the next 5 picks as they're all non-forward options