HN's Super Tournament Round One

[hockeynorth]

YOU ARE VOTING ON THESE ROSTERS FOR 2020-2021 NOT 2019-2020

For each matchup please select the team you feel would win head to head in a 7 game series. All votes welcome (game players or otherwise) except for alts. The first team in each matchup is team one, second is team 2. Please consider all aspects of the teams, from 1C right down to depth players. Do not vote just based on logo.

In the event of a tie we will go to the poll section.

Round one matchups:

Matchup A:

Fabulous Las Vegas

Kyle Connor | Auston Matthews | Mitch Marner
Alex DeBrincat | Nico Hischier | Clayton Keller
Tyler Bertuzzi | Nick Schmaltz | Brett Connolly
Jordan Greenway | Adrian Kempe | Joonas Donskoi
Lawson Crouse, Warren Foegele

Mikhail Sergachev | John Klingberg
Samuel Girard | Filip Hronek
Erik Gustafsson | Rasmus Sandin
Connor Murphy

Carey Price | Elvis Merzlikins

vs




Gabriel Landeskog - Eric Staal - Mikko Rantanen
Jason Zucker - Ryan Getzlaf - Victor Olofsson
Anthony Beauvillier - Ryan Johansen - Jonathan Drouin
Mats Zuccarello - Nick Bonino - Ilya Mikheyev
Jake Virtanen, Jack Roslovic

Morgan Rielly - Cale Makar
Keith Yandle - Niklas Hjalmarsson
Noah Hanifin - Neal Pionk
Dante Fabbro

Carter Hart
Tuukka Rask

Matchup B:


Marchand - Crosby - Marchessault
Hoffman - Zibanejad - Buchnevich
Palat - Couture - Yamamoto
Nyquist - Vilardi - Kessel

C Smith
Byfield
Lucic

Provorov - Parayko
Ekholm - Carlo
Weegar - Manson


Gibson
Francouz

vs



Artemi Panarin-Matthew Barzal-Timo Meier
Jake Voracek-Pierre-Luc-Dubois-Brendan Gallagher
Jake DeBrusk-Nick Suzuki-Cole Caufield
Robby Fabbri-Paul Stastny-Vladislav Namestnikov

Zach Aston-Reese
Alex Iafallo

Quinn Hughes-Brent Burns
Oscar Klefbom-Erik Cernak
Vince Dunn-PK Subban
Vladislav Gavrikov

Philipp Grubauer
Jaroslav Halak

Matchup C:



Filip Forsberg - Sean Couturier - Teuvo Teravainen
Max Pacioretty - Jonathan Toews - Alexander Radulov
Kevin Labanc - Anthony Cirelli - Robert Thomas
Jeff Skinner - Dylan Strome - Conor Garland
Jesper Bratt / Connor Brown

Victor Hedman - Drew Doughty
Cam Fowler - Jeff Petry
Ben Chiarot - Tyson Barrie
Alexander Romanov

Igor Shesterkin
Sergei Bobrovsky

vs


Laine-Draisaitl-Tuch
Huberdeau-Monahan-Dadonov
Kubalik-Dach-Wilson
Jenner-Faksa-Coyle

Krug-Jones
Nurse-Schmidt
Skjei-Grzelcyk

Binnington
Mrazek

Studnicka, Frost, H Fluery

Matchup D:



M. Tkachuk - Malkin - Atkinson
Gaudreau - Stamkos - Hornqvist
Benn - Danault - R. Smith
Tanev - Little - Zadina
Lowry, Anderson

OEL - Carlson
Pelech - Pulock
Byram - E. Johnson
Chara

Jarry
Fleury

vs



Jake Guentzel - Sebastian Aho - Elias Lindholm
Nikita Gusev - Nicklas Backstrom - T.J. Oshie
Brock Nelson - Brayden Schenn - Josh Bailey
Tim Stutzle - Joe Pavelski - Bryan Rust
X - Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Ilya Kovalchuk

Roman Josi - Ryan Ellis
Esa Lindell - John Marino
Devon Toews - Alec Martinez
X - Matt Roy

Jacob Markstrom
MacKenzie Blackwood

Matchup E:


Forwards
Jaden Schwartz - Patrice Bergeron - Dylan Larkin
Kevin Fiala - Mark Scheifele - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Jordan Eberle - Matt Duchene - Tyler Toffoli
Nino Niederreiter - Adam Henrique - Ondrej Kasê
Joel Farabee, Andreas Athanasiou

Defensemen
Jaccob Slavin - Charlie McAvoy
Jakub Chychrun - Kris Letang
Ryan Graves - Damon Severson
Travis Hamonic

Goaltenders
Ben Bishop
Antti Raanta

vs


J.T Miller - Elias Pettersson - David Pastrnak
Brady Tkachuk - Tomas Hertl - Jakub Vrana
Andre Burakovsky - David Krejci - Denis Gurianov
Andrew Mangiapane - Vincent Trocheck - Mikael Granlund
Joel Eriksson Ek / Nick Robertson

Mark Giordano - Dougie Hamilton
Jake Muzzin - Ethan Bear
TJ Brodie - Justin Faulk
Tyler Myers

Connor Hellebuyck
Frederik Andersen

Matchup F:


A. Svechnikov - A. Barkov - V. Tarasenko
Z. Hyman - RoR - B. Coleman
A. Lafreniere - W. Karlsson - A. Killorn
Z. Sanford - J. Staal - V. Nichushkin

S. Theodore - J. Spurgeon
B. Dumoulin - M. Niskanen
I. Cole - P. Myers

D. Kuemper
A. Khudobin


Spares:
D. Stepan
C. Glass
N. Hague

vs


Ovechkin - Kopitar - Kane
Hughes - Horvat - Palmieri
Saad - Nugent Hopkins - Kakko
Hintz - Tierney - Brown
Turcotte, Zajac

Keith - Karlsson
Chabot - Pesce
Vlasic - Vatanen
Shattenkirk

Korpisalo
Samsonov

Matchup G:

Starting Lineup

Evander Kane - Tyler Seguin - Nikita Kucherov
Tomas Tatar - Travis Konecny - Sam Reinhart
Max Domi - Martin Necas - Kasperi Kapanen
Anthony Duclair - Jordan Kyrou - Ryan Reaves

Aaron Ekblad - Rasmus Dahlin
Travis Sanheim - Anthony DeAngelo
Alexander Edler - Rasmus Ristolainen

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Juuse "Fruit" Saros

Prospects

Nolan Patrick (assigned to Milwaukee Kielbasas, AHL)
Adam Boqvist (assigned to Milwaukee Kielbasas, AHL)
Mikko Lehtonen (assigned to Milwaukee Kielbasas, AHL)


Vs


Claude Giroux / Nathan Mackinnon/ Mark Stone
Chris Kreider / Brayden Point / Blake Wheeler
James Van Riemsdyk / Mikael Backlund / Viktor Arvdisson
Yanni Gourde / Tyler Johnson / Christian Dvorak

Hampus Lindholm / Adam Fox
Jonas Brodin / Matthew Dumba
Adam Larsson / Chris Tanev

Corey Crawford
Ilya Sorokin

Jake Gardiner
Andreas Johnsson
Dominik Kahun

Matchup H:


Forwards
Nikolaj Ehlers - Jack Eichel - David Perron
Kirill Kaprizov - Evgeny Kuznetsov - Brock Boeser
Tanner Pearson - Nazem Kadri - Rickard Rakell
Erik Haula - Lars Eller - Oskar Lindblom
Ryan Strome, Carl Hagelin

Defenders
Zach Werenski- Alex Pietrangelo
Ryan McDonagh - Miro Heiskanen
Dmitry Orlov - Rasmus Andersson
Juuso Valimaki

Goaltenders
Braden Holtby
Semyon Varlamov

vs


Anders Lee - Connor McDavid - Anthony Mantha
Taylor Hall - John Tavares - William Nylander
Zach Parise - Kevin Hayes - Jakub Silfverberg
Nick Foligno - JG Pageau - Joel Armia

Ryan Suter - Shea Weber
Josh Morrissey - Jacob Trouba
Ryan Murray - David Savard

Robin Lehner
Matt Murray

Scratch: Carl Soderburg, Zach Kassian, Scott Mayfeild

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[hockeynorth]

I'd like to start this thread off by saying thank you to everyone who participated, it was a very enjoyable game to run. Win or lose this was a great game!

 

[hockeynorth]

2nd post...

Edmonton sucks vote Philly!!!!!

Florida might also be made up... just saying, hear me out

 

[hockeynorth]

You may change your votes fyi, but don't change just cause you were voted against

 

[hockeynorth]

Matchups A, D and H I'm likely to flip flop on with voting, I just wanted to get a preliminary vote in on it. Not sold on my votes for any of those 3 at all.

@Scholarships please vote every matchup lol

 

[m0pe]

Some tough matchups.

PHI/EDM and DAL/ARZ were 4 of my favourite teams and 2 gotta go out.


Also vote because we stacked.

Pens have the edge in their top-6 C's, but Canes got the edge on wings, D and have a more proven starter too.

 

[hockeynorth]

Some tough matchups.

PHI/EDM and DAL/ARZ were 4 of my favourite teams and 2 gotta go out.


Also vote because we stacked.

Pens have the edge in their top-6 C's, but Canes got the edge on wings, D and have a more proven starter too.

Tis the nature of the super draft

 

[Llamamoto]

@m0pe, @uncleben, @nbonaddio.

I invite you all to correct the grave mistake that you've made.

You've allowed yourselves to get dazzled by Petterson - Pastrnak, ignoring the fact that my lines 2-4 and my entire defense is better.

Let's allow ourselves a peek at the matchups:

His top line is better. That I accept.

Tkachuk - Hertl - Vrana << Fiala - Scheifele - Bjorkstrand
Bura - Krejci - Gurianov < Eberle - Duchene - Toffoli
Mangiapane - Trocheck - Granlund = Nino - Henrique - Kase

Giordano - Hamilton < Slavin - McAvoy
Muzzin - Bear <<< Chychrun - Letang
Brodie - Faulk < Graves - Severson

Helle + Freddy = Bishop + Raanta

Apart from the top line, EDM is better.

 

[Llamamoto]

How is Edmonton losing...?

 

[m0pe]

How is Edmonton losing...?

Did my early voting last night but took a closer look at all matchups this morning when I had the time.

This was the one vote I switched.

It is VERY close and both are top teams. I think he has the clear edge on his top line, I think his PP would be LETHAL, and he has the edge in net.

But in a playoff series where defensive hockey often pulls through, I prefer your depth and more defensive style play.

Very close like I said, so if Edmonton loses it wouldn't be some crazy crime though.

 

[hockeynorth]

Let us analyze...
J.T Miller - Elias Pettersson - David Pastrnak vs Jaden Schwartz - Patrice Bergeron - Dylan Larkin
Llama claims my team isn't defensive enough and yet this would be one of the best shut down lines in the league, Petey is a defensive beast, Miller had 2 hits a game and Pasta is known to play on the best two way line in the league. Not to mention Pettersson also had a hit a game... now for offence, well, rocket winner, one of the most creative players in the league, and elite complimentary player. You cannot contain this line

Tkachuk - Hertl - Vrana vs Fiala - Scheifele - Bjorkstrand
Brady Tkachuk: 303 hits in 71 games, positive Corsi, 44 points
Tomas Hertl: 36 points in 48 games, more dzone starts than ozone starts, positive corsi
Jakub Vrana: 52 points in 69 games, more dzone starts than ozone starts, 51% corsi

Kevin Fiala and Oliver Bjorkstrand are soft and get caved defensively, his only edge is Scheifele here, who had a negative corsi and needed nearly 60% ozone starts. My line can do it both ways, and yet again is more physical.

Bura - Krejci - Gurianov vs Eberle - Duchene - Toffoli
Llama claims his line is better here but thats a travesty, Burakovsky and Gurianov light the lamp at an amazing rate, Gurianov even leading his team. Now they have Krejci down the middle feeding them and it wouldn't be close. Not to mention Gurianov is good for at least a hit a game, something none of his guys can say. His line is more one dimensional here but also older, my guys underlyings show they'll likely breakout.


Mangiapane - Trocheck - Granlund = Nino - Henrique - Kase
I feel this is a fair assessment, though I have Eriksson Ek and Robertson in the wings.

Giordano - Hamilton vs Slavin - McAvoy
My guy won a norris recently and should've won the norris this year. Neither of his can say that. My top pair is better offensively and underrated defensively. His top pair can't contain Pasta/Petey. Gio plays more dzone minutes than ozone too, and blocks shots at a crazy rate. All while Dougie was near 50/50 and had over a hit and a block a game with crazy corsis.

Muzzin - Bear vs Chychrun - Letang
Yeah his pair is better overall but if you know Bear's potential all my pair has to do is play shut down hockey, thats their point. My pair is designed to be physical and hard to play against here, we all saw the leafs without Muzzin.

Brodie - Faulk vs Graves - Severson
Him saying his bottom pair is better is ridiculous, Brodie and Faulk can handle any usage and are more specialist types, while his guys are mostly defensive. Brodie is the physical element.

Helle + Freddy vs Bishop + Raanta
This isn't close, Hellebuyck is the best goalie in the league

 

[OB5]

Got smoked but I'm happy with the friends I made along the way

 

[Llamamoto]

@AveryStar4Eva vote, I need your appreciation for defensive minded hockey.

 

[hockeynorth]

@AveryStar4Eva vote, I need your appreciation for defensive minded hockey.

@AveryStar4Eva should know my guys play better defensive hockey, we have more defensive zone starts, out hit, out score, takeaway the puck better. You have a good 2nd pairing, whereas my 2nd pair is designed to play hard hockey. Joke's on you, I ran a ton of my picks by Avery!

Edit: @AveryStar4Eva I'm disappointed in you bro

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

@AveryStar4Eva vote, I need your appreciation for defensive minded hockey.

@AveryStar4Eva should know my guys play better defensive hockey, we have more defensive zone starts, out hit, out score, takeaway the puck better. You have a good 2nd pairing, whereas my 2nd pair is designed to play hard hockey. Joke's on you, I ran a ton of my picks by Avery!

My choice has been made

 

[hockeynorth]

@m0pe switch back

 

[hockeynorth]

My choice has been made

we were once friends...

I have Gurianov!

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

we were once friends...

I have Gurianov!

It was close I’m sorry

 

[hockeynorth]

I'm just gonna drop this here...

 

[hockeynorth]

It was close I’m sorry

You're just scared of meeting me in the finals again

Thats what I'm going with

 

[BeLeafing]

I'm just gonna drop this here...

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With all due respect, this means absolutely nothing outside of fantasy leagues. You are way overvaluing the value of hits (nevermind that the difference is literally three hits)

 

[hockeynorth]

With all due respect, this means absolutely nothing outside of fantasy leagues. You are way overvaluing the value of hits (nevermind that the difference is literally three hits)

I’m just showing his team is no more physical then mine

If I lose I get why, I should’ve drafted a different style defence, more like I did last game. I just felt confident in this style this time around.

Philly, Edmonton, Dallas and Arizona are all in my top 5

 

[BeLeafing]

I’m just showing his team is no more physical then mine

If I lose I get why, I should’ve drafted a different style defence, more like I did last game. I just felt confident in this style this time around.

Philly, Edmonton, Dallas and Arizona are all in my top 5

Whoever loses in that matchup is getting the short end of the stick regardless. Both were in my top 3.

 

[BumDum]

When will the next round start?

 

[Llamamoto]

I’m just showing his team is no more physical then mine

If I lose I get why, I should’ve drafted a different style defence, more like I did last game. I just felt confident in this style this time around.

Philly, Edmonton, Dallas and Arizona are all in my top 5

Hits don't necessarily translate to physical play.