HVAvs Ultra Expansion Draft Game

McMetal

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So, here's a game to keep us all entertained for the next little while hopefully while the NHL is on hiatus. Here's the premise: you are the GM of a new expansion team whose season starts in October. However, due to a clerical error, all protection lists are void, and the salary cap does not apply to you. You bribe Bettman to make sure he doesn't do anything about it.

Build yourself the best team you can on paper to go 98-0 in your inaugural season.

Rules:

1 - You can still only have one player per team. So you can't have McDavid and Draisaitl, you can't have Kucherov and Hedman, you can't have MacKinnon and Makar.

2 - Assume you're going to have to waive some players to get to your 23 man roster. So if there's no one you want from a certain team, you can skip that team and just present your final roster. Or not, if you want to show your work for all 31 teams, go for it.

3 - The season starts next year, so if you select Joe Thornton, you're getting Joe Thornton today, not Joe Thornton from ten years ago.

4 - Try your best to keep your positions making some sense. Don't make obvious centers into wingers if you can help it. If someone plays C/W hybrid, you can slide then to wing, but don't cheat and throw Barkov onto the wing when he's clearly a natural C. Let's say left vs. right winger doesn't matter so much, lots of guys play on their off sides anyway.

Who can build the best team, and why is yours better than everyone else's?

And GO!
 
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McMetal

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Nathan MacKinnon (COL)
Connor McDavid (EDM)
Alexander Barkov (FLA)
Sidney Crosby (PIT)
David Pastrnak (BOS)
Alexander Ovechkin (WSH)
Nikita Kucherov (TBL)
Artemi Panarin (NYR)
Patrick Kane (CHI)
Andrei Svechnikov (CAR)
Mitch Marner (TOR)
Kyle Connor (WPG)
Seth Jones (CBJ)
Drew Doughty (LAK)
Quinn Hughes (VAN)
Rasmus Dahlin (BUF)
Miro Heiskanen (DAL)
Thomas Chabot (OTT)
John Gibson (ANA)
Marc-Andre Fleury (VGK)
Filip Forsberg (NSH)
Sean Couturier (PHI)
Mark Giordano (CGY)

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Ovechkin - McDavid - Marner
Kucherov - MacKinnon - Pastrnak
Connor - Crosby - Panarin
Svechnikov - Barkov - Kane

Every line has at least one setup man and pure finisher, for a balanced offensive attack across the board.

Jones - Doughty
Heiskanen - Chabot
Hughes - Dahlin

Jones and Doughty are your matchup top pair. The rest of the D is young but just entering their primes.

Gibson
Fleury

Flip a coin every night to see who plays, either one can shut down a game on their own.

Forsberg
Couturier
Giordano

Injury depth/healthy scratches. One natural winger, center, and two-way defenseman who can plug in anywhere needed.
 
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humbury8

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Panarin (NYR) - McDavid (EDM) - Pastrnak (BOS)
Ovechkin (WSH) - Crosby (PIT) - Kucherov (TAM)
Huberdeau (FLA) - Eichel (BUF) - Kane (CHI)
Connor (WPG) - O'Reilly (STL) - Marner (TOR)

Scratched: Barzal (NYI), Gaudreau (CGY), Palmieri (NJ), Fiala (MIN), Mantha (DET)

Josi (NSH) - Makar (COL)
Hughes (VAN) - Jones (CBJ)
Provorov (PHI) - Hamilton (CAR)

Scratched: Heiskanen (DAL), Theodore (VGK), Doughty (LAK), Karlsson (SJS), Chabot (OTT)

1.Gibson
2.Price
3.Raanta
 
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Perratrooper

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Pacific:
McDavid (Edm)
M. Tkachuk (Cgy)
Q, Hughes (Van)
No one (LA)
Gibson (Ana)
Meier (SJ)
No one (Az)
Stone (VGK)

Central
MacKinnon (Col)
Heiskanen (Dal)
Kane (Chi)
No one (Min)
Josi (Nsh)
Pieteragelo (StL)
Scheifele (Wpg)

Metro:
Ovi (Wsh)
Crosby (Pit)
Barzal (NYI)
Panarin (NYR)
Slavin (CAR)
Jones (CBJ)
No one (NJ)
Provorov (Phi)

Atlantic:
Pasternak (Bos)
Vaselevski (TB)
Matthews (To)
Barkov (Fla)
No one (Mtl)
Dahlin (Buf)
Chabot (Ott)
Larkin (Det)

Panarin-McDavid-MacKinnon
Barzal-Matthews-Pasternak
Ovi-Crosby-Kane
Tkachuk-Barkov-Stone
Slavin-Jones
Josi-Pieteragelo
Dahlin-Heiskanen
Vaseleski
Gibson

scratches:
Meier, Chabot Larkin, Schief, Provorov

I put MacK on the RW because in my opinion he plays more of hybrid wing/center combo with Landy.
 

Northern Avs Fan

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RIP rest of the league...

1st line: Panarin- McDavid - Pastranak

2nd line: Matthews - Barkov - Kucherov

3rd line: Tkachuk - Crosby - Stone

4th line: Svechnikov - Barzal - Kane

1st pair: Heiskanen - Makar

2nd pair: Dahlin - Jones

3rd pair: Hughes - Parayko

Starter: Hellebuyck

Backup: Gibson
 
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Metallo

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So, here's a game to keep us all entertained for the next little while hopefully while the NHL is on hiatus. Here's the premise: you are the GM of a new expansion team whose season starts in October. However, due to a clerical error, all protection lists are void, and the salary cap does not apply to you. You bribe Bettman to make sure he doesn't do anything about it.

Build yourself the best team you can on paper to go 96-0 in your inaugural season.

Rules:

1 - You can still only have one player per team. So you can't have McDavid and Draisaitl, you can't have Kucherov and Hedman, you can't have MacKinnon and Makar.

2 - Assume you're going to have to waive some players to get to your 23 man roster. So if there's no one you want from a certain team, you can skip that team and just present your final roster. Or not, if you want to show your work for all 31 teams, go for it.

3 - The season starts next year, so if you select Joe Thornton, you're getting Joe Thornton today, not Joe Thornton from ten years ago.

4 - Try your best to keep your positions making some sense. Don't make obvious centers into wingers if you can help it. If someone plays C/W hybrid, you can slide then to wing, but don't cheat and throw Barkov onto the wing when he's clearly a natural C. Let's say left vs. right winger doesn't matter so much, lots of guys play on their off sides anyway.

Who can build the best team, and why is yours better than everyone else's?

And GO!
Why not go 98-0? :DD
 
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Pierce Hawthorne

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Your bribe to Bettman assures they are not. Everyone is fair game!



ooooof, I shutter at the thought of these "bribes" given to one Mr. Bettman for this kind of opportunity.



Anyway.... Here's my team. I'm keeping it under the salary cap because that makes it soooooo much more difficult :laugh:



Anaheim - John Gibson
Arizona - Lawson Crouse
Boston - David Pastrnak
Buffalo - Victor Oloffson
Calgary - Juuso Valimaki
Carolina - Jacob Slavin
Chicago - Adam Boqvist
Colorado - Cale Makar
Columbus - Seth Jones
Dallas - Miro Heiskanen
Detroit - Tyler Bertuzzi
Edmonton - Connor McDavid
Florida - Sasha Barkov
Los Angeles - Alex Turcotte
Minnesota - Kirill Kaprizov
Montreal - Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Nashville - Filip Forsberg
New Jersey - Jack Hughes
Islanders - Scott Mayfield
Rangers - Kaapo Kakko
Ottawa - Brady Tkachuk
Philly - Morgan Frost
Pittsburgh - Calen Addison
San Jose - Timo Meier
St. Louis - Joel Hofer
Tampa Bay - Anthony Cirelli
Toronto - Rasmus Sandin
Vancouver - Bo Horvat
Vegas - Shea Theodore
Washington - Ilya Samsonov
Winnipeg - Ville Heinola



Tkachuk - McDavid - Pastrnak
Forsberg - Barkov - Meier
Oloffson - Horvat - Bertuzzi
Crouse - Cirelli - Kakko
Hughes


Heiskanen - Jones
Theodore - Makar
Slavin - Mayfield
Valimaki

Gibson
Samsonov




We'd be at approximately 75M, with Cirelly, Bertuzzi, and Oloffson as RFAs. So roughly ~8-9M to sign the 3 of them.



And our prospect pool that includes the following:

Kirill Kaprizov
Alex Turcotte
Morgan Frost
Jesperi Kotkaniemi


Adam Boqvist
Rasmus Sandin
Ville Heinola
Callen Addison

Joel Hofer
 

HugeMetalFan

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Not exactly cap compliant:

Connor (WPG) - McDavid (EDM) - MacKinnon (COL)
Panarin (NYR) - Eichel (BUF) - P.Kane (CHI)
M.Tkachuk (CGY) - Bergeron (BOS) - Stone (VGK)
Konecny (PHI) - Horvat (VAN) - Gallagher (MTL)
Meier (SJS), Larkin (DET)


Hedman (TBL) - Parayko (STL)
Slavin (CAR) - Carlson (WSH)
Josi (NSH) - Jones (CBJ)
Rielly (TOR)

Gibson (ANA)/Bishop (DAL)

No green filth on this team...
 

McMetal

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No green filth on this team...
I looked at them, but they really have no exceptional players on that team. A bunch of mid-level stars but nobody who's a legit first-liner or elite #1. No one worth poaching for my superteam.

Those f***ers better not win the lottery. May they wallow in mediocrity forever.
 
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HugeMetalFan

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I looked at them, but they really have no exceptional players on that team. A bunch of mid-level stars but nobody who's a legit first-liner or elite #1. No one worth poaching for my superteam.

Those f***ers better not win the lottery. May they wallow in mediocrity forever.
Which other central team is winning the lottery, though?
 

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