Mini ATD (1 Player) Semifinals: Shearstown Tigers vs. Quebec Bulldogs

[Hawkey Town 18]

Shearstown Tigers

Coach: Glen Sather
Captain: Wayne Gretzky
Alternate: Boris Mikhailov
Alternate: Joe Sakic

Joe Malone - Wayne Gretzky - Boris Mikhailov
Alexander Ovechkin - Joe Sakic - Mike Bossy
Patrik Elias - Phil Esposito - Hooley Smith
John Leclair - Ted Kennedy - Jarome Iginla

Red Kelly - Earl Seibert
Brad Park - Shea Weber
František Pospíšil - Georges "Buck" Boucher

Patrick Roy
Roy Worters

PP1:
Esposito - Bossy
Ovechkin - Gretzky
Kelly

PP2:
Leclair - Sakic - Malone
Boucher - Park

PK1:
Kennedy - Smith
Seibert - Pospisil

PK2:
Sakic - Elias
Kelly - Weber

Last Minute, Behind:
Ovechkin - Gretzky - Esposito
Park - Sakic - Kelly

Last Minute, Ahead:
Elias - Kennedy - Smith
Kelly - Seibert



VS.

Les Bulldogs De Québec

Coach: Toe Blake

Ted Lindsay (A) - Mark Messier (C) - Guy Lafleur
Johnny Bucyk - Sidney Crosby - Sergei Makarov
Frank Mahovlich - Eric Lindros - Bryan Hextall Sr
Craig Ramsay - Rod Brind'Amour - Dave Taylor


Denis Potvin (A) - Sprague Cleghorn
Duncan Keith - Chris Pronger
Harvey Pulford - Sergei Zubov

Martin Brodeur
Roberto Luongo

PP1: Makarov - Messier - Lafleur - Potvin - Cleghorn
PP2: Lindsay - Crosby - Mahovlich - Zubov - Pronger
PP3: Bucyk - Lindros - Hextall Sr

PK1: Brind'Amour - Ramsay - Pronger - Potvin
PK2: Messier - Lindsay - Cleghorn/Keith - Pulford/Keith
PK3: Crosby - Taylor

Estimated ice-time:

Player | ES | PP | PK | Total
Messier | 13.5 | 3 | 2 | 18.5
Lafleur | 13.5 | 5 | 0 | 18.5
Lindsay | 13.5 | 2 | 2 | 17.5
Crosby | 13.5 | 3 | 1 | 17.5
Makarov | 13.5 | 3| 0 | 16.5
Mahovlich| 13.5 | 2 | 0 | 15.5
Bucyk | 12.5 | 1| 0 | 13.5
Lindros | 12.5 | 1| 0 | 13.5
Hextall Sr| 12.5 | 1 | 0 | 13.5
Brind'Amour| 6.5 | 0 | 4| 10.5
Ramsay| 6.5 | 0 | 4 | 10.5
Taylor| 6.5 | 0 | 1| 7.5
TOTAL | 138 | 21 | 14 | 173

Player | ES | PP | PK | Total
Potvin | 19 | 5 | 3 | 27
Cleghorn | 19 | 3 | 2 | 24
Pronger | 17 | 2 | 3 | 22
Keith | 17 | 1 | 3 | 21
Pulford| 10.5 | 0 | 3 | 13.5
Zubov | 9.5 | 3 | 0 | 12.5
TOTAL | 92 | 14 | 14 | 120

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[VanIslander]

The Bulldogs appear nasty enough to throw Shearstown off its game.

And Shearstown doesn't have lines capable of holding onto a lead (Esposito on the 3rd line?). Heck, the Shearstown penalty kill units are almost nonexistent!

In a playoff setting, the match-up does not seem to be to the offensive-oriented Tigers' favor.

Flip a coin.

The key question for this series: Will the Tigers score enough goals to beat their opposition?

 

[Johnny Engine]

To answer those, yes we can score enough. We don't intend to sit on leads. However, as you see in the lineup thread, we've got a line for crucial faceoffs and matchups.

Our PK is fine. Perhaps lacking an ace in the form of someone like Potvin, but is a guy like Seibert really any worse than Pronger, aside from the former being fresher in our minds while playing specific roles?

Like last series, Quebec will still need an answer to my power play units, as they're probably the more penalty prone of the two teams.

Sorry I haven't been much involved in this, I've gotten posts started and found the teams kind of hard to compare, with very heavy strengths in different areas.

 

[jarek]

To answer those, yes we can score enough. We don't intend to sit on leads. However, as you see in the lineup thread, we've got a line for crucial faceoffs and matchups.

Our PK is fine. Perhaps lacking an ace in the form of someone like Potvin, but is a guy like Seibert really any worse than Pronger, aside from the former being fresher in our minds while playing specific roles?

Like last series, Quebec will still need an answer to my power play units, as they're probably the more penalty prone of the two teams.

Sorry I haven't been much involved in this, I've gotten posts started and found the teams kind of hard to compare, with very heavy strengths in different areas.

Johnny, your PK is kind of dreadful in terms of forwards. Ask yourself if you'd really want any of those guys on a PK even in the ATD.

I think maybe lost in all this is that, despite the restrictions of the draft, we still had to build a team - and I really think VI has the best team in this draft.

 

[ResilientBeast]

5 votes in for this series, razor thin margin. The Quebec Bulldogs triumph in 7 games

3 Stars
1) Mark Messier
2) Wayne Gretzky
3) Patrick Roy