OPPF championship retrospective

[BenchBrawl]

MOD: Here is the link for the ATD championship retrospective thread: ATD championship retrospective. Here is the link for the MLD championship retrospective thread: MLD championship retrospective. This thread is about the OPPF championship.

Here are the OPPF champions since the birth of the format (invented by Hawkey Town 18; the origin story HERE). Note: There was no OPPF draft in 2017.

OPPF2016 champions, Quebec Bulldogs (*note: 7 team draft*):

GM: BenchBrawl

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​

OPPF2018 champions, Brooklyn Americans (*note: 12 team draft*):

GM: TheDevilMadeMe

Coach: Joel Quenneville

Sweeney Schriner - Mark Messier (C) - Jaromir Jagr
Anatoli Firsov - Phil Esposito - Bryan Hextall, Sr
Jiri Holik - Dave Keon - Daniel Alfredsson (A)
Zach Parise - Nicklas Backstrom - David Backes

Red Kelly - Chris Chelios (A)
Moose Johnson - Mark Howe
Marc-Eduouard Vlasic - Phil Housley

Ken Dryden
Roberto Luongo
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OPPF2019 champions, San Jose Rubber Puckies (*note: 12 team draft*):

GM: TheDevilMadeMe

Coach: Tommy Ivan

Paul Kariya - Howie Morenz - Gordie Howe (A)
John LeClair - Cyclone Taylor - Patrick Kane
Craig Ramsey - Anze Kopitar - Glenn Anderson
Clark Gillies - Peter Stastny - Dino Ciccarelli

Eddie Gerard (C) - Eddie Shore
Borje Salming - Valeri Vasiliev (A)
Art Coulter - Cy Wentworth

Martin Brodeur
Curtis Joseph​

OPPF2020 champions, Montreal Wanderers (*note: 12 team draft*):

GM: BenchBrawl

Coach: Lester Patrick

Sid Abel (A) - Mario Lemieux - Mike Bossy
Baldy Northcott - Jean Béliveau (C) - Patrick Kane
Zach Parise - Dave Keon - Boris Mikhailov (A)
Bill Barber - Peter Stastny - Todd Bertuzzi

Zdeno Chara - Paul Coffey
Sprague Cleghorn - Art Coulter (A)
Mark Giordano - Kevin Hatcher

Clint Benedict
Roy Worters
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Two time champs

Forward:

Mark Messier
Bryan Hextall Sr.
Patrick Kane
Dave Keon
Peter Stastny
Craig Ramsay
Zach Parise

Defense:

Sprague Cleghorn
Art Coulter

Goal:

Martin Brodeur
Roberto Luongo

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[TheDevilMadeMe]

I'm trying to think if any of the two-time winners are extra valuable other than random noise.

Brodeur is probably extra valuable - as one of the few top goalies from a shallow team.

Messier? Maybe he's important as a relatively rare glue guy from a weaker team?

Hextall - A rare power RW in his range from a team that is only medium in quality?

Craig Ramsey and Zach Parise are quality bottom 6-type LWs from weak teams, which is kind of rare.

The rest of the two-time winners look more like random chance. And to be honest, including Parise might be a bit of a stretch.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

The last 2 winners both started with a top 4 all-time player. Too early to see if that's a trend or just random.

 

[BenchBrawl]

The last 2 winners both started with a top 4 all-time player. Too early to see if that's a trend or just random.

Your 2018 team was at the tail end of the snake, so the complete opposite.

Any pattern now might be noise, but at 4 draft deep this was enough of a tradition to create a retrospective thread.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'm trying to think if any of the two-time winners are extra valuable other than random noise.

Brodeur is probably extra valuable - as one of the few top goalies from a shallow team.

Messier? Maybe he's important as a relatively rare glue guy from a weaker team?

Hextall - A rare power RW in his range from a team that is only medium in quality?

Craig Ramsey and Zach Parise are quality bottom 6-type LWs from weak teams, which is kind of rare.

The rest of the two-time winners look more like random chance. And to be honest, including Parise might be a bit of a stretch.

Problem is the 2016 draft was so different, I wouldn't even count it when trying to find patterns.

Hextall was not as valuable in 2016 as he was in 2018.

I included every two time champs, even useless fillers like Parise. I followed Sturminator's ATD championship retrospective format down to a T. (I see now I misread your last sentence, but nevermind that)

 

[BenchBrawl]

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[Hawkey Town 18]

Problem is the 2016 draft was so different, I wouldn't even count it when trying to find patterns.

Hextall was not as valuable in 2016 as he was in 2018.

I included every two time champs, even useless fillers like Parise. I followed Sturminator's ATD championship retrospective format down to a T. (I see now I misread your last sentence, but nevermind that)

Agree, a 7 team draft is a completely different animal, tough to compare the two.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Added links to the ATD and MLD threads in the OP.