The Melnyk Game: make the best team you can with the least money

[kerrabria]

Rule 1) You can't exceed the cap floor of 60.2M
Rule 2) No ELC players
Rule 3) You have to slot players in at a position they at least sometimes play.

My team just barely sneaks in with a total AAV of 60.16m

Huberdeau - Barkov - Pastrnak
Olofsson - Couturier - Rust
Verhaeghe - Danault - Garland
Ritchie - Blueger - Ryan

Slavin - McAvoy
Reilly - Carlo
Pelech - Mayfield

Driedger
Vanecek

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[NyQuil]

Title of thread:

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Rule 1) You can't exceed the cap floor of 60.2M
Rule 2) No ELC players
Rule 3) You have to slot players in at a position they at least sometimes play.

My team just barely sneaks in with a total AAV of 60.16m

Huberdeau - Barkov - Pastrnak
Olofsson - Couturier - Rust
Verhaeghe - Danault - Garland
Ritchie - Blueger - Ryan

Slavin - McAvoy
Reilly - Carlo
Pelech - Mayfield

Driedger
Vanecek

That is not a bad team!

 

[NHL WAR]

Not much experience in net, but that's a Cup contender

 

[kerrabria]

Also, if there's anything that wasting time on this exercise has taught me, it's that goalie is the position where you should cut corners on money.

 

[NyQuil]

Also, if there's anything that wasting time on this exercise has taught me, it's that goalie is the position where you should cut corners on money.

Former Senators netminder does good!

Such a crapshoot.

 

[miscs75]

Pelech doesn’t play bottom pairing ever.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Rule 1) You can't exceed the cap floor of 60.2M
Rule 2) No ELC players
Rule 3) You have to slot players in at a position they at least sometimes play.

My team just barely sneaks in with a total AAV of 60.16m

Huberdeau - Barkov - Pastrnak
Olofsson - Couturier - Rust
Verhaeghe - Danault - Garland
Ritchie - Blueger - Ryan

Slavin - McAvoy
Reilly - Carlo
Pelech - Mayfield

Driedger
Vanecek

Damn he's already 11.5 million over cap floor
6 players on ELC

 

[BurgoShark]

The Melnyk Game is about salary - not AAv.

If I’m acquiring them today and they are playing for just for this season... I’ll start with as many of these guys as I can fit, add a few more decent D, and fill out the roster with plugs.

Panarin
McDavid
Marner
Aho
Eichel
Matthews
Seguin
Kane

Josi
Trouba

Vasilevsky

The total salary of these players for the rest of the season would be around $7m

 

[SEALBound]

Any team that does not have the 1C as MacKinnon, is doing it wrong and automatically loses.

 

[Rorschach]

This game doesn't work for HFB. Even if you could assemble such a talented team for such a low cap hit, the first thing people would want to do is trade it all for futures and with such low cap hits, you literally could get all of the futures.

 

[Goose]

I prefer the Melnyk Game where we try to get lines of credit at casinos, keep the winnings where we win, then hop town when we lose and sue anyone who talks about the lawsuit the casino eventually launches.

 

[Fedz]

I had some fun with a buddy doing a two team draft with these rules. Here is my team:

LW​	C​	RW​
Olofsson	Barkov	Pastrnak
Beauvillier	Eriksson Ek	Verhaeghe
Garland	Cirelli	Rust
Sheary	Paul	Sanford
	Spezza	Perry
LD	RD	G
Slavin	Rielly	Blackwood
Ekholm	Klingberg	Driedger
Holl	Chara
Mete

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

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[MasterDecoy]

total off season thread, but i like it

 

[Aurinko]

I had some fun with a buddy doing a two team draft with these rules. Here is my team:

LW​	C​	RW​
Olofsson	Barkov	Pastrnak
Beauvillier	Eriksson Ek	Verhaeghe
Garland	Cirelli	Rust
Sheary	Paul	Sanford
	Spezza	Perry
LD	RD	G
Slavin	Rielly	Blackwood
Ekholm	Klingberg	Driedger
Holl	Chara
Mete

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Few really nice out of the box picks you have. Especially like Eriksson Ek and Spezza pickups . Other is a complete unknown playing Selke class game and other a certified performer in tough spots.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Pelech doesn’t play bottom pairing ever.

On this team he sure does

 

[BeLeafing]

Why not, $4,167 to spare

Huberdeau-MacKinnon-Pastrnak
Fiala-Couturier-Bjorkstrand
Garland-Eriksson Ek- Hyman
Verhaeghe-Blueger-Puljujarvi

Slavin-Jones
Ekholm-McAvoy
Pelech-Mayfield

Lankinen
Petersen

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Perron-Mackinnon-Pastnark
Fiala-Roslovic-Gallagher
Hyman-Eriksson Ek-Kempe
Lemieux-Spezza-Perry

Sergachev-Jones
Ekholm-Klinberg
Dunn-Mayfield

Blackwood
Miller

59,810,119$

 

[JoVel]

Someone please make a thread for the worst team possible while spending to the cap.

 

[BurgoShark]

Someone please make a thread for the worst team possible while spending to the cap.

That’s actually closer to the real Melnyk game. E.g. they acquired Callahan’s insured contract just for the cap hit.

 

[Strait2thecup]

Someone please make a thread for the worst team possible while spending to the cap.

Jeff skinner Sergei bobrovsky and insert player from 2016 FA class

 

[topshelf15]

That’s actually closer to the real Melnyk game. E.g. they acquired Callahan’s insured contract just for the cap hit.

But we also gained their 3rd for our 4th as part of that deal.....Talk about profit...lol

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Jeff skinner Sergei bobrovsky and insert player from 2016 FA class

The floor team would destroy the high cap team.

 

[BagHead]

Someone please make a thread for the worst team possible while spending to the cap.

The really mean spirited version. I love it! I have a feeling I'll be seeing lots of a particular Wild player on those rosters. Heck, maybe a couple of them.

 

[CupInSIX]

Why not go cheaper?

Poolparty MacKinnon Aciari
Garland Coleman Simmonds
Ritchie Thornton Ryan
Spezza Patrick Paul
Perry
Appleton

Pelech Whitecloud
Chara Mayfield
DelZotto Lauzon
Dermott

Demko
Smith

Comes in at under 30m