Vedder19's Draft roster thread!

[Dave is a killer]

Brian Leetch as a #5?

yup nothing more than a PP specialist at this point

 

[Seth Lake]

Brian Leetch as a #5?

If you would like to talk trade...send me a PM.

Personally, I would like to lower the overall age of this roster a tad...

 

[Barnaby]

yup nothing more than a PP specialist at this point

Granted I'm a Ranger fan so maybe I'm a tad impartial, but I can't see how any team could have him out of their top 4... He may be old, but he's still more than just a PP specialist!!

 

[Master Lok]

Montreal Canadians

Brendan Morrison - Petr Nedved - Mario Lemieux
Tyler Arnason - Jeff Carter - Anson Carter
Todd White - Rod Brind'amour - Fernando Pisani
Tomas Surovy - Kris Beech - Steve Bernier
Alex Picard

Brian Leetch - Roman Hamrlik
Pavel Kubina - Vladimir Malakhov
Nick Schultz - Fedor Tyutin
Denis Grebeshkov

Martin Brodeur
Mike Dunham
Devan Dubnyk​

Captain - Mario Lemieux
Assistant - Brian Leetch
Assistant - Rod Brind'amour

 

[Leaf Lander]

yup nothing more than a PP specialist at this point

brian leetch proved he still got it when he played for canada's team

 

[jacketracket*]

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YOUR Columbus Blue Jackets!!​

Martin Havlat ---- Martin Straka ---- Glen Murray
Peter Bondra ---- Andrew Cassels ---- Milan Hejduk
Eric Daze ---- Petr Cajanek ---- Eric Fehr
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Krystof Oliwa ---- Trevor Letowski ---- Chuck Kobasew

Bench: Petr Vrana, Brandon Bochenski


Lubomir Visnovsky ---- Aaron Miller
Dick Tarnstrom ---- Eric Weinrich
Lukas Krajicek ---- Steve Eminger

Bench: Mark Popovic


Marc Denis
Robert Esche
Yann Danis​

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[BringGilmourBack]

bump

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

I love my team.

 

[Ajacied]

I love my team.

Your team will have about 2/3 years of contending, max. It has no future.. It's a good team if you want to win instantly, but I prefer a young, quality team who will be able to grow and develop into a contender for at least a decade.

 

[Porn*]

Your team will have about 2/3 years of contending, max. It has no future.. It's a good team if you want to win instantly, but I prefer a young, quality team who will be able to grow and develop into a contender for at least a decade.

like mine.
a good mix of players... mostly younger with a few vets thrown in.

 

[AnThGrt]

like mine.
a good mix of players... mostly younger with a few vets thrown in.

Why are we even comparing teams mine is way ahead of anyones anyways

 

[Murphy]

Not ahead of the Oilers.............

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

Your team will have about 2/3 years of contending, max. It has no future.. It's a good team if you want to win instantly, but I prefer a young, quality team who will be able to grow and develop into a contender for at least a decade.

I disagree. While I don't have alot of future, my top line talent has IMO at least 5 or so years left of being around. Alot of those guys are just over 30 or in their mid-thirties, and we've seen many guys play into their forties in the NHL. My defense is also pretty young. I don't have alot of prospects, or any, for that matter, but right now, she's a beaut.

Besides, I have two of the top 10 centers on my team, and for my money the best group of star power in this whole draft. A bad future isn't gonna stop me from lovin' it.

 

[Master Lok]

Hmm... looking at both your teams, IMO, Anaheim's biggest problem is in net Hercules. Roloson is a decent goaltender, but not one with known for big playoff performances. Palffy and Fedorov together will be a force to be reckoned with, for at least three years. Definitely a top notch line. But Whitney as your top LW, could be improved upon. Roenick and Mogilny might not last three years. I think they will retire before three years time is up. But if you improve your goaltender, this lineup could definitely contend for the Cup NOW. (Excellent choice is Norstrom and Zubov btw.)

As for Dallas Ott=Snott, your team does have a good balance in age, but Olesz or Legwand as a #1 centre may be a question mark and the defensemen is merely average (as much as I like B. Jackman). Excellent choices in wingers with Kovalchuk and Nagy (zowee!) Legwand at least, will be a strong 2nd line centre and Kapanen will probably anchor the checking line, both for many years. Vaananen, is an underrated but will be very strong dman for years. I'm just not so sure about Smid as your #2... McKee will provide good leadership. Giguere will give the team a chance, but I'm not so sure he'll do as well as his history with the smaller goalie padding rules....

Not meaning to offend anyone, just IMO.

 

[Mat]

how about my NYI top line
LW | Markus Naslund
C | Saku Koivu
RW | Tuomo Ruutu


or

LW | Alex Perezhogin
C | Alexei Zhamnov (or Yashin)
RW | Petr Sykora

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

Hmm... looking at both your teams, IMO, Anaheim's biggest problem is in net Hercules. Roloson is a decent goaltender, but not one with known for big playoff performances. Palffy and Fedorov together will be a force to be reckoned with, for at least three years. Definitely a top notch line. But Whitney as your top LW, could be improved upon. Roenick and Mogilny might not last three years. I think they will retire before three years time is up. But if you improve your goaltender, this lineup could definitely contend for the Cup NOW. (Excellent choice is Norstrom and Zubov btw.)

I very, very stronly disagree. IMO, Dwayne Roloson is a top 10 goaltender, and is very talented. Also, I'd say he's remembered for good playoffs, as in Minny's only run, he did lead them to the WCF(with Manny Fernandez). Ray Whitney IMO is very underrated, and while this last season in Detroit wasn't that great, he did an awesome job as the main man in Columbus the year before, and IMO, he's a great passer. As for Roenick and Almo, Roenick's only like 35, and Mogilny's even younger IIRC. I don't know about Almo, I think he'll last 3-5 years, but I see Roenick as a guy lasting till he's 40.

 

[Master Lok]

I very, very stronly disagree. IMO, Dwayne Roloson is a top 10 goaltender, and is very talented. Also, I'd say he's remembered for good playoffs, as in Minny's only run, he did lead them to the WCF(with Manny Fernandez). Ray Whitney IMO is very underrated, and while this last season in Detroit wasn't that great, he did an awesome job as the main man in Columbus the year before, and IMO, he's a great passer. As for Roenick and Almo, Roenick's only like 35, and Mogilny's even younger IIRC. I don't know about Almo, I think he'll last 3-5 years, but I see Roenick as a guy lasting till he's 40.

You might be right about Roloson - he is a very underrated goaltender, and I could be falling in the same trap as everyone else when pondering on Rolo's abilities. I guess I see him as a solid #1 goaltender, but without the post season heroics of more stories goalies like Belfour, Giguere, Cujo (when he played for the Oil), Brodeur, Khabibulin, etc.

You could be right with Roenick as well. He's certainly one of the most passionate players in the league right now. But with coming age, I can see Roenick's role diminishing much like Messier's. I'm a bit more doubtful of Almo. The year off will help him recover from injuries, but that hip seems to be bothersome for a while now. Hopefully he can play a number of more years, he's been a great talent.

 

[AnThGrt]

My team once agian wins in all categories its not even a competition.... Ok my golies suck but me offense will just straight out win and i have excellent two way fowards // Ryan Smyth - Joe Thorton - Adam Deadmarsh that line will straight out lay down anyone espiacilly with Stevens on defense teams will just get injured like no other // Sergei Brylin - Chris Drury - Jay Pandalfo I believe one of the best possible two way lines

 

[Mat]

My team once agian wins in all categories its not even a competition.... Ok my golies suck but me offense will just straight out win and i have excellent two way fowards // Ryan Smyth - Joe Thorton - Adam Deadmarsh that line will straight out lay down anyone espiacilly with Stevens on defense teams will just get injured like no other // Sergei Brylin - Chris Drury - Jay Pandalfo I believe one of the best possible two way lines

see ya in the playoffs

 

[AnThGrt]

see ya in the playoffs

You mean as in good bye i'm going to lose right away or nice team ill be playing u in the playoffs?

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

My team once agian wins in all categories its not even a competition.... Ok my golies suck but me offense will just straight out win and i have excellent two way fowards // Ryan Smyth - Joe Thorton - Adam Deadmarsh that line will straight out lay down anyone espiacilly with Stevens on defense teams will just get injured like no other // Sergei Brylin - Chris Drury - Jay Pandalfo I believe one of the best possible two way lines

My offense would destroy your offense. You could put Laraque with Fedorov and Palffy and they'd still dominate, let alone nice playmaker Ray Whitney. Andrew Brunette isn't a great offensive guy, but JR and Almo as my second line is also pretty stellar. I also have a goalie to boot.

Normally, I don't like to go out and brag about a team, but I love this team so much, even if it is old. Heck, after I saw the draft order, I thought I was done for, but I guess not.

 

[Mat]

ill be playing u in the playoffs?

this one

 

[AnThGrt]

this one

Lets hope so - thx for the compliment i believe the same as for you should be interesting I think my team could be really good just ya golie situation is rough yet i was hoping to get a Roloson/Fernandez type combo going with Conklin/Emery

 

[Murphy]

Bump

 

[turnbuckle*]

Bulis picked 450th overall? Nice pickup Wolfen. Talk about underappreciated - one of the league's better third line players IMO who could play on the second line on more than a couple teams (Columbus for one). He broke through offensively in Europe last season, and wouldn't be surprised to see him finally reach some of that offensive potential he was purported to have coming out of junior. I was surprised to see Stefan Meyer selected (I don't think he'll make the NHL as a regular) when solid NHL fourth liners like Jason Ward were ignored. Mind you I have a soft spot for Ward - but he's a better fit on most teams fourth line than players like Meyers, Chistov, etc., who will most likely either be second or first line players or career minor league (or European) scoring stars.

As for Roloson being one of the top ten goalies picked in a draft including Fleury, Lehtonen, Toivunen, etc., I just can't see it, especially when you include the likes of:

Brodeur
Khabibulin
Kiprusoff
Nabokov
Theodore
Belfour
Giguere
Turco


I'd put him on the next level with the likes of Raycroft, Joseph, Biron, etc., but not in the top dozen.

I was puzzled to see the likes of Deadmarsh taken so highly when ther's a darn good chance that his career is over - too risky when other solid, healthy players are available.

Enough of the negatives - looks like it was a lot of fun.