Which teams would win in a 7 game series (2021 playoffs)?

[hockeynorth]

We had a fantasy draft on the HF games section for the 2020-2021 season/playoffs. Please select the team from each matchup that would win in a 7 game series. I ask that you consider all aspects of the teams and analyze closely before voting (depth, stars, PP guys, PK guys, defence, growth, decline), or otherwise to abstain. This is round 2, round one occurred on the HF games section, we will be running another game soon if you'd like to join.

Matchup A:

Team 1:
Jake DeBrusk - Auston Matthews - Pavel Buchnevich
Nikolaj Ehlers - Logan Couture - Patric Hornqvist
Liam Foudy - Travis Zajac - Kyle Palmieri
Kyle Clifford - Johan Larsson - Ryan Reaves

Hampus Lindholm - Josh Manson
Jakob Chychrun - Shayne Gostisbehere
Christian Djoos - Tim Heed

MacKenzie Blackwood
Henrik Lundqvist

vs

Team 2:
Johnny Gaudreau - Patrice Bergeron - Brandon Saad
Max Pacioretty - Vincent Trocheck - Connor Brown
Jordan Greenway - Chandler Stephenson - Ivan Barbashev
Tomas Nosek - Cody Glass - Michael Amadio

Esa Lindell - Alex Pietrangelo
Ben Chiarot - Mathew Dumba
Marco Scandella - Noah Dobson

Ilya Samsonov
Jack Campbell

Matchup B:

Team 1:
Alexis Lafreniere-Sidney Crosby-Josh Anderson
Tyler Ennis-Adam Henrique-Vladimir Tarasenko
Jason Dickinson-Charlie Coyle-Jake Virtanen
Jujhar Khaira-Mark Jankowski-Colton Sceviour

Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Jacob Trouba
Brayden McNabb - Rasmus Ristolainen
Jusso Valimaki - Trevor van Riemsdyk

Connor Hellebuyck
Malcolm Subban

vs

Team 2:
Zach Sanford - Sebastian Aho - Mikko Rantanen
Jonathan Marchesseault - Ryan Getzlaf - Zach Hyman
Nikita Gusev - Nolan Patrick - Ryan Hartman
Brendan Lemieux - Jason Spezza - Troy Terry

Jake Muzzin - John Klingberg
Alexander Edler - Tyler Myers
Bowen Byram - Justin Braun

Corey Crawford
Chris Driedger

Matchup C:

Team 1:
Andrew Mangiapane - John Tavares - Sam Reinhart
Artemi Panarin - Paul Stastny - Conor Garland
JT Compher - Carl Soderberg - Marcus Foligno
Jansen Harkins - Jesperi Kotkainiemi - Nicholas Aube-Kubel

Mattias Ekholm - Jeff Petry
Adam Pelech - Adam Boqvist
Jon Merrill - Justin Schultz

Ben Bishop
Curtis McElhinney

vs

Team 2:
Dominik Kahun (0.975) - Leon Draisaitl (8.500) - Jakub Vrana (3.350)
Tomas Tatar (5.300) - Nazem Kadri (4.500) - Tanner Pearson (3.750)
Miles Wood (2.750) - Radek Faksa (3.250) - Alex Chiasson (2.150)
Joakim Nordstrom (0.700) - Jordan Weal (1.400) - Brock McGinn (2.100)

Shea Theodore (5.200) - Brandon Carlo (2.850)
Ryan Murray (4.600) - Jared Spurgeon (7.575)
Olli Juolevi (0.863) - Matt Benning (1.000)

Darcy Kuemper (4.500)
Anders Nilsson (2.600)

Matchup D:

Team 1:
Jaden Schwartz - Ryan O'Reilly - David Perron
Filip Chytil - Phillip Danault - Brendan Gallagher
Trevor Zegras - Jeff Carter - Rocco Grimaldi
Milan Lucic - Lucas Wallmark - Pat Maroon

Victor Hedman - Anton Stralman
Alec Martinez - Henri Jokiharju
Calvin de Haan - Mikko Lehtonen

Igor Shestyorkin
Jonathan Bernier

vs

Team 2:
Matthew Tkachuk ($7.000M) - Evgeni Malkin ($9.500M) - J.T. Miller ($5.250M)
Adrian Kempe ($2.000M) - Mikael Granlund ($5.750M) - Joel Armia ($2.600M)
Carl Hagelin ($2.750M) - Pavel Zacha ($2.250M) - Sammy Blais ($1.500M)
Alex Texier ($0.898M) - Zemgus Girgensons ($2.200M) - William Carrier ($1.400M)

Sam Girard ($5.000M) - Aaron Ekblad ($7.500M)
Cam Fowler ($6.500M) - John Marino ($0.925M)
Rasmus Sandin ($0.895M) - Radko Gudas ($2.500M)

Elvis Merzlikins ($4.000M)
Louis Domingue ($0.700M)

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[AveryStar4Eva]

Team B1 getting dogged people must be blind

 

[DropTheGloves]

Team B1 getting dogged people must be blind

Team B2 on the way to the net:

 

[hockeynorth]

Team B2 on the way to the net:

Yes, Aho, Rantanen, Marchesseault, Hyman, Gusev and co are veryyyyyy slow

 

[hockeynorth]

A2
B2
C1
D2

 

[Gurglesons]

A1
B2
C2
D2

D2 is the best team btw.

 

[hockeynorth]

A1
B2
C2
D2

D2 is the best team btw.

I like C1 best

 

[Gurglesons]

I like C1 best

That D gets throttled..

 

[hockeynorth]

That D gets throttled..

Nahh

 

[Gurglesons]

Nahh

D2 essentially has four top pairing D.

 

[hockeynorth]

D2 essentially has four top pairing D.

I do like D2

 

[CanadienShark]

A2
B1
C2
D1

 

[hockeynorth]

#supportthecommisioner

 

[hockeynorth]

B1 leading is a surprise

 

[hockeynorth]

Bump

 

[bobholly39]

B1 leading is a surprise

How? It has the best player listed out of all teams (Crosby) - especially for playoffs - and also the best goalie listed (I'm not as high on Helle as others - but majority would rank him best among this group)

With so many teams and players listed at the same time - it's hard to focus on all lines and individual players - usually I just go for biggest strengths/weaknesses, and those 2 jump out easily

 

[Llamamoto]

How? It has the best player listed out of all teams (Crosby) - especially for playoffs - and also the best goalie listed (I'm not as high on Helle as others - but majority would rank him best among this group)

With so many teams and players listed at the same time - it's hard to focus on all lines and individual players - usually I just go for biggest strengths/weaknesses, and those 2 jump out easily[/QUOTE]

That's the issue, there's a whole lot more to a team than their top-line center and goalie.

And Drai > Crosby btw

 

[bobholly39]

That's the issue, there's a whole lot more to a team than their top-line center and goalie.

And Drai > Crosby btw

I don't disagree that there's a whole lot more to a team - but there's 8 teams listed. If it was 2 teams head to head I think it'd be easier to do a full analysis is all I'm saying.

Even if you say Drai > Crosby, he'd be #2. And for playoffs (ie this poll) - not so sure Drai would come out ahead in a "who you pick first".

 

[Llamamoto]

I don't disagree that there's a whole lot more to a team - but there's 8 teams listed. If it was 2 teams head to head I think it'd be easier to do a full analysis is all I'm saying.

Even if you say Drai > Crosby, he'd be #2. And for playoffs (ie this poll) - not so sure Drai would come out ahead in a "who you pick first".

Crosby's been pretty bad the past two years in the playoffs. Drai has had over a ppg in every playoff performance so far in his career. (2, which isn't saying much unfortunately)

I'll try not to turn this into a Crosby vs Drai thread though lol. I just think that its kind of unfair to the posters who participated in the fantasy draft to vote without really looking through the matchups. We've taken that feedback though and from next game onwards we'll keep the polls on the GM Game board.

That isn't directed at you in particular, but I think the average HF poster doesn't pay too much attention to these.