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Let's continue building down the middle.
MATT DUCHENE, C, NASHVILLE PREDATORS
Wheeler (33) - Giroux (32) - Pastrnak (23)
XXX - Kopitar (32) - XXX
XXX - Duchene (29) - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Hughes (20) - Trouba (26)
XXX - DeAngelo (24)
XXX - XXX
XXX
XXX
MATT DUCHENE, C, NASHVILLE PREDATORS
Wheeler (33) - Giroux (32) - Pastrnak (23)
XXX - Kopitar (32) - XXX
XXX - Duchene (29) - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Hughes (20) - Trouba (26)
XXX - DeAngelo (24)
XXX - XXX
XXX
XXX
There were a few options here, but the Penny Pinchers couldn't say no to another rookie scale contract. Another very young defenseman who was thrust into heavy minutes and significant responsibility despite his inexperience, this guy will bump Hronek to the 2nd pairing and provide Rasmhus Dahlin with a defensively responsible partner who can also skate and pass with him. Despite entering the season as a rookie afterthought, the possession stats absolutely love his performance, and his team clearly believes the stats aren't lying as they've given him a lot of ice team, and a lot of PK time. He has a well rounded game with no major weaknesses, and while he may not have the offensive upside of the Cole Makars or Adam Foxes of the world, his defensive impact may make it a closer race than one might think. Jeremy Jacob's Penny Pinchers select John Marino, D.
Jakub Vrana (24)- Nate MacKinnon (24) - Elias Lindholm (25)
Open - Sean Couturier (27)- Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Rasmus Dahlin (20) - John Marino (22)
Open - Filip Hronek (22)
Open - Open
Connor Hellebuyck (26)
Open
Cap Situation:
Nate MacKinnon $6.3 million (2022-23)
Connor Hellebuyck$6.167 million (2023-24)
Elias Lindholm $4.85 million (2023-24)
Sean Couturier $4.33 million (2021-22)
Jakub Vrana $3.35 million (2020-21)
Rasmus Dahlin $0.925 million (2020-21)
John Marino $0.925 million (2020-21)
Filip Hronek $0.714 million (2020-21)
Total: $27.561 million
Limit: $81.5 million
Space: $53.939 million
Jakub Vrana (24)- Nate MacKinnon (24) - Elias Lindholm (25)
Open - Sean Couturier (27)- Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Rasmus Dahlin (20) - John Marino (22)
Open - Filip Hronek (22)
Open - Open
Connor Hellebuyck (26)
Open
Cap Situation:
Nate MacKinnon $6.3 million (2022-23)
Connor Hellebuyck$6.167 million (2023-24)
Elias Lindholm $4.85 million (2023-24)
Sean Couturier $4.33 million (2021-22)
Jakub Vrana $3.35 million (2020-21)
Rasmus Dahlin $0.925 million (2020-21)
John Marino $0.925 million (2020-21)
Filip Hronek $0.714 million (2020-21)
Total: $27.561 million
Limit: $81.5 million
Space: $53.939 million
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Want to add some more help down the middle and add some prowess in my defensive forward ranks. Was looking at a few centers but they came off the board shortly before my pick, so have had to pivot a bit. With that, I'm going with Phillip Danault, C to be my second line center, pushing Nylander to the wing. Top 10 in the Selke last year with strong underlying stats even on a crappy Montreal team. Good at faceoffs, plenty of PK time, and 27, so jumping up into his prime. He's going to play the hard minutes to save up the top line to do what they do best.
Huberdeau - McDavid - Mantha
Nylander - Danault - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Pietrangelo
Open - Ekblad
Open - Fox
Open
Open
Huberdeau - McDavid - Mantha
Nylander - Danault - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Pietrangelo
Open - Ekblad
Open - Fox
Open
Open
With our next two picks, MikeMikeMike! selects:
Michael Del Zotto - D
Mikael Granlund - RW
Some good JAG depth named Michael here. I searched through this thread and didn't see that either were taken, so I'll be frustrated if my search ability is crap. I suspect that I'm going to end up with three #2/3 lines and kind of a crap 4th line, but hey. Mike giveth and Mike taketh away. This has been a fun exercise.
Mike Hoffman - Mika Zibanejad - Mikael Granlund
Open - Mikko Koivu - Open
Open - Mikael Backlund - Open
Open - Open - Open
Mikhail Sergachev - Michal Kempny
Michael Del Zotto - Open
Open - Open
Mikko Koskinen
Open
Michael Del Zotto - D
Mikael Granlund - RW
Some good JAG depth named Michael here. I searched through this thread and didn't see that either were taken, so I'll be frustrated if my search ability is crap. I suspect that I'm going to end up with three #2/3 lines and kind of a crap 4th line, but hey. Mike giveth and Mike taketh away. This has been a fun exercise.
Mike Hoffman - Mika Zibanejad - Mikael Granlund
Open - Mikko Koivu - Open
Open - Mikael Backlund - Open
Open - Open - Open
Mikhail Sergachev - Michal Kempny
Michael Del Zotto - Open
Open - Open
Mikko Koskinen
Open
Gotta go with some nostalgia here. Vladimir Sobotka .
GUENTZEL- KADRI - VAN RIEMSDYK
ZADINA C TUCH
SOBOTKA C RW
LW C RW
CHYCHRUN DEKEYSER
D D
D D
Grubauer
G
GUENTZEL- KADRI - VAN RIEMSDYK
ZADINA C TUCH
SOBOTKA C RW
LW C RW
CHYCHRUN DEKEYSER
D D
D D
Grubauer
G
I'm going with John Klingberg, D, of the Dallas Stars. Has two top 10 Norris seasons to his name and, while he's been struggling this year, I'm banking on him rebounding back to his typical form. At 27, I'm guessing he's not done just yet.
One issue is I do have right now is that I have 4 right shot defenseman on my team but I'm sure someone can play his offside. That or I can go full Panthers and have a bunch of defensemen play forward.
Huberdeau - McDavid - Mantha
Nylander - Danault - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Klinberg - Pietrangelo
Open - Ekblad
Open - Fox
Open
Open
One issue is I do have right now is that I have 4 right shot defenseman on my team but I'm sure someone can play his offside. That or I can go full Panthers and have a bunch of defensemen play forward.
Huberdeau - McDavid - Mantha
Nylander - Danault - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Klinberg - Pietrangelo
Open - Ekblad
Open - Fox
Open
Open
Yeah I had to ctrl+f his name about 8 times to make sure. Don’t necessarily need him but couldn’t pass it up.
Come at me bro! Gonna bury you this year.
Let's see if this sounds familiar. Until this year, this left wing was a bit of a "glue" guy. He could play on any line from the third line to a top line. He was a good defensive player and great penalty killer, who never really got much any run on the power play. Offensively, he was more of a goal scorer than a playmaker, and the advanced stats always liked him as a guy who drove possession. He signed a long term deal after a fairly run of the mill season for relative pennies, which seemed market value last year, only to explode this year with career highs in just about every offensive category, in no small part thanks to finally being given some real powerplay time and better offensive talent around him. I'm pairing him with a Selke caliber center who is no slouch offensively himself, similarly signed to a bargain contract. While they may not quite be Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand, Sean Couturier will pair up quite nicely with his new linemate, Bryan Rust, LW.
Overall, the Penny Pincher's squad is shaping up quite nicely. On the offensive side, the top two lines both bring high end firepower with every single player on both lines being capable of putting up at least 20 goals. All the defenders are mobile, highly skilled, and strong at moving the puck, so the team will be an absolute menace in transition. In their own zone, we've got an absolute horse between the pipes who has shown the ability to put up terrific numbers even when his team does him no favors at all, except in this case he's got a terrific group of defensive forwards to help buoy his young defenders, all of whom are capable at worst in their own zone, with Marino flashing legitimate lockdown potential. I need a defensive D-man to pair with Hronek, who would likely see his numbers improve dramatically in a less insanely overloaded workload than what Detroit has thrown at him, and of course the entire bottom half of the roster remains to get filled out, but there's a lot to like here.
Jakub Vrana (24)- Nate MacKinnon (24) - Elias Lindholm (25)
Bryan Rust (27) - Sean Couturier (27)- Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Rasmus Dahlin (20) - John Marino (22)
Open - Filip Hronek (22)
Open - Open
Connor Hellebuyck (26)
Open
Cap Situation:
Nate MacKinnon $6.3 million (2022-23)
Connor Hellebuyck$6.167 million (2023-24)
Elias Lindholm $4.85 million (2023-24)
Sean Couturier $4.33 million (2021-22)
Bryan Rust $3.5 million (2021-22)
Jakub Vrana $3.35 million (2020-21)
Rasmus Dahlin $0.925 million (2020-21)
John Marino $0.925 million (2020-21)
Filip Hronek $0.714 million (2020-21)
Total: $31.061 million
Limit: $81.5 million
Space: $50.439 million
Overall, the Penny Pincher's squad is shaping up quite nicely. On the offensive side, the top two lines both bring high end firepower with every single player on both lines being capable of putting up at least 20 goals. All the defenders are mobile, highly skilled, and strong at moving the puck, so the team will be an absolute menace in transition. In their own zone, we've got an absolute horse between the pipes who has shown the ability to put up terrific numbers even when his team does him no favors at all, except in this case he's got a terrific group of defensive forwards to help buoy his young defenders, all of whom are capable at worst in their own zone, with Marino flashing legitimate lockdown potential. I need a defensive D-man to pair with Hronek, who would likely see his numbers improve dramatically in a less insanely overloaded workload than what Detroit has thrown at him, and of course the entire bottom half of the roster remains to get filled out, but there's a lot to like here.
Jakub Vrana (24)- Nate MacKinnon (24) - Elias Lindholm (25)
Bryan Rust (27) - Sean Couturier (27)- Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Rasmus Dahlin (20) - John Marino (22)
Open - Filip Hronek (22)
Open - Open
Connor Hellebuyck (26)
Open
Cap Situation:
Nate MacKinnon $6.3 million (2022-23)
Connor Hellebuyck$6.167 million (2023-24)
Elias Lindholm $4.85 million (2023-24)
Sean Couturier $4.33 million (2021-22)
Bryan Rust $3.5 million (2021-22)
Jakub Vrana $3.35 million (2020-21)
Rasmus Dahlin $0.925 million (2020-21)
John Marino $0.925 million (2020-21)
Filip Hronek $0.714 million (2020-21)
Total: $31.061 million
Limit: $81.5 million
Space: $50.439 million
With a ton of different options right now, we're going to go with proven goal scoring ability. I think it's fair to say that team Pasta Fagioli will not be playing in many 1-0 games this year, but we're building offense at the top and will round out defensive responsibility as the draft goes on. This guy is 27 years old, has experience, scored 40 goals last year and has proven he can light the lamp. His production has dipped this year, but playing in Buffalo, whose wouldn't? I'm gonna put in on the first line LW and bump Wheeler down with Kopitar for now. This is all quite fluid.
JEFF SKINNER, LW, BUFFALO
Skinner (27) - Giroux (32) - Pastrnak (23)
Wheeler (33) - Kopitar (32) - XXX
XXX - Duchene (29) - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Hughes (20) - Trouba (26)
XXX - DeAngelo (24)
XXX - XXX
XXX
XXX
JEFF SKINNER, LW, BUFFALO
Skinner (27) - Giroux (32) - Pastrnak (23)
Wheeler (33) - Kopitar (32) - XXX
XXX - Duchene (29) - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Hughes (20) - Trouba (26)
XXX - DeAngelo (24)
XXX - XXX
XXX
XXX
Also - I've tried to catch up the first post with all the picks up until now so please double check and keep using that for searching for past picks. If @The Napkin or @cshea could help me out as we move along, that'd be appreciated.
My team will just take it down the right wing. Should be no problem. Good pick though. One of the NHL's most underrated players.
Wow the pace really picked up. Nice job with the Klingberg and Rust picks especially - we had them both on our target list. With those options gone, it's time to set up our goaltending. Our selection has posted a career .918 save percentage and 2.46 GAA to date while playing for middling to decent teams. He's come into his own the last two seasons with a GSAA of 25.06 last year (in 55 games) and 16.65 this year (in just 29 games). And the finance group is thrilled with the $1.85M cap hit for this season.
Darcy Kuemper, G
Kyle Connor (23) - Leon Draisaitl (24) - Brock Boeser (23)
Filip Forsberg (25) - Tomas Hertl (26) - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Zach Werenski (22) - Ryan Pulock (25)
Josh Morrissey (25) - Open
Open - Open
Darcy Kuemper (29)
Open
Salary limit - $81.5 million
Total so far - $45.142 million
Darcy Kuemper, G
Kyle Connor (23) - Leon Draisaitl (24) - Brock Boeser (23)
Filip Forsberg (25) - Tomas Hertl (26) - Open
Open - Open - Open
Open - Open - Open
Zach Werenski (22) - Ryan Pulock (25)
Josh Morrissey (25) - Open
Open - Open
Darcy Kuemper (29)
Open
Salary limit - $81.5 million
Total so far - $45.142 million
Going a little off the board.
KAAPO KAKKO, LW, NYR
Need some LW depth and love the upside here. Could be a Taylor Hall type in a year or two. Penciling him in as 3LW at the moment.
Gaudreau - Eichel - Stone
XXX - Dubois - Monahan
Kakko - Schenn - XXX
Heiskanen - Jones
KAAPO KAKKO, LW, NYR
Need some LW depth and love the upside here. Could be a Taylor Hall type in a year or two. Penciling him in as 3LW at the moment.
Gaudreau - Eichel - Stone
XXX - Dubois - Monahan
Kakko - Schenn - XXX
Heiskanen - Jones
Young guy, RW, nearly PPG, advanced metrics like his overall game (SSS of course)- Kailer Yamamoto
Lee (29) - Barzal (22) - Konecny (23)
Ehlers (24) - Horvat (25) – Yamamoto (21)
XXX - XXX - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Yandle (33) - Makar (21)
XXX - XXX
XXX - XXX
Gibson (26)
XXX
Lee (29) - Barzal (22) - Konecny (23)
Ehlers (24) - Horvat (25) – Yamamoto (21)
XXX - XXX - XXX
XXX - XXX - XXX
Yandle (33) - Makar (21)
XXX - XXX
XXX - XXX
Gibson (26)
XXX
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Time to start building out that D, with more Perds. The PSKs select D Mattias Ekholm
Svechnikov - Seguin - Kucherov
----------------- - Cirelli - --------------
----------------- - Nelson - --------------
Josi - Ellis
Ekholm - -------
Svechnikov - Seguin - Kucherov
----------------- - Cirelli - --------------
----------------- - Nelson - --------------
Josi - Ellis
Ekholm - -------
So much for my secret ingredient for RW2. Nice pick.
And sorry PSK, I needed a cheap and effective goalie.
apologies arent necessary. no one is in a rush. do your thing and thanks for playing.
Disc Golf courses in Oregon are starting to re-open with heavy social distancing requirements. (Max 2 per card, masks required, and baskets pulled so you just assume a made put from 10 meters in).
Would have loved Pionk for my team here, but alas, I'm going a bit of a different direction and selecting Matt Roy, D, Kings
I'm surprised this guy is still available.
He's kind of a punk, but he's a solid center away from being a PPG player. Putting him with a big boy like Charlie Coyle who can posses the puck and put him in position to get some garbage goals in the intent. It's also nice to have a player who is willing and able to drop the gloves when the situation calls for it.
Plus, anyone who can do this to Ryan Kesler is a-ok with me.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjy4fCnJf6c
TSC Selects: MAX DOMI, LW, MON
Alex Debrincat (22) / Elias Pettersson (21) / Mitch Marner (22)
Max Domi (25) / Charlie Coyle (28) /
Brandon Carlo (23) / Thomas Chabot (23)
Hampus Lindholm (26) /
Igor Shesterkin (24)
He's kind of a punk, but he's a solid center away from being a PPG player. Putting him with a big boy like Charlie Coyle who can posses the puck and put him in position to get some garbage goals in the intent. It's also nice to have a player who is willing and able to drop the gloves when the situation calls for it.
Plus, anyone who can do this to Ryan Kesler is a-ok with me.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjy4fCnJf6c
TSC Selects: MAX DOMI, LW, MON
Alex Debrincat (22) / Elias Pettersson (21) / Mitch Marner (22)
Max Domi (25) / Charlie Coyle (28) /
Brandon Carlo (23) / Thomas Chabot (23)
Hampus Lindholm (26) /
Igor Shesterkin (24)
Domi would have been a nice fit on my team, so I'll need to go in a different direction. I wan't going to pick a goalie until later and this guy is seemingly too much of a good guy to fit with my group of miscreants. He does have a lot of history sharing a locker room with a lot of similar characters so he'll feel right at home. The Cup Checks select Carey Price, G.
Honestly I was kind of shocked you hadn't taken him yet. I'm very excited to have him on my team.
Sure maybe he kidnapped his own kids but he's from Moscow and I need to start filling out my blueline so Nikita Zaitsev, D Ottawa Sentators come on down to join Putin's Secret Stash.
Time to add another #1 overall pick to my roster. I am actually surprised he is still on the board. He is in his 3rd full season in the NHL at just age 21 and becoming a really good two-way center. My pick is Nico Hischier, C, NJD. Now I have 3 centers ages 24, 18, and 21 so I am really set for the future up the middle.
Hall-Point-Rantanen
OPEN-Hughes-Palmeiri
OPEN-Hischier-OPEN
OPEN-OPEN-OPEN
Provorov-Weber
OPEN-OPEN
OPEN-OPEN
Binnington
OPEN
Hall-Point-Rantanen
OPEN-Hughes-Palmeiri
OPEN-Hischier-OPEN
OPEN-OPEN-OPEN
Provorov-Weber
OPEN-OPEN
OPEN-OPEN
Binnington
OPEN
My next pick is a player who is perpetually underrated because of his size. He plays 24 minutes a night, gets deployed in the D zone against a high QOC and is good for 10 goals and roughly 40 points from the back end every year. He is a poster boy for the analytics community because traditional scouting methods say "he's too small" or "he is more of an offensive guy, cant play defense at his size" but his exceptional advanced stats say otherwise. Hedman is a perfect compliment to his game. He's probably a little too expensive for a few too many years but I think hes a really strong player and this exercise has zero consequences.
RHD - Jared Spurgeon - Minnesota Wild
Fiala (3.0)-Barkov (5.9)-Meier (6.0)
Kreider (4.6)-Larkin (6.1)-xxx
Xxx-xxx-xxx
Xxx-xxx-xxx
Hedman (7.87) - Spurgeon ($7.57)
Reilly (5.0)-xxx
Xxx-xxx
Carter Hart (.730)
Xxx
Cap number - $46.77
remaining space - $34.73
Roster spots remaining - 11
Avg cap hit remaining - $3.15m
RHD - Jared Spurgeon - Minnesota Wild
Fiala (3.0)-Barkov (5.9)-Meier (6.0)
Kreider (4.6)-Larkin (6.1)-xxx
Xxx-xxx-xxx
Xxx-xxx-xxx
Hedman (7.87) - Spurgeon ($7.57)
Reilly (5.0)-xxx
Xxx-xxx
Carter Hart (.730)
Xxx
Cap number - $46.77
remaining space - $34.73
Roster spots remaining - 11
Avg cap hit remaining - $3.15m