Pool: 13th Annual C4G WJC Hockey Pool - Draft Complete

[Canada4Gold]

Pool demographics

Canada - 13 F, 8 D, 2 G
USA - 11 F, 6 D, 1 G
Sweden - 10 F, 5 D, 2 G
Finland - 10 F, 3 D, 2 G
Czechia - 7 F, 4 D, 1 G
Slovakia - 3 F, 3 D, 1 G
Switzerland - 3 F, 1 D
Germany - 2 F
Latvia - 1 F
Kazakhstan - 1 G

 

[Statsy]

I wish they would go back to that three game relegation. That demographic breakdown shows have much less appeal those players hold now. It's a shame as that was an entirely different element that people had to be aware of when drafting.

 

[Canada4Gold]

An interesting wrinkle this year is that guys will find themselves on the roster, but as a healthy scratch. It's tough enough when your pick is the 13th forward, but a healthy scratch will be brutal. Considering how many Canadian players got taken, it is going to absolutely be a factor in this pool.

I tried to stay away from the bottom of most team rosters for this reason, in addition to the Canada cuts question earlier in the draft. But that's tough when you want mostly players from whoever you expect to make the SF so you get 7 full games. Resulted in me picking the middle 6's of Finland and Sweden as clean as I could. Even then someone like Nurmi I'm not sure where he slots in. Probably why nobody took Pinelli.

Basically the backup goalie issue we've had for a while, extended to other roster spots. Do I pick starting goalie on bad team or backup goalie on good team knowing he's likely only playing once or twice. Do I take 4th liner on good team who will score a lot and risk being a scratch, or take 2nd liner on middling team that likely only plays 5 games and doesn't score as often.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Looks like your strategy was similar in that aspect too. Our teams look quite the same. 3 Swede forwards, 2 Fin forwards. I have a USA forward and a goalie with 2 Canadian D. You have a Canadian forward and goalie with 2 USA D. Then our last D are Slovak for me, Finnish for you.

 

[Statsy]

Looks like your strategy was similar in that aspect too. Our teams look quite the same. 3 Swede forwards, 2 Fin forwards. I have a USA forward and a goalie with 2 Canadian D. You have a Canadian forward and goalie with 2 USA D. Then our last D are Slovak for me, Finnish for you.

We were definitely on the same page this year, especially considering how many times we were looking at the same exact guy.

 

[Canada4Gold]

@Khabby Emery was cut

 

[Khabby]

@Khabby Emery was cut

RIP this just keeps getting better and better lmao

Ill take the other guy I had on my list Marek Rocak - CZE

 

[Prntscrn]

Jack Berglund injured @FinPanda

 

[FinPanda]

Jack Berglund injured @FinPanda

Yeah I just read about it

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I'll replace him in an hr o two

 

[FinPanda]

Jiri Felcman (CZE) my replacement pick.

 

[Canada4Gold]

The following players haven't been officially named to the initial rosters yet but the teams they play for have left room available, presumably to add them later. However this leaves open the possibility that they never get added, in which case you should be able to replace them. So now you can conditionally pick a replacement for these players. If they get added at some point you keep the player you had. If they never get added you get your replacement

@Khabby Sawyer Mynio and Marek Rocak
@Statsy Carson Bjarnason
@93LEAFS Vojitech Cihar
@spitsfan24 Carson Rehkopf

Everyone else has been rostered and will remain even if they don't play any games. If 1 of these players gets rostered but never plays a game these would still count.

You have until the first game of the player you're picking to choose. Essentially if you're picing someone from Slovakia you have until the first game to do so. If you pick someone from Latvia you have until Friday night to do so.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Updates for the group stage will be sparse. I'm working for 4 days and then travelling for a day. I usually record games and catch up later so it's possible I don't catch up until New Years Eve.

 

[Statsy]

I guess I'll take Ivankovic. Hard to believe Canada would leave its 19 year old goalie out in the cold, but here we are.

 

[93LEAFS]

Markus Loponen.

 

[Khabby]

Ill take Kalle Kangas and Adam Kleber as back ups I guess haha

 

[spitsfan24]

I'll go with Luca Pinelli.