ATD 2022 DRAFT THREAD I

[Hawkey Town 18]

Frankly it's bullshit you got more likes than me for our respective posts.

Bet you would've had way more likes had you posted a picture of him in a Hawks jersey

 

[The Macho King]

Bet you would've had way more likes had you posted a picture of him in a Hawks jersey

I'm posting pics of guys in weird jerseys. Did the same with Lafleur.

It's my new schtick.

Edit: Obviously Lidstrom presented some diffculties.

 

[VanIslander]

Edit: I will say, with Nighbor and Fetisov, you definitely have the softest team in your conference. Keep Cleghorn away from Nighbor at all costs.

Does not compute.

Nighbor will dagger you and you won't know it until you are left bleeding with the puck in the net (a metaphor of sorts).

Fetisov was money on and off the puck. No one practiced harder, according to their coach. He ain't a Coffey.

TWO REWNOWNED players without the puck (why the heck wouuld Gretzky, Gretzky say Fetisov was the hardest dman to play against) is a strong core.

Team Intangibles.

 

[VanIslander]

In the same conference as Coffey (Yzerman on one leg).

Like this or piss off.

 

[Dreakmur]

I think the fit here is so perfect that I'm going to skip a few players I think are better. Orillia adds to our leadership group by bringing in Zdeno Chara !

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Yeah Chara is a perfect partner for Shore

 

[nabby12]

Borje Salming

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I think the fit here is so perfect that I'm going to skip a few players I think are better. Orillia adds to our leadership group by bringing in Zdeno Chara !

Team Hurtcha continues its build.

 

[Dreakmur]

Borje Salming

This was the main guy I was talking about when I said that I passes on players that I think are better than Chara.

 

[Dreakmur]

Team Hurtcha continues its build.

As strange as it sounds, I think Chara will help keep Shore under control. Shore was a huge target in Boston, and a significant number of his penalties were either retaliation for players coming after him or pre-emptive measures to keep players from coming after him. Having Chara at his side should reduce that.

Much like Larry Robinson, Chara entering a scrum is usually the end of that scrum....

 

[tabness]

I always wanted to pick these players, but I've only drafted once in these 50 spots and that was a 40 team draft so not really possible to go this route. I will take Henri Richard and Dickie Moore (now you see why I was willing to pick Maurice at 14 lol). Henri's even strength prowess is well known of course, but would you believe it that Dickie Moore has the highest scoring road even strength season in the 70 game post war original six period (1949-1950 to 1966-67) with a cool 35? He also has the third highest even strength total with 67 behind the two best players of that era in my opinion (Howe has 70 in 1950-51 and Hull has 69 in 1959-1960). Doesn't post the consistently high numbers like Henri, but of course injuries and the like, when he plays a full season that's the group he hangs in!

 

[tinyzombies]

I think the fit here is so perfect that I'm going to skip a few players I think are better. Orillia adds to our leadership group by bringing in Zdeno Chara !

That's a scary duo. I almost did Chara-Park or Stevens-Park, but went for Yzerman. Now I 'm not sure if I did hte right thing, but I figure I can take a lower tier stay-at-home partner and grab one of the last guys in that upper centerman tier.

 

[rmartin65]

Moore is a stud. Nice couple of picks there, @tabness

 

[Dreakmur]

I always wanted to pick these players, but I've only drafted once in these 50 spots and that was a 40 team draft so not really possible to go this route. I will take Henri Richard and Dickie Moore (now you see why I was willing to pick Maurice at 14 lol). Henri's even strength prowess is well known of course, but would you believe it that Dickie Moore has the highest scoring road even strength season in the 70 game post war original six period (1949-1950 to 1966-67) with a cool 35? He also has the third highest even strength total with 67 behind the two best players of that era in my opinion (Howe has 70 in 1950-51 and Hull has 69 in 1959-1960). Doesn't post the consistently high numbers like Henri, but of course injuries and the like, when he plays a full season that's the group he hangs in!

Well shit, maybe I was fooling myself thinking Moore could slip to my 4th round puck.

Richard is useless on special teams, but he might be a top-10 centre at ES.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Pleasantly surprised this guy fell to me here. My team could use some toughness and goal scoring, and he brings loads of both.

Chicago selects Charlie Conacher, RW

(TBD which one of the Franks he'll play with)

 

[BenchBrawl]

Pleasantly surprised this guy fell to me here. My team could use some toughness and goal scoring, and he brings loads of both.

Chicago selects Charlie Conacher, RW

(TBD which one of the Franks he'll play with)

Lucky break

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Lucky break

I thought @Dreakmur was taking him for sure. Must've been a tough call, two very good fits on the board for him with Shore-Chara and Clarke-Conacher

 

[Dreakmur]

I thought @Dreakmur was taking him for sure. Must've been a tough call, two very good fits on the board for him with Shore-Chara and Clarke-Conacher

If at all possible, I avoid taking players I've had before. Conacher and Salming were the only ones who tempted me outside of Chara. I also really thought Moore would drop and I figured Chara-Moore would be a lot better than Conacher and whoever was left at my next pick.

With the discovery that Conacher finished his career with two really good seasons as a defenseman means he doesn't lack the longevity that was once the biggest knock on him. He's still a short career player, but he's got enough good seasons to say he had a full length prime of a career.

 

[Claude The Fraud]

The Hull Olympiques are proud to select, from Montreal, Quebec, the face of the Bee Hive Syrup, Bernard 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion.

 

[BenchBrawl]

The Hull Olympiques are proud to select, from Montreal, Quebec, the face of the Bee Hive Syrup, Bernard 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion.

One of the last of his tier of wingers. You did good to pick him up right now, once Conacher was gone.

His playoff record is consistently strong, both before and during the dynasty. Can play the PP point, will be useful to you since Robinson isn't the greatest PP quarterback.

 

[ImporterExporter]

I have LL's proxy via FB:

Tim Horton, D

Peter Forsberg, C

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

LL picked a Leafs player... and it was at really good value!*

*compared to other defensemen

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

LL picked a Leafs player... and it was at really good value!*

*compared to other defensemen

Yeah end of a tier there I’d say

 

[VanIslander]

Conacher was identified by Selke in his autobiography as one of the selfish offensive players who were lackadaisical away from the puck and cost them multiple cup opportunities. Yes, he was that salty. He then went to Montreal and GM'd a dynasty.

 

[ImporterExporter]

This pick is about BPA and value IMO. At 56, getting a borderline top 20 player of all time seems like the right pick to make, at a crucial position, espeically with the offensive lineups sure to be constructed. I figured he'd go around 50 and put him in the green if he made it past that point.

He doesn't need much introduction. The Three Rivers HC are excited to add another money player on the defensive side of the puck.

Jacques Plante, G