NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - MIGHTY PHASE SEVENTEEN! Part One!

[BernieParent]

He's been picked twice, unbelievably.

And piqued both times, too.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Hurricane28 you can go.

@pit you can also go.

 

[mja]

@Hurricane28 you can go.

@pit you can also go.

@pit actually went right before your first post today.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@pit actually went right before your first post today.

F***'s sake. I wish someone had said something before we wasted the whole day.

@Captain Dave Poulin you can go.

 

[Lord Defect]

Trying to forget that Scott Stevens actually exists, here’s a picture of a happier time. Ozzy loves going to the beach!
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@Striiker

Have you ever been to flavortown?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I only really have one goaltender I like, so I guess I should take him now.

Team Clone - G Clone Ron Hextall

@mja

 

[mja]

F***'s sake. I wish someone had said something before we wasted the whole day.

@Captain Dave Poulin you can go.

I don't think any of us realized you missed it, but we'd have waited for Hurricane anyway.

Also, nice snipe. Pick incoming.

 

[mja]

Goalie - Clone Pelle Lindbergh

@Striiker, are you picking

Spoiler: RANCH

Liverwurst

?????????

 

[Hurricane28]

Going up the leaderboard for the handsome/hotness rankings.

Clone G: Henrik Lundqvist

 

[Magua]

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You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking about bringing that POS to the Quackverse!

He was first brought to the Quackverse by the Fascists. Scott Stevens is currently under Allied-occupation.

I only really have one goaltender I like, so I guess I should take him now.

Team Clone - G Clone Ron Hextall

@mja

Hextall luvr simp

 

[Striiker]

Clone C - Trevor Zegras

He has tons of skill and potential and he makes the dinosaurs furious, which means he's exactly what we want on our team.

@Hollywood Couturier

 

[Beef Invictus]

Skip me for an indeterminate amount of time in both drafts. Grandpop is likely dying from cardiogenic shock

I hope he isn't

 

[DancingPanther]

I hope he isn't

Thanks bif. He's hanging in for now

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Have you noticed that every Monday feels like another Monday?

We start the day with my brother, @Hollywood Couturier, on the clock, my consigliere, @JojoTheWhale, on deck, and my young friend @Strawberry Fields on the lido deck with two picks. Then we go consigliere to bro before we arrive at the Quackverse's own little tomato, Striiker, on the lido afterdeck.

I don't want to spoil anything, but I have to tell you about Season 2 of "Love Catcher." There is a girl named Soyeoung, and a girl named Yoseung, and they look exactly alike. I shit you not. Palindromic doppelgangers, or close enough. It's so f***ing weird.

You know what else is weird? This guy named Changwoo. His name is probably spelled "Chang-woo" formally, or whatever, but they mash them all together for all of the contestants, or participants, or Catchers. Anyway, that's not the weird part, and even the weird part is less weird and more irritating. This f***ing peacock said early on "I have my target and I am singleminded about it," yada yada yada. So he's being all intense in his affections for this one girl, Gabin, who is gorgeous as shit and very cool. He is a total c***, so I am really bothered that she seems to have fallen for it, for the most part. She still has her suspicions that he may be a money catcher, but she is torn. Like, why? Come on, Gabin. Like when she was spending time in the pool learning to swim with the other guy who likes her, he goes and puts on his body suit, dives into the pool, and makes a huge racket swimming butterfly laps while all the other Catchers are standing around like "The f***." He's about 100 feet tall and rail thin and he has a huge head. I guess he's ostensibly handsome, but he's a tailor, so he's a total f***ing dandy. And he keeps f***ing with the other guy who likes Gabin, and this guy is a workout freak, so I hope he f***ing destroys Changwoo with his fists. I have one ep left and I may lose my mind. Then I have Season Three to do it all over again.

I hope you have something fascinating and horrible to watch today, but don't let it interfere with your picking.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Skip me for an indeterminate amount of time in both drafts. Grandpop is likely dying from cardiogenic shock

Shit. Sorry to hear that, my friend.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Sorry for the delay the little one was on another level yesterday.

So without further delay we're going to select as our first clone defenseman.... Paul Coffey.

@JojoTheWhale let's see who you have concocted in a freak lab.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

In the Legends sections, I dug deep into history. I wanted to do something different this time around. For the Defensemen, I wanted to create a pair that complimented each other in addition to the obvious effectiveness levels required for consideration. Because more recent players went so quickly in the Legends phases, I didn't expect to get both of my ideal D pairing. As usual, I was dumb and wrong. Imagine (Clone) Chara skating next to this Clone guy for 15 years:

Clone D Erik Karlsson

@Strawberry Fields Please be on your best behavior.

 

[BiggE]

Sorry for the delay the little one was on another level yesterday.

So without further delay we're going to select as our first clone defenseman.... Paul Coffey.

@JojoTheWhale let's see who you have concocted in a freak lab.

Gross

 

[Strawberry Fields]

D Larry Robinson
D Moritz Seider

@JojoTheWhale

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

D Larry Robinson
D Moritz Seider

@JojoTheWhale

Great f***ing picks, Starberry.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

The Clone section is an opportunity for a re-roll of the proverbial mental dice. I think you could reasonably classify this man's career as squeaking into the top 100 if you wanted to be generous. But on pure ability, he's on a tiny top tier with names like Lemieux and Lindros.

His versatility is unrivaled in the modern game. When injuries hit his team hard, most people's choice for the greatest Head Coach of all time chose him to move back to Defense. As the famous quote goes, ""He was the best defenseman in the league for a six-week period." Surely some of that is hyperbole, but the takeaway here is that he did make the much more difficult transition backward and immediately excel at it at the NHL level. Unfortunately, part of his positional switches was that same Head Coach trying to get him to give a shit. Hopefully we'll eliminate that issue in the Clone version of C Sergei Fedorov.

That rush is shorthanded, while playing as a Defenseman, in Game 7 of a playoff series with Gretzky, Pronger, Hull, and MacInnis on the other side. Fedorov was made for modern hockey. When you watch him today, the first thing you notice is that he's leveraging linear crossovers like McDavid. Your eyes are drawn to how different his stride recovery is than everyone else out there. Always centered and on-balance. In historical tracked data, he frequently lead the dynasty Red Wings in breakups at his own blue line despite playing Forward. Sadly we don't have shot metrics from his prime, but the tail end of his career did manage to sneak into the very beginning of our datasets. In all the countless hours I've spent looking at shot metrics of various sorts, this is the single most impressive season I've ever seen. The man was THIRTY NINE when he did this.

You might be thinking to yourself that he was just carried by Ovechkin given that era of Washington hockey, but only 35% of Fedorov's ice time was with Ovie. In fact, he blew everyone else on the prime Ovechkin, 108 Point Capitals out of the water in shot impacts. At 39.

@Hollywood Couturier What's for lunch?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Hollywood Couturier What's for lunch?

The Official Team Sandwich of the Las Vegas Desert Ducks, the Cheesesteak.

Now with that said and our bellies here at the Desert Ducks full we're ready to make our selection and prepared to disappear into the abyss after making it as we wait another fourteen years to make another selection.

We tried to take this man back during the original phase but didn't read the spreadsheet properly, oops, so we're going to take this opportunity to right that wrong. With that said we are going to select Clone Rob Blake as our RD. Midas whale add another Avs player to the organization. Another guy that was on the prestigious Bookworms so he might be the only Rob Blake competing.

@Striiker I know you're in school right now but if you get a chance it's your turn.

 

[Young Sandwich]

The Official Team Sandwich of the Las Vegas Desert Ducks, the Cheesesteak.

Now with that said and our bellies here at the Desert Ducks full we're ready to make our selection and prepared to disappear into the abyss after making it as we wait another fourteen years to make another selection.

We tried to take this man back during the original phase but didn't read the spreadsheet properly, oops, so we're going to take this opportunity to right that wrong. With that said we are going to select Clone Rob Blake as our RD. Midas whale add another Avs player to the organization.

@Striiker I know you're in school right now but if you get a chance it's your turn.

The pick is fine or whatever, but I'm here to chat sandwiches. We are sandwich brothers today as I also had a cheesesteak for lunch. A cheesesteak from Angelo's that was reheated in the microwave and still maintained it's place as the best cheesesteak I've ever had. I assumed it would be a soggy mess, but it wasn't. That bread (The Official Bread of The Sexpos), would probably keep it's integrity in a nuclear blast. I also had some Angelo's grandma pie (The Official Pizza of The Sexpos) reheated in a pan to crisp up the bottom. Unreal as always.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Midas whale add another Avs player to the organization.

First time I have ever seen it expressed this way.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

First time I have ever seen it expressed this way.

It’s a Barstool meme. One guy over there thought that’s actually what it was.