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

[Lord Defect]

Because we really haven't picked that many goalies.

Touché

 

[Lord Defect]

Ok so, does anyone want to trade me their next pick for Esposito? I had someone in mind and neglected to tell Cap while I was ultra busy getting “a rough draft” of work done on my basement finished before our appraiser came through. (I got it done by the way in three days!)

 

[BiggE]

The odds of someone swiping my goalie pick are greater than the odds of me winning the powerball

 

[Striiker]

Ok so, does anyone want to trade me their next pick for Esposito? I had someone in mind and neglected to tell Cap while I was ultra busy getting “a rough draft” of work done on my basement finished before our appraiser came through. (I got it done by the way in three days!)

Sorry, wrong first name...

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

If anyone wants Esposito, send a PM directly to Moron HQ and work something out between yourselves.

 

[Striiker]

If anyone wants Esposito, send a PM directly to Moron HQ and work something out between yourselves.

Please don't message me

 

[BiggE]

Ok so, does anyone want to trade me their next pick for Esposito? I had someone in mind and neglected to tell Cap while I was ultra busy getting “a rough draft” of work done on my basement finished before our appraiser came through. (I got it done by the way in three days!)

Esposito?
Ew, no

 

[Lord Defect]

Sorry, wrong first name...

Little known fact, his friends called him Claude.

 

[Lord Defect]

Esposito?
Ew, no

Don’t make me trade a pick to make you my official rival.

 

[BiggE]

Don’t make me trade a pick to make you my official rival.

Get in line kid, get in line.

 

[Lord Defect]

Get in line kid, get in line.

You couldn’t afford me.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

oooh, well we didn't expect this player to still be available but we're glad he is. The Las Vegas Desert Ducks are extremely proud to run (more like a slow stride based off of how long it took me to actually make the pick) to the podium and select... Markus Naslund to complete our third forward legends line.

WOOOOOOOO!

(check is in the mail, @BiggE)

Naslund - Richards - Hejduk

Gee, I wonder what generation i'm in?

@Young Sandwich you're up.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

That pervert @Young Sandwich said he was fishing this weekend and if he didn't post quickly we should skip him, so @JojoTheWhale can go.

 

[Striiker]

That pervert @Young Sandwich said he was fishing this weekend and if he didn't post quickly we should skip him, so @JojoTheWhale can go.

"fishing"

More like catfishing.

 

[Lord Defect]

That pervert @Young Sandwich said he was fishing this weekend and if he didn't post quickly we should skip him, so @JojoTheWhale can go.

What kind of loser fishes without internet reception?
It’s not like you don’t have nothing but time between casts. @Young Sandwich you disappoint me. Unless you post pics.

 

[ajgoal]

What kind of loser fishes without internet reception?
It’s not like you don’t have nothing but time between casts. @Young Sandwich you disappoint me. Unless you post pics.

He's fishing for trout, good chance he's fly fishing. Not likely to have his hands free most of the time.

 

[GKJ]

oooh, well we didn't expect this player to still be available but we're glad he is. The Las Vegas Desert Ducks are extremely proud to run (more like a slow stride based off of how long it took me to actually make the pick) to the podium and select... Markus Naslund to complete our third forward legends line.

WOOOOOOOO!

(check is in the mail, @BiggE)

Naslund - Richards - Hejduk

Gee, I wonder what generation i'm in?

@Young Sandwich you're up.

another guy whose jersey I have

 

[Lord Defect]

He's fishing for trout, good chance he's fly fishing. Not likely to have his hands free most of the time.

Pfft. Don’t give him an excuse. There’s always a time while fishing that you’re just drinking with a line in the water.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

There's an era-adjusted scoring metric called VsX that's heavily used in the yearly All-Time Drafts on this site. It's not perfect, but it's definitely a better approximation than something like Adjusted Points. In VsX, there's a Center still available with a 7-year offensive peak extremely similar to Mike Bossy and Bill Cook. That would be none other than the Center of the Bread Line, Frank "Raffles" Boucher.

One thing we also have to keep in mind is that Boucher was primarily a playmaker and defender in an era where Assists were orders of magnitude less likely to be awarded, so it would be reasonable to say that his totals would look even better with a modern lense.

Boucher's absolute peak was undoubtedly the 1928 Stanley Cup Playoffs. With Montreal up 2-1 in the Finals, Boucher then proceeded to score every single Goal for either team for the rest of the series, winning the Cup for the Rangers in the full 5 Games. He finished the playoffs with 10 Points, fully double the 2nd place finisher who also happened to be his linemate.

There's another interesting bit of Boucher's career that seems abnormal with the current state of the game. In his day, the Lady Byng Trophy was seen as almost as important as the Hart. Boucher not only has the most Byng Trophies ever, he won 7 in an 8 year span from 1927-28 to 1934-35.

After his playing days, Boucher became the coach and GM of the Rangers, winning a Stanley Cup and becoming the first coach to use 2 Goalies.

@Lord Defect Your turn to break things.

Hull - Morenz - Mikhailov
Messier - H. Richard - Makarov
XXXX - Nighbor - Nedomansky
XXXX - Boucher - XXXX
XXXX

Kelly - Pronovost
Taylor - Vasiliev
Suchy - Tremblay

Belfour
Darwin

 

[Striiker]

Hull - Morenz - Mikhailov
Messier - H. Richard - Makarov
XXXX - Nighbor - Nedomansky
XXXX - Boucher - XXXX
XXXX

Kelly - Pronovost
Taylor - Vasiliev
Suchy - Tremblay

Belfour
Darwin

Pronovost sounds like what Provorov would evolve into if he were a Pokemon.

 

[DancingPanther]

Darwin vs Snoop in a shootout. Who wins

 

[mja]

Darwin vs Snoop in a shootout. Who wins

We do.

 

[DancingPanther]

This chain restaurant is actually pretty tough. I might actually have to pick some bad-decent mid 90s to 2000s players to buy time

 

[DancingPanther]

We do.

Hahaha that's definitely true

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This chain restaurant is actually pretty tough. I might actually have to pick some bad-decent mid 90s to 2000s players to buy time

I always like it when you are standing near the dais, ready to go up and make your pick. Well done.