NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - PHASE TWENTY-THREE SKIDOO!

[Beef Invictus]

Thank you Cannon! Employed Cannon! Enriched Cannon! Wealthy Cannon!

I spite.

I spite D NIKLAS KRONWALL

Nothing against the player. Love the playstyle. But you know what enraged the shit out of me? The NHL letting him just play however the f*** he wants. Kronwalling is the most idiotic thing to allow for as long as the league did, and their justifications should be used against the league when the class action suit happens someday. I mean really, come the hell on. He's not responsible for repeatedly blasting guys in the head because, since he was going backwards, he couldn't possibly control where he hit them? Just say "Because he is a member of the Red Wings" and get it over with. Mike Richards annihilates Booth and derails his career forever and it helps kick off supposed player safety reforms, because a Flyer did it. Meanwhile Kronwall is allowed to keep on braining guys because he's a Red Wing. No you will not convince me I am being unreasonable, if you try to refute this tinfoil theory I will personally cram you into The Musher.

@Lord Defect!

Bizarre Defect! Hunchbacked Defect! Disturbing Defect?!

I just watched the cinematic masterpiece known as "Dante's Peak." What a cinematic masterpiece. Wait, is it coming on again? This is the greatest night of my life. UGH NO it's some different dumbass movie in a dumbass desert. Vertical Limit. That movie is for dweebs. Not like Dante's Peak, which is about the coolest thing in the universe.

 

[Lord Defect]

Because I feel like beef picks on me with his little adjectives, you all have to wait for me to not only wake up tomorrow, nor be coherent, but also have some clue who I am picking.
Thank beef.

 

[ajgoal]

We here at the Quackverse headquarters are proud to announce that a new prince or princess is coming to the Quackverse. Yes, HCette is once again pregnant.

Congrats!

 

[ajgoal]

have some clue

When has that ever stopped you before? Why are you awake anyway?

 

[Asnito]

Still confused

I withdrew my previous 2 previous picks and replaced them. If you like I saved a D slot and will be happy to send Ghost some spite.

 

[BiggE]

Alright, ready to make my picks…

We’re going to start off by selecting that prick known as Shrek, Evgeni Malkin as one of our Spite Forwards.

Our next selection will be an overrated clownshoe who goes by Captain Intangibles who is such a great leader that he allowed what happened to Kyle Beach to happen in his locker room, Jonathan Toews.

Now that we got that spite out of system we have some major news to announce.

BREAKING NEWS

We here at the Quackverse headquarters are proud to announce that a new prince or princess is coming to the Quackverse. Yes, HCette is once again pregnant.

@Beef Invictus wow us with your beefiness.

Congrats!!!

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Congrats to myself on getting a new niece or nephew!

We start the day with @Lord Defect on the clock, for f***'s sake, @Chuck Downie on deck, @CanadianFlyer88 on the lido deck, and Rebels57's drunk ass on the lido afterdeck, but hopefully Good Friday will lend him an ounce of restraint. I am also hopeful that Striiker can cure his temporary defectiveness.

I don't like to imagine my brother having sex, because it's just too gross, but I am very happy for him. He will now be able to spend more of his fortune on tiny sports clothing. I am super extremely sure that he won't forget about me and my Venmo and start ignoring me twice as bad. I'm confident. Am I temporarily defective? Time will tell.

Thanks to Whale Industries Inc., I am now completely caught up on the story of the Wu-Tang Clan. It's a little sad to see how much the money effected their relationships. It's not the least bit surprising, obviously, but it is sad. Still, you get the sense that they have the ability to put their interpersonal issues aside when they need to - that foundational bond is still there and still the most important thing to them. You can just tell.

Based on what I have heard (which is still not nearly enough), I like them all, but as MCs I would rank them ...

1. Inspectah Deck
2. GZA
3. Method Man
T4. The rest of them
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Dead Last. That c*** Cilvaringz

 

[Lord Defect]

We’re doing a hockey thing.
International team
Iceland.

Iceland from D2 the mighty ducks would have stomped over the rest of the teams if it were not for the ducks shenanigans and general non hockey play.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@DancingPanther I think I could put McSorley on either D or F - I put him as F for now, but let me know if you want to change it.

 

[Lord Defect]

Sorry, @Chuck Downie youre up. I thought we were going the other way.

 

[DancingPanther]

@DancingPanther I think I could put McSorley on either D or F - I put him as F for now, but let me know if you want to change it.

Yeah F is good for me

 

[Chuck Downie]

Team Spite Defenceman

Johnny Oduya

@CanadianFlyer88

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Spite goalie: insanely overrated for his puck stopping, downplayed for his incredible puck handling, has spent his retirement racing Keith Tkachuk in who can gain more weight.

Martin Brodeur

@Rebels57

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Spite goalie: insanely overrated for his puck stopping, downplayed for his incredible puck handling, has spent his retirement racing Keith Tkachuk in who can gain more weight.

Martin Brodeur

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@Rebels57

That fat bastard. Great pick.

 

[BiggE]

Spite goalie: insanely overrated for his puck stopping, downplayed for his incredible puck handling, has spent his retirement racing Keith Tkachuk in who can gain more weight.

Martin Brodeur

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@Rebels57

great pick, here’s Marty being shown to his table at last years NHL awards banquet

 

[Beef Invictus]

Spite goalie: insanely overrated for his puck stopping, downplayed for his incredible puck handling, has spent his retirement racing Keith Tkachuk in who can gain more weight.

Martin Brodeur

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@Rebels57

Oh god damnit

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Our last back-to-back of the season kicks off tonight (with a crummy 7:30 start time), so take a deep breath - we're almost there.

We start the day with @Rebels57 on the clock, @BiggE on deck, @Striiker on the lido deck, and MacGruber on the lido afterdeck.

I watched the original "Fist of Fury" (1972) last night. I was super happy to see that it held up to my expectations (I'm sure I've seen it before, but it has been forever). The fighting - and there was a shitload of it - was so good. Bruce Lee really was the best of them all by far. The one thing I had forgotten came from him was all the screaming and all the noise he made while fighting. You know how kids always make those sounds when they are playing kung fu? That shit really makes for a great Bruce Lee impersonation, because he was on it non-stop.

The other thing I was super gratified to see was that the Wing Chu style he used was basically exactly the way a mongoose fights a cobra - it is literally Mongoose Style. You probably expect me to justify that and explain how mongooses fight, but I'm not going to - when you know, you know. Mongooses even chirp when they fight, so you could say that Bruce Lee was doing a mongoose impersonation when he kicked ass. That is pretty f***ing sweet.

 

[Striiker]

I’m ready

 

[Striiker]

The one time I actually know what I’m going to pick before it’s my turn and mfs pretending they have other shit to do on a Saturday

 

[BiggE]

The one time I actually know what I’m going to pick before it’s my turn and mfs pretending they have other shit to do on a Saturday

Blame @Rebels57 , I’m ready to go.

Fair warning, I’m high as f*** right now so I could easily forget all about this.

 

[Rebels57]

Skip me for now

 

[Asnito]

Skip me for now

Drunk already?

 

[BiggE]

I guess I’m up

He said up

Another fine example of Methgators Nation, yay us. Moving right along, please welcome to Jacksonville, our most awesome classic actress: INGRID BERGMAN!

Ingrid Bergman 29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznickonce called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four).
Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart.

Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's(1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound(1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn(1949), alongside Joseph Cotten.
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation that she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.
In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.

The Germans wore gray, @Striiker wore blue. Play it again, kid.

 

[Asnito]

I guess I’m up

He said up
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Another fine example of Methgators Nation, yay us. Moving right along, please welcome to Jacksonville, our most awesome classic actress: INGRID BERGMAN!
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Ingrid Bergman 29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznickonce called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four).
Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart.
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Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's(1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound(1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn(1949), alongside Joseph Cotten.
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation that she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.
In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.

The Germans wore gray, @Striiker wore blue. Play it again, kid.

Great actress, great write up, pick again as she is spoken for

 

[Striiker]

I hate narratives, I hate cliches, I hate the way players from decades ago are worshipped and overrated, even when they're clearly nothing special relative to modern talents.

"Clarke is the best Flyer of all time!" No the f*** he isn't.

You know who else is painfully overrated? Spited Forward Wayne Gretzky.

He is not the best player of all time, he is not the most dominant player among the 4 major sports, he is not worthy of the praise he's given. Average, at best. Maybe a bottom six player in the current NHL, but only if he learns to fight.

Here's a list of 2023 players who would outscore Gretzky if they played back in the no-skill/no-athleticism/no-goaltending era, and would skate circles around him if he played in the current NHL.

McDavid
Draisaitl
Kucherov
M. Tkachuk
Pastrnak
MacKinnon
Robertson
RNH
Rantanen
Petterson
Karlsson
J. Hughes
Marner
Thompson
Point
Panarin
Crosby
Zibanejad
Stutzle
Keller
Nylander
Hyman
Malkin
Matthews
Stamkos
B. Tkachuk
Connor
Larkin
Hischier
Miller
Tavares
Skinner
Pavelski
Barkov
Ovechkin
Kaprizov
Tuch
Benn
Giroux
Hamilton
Q. Hughes
Kyrou
Toffoli
Nelson
Fiala
Dahlin
Kuzmenko
Guenzel
Gaudreau
Morrisey
Montour
Fox
Verhaeghe
Hintz
Bratt
Necas
Kopitar
Heiskanen
Horvat
Cozens
Zuccarello
McCann
Couture
Buchnevich
Makar
Meier
Aho
Eichel
Scheifele
Reinhart
DeBrincat
Schenn
Dunn
Suzuki
Lindholm
Marchand
Thomas
Stephenson
Trocheck
Boldy
Hagel
Dubois
Killorn
Eriksson Ek
Eberle
Kempe
Zegras
Hertl
Batherson
Strome
Sergachev
Josi
Rakell
Bergeron
Terry
Burns
Konecny
Marchessault
Beniers
Duchene
Player
Krejci
Mercer
Arvidsson
Svechnikov
Kane
Domi
Perron
Kadri
Schmaltz
Backlund
Boeser
Wheeler
Huberdeau
Barrie
Kuznetsov
Kreider
Danault
Zacha
Mittelstadt
Pietrangelo
Reilly Smith
Laine
Karlsson
Barzal
Lindholm
Compher
McAvoy
Lee
Lehkonen
Andersson
Doughty
Zucker
DeBrusk
Tarasenko
Bunting
Seguin
Barabanov
Faulk
Rust
Gourde
Maccelli
Hedman
Jenner
Chytil
Kubalik
Raymond
Crouse
Tatar
Nichushkin
Barbashev
Dobson
Roslovic
Cam Fowler
Sprong
Frost
Dube
Luostarinen
Coyle
Garland
Nurse
Toews
Forsberg
Bjorkstrand
Laughton
Hayton
Johansson
McTavish
Copp
Miller
Seider
Vilardi
Novak
Forsling
Chabot
Granlund
Theodore
Mangiapane
Bennett
Kotkaniemi
Johnson
Rielly
Schwartz
Vatrano
Beauvillier
Kakko
Lafrenière
Burakovsky
Haula
Letang
Hronek
Gustafsson
Olofsson
Niederreiter
Coleman
Stone
Dach
Pageau
... and many more

@Magua please proceed