OPPF 2024: One Pick Per Franchise Draft (sign-up)

[VanIslander]

ONE PLAYER PER FRANCHISE (ALL-TIME) DRAFT !!!

Rules and Information:

- NO TRADING, but you can swap full sets of picks before your first pick is made.

- All-time, you can only draft 1 player from each franchise, 12 F, 6 D, 2 G + 1 Coach (doesn't count towards franchise count).

- A player will be judged on his ENTIRE CAREER not just the portion he played for his qualifying team.

- Players that played for multiple teams count for the team they spent their peak/prime years with, a player is only eligible for ONE franchise (see list of close-calls below - disputes settled by a moderator).

- Players whose peak/primes occurred outside the NHL count for their country, and you can only have 1 player per country (i.e. if you draft Sergei Makarov he counts for Russia/USSR). Czech Rep. and Slovakia are one country because virtually every player that would be drafted would have played for CSSR.

- Franchises that moved all count as one (i.e. players who played for the Whalers count for the same franchise as players who played for the Hurricanes)

- Players whose peak/primes were with a pre-NHL team that no longer exists count for a pre-NHL franchise, this includes all PCHA, WCHL, NHA, etc. So all those dead pre-NHL teams are unified as one single franchise, simply called ''Pre-NHL''.

- The old Senators and new Senators count as the same franchise.

- The Montreal Maroons count as their own franchise, as does the NY Americans

- Clock structure as follow:

1st-2nd round: 12 hours
3rd-12th round: 8 hours
13th-21th round: 6 hours

1 hour reduction for a missed clock

Clock reduction:

Here's a list of close-calls (players who played for multiple franchises almost equally):

Patrick Roy: Montreal
Chris Chelios: Chicago
King Clancy: Ottawa
Ron Francis: Hartford/Carolina
Bill Quackenbush: Detroit
Marian Hossa: Ottawa
Larry Murphy: Pittsburgh
Mark Recchi: Philly
Mark Messier: Edmonton
Al Macinnis: Calgary
Red Kelly: Detroit
Sprague Cleghorn: pre-NHL
Joe Malone: pre-NHL
Lanny McDonald: Toronto
Pat Lafontaine: Buffalo
Ed Belfour - Chicago
Adam Oates - Boston
Keith Tkachuk - Winnipeg/Phoenix
Doug Gilmour - Toronto
Joe Mullen - Calgary
Babe Siebert - Montreal Canadiens
Vincent Damphousse - Montreal Canadiens
Harry Cameron - Toronto
Newsy Lalonde - Montreal Canadiens
Rob Blake - LA
Scott Niedermayer - NJ
Ed Westfall - Boston
Max Bentley - Chicago
Ryan Suter - Minnesota Wilds
Chris Pronger - St. Louis
Rod Brind'Amour - Hartford/Carolina
Brent Burns - San Jose
Dan Boyle - Tampa Bay
Claude Lemieux - NJ
Clint Benedict - Ottawa
Max Bentley - Chicago
Marty Barry - Detroit
Roy Conacher - Chicago
Sergei Gonchar - Washington
Ed Belfour - Chicago
George Hay - Pre-NHL
Zigmund Palffy - LA
Frank Fredrickson - Pre-NHL
Babe Pratt - Toronto
Mike Peca - Buffalo
Brad McCrimmon - Philadelphia
Ken Linseman - Philadelphia
Phil Housley - Buffalo
Zach Parise - NJ

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[Professor What]

Anybody that has some experience want to team up on this? I'd like to give it a try, but I feel like there would be a lot to consider that I wouldn't think of.

 

[VanIslander]

Draft clock to begin noon Eastern on Monday, September 30th. Draft order to be randomly set by a mod or past GM no later than the Thursday before, if not earlier.

1. tony d - Pittsburgh Hornets
2. Claude the Fraud - St-Jean Lynx
3. Professor What & Hitru - Gallifrey TARDIS
4. VanIslander - Baltimore Clippers
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[VanIslander]

I will GM the Baltimore Clippers, a pro team whose alumni includes Doug Harvey, Jacques Plante, Eddie Giacomin and Jean Ratelle.

 

[Professor What]

Hitru and I have decided to team up again for this. Add us to the roster as the Gallifrey TARDIS.

 

[tony d]

I’ll join. I’ll be the Pittsburgh Hornets

 

[Professor What]

@VanIslander Did you miss where Hitru and I signed up?

 

[Claude The Fraud]

I’ll join in and be the St-Jean Lynx.

 

[Professor What]

Why do I get the feeling I'm being ignored?

 

[Claude The Fraud]

...
Here's a list of close-calls (players who played for multiple franchises almost equally):

...
Brad Pratt - Toronto
...

That famous Brad Pratt.

Brad Pratt - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Brad Pratt, 1998-06-23 Livonia, MI, USA USA. Most recently in the undefined with Kalkaska Battlers. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Think I know who I'll draft from Toronto!

 

[VanIslander]

Fixed.

I should have caught it. Our 2024 ATD team's 3rd pairing featured that Babe.

Moose Johnson - Jacques Laperriere
Babe Siebert (A) - Tom Johnson
Babe Pratt - Leo Boivin

 

[VanIslander]

@Professor What

@Professor What

Are you up to it?

 

[Professor What]

@Professor What


Are you up to it?

We want to try it out.

 

[Claude The Fraud]

@Professor What


Are you up to it?

Hitru and I have decided to team up again for this. Add us to the roster as the Gallifrey TARDIS.

I think you have your answer, @VanIslander !

 

[VanIslander]

Ah... i have to shut off "ignored content by this member".

I dunno when i did it or how or how to reverse it but i have time tomorrow to try (help). Send me to where i can un-ignore people.

 

[VanIslander]

I want everyone in every room
I have been teaching mostly kindergarten students (i've never had more than 1 class a day before) this year and while my adult class is clearly easy and engaging, .... fun, unpredictability, chat gone in any direction... is it.... i feel more like Jim Carey than any stodgy prof.

To be clear: i have taught students to the Ivy League (UPenn) and the U of Kentucky. I have ABC classes and essay and speech classes, a wide spectrum of skills and age ranges (my youngest is 5, oldest is 69). Every day is a village!

 

[Professor What]

Might need to try to do some recruiting. We're getting close to the start date.

 

[VanIslander]

One more week to join.

It's fun and easy.

And so many different strategies: load up on 06 early? leave the deepest franchises until last? some combo? How deep are the Flyers? the Penguins? the Kings? the Soviets? When to burn a franchise?