Post Your Teams Drafted Lineup

[SmytheKing]

Kings get destroyed by their goaltending but here goes:

Tanner Pearson - Anze Kopitar - Adrian Kempe
Dominik Kubalik - Brayden Schenn - Tyler Toffoli
Arthur Kaliyev - Quinton Byfield - Gabe Vilardi
Alex Laferriere - Alex Turcotte - Mike Amadio

Mikey Anderson - Drew Doughty
Erik Cernak - Brock Faber
Matt Roy - Brandt Clarke

Jonathan Quick - Matthew Villalta

Honorable Mentions: Alec Martinez, Nic Dowd, Wayne Simmonds, Derek Forbort

 

[Lat]

For the Canucks, pretty hard to field NHLers for the 3-4th lines or half the d-core. Also, all the defense is LD and no RD to speak of:

McCann-Petterson-Boeser
Podkolzin-Horvat-Hoglander
Gajovich-Gaudette-Lockwood
Lind-Gaunce-Mcdonough

Hughes-Forsling
Hutton-Brisebois
Rathbone-Connauton

Demko
Silovs

 

[kirby11]

Sabres:

Hagel-Eichel-Reinhart
Peterka-Cozens-Quinn
Benson-Mittelstadt-Marcus Foligno
Alex Nylander-Helenius-Girgensons
Scratches: Vic Olofsson, Brett Murray

Dahlin-Samuelsson
Power-Borgen
McCabe-Ristolainen
Scratch: Jacob Bryson, Ryan Johnson

UPL
Ullmark

Top 6 is strong, things start to get messy with finding decent 3rd line wingers and 4C with how bad the Sabres have been at drafting good forward depth. Defense and goaltending are solid. Will forever be pissed off that Botterill let Hagel walk for nothing when Nylander was the best forward in the pipeline.

 

[dire wolf]

Carrier wasn’t drafted by Buffalo

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Yep -- I almost forgot about that. Carrier came over as part of the package for Ryan Miller and Steve Ott. [Return was Halak, Chris Stewart, Carrier, a 2015 1st and a 2016 3rd] Buffalo then packaged the 2015 1st (I think) with Tyler Myers, Drew Stafford, Joel Armia and Brendan Lemieux to WPG for Bogosian, Kane and Jason Kasdorf. Then they lost Carrier to VGK in the expansion draft. Fun times.

 

[Adam da bomb]

Connor - Scheifele - Laine
Ehlers - Copp - Perfetti
Kane - Lowry - Roslovic
Harkins - Gustavsson - Appleton

Morrissey - Trouba
Samberg - Heinola
Stanley - Kovacevic

Helle
Comrie

Might be able to sneak into the playoffs, Helle has pulled it off with worse rosters ahead of him. 13 of the 20 are on the current Jets roster.

Do jets have access to thrashers?

 

[FlappyGiraffe]

Do jets have access to thrashers?

I think so, nobody is really coming to mind though. OP wanted players at their current ability so Kovalchuk is probably out

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Kaprizov-JEE-Boldy
Granlund-Rossi-Tuch
Greenway-Haula-Zucker
Duhaime-McBain-Kunin

Brodin-Burns
Leddy-Soucy
Scandella-Dumba

Kuemper
Kahkonen

Actually probably fairly decent.

 

[Machinehead]

Can I quadruple shift Kreider?

 

[Machinehead]

It's not as bad as I thought it would be at forward. The defense is somehow an upgrade.

Kreider-Miller-Lafreniere
Duclair-Chytil-Buchnevich
Othmann-Berard-Fast
Cuylle-Edstrom-Kakko

Skjei-Schneider
Miller-Lundkvist
Graves-Mancini

Shesterkin
Garand

 

[Tachycineta]

Sabres:

Hagel-Eichel-Reinhart
Peterka-Cozens-Quinn
Benson-Mittelstadt-Marcus Foligno
Alex Nylander-Helenius-Girgensons
Scratches: Vic Olofsson, Brett Murray

Dahlin-Samuelsson
Power-Borgen
McCabe-Ristolainen
Scratch: Jacob Bryson, Ryan Johnson

UPL
Ullmark

Top 6 is strong, things start to get messy with finding decent 3rd line wingers and 4C with how bad the Sabres have been at drafting good forward depth. Defense and goaltending are solid. Will forever be pissed off that Botterill let Hagel walk for nothing when Nylander was the best forward in the pipeline.

I'd sub in JT Compher before Nylander (though if I am recalling correctly, he didn't really want to be a Sabre, hence the trade so that spoils it a little). I don't think our 2024 pick can count.

Also, I just looked at hockeydb. Should Brayden McNabb having any consideration (I don't follow him, so I can only go off stats without any real basis)?

 

[tmg]

I think so, nobody is really coming to mind though. OP wanted players at their current ability so Kovalchuk is probably out

You already had one in Kane.

I think the only other potentials are Bogosian and Chiarot. And that’s not especially strong potential.

 

[Adam da bomb]

I think so, nobody is really coming to mind though. OP wanted players at their current ability so Kovalchuk is probably out

The only possible change in line up maybe chis over Stanley.

 

[miscs75]

The defense would be good, Sorokin would be Sorokin but the forwards end off at center basically.

Anders Lee-Mathew Barzal-Ryan Strome
Simon Holmstrom-Brock Nelson-Oliver Wahlstrom
Anthony Beauvillier-John Tavares-Aatu Raty
Nino Niederreiter-Casey Cizikas-Kyle Okposo

Ext: Kieffer Bellows
HM:Ruslan Iskhakov, Matt Martin, Otto Koivula, William Dufour

Devon Toews-Noah Dobson
Adam Pelech-Ryan Pulock
Samuel Bolduc-Jared Spurgeon

Ext: Parker Witherspoon, Scott Mayfield
HM: Robin Salo, Sebastian Aho, Calvin de Haan, Kyle Burroughs, Travis Hamonic



G:
Ilya Sorokin
Jakub Skarek

 

[wintersej]

Vatrano and Krug were undrafted UFAs

Marchand Seguin Pastrnak
DeBrusk Poitras Vatrano
Donato Frederic Heinen
Lauko Beecher Bjork
Blidh

Lorhei McAvoy
Lindgren Hamilton
Krug Carlo
Gryz Lauzon
Vaakaneinen

Swayman
Vladar

 

[shadow1]

LW	C	RW
Gabe Landeskog	Nathan MacKinnon	Mikko Rantanen
Alex Newhook	Ryan O'Reilly	Matt Duchene
A.J. Greer	Tyson Jost	Jean-Luc Foudy
Brad Malone	Nils Aman	Oscar Olausson

LD	RD
Bowen Byram	Cale Makar
Kevin Shattenkirk	Conor Timmins
Justin Barron	Tyson Barrie

G
Justus Annunen
Calvin Pickard

 

[ColbyChaos]

DeBrincat-Bedard-Kane
Schmaltz-Danault-

DeBrincat Bedard Kane
Schmaltz Dach Teravainen
Reichel Danault Kurashev
Saad Hayes Hartman

Vlasic Jokiharju
Korchinski Boqvist
Kaiser Phillips




The forwards aren't the worst. That top line would be eventful, both offensively and defensively. Defensive group is awful; basically a high end shutdown D and then either kids or busts. Goaltending is non-existent; there is no goalie the Hawks have drafted that fit the requirements of the challenge while also not being retired.

If undrafted FAs count you could add Panarin, Raanta, among others out there

 

[kirby11]

I'd sub in JT Compher before Nylander (though if I am recalling correctly, he didn't really want to be a Sabre, hence the trade so that spoils it a little). I don't think our 2024 pick can count.

Also, I just looked at hockeydb. Should Brayden McNabb having any consideration (I don't follow him, so I can only go off stats without any real basis)?

Good call on Compher. No idea how McNabb's played lately--I saw him more with Vegas when they were a new franchise

 

[Nicko999]

Slafkovsky - Kotkaniemi - Caufield
Lehkonen - Poehling - Roy
Pacioretty - Evans - Gallagher
Harvey-Pinard - Beck - Pezzetta

Sergachev - Guhle
Romanov - Hutson
Harris - Juulsen

Primeau
Price

Edit: Forgot McDonagh

Jesus, that center line... My eyes hurt.

This is hands down the worst team of drafted players. Excluding Seattle.

Thank God the bozos that are responsible for this are gone.

 

[ShootIt]

Hyman-Barkoc-Tippett
Huberdeau-Trocheck-Dadonov
Crouse-Bjugstad-Lundell
Logan Shaw-Mamin-Grimaldi --- Figuring out who is playing the best in Europe speaks volume about the Panthers drafting prowess.

Matheson-Weegar
Kulikov-Ekblad
Kolyachonok/Brown-Gudbranson

Markstrom
Levi/Knight

Turned out better than expected.
Would put Juho Lammikko over Grimaldi, or hell Samoskevich since he has played at least one game in the NHL.

 

[Cappy76]

For the Caps:

Ovechkin - Stephenson -Wilson
Forsberg - Lapierre - Burakovsky
Johansson - McMichael - Kuznetsov
Miroshnichenko - Protas - Malenstyn

Carlson - Fehervary
Orlov - Siegenthaler
Alexeyev - Iorio

Varlamov
Samsonov

Not horrible I guess

 

[acrobaticgoalie]

The average lineup will be watered down when you consider undrafted players like Panarin aren't eligible to be on any team.

Florida would be pretty screwed then lol

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

I was going with only players who are still in the NHL. Looks like Harrington is in the Swiss league these days.

Just signed an AHL deal.with Springfield (Blues).

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

Rickard Rakell-William Carlsson-Troy Terry
Trevor Zegras-Mason McTavish-Kyle Palmieri
Max Jones-Leo Carlsson-Corey Perry
Isac Lundestrom-Sam Steel-Max Comtois

Hampus Lindholm-Brandon Montour
Shea Theodore-Josh Manson
Marcus Pettersson-Cam Fowler
Jamie Drysdale

John Gibson
Frederik Andersen
Lukas Dostal

Our forward group is fairly weak but that defensive group is probably one of the better corps in this thread.

 

[kings11]

Arthur Kaliyev - Anze Kopitar -Adrian Kempe
Gabriel Vilardi - Quentin Byfield - Tyler Toffoli
Rasmus Kupari - Brayden Schenn - Michael Amadio
Alex Turcotte - Trevor Lewis - Alex Laferriere
Michael Eyssimont - Nic Dowd - Nicolas Deslauriers

Michael Anderson - Drew Doughty
Brandt Clarke - Brock Faber
Jordan Spence - Matt Roy
Erik Cernak - Jacob Middleton
Tobias Bjornfot - Jacob Moverare
Derek Forbort - Alex Martinez

Jonathan Quick

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

RNH - McDavid - Eberle
Hall - Draisaitl - Holloway
Lavoie - McLeod - Yamamoto
Cogs - Gagner - Puljujarvi

Broberg - Bouchard
Nurse - Marino
Kesselring - Petry

Skinner

Extras : Desharnais, Bear, C.Jones, Samorukov, Lagesson and Niems

Outside our core guys being there our NHL roster is substantially better than I initially expected this to be. With our core guys drafted outside Ekholm and thinking oh we’re adding Hall and Eberle I expected this to long much stronger than it turned out.

Great top 6, horrendous bottom 6. Defense is… okay lol. Could be worse

Cogliano is now retired. Need someone else for 4LW. Maybe Jujhar Khaira. He’s still bouncing around the AHL/NHL. Matej Blumel might also find a spot on that bottom line.

Erik Gustafsson would definitely be 3LD. I'd also put Hartikainen as 4LW.

Hartikainen's been borderline elite since playing in Europe full-time.
2019: Led KHL in playoff scoring, first team All-Star
2021: Most points in KHL by a foreigner
2022: Olympic Gold and highest +/-, WC Gold
2023: Leading goal scorer in NL, won championship