time for a new thread for a new season that begins today. Canada Day. Free Agent Frenzy. 

Will the Jets trade Trouba?  Will they resign Scheif to an 8 year deal?  

Will Boston, as heavily rumoured, offer sheet Trouba?  What about the rumours of the Jets in a three way deal with Edmonton and Avs?

Stay tuned! 

Trouba and his agent are fools if they think they will get anything close to 8. Maybe half of that now but hey his agent said it's not about the money which means it's about money  

Edited October 12, 20169 yr by Goalie

Eichel with what looks like a serious leg injury at practice this morning.

 

1 minute ago, Mike said:

Eichel with what looks like a serious leg injury at practice this morning.

 

My pool isnt until tomorrow night so lets get these serious injuries out of the way by 7PM tomorrow.

I've got Crosby and Eichel. This season is off to a fantastic start.

I'm in an 8 team pool for a boatload of beers

Here's how my team lines up:

F: McDavid, Kopitar, Wheeler, Marchand, Saad, Palmieri, Domi, Spezza, Ehlers, Jenner

D: Karlsson, Ekman-Larsson, Doughty, Ristolainen

G: Price, Luongo, Greiss

Tracks not only points, but +/-, powerplay points, shots and hits as well as the typical goalie categories (wins, shutouts, GAA, SV%)

Jenner, Palmieri seem like random selections in an 8 team pool, but with the hits/shots totals being valuable, they were top 50 ranked players last year.

Looks like pretty much the worst fantasy hockey team i've ever seen

Where did you take McDavid? He went 4th in my year to year draft. Risto seems like a reach in an 8 team league, but your other three D are really good. I'm guessing you went D pretty early.

I'm in a 10 team league. We count just about every conventional stat except hits. Love my forwards., but my defense and goaltending is pretty meh. I waited too long to fill out of the bottom of my D and goaltending and ended up with some questionable guys. 

1.	(2)	Sidney Crosby (Pit - C)
2.	(19)	Jonathan Quick (LA - G)
3.	(22)	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Was - C)
4.	(39)	Nikita Kucherov (TB - RW)
5.	(42)	Wayne Simmonds (Phi - RW)
6.	(59)	John Klingberg (Dal - D)
7.	(62)	Brian Elliott (Cgy - G)
8.	(79)	Jakub Voracek (Phi - LW,RW)
9.	(82)	Milan Lucic (Edm - LW)
10.	(99)	Keith Yandle (Fla - D)
11.	(102)	Matt Duchene (Col - C)
12.	(119)	Kyle Okposo (Buf - RW)
13.	(122)	Steve Mason (Phi - G)
14.	(139)	Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C,LW)
15.	(142)	Dougie Hamilton (Cgy - D)
16.	(159)	Dion Phaneuf (Ott - D)
17.	(162)	Ryan Miller (Van - G)

 

Just now, sweep the leg said:

Where did you take McDavid? He went 4th in my year to year draft. Risto seems like a reach in an 8 team league, but your other three D are really good. I'm guessing you went D pretty early.

I'm in a 10 team league. We count just about every conventional stat except hits. Love my forwards., but my defense and goaltending is pretty meh. I waited too long to fill out of the bottom of my D and goaltending and ended up with some questionable guys. 

I took McDavid fourth as well. Risto graded out well, again because of the volume of shots/hits he provides as a defender.

It gets a little hazy but I think my picks in order to start were McDavid, Karlsson, Price, Kopitar, Wheeler, OEL, Doughty, Marchand

McDavid went number one in my league if you can believe that.  I was super pumped to take Crosby at 2.  Nit looking great at the moment but hopefully he's back soon.

McJesus went 8th overall in our draft to Dave and he was belligerent that anybody would let him go that late... 

Just now, Noeller said:

McJesus went 8th overall in our draft to Dave and he was belligerent that anybody would let him go that late... 

I was taking him anywhere, to be honest. Go big or go home. McDavid is easily my pick to win the Art Ross this year.

Maybe we can split off into a Poolies thread.  Might be fun to chat as the season progresses.  Was just talking to someone about first over-all.  He said McDavid went first in one of his pools.  Honestly, if I get first pick, I *probably* take McDavid but I really want to take Crosby.  If he was healthy I'd take him.  I think McDavid has the chance to just light it up on a bad Oilers team that will be offense first.

1 minute ago, Mike said:

I was taking him anywhere, to be honest. Go big or go home. McDavid is easily my pick to win the Art Ross this year.

I play floor hockey every week with a bunch of old boys who've been doing fantasy drafts since the late 70s, and they tell tales of how Gretzky was broken into 2 draftable players: Gretzky Goals and Gretzky Assists. We talked this week about how McJesus isn't far from that....could happen again one day....

1 minute ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Maybe we can split off into a Poolies thread.  Might be fun to chat as the season progresses.  Was just talking to someone about first over-all.  He said McDavid went first in one of his pools.  Honestly, if I get first pick, I *probably* take McDavid but I really want to take Crosby.  If he was healthy I'd take him.  I think McDavid has the chance to just light it up on a bad Oilers team that will be offense first.

that's a really good idea...

2 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Maybe we can split off into a Poolies thread.

Season starts tonight. Might be too late.

1 minute ago, Noeller said:

I play floor hockey every week with a bunch of old boys who've been doing fantasy drafts since the late 70s, and they tell tales of how Gretzky was broken into 2 draftable players: Gretzky Goals and Gretzky Assists. We talked this week about how McJesus isn't far from that....could happen again one day....

Yes he is. He's great and will lead the league in points for a long time, but he's not going to be winning it by margins like Gretzky did.

6 minutes ago, Noeller said:

McJesus went 8th overall in our draft to Dave and he was belligerent that anybody would let him go that late... 

#8 is way too late. He would have been my second pick after Crosby. Our top three was Kane, Crosby, Benn.

I actually had a Crosby-Okposo for McDavid-McKinnon trade lined up before we found out about Crosby's concussion. Would have been great for me if we pulled the trigger one day earlier. Now Crosby is out and Okposo's centre might be out long term.

2 minutes ago, sweep the leg said:

#8 is way too late. He would have been my second pick after Crosby. Our top three was Kane, Crosby, Benn.

I actually had a Crosby-Okposo for McDavid-McKinnon trade lined up before we found out about Crosby's concussion. Would have been great for me if we pulled the trigger one day earlier. Now Crosby is out and Okposo's centre might be out long term.

Oh yeah I misremembered.  Ours went McDavid - Kane - Crosby - Benn - Ovi

 

The usual annual stats compilation. These are based on opening night 23-man rosters and do not include players on injured reserve.
 

	Ht	HRk	Wt	WRk	Age	ARk
ANA	73.6	10	202.2	14	27.7	12
ARI	73.4	13	201.2	16	26.6	23
BOS	73.0	23	197.9	25	27.8	10
BUF	73.4	17	207.1	2	26.2	26
CGY	74.0	3	200.9	18	27.2	20
CAR	73.6	10	199.4	20	25.9	27
CHI	72.7	28	195.3	29	28.1	7
COL	73.7	6	209.7	1	28.2	4
CBJ	73.3	18	206.3	5	25.5	30
DAL	74.0	3	206.7	4	28.3	3
DET	73.4	13	201.1	17	28.2	6
EDM	73.6	8	202.0	15	25.8	28
FLA	72.7	26	198.6	24	27.9	9
LAK	74.0	2	207.0	3	28.2	5
MIN	73.4	15	200.9	19	27.4	17
MTL	72.5	29	199.0	23	27.5	16
NSH	72.7	26	202.4	12	27.2	19
NJD	72.7	25	197.8	26	26.9	22
NYI	72.8	24	202.3	13	27.3	18
NYR	73.6	8	204.0	9	26.9	21
OTT	73.0	21	199.2	21	28.0	8
PHI	72.4	30	196.4	28	27.7	11
PIT	73.0	20	197.4	27	28.4	2
SJS	73.1	19	203.1	11	28.9	1
STL	73.5	12	206.1	6	27.6	15
TB	73.4	16	199.2	22	26.5	24
TOR	73.0	22	203.3	10	25.7	29
VAN	73.7	6	194.9	30	27.6	14
WSH	73.9	5	204.7	8	27.7	13
WPG	74.4	1	205.6	7	26.4	25
Average	73.3		201.7		27.3

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Edited October 12, 20169 yr by The Unknown Poster

Just the way it should be...Oiler for life. Awesome move...

2 hours ago, Noeller said:

McJesus went 8th overall in our draft to Dave and he was belligerent that anybody would let him go that late... 

Right there, that's where your story completely falls apart.

Not ONCE, not EVER..............

We appear to be the 6th-youngest team.  I would have guessed youngest.

Nice to see Wayner back with the Oilers.  I'm pumped to see him play at IGF.

4 hours ago, sweep the leg said:

Where did you take McDavid? He went 4th in my year to year draft. Risto seems like a reach in an 8 team league, but your other three D are really good. I'm guessing you went D pretty early.

I'm in a 10 team league. We count just about every conventional stat except hits. Love my forwards., but my defense and goaltending is pretty meh. I waited too long to fill out of the bottom of my D and goaltending and ended up with some questionable guys. 

1.	(2)	Sidney Crosby (Pit - C)
2.	(19)	Jonathan Quick (LA - G)
3.	(22)	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Was - C)
4.	(39)	Nikita Kucherov (TB - RW)
5.	(42)	Wayne Simmonds (Phi - RW)
6.	(59)	John Klingberg (Dal - D)
7.	(62)	Brian Elliott (Cgy - G)
8.	(79)	Jakub Voracek (Phi - LW,RW)
9.	(82)	Milan Lucic (Edm - LW)
10.	(99)	Keith Yandle (Fla - D)
11.	(102)	Matt Duchene (Col - C)
12.	(119)	Kyle Okposo (Buf - RW)
13.	(122)	Steve Mason (Phi - G)
14.	(139)	Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C,LW)
15.	(142)	Dougie Hamilton (Cgy - D)
16.	(159)	Dion Phaneuf (Ott - D)
17.	(162)	Ryan Miller (Van - G)

 

thought you said you had Eichel?  Or have I just lost the ability to read?