Habs World Order (NHL11 BAGM)

[stevio51]

I'm going to use the Montreal Canadiens of a fantasy draft with a twist.
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Gary Bettman: I've spoken to all of the representatives here, at the World Hockey Summit, and we all feel that the sport needs to grow globally, not just here in North America. That is hard to do when all of a country's best players are playing overseas. IIHF President Rene Fasel and I are going to start working together to create the IIHF Superleague. It will contain 15 former NHL teams and 15 teams from across Europe. All of the teams participating will follow. Thank you.

Teams

NHL Conference

Canadian Division
Vancouver Canucks
Edmonton Oilers
Calgary Flames
Montreal Canadiens
Toronto Maple Leafs

Eastern Division
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Pittsburgh Penguins
Washington Capitols
Philadelphia Flyers

Western Division
Los Angeles Kings
San Jose Sharks
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Dallas Stars

European Conference

Nordic Division
Modo Hockey
Frolunda Indians
Brynas IF
Espoo Blues
Helsinki Jokerit

Western Division
Great Britain HC
France HC
HC Bern
HC Davos
Eisbaren Berlin

Eastern Division
Dynamos Moscow
Kazahkstan HC
Hannover Scorpions
HC Plzen 1929
HC Eaton Pardubice

Let's see how this plays out. Please comment and leave comments to help me develope this.

[thedudedominick]

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Sounds like an interesting idea. Going to be weird to play some games in NHL rinks and others in International rinks.

[Razor18]

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This should be interesting for sure. If you're asking for help to run it, I'm not sure lol.

But what I would do in a fantasy draft is I pick a theme, so I either pick all Russians, all Americans, all Power Forwards and Defensive D-men, whatever.

May be off topic but yeah lol that's my input.

[stevio51]

Re: Habs World Order (NHL11 BAGM)

This should be interesting for sure. If you're asking for help to run it, I'm not sure lol.

But what I would do in a fantasy draft is I pick a theme, so I either pick all Russians, all Americans, all Power Forwards and Defensive D-men, whatever.

May be off topic but yeah lol that's my input.

I really just tried to go for all the young players I could. I've got 5 rookies in my starting lineups.

[Razor18]

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I really just tried to go for all the young players I could. I've got 5 rookies in my starting lineups.

That's always good. One time I picked Skinner, Seguin, Hall, etc.

By year 3 you have 90 overall players playing for 1 mil

[SENS_AK27]

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I'm sad to see no Senators in this league....but otherwise an interesting concept. Should be fun to watch everything play out.

[stevio51]

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I'm sad to see no Senators in this league....but otherwise an interesting concept. Should be fun to watch everything play out.

Sorry, I wanted to get all of the older teams I could and since the Sens are from the 90s I thought they'd be the Canadien team to drop. I dropped my own favorite teams, New Jersey and Nashville, in the sake of reality.

[stevio51]

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"In order to ensure an even playing field, all of the owners and the players association have agreed to void all contracts from the member European teams, the 15 current, the 15 folded NHL teams, and the minor league and junior rights to player. To build rosters we will have a draft of all of the voided contracts, the order of which will be decided by the means of a lottery to be held next week. Thank You."- Gary Bettman

Draft Order (BTW... I really did cut up slips of paper and pick them out of a hat. Just FYI.)

30. Pittsburgh
29. Moscow
28. Frolunda
27. Pardubice
26. Kazahkstan
25. Washington
24. Dallas
23. France
22. Detroit
21. Davos
20. Montreal
19. Plzen
18. Edmonton
17. Hannover
16. Britain
15. Toronto
14. Vancouver
13. Philadelphia
12. Boston
11. Bern
10. Los Angeles
9. Helsinki
8. Calgary
7. New York
6. Espoo
5. Berlin
4. Modo
3. San Jose
2. Chicago
1. Brynas

[stevio51]

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Habs Announce Preseason Roster

Forwards
9 Zach Parise
11 Saku Koivu "C"
14 Evander Kane
17 Richard Clune
21 Brandon Prust
22 Dustin Brown "A"
26 Martin Erat
27 Manny Malhotra
39 Logan Couture
44 Taylor Hall
46 Colin Fraser
70 Brendan Morrison
91 Brett MacLean

Defensemen
6 Andrew Greene
15 Brett Carson
20 Ryan Suter "A"
40 Kurt Sauer
52 Mike Green
76 P.K. Subban
83 John Erskine

Goaltenders
35 Alex Auld
38 Brian Boucher
50 Corey Crawford

[Razor18]

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Good picking, you went pretty young but you do still have a lot of proven players, should be a good season.

[stevio51]

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here's a teaser of the first game

http://youtu.be/52zeBrTVmzg

[stevio51]

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Boucher named Habs back-up, Auld put on waivers.
NHL.com

After a preseason to think about the depth chart of his club, rookie coach Scott Stevens has decided that he wants Brian Boucher to play behind Corey Crawford instead of Alex Auld. After the move was made public, rookie GM Scott Neidermayer placed Auld on waivers.

Neidermayer goes on prospect shopping spree
NHL.com

Montreal GM Scott Neidermayer caught the rest of the league sleeping when he approached nearly 20 prospects that were not claimed in the IIHFSL Dispersal Draft. Neidermayer signed 13 of the 19 prospects he talked to. The list of signed is below.

Position Name (Age)
G Calvin Pickard (18)
G Igor Bobkov (19)
D Brandon Gormley (18)
D Ryan Ellis (19)
D Roman Josi (20)
W Austin Watson (18)
W Nino Neidereiter (18)
C Jacob Josefson (19)
C Joonus Rask (20)
C Nazem Kadri (19)
C Louis LeBlanc (19)
C Ryan Johanson (18)
C Kyle Palmeri (19)

[stevio51]

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Habs chase out Lundqvist, beat Rangers 6-3
TSN.ca

Montreal controlled the game from the opening faceoff outshooting the Blueshirts 41-25 and doubling their time on attack. The game was highlighted by the captain, Saku Koivu, beating Henrik Lundqvist from just inside the center red line trying to clear after the only penalty kill of the game. "I just wanted to get off the ice, but I put it on net and Lundqvist ... I guess he was sleeping. (Laughs)" says a cheery Koivu.

[stevio51]

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October Wrap-up

Montreal (2-6-3 7pts) month: 2-6-3 7pts

Good- Here we have a youthful team here, give them some time to figure their game out. Remember most of these players had never played together.

Bad- Offense, there is no attack being generated. This team was held to 1 goal or less in 5 of the 9 games played.

Ugly- Goaltending. Not much to say. Craw's save pct is in the .830s and Bouch has been winless in his 3 starts.