EXPERT LEAGUE

[Dobber]

The random draft order has been generated for tonight\'s draft and yours truly will be selecting first.

You can already pencil The Kid on Dobber\'s expert team...

The order:
1. Legion of Dobber
2. Notch
3. The Ultimate SC (Scott Cullen, TSN.ca)
4. McKeen\'s Magic
5. Sticks&Stones
6. Burnsy
7. The Comish
8. Bugg\'s Brigade
9. Duke Power (Duke Riley)
10. JP (JapersRi...
11. angus
12. Lanky522

[Dobber]

Crosby
Luongo
Heatley
Thornton
Jagr

[Dobber]

Just as I was afraid of, by the time it got back to me, all of my \"elite 8\" goalies were taken. Plus a few more...
SO I grabbed Turco (for the second straight year) and Mason, back to back.

[repenttokyo]

it\'s hard not to pick a goalie with your first pick, but it\'s harder not to pick crosby.

[Dobber]

Took Ryan Whitney, Eric Staal with the next two.

Justin WIlliams and Andrej Meszaros with the next two

Still had no left wingers so grabbed Paul Kariya and Rick Nash with the next two. In my opinion the most difficult position to fill.

[doulos]

Looking forward to the blow by blow on this later on.

[sabe]

Dobber wrote:

Just as I was afraid of, by the time it got back to me, all of my \"elite 8\" goalies were taken. Plus a few more...
SO I grabbed Turco (for the second straight year) and Mason, back to back.

Who were your elite-8?

[angus]

man this was a tough draft. The mid/late rounds were especially tough, I was losing every single player on my short list.

[hawksnut2]

Are the final results of this draft going to be posted on this site somewhere?

[angus]

yep, they will be up tomorrow.

I did end up drafting Zach Parise, as well as a certain set of Swedish twins...

[hawksnut2]

Thanks a bunch. I\'ll be on the lookout for them.

[Dobber]

Burnsy will have a piece up on the main page within a few days. The Pool Guide will have my own personal analysis on my picks and thought process.


I picked first and last overall as follows:

Round Pick Player Position
1. (1) Sidney Crosby C
2. (24) Marty Turco G
3. (25) Chris Mason G
4. (48) Ryan Whitney D
5. (49) Eric Staal C
6. (72) Justin Williams RW
7. (73) Andrej Meszaros D
8. (96) Paul Kariya LW
9. (97) Rick Nash LW
10. (120) Mark Recchi RW
11. (121) Paul Mara D
12. (144) Ladislav Nagy LW
13. (145) Roman Hamrlik D
14. (168) Scott Hartnell RW
15. (169) Viktor Kozlov C
16. (192) Tuomo Ruutu C
17. (193) Daniel Carcillo LW
18. (216) Nathan Paetsch D
19. (217) Michel Ouellet RW
20. (240) Rostislav Klesla D
21. (241) Ryan Shannon RW
22. (264) Sean Bergenheim LW
23. (265) Jose Theodore G
24. (288) Mike Komisarek D


I\'m happy with my bench and LW - the hardest position to fill. I don\'t like my RW...and my D could be better, but I have a lot of dark horse D that I think will surprise.
B)

[lanky522]

Here\'s my team... i think I did pretty well considering the competition and my 12th overall draft seed... I\'m not unhappy with any area of my team. I think I\'ve got great depth at almost every position.

Round Pick Player Position
1. (12) Marc-Andre Fleury G
2. (13) Evgeni Malkin LW
3. (36) Dion Phaneuf D
4. (37) Peter Budaj G
5. (60) Sean Avery LW
6. (61) Patrik Elias C
7. (84) Zdeno Chara D
8. (85) Shane Doan RW
9. (108) Nikolai Khabibulin G
10. (109) Rod Brind\'Amour C
11. (132) Darcy Tucker RW
12. (133) Alexei Zhitnik D
13. (156) Patrick Kane RW
14. (157) Ed Jovanovski D
15. (180) Ryane Clowe LW
16. (181) Mike Comrie C
17. (204) Marco Sturm LW
18. (205) Ron Hainsey D
19. (228) Dainius Zubrus RW
20. (229) Cory Murphy D
21. (252) Michal Handzus C
22. (253) Eric Brewer D
23. (276) Donald Brashear LW
24. (277) Joe Pavelski C

[LetsGoCanes]

Wow. Malkin was still on the board at 13.

You picked up some good quality late. I like Handzus with the 252nd pick.

[LetsGoCanes]

The \'elite eight\' doesn\'t include Turco. Interesting.