Me neither. There were a few GMs that I figured MUST take him and especially once we passed #10 I thought for every pick that "now he HAS to go, hopefully I can get Lindholm or something". Lindholm is still there, as is Collberg. **** it, I'll just paste what we've got so far.
Round 1
1. Troisdorf: Nail Yakupov
2. Winnipeg: Ryan Murray
3. Jyvaskyla: Alex Galchenyuk
4. Troisdorf: Mikhail Grigorenko
5. Troisdorf: Filip Forsberg
6. Troisdorf: Teuvo Teravainen
7. San Diego: Matt Dumba
8. Troisdorf: Andrei Vasilevsky
9. Bratislava: Zemgus Girgensons
10. Rochester: Slater Koekkoek
11. Troisdorf: Malcolm Subban
12. Winnipeg: Griffin Reinhart
Round 2
13. Troisdorf: Johnny Gaudreau
14. Winnipeg: Henrik Samuelsson
15. Jyvaskyla: Olli Maatta
16. Bratislava: Cody Ceci
17. Wertheim: Oscar Dansk
18. Keltinmaki: Radek Faksa
19. San Diego: Thomas Wilson
20. Lugano: Tomas Hertl
21. Wertheim: Tanner Pearson
22. Rochester: Jacob Trouba
23. Halmstad: Morgan Rielly
So we're a 12 team league and Troisdorf blew up the team this past season. I had what became #11 overall but sent that to him along with Johansen, Tarasenko and Jake Allen to get Backstrom (WSH), Doan and a pick last summer that got me Silfverberg. He also sent off Kipper, Sharp, Brodeur, Girardi and his first rounder last year (turned into Strome) for five more first rounders, plus he already had #1 overall because his team was shit this year. I also made a few more trades with him where he got my De Haan, Butler, Hishon, SKostitsyn and Blum and I got Pominville, Phaneuf and Rene Bourque. So he already had a bunch of solid young pieces and I guess we'll be watching out for this guy in a couple of years
But yeah, I got Rielly at #23 and I'm targeting more D for my next pick at #35. I'm looking at Brodin, Lindholm, Sproul or McNabb and if all of them disappear there's Brunner, Spooner, Collberg and Stalock. Klefbom is still available as well... and Barberio, Khudobin, Prince, Connauton and Cervenka. And the rest of the 2012 class. I'll get someone interesting
Then I'll probably drop Puempel so I can make two FA pickups from all the guys still around.