Ya it was pretty lame. absolutely zero point of having abut 20 different "targets" because everyone just went for the big 10 meshed area in the middle.
Contact me for Frozen Tools bug reports and inquiries
Follow Frozen Tools on Twitter @FrozenTools
Follow me on Twitter @DH_EricDaoust
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
Haha wow ya I guess that makes sense. I had it on in the background and I just assumed it was legit.
I had to laugh listening to Green Day dropping F bombs during their performance.
They had a delay setup for Don Cherry and didn't think it would be smart to have one for Green Day?? Awesome!
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
"Cleavage is like the sun. You can look, but dont stare.. Unless you're wearing sunglasses."
12 Team Weekly H2H, Daily Lineups. Keep 7 + 1 Prospect (<164 NHL games).
Scoring:PLAYER: G(3), A(2), D Pts(addt'l 0.7), +/-(0.5), PPP(addt'l 1), SHP(addt'l 0.5), SOG(0.4), BLK(0.8)GOALIE: W(2), GA(-1.5), Saves(0.3), SO(3)Positions - 3C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 2G, 5 Bench, 4 IR, 1 prospect
C - J Hughes(LW), Hintz, Malkin, Pinto
LW - M Tkachuk(RW), Robertson
RW - Rust, Necas, Zuccarello
D - Makar, Fox, Bouchard, Roy, Krug
G - Oettinger, Thompson, Wedgewood
Prospect Keeper - L Hughes(D)
IR - Hill(G)
2024 Picks - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
I think this was probably the best Skills Competition I have seen in a long time. The NHL gets my props for a couple reasons:
1. Involvement of Blues alumni.
I think they did a great job here. It helps that they have MacInnis and Hull to pull out of their bag but I thought that was pretty cool. The NHL got lucky in having the Blues win the cup last year I like MacInnis ripping a (yes fake) clapper!
side note: One thing I would LOVE to see is Shea Weber take a few cracks at the radar gun with a stick from the 90s, It would be cool to see how many mph the new sticks get him. I think the NHL is fearful of doing this because they don't want any arguments the players today are not just better....
2. The Women's Game.
Possibly the best part of the whole event in that the Women were playing hard. I typically knock women's hockey but the 3-on-3 was pretty exciting.
3. Stick to the classics.
Fastest skater, hardest shot, accurate shooter, shootout challenge.
Those are really the only skills that translate well to hockey, dumping everything except the "Shooting Stars" was smart.
Shooting stars was a good idea but poor execution, everyone gets 7 shots at the 10 point target and sometimes accidentally scores on a different one. Seems like no one from the league did any game testing on it.
A head-to-head HORSE (or better yet "N.H.L.") competition would be better here.
12 team H-2-H 1 year league, daily roster changes, 3 goalie start minimum/week
2xC, 2xRW, 2xLW, 4xD, 3xUtil, 2xG, 5 Bench
G, A, P, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA, SVs
C: C. Keller, C. Mittelstadt, B. Nelson, R. Strome,
LW: K. Connor, B. Tkachuk, J. Gaudreau, J. Marchessault, E. Rodrigues, A. Lafreniere
RW: K. Fiala, J. Bratt, T. Jeannot V. Arvidsson
D: R. Josi, J. Trouba, E. Gustafsson,
G: L. Thompson, F. Gustavsson, V. Vanecek
NO IR
I found this event entertaining, but non-sensical. I turned to a friend at one point and asked why they didn't set the baskets up in a skee ball style with the largest points possible on difficult, away-from-the-pack shots, and the remainder in a progressive ring. It looked like they were trying to create a dartboard-like scoring area but all these guys did was aim for the giant blue net in the middle instead of showing any skill.