Rank These Top Players: Matthews, Marner, Bedard, Tkachuk, etc. - REP Given!
For the bottom team in my sig (start 12 F, 5 D, 2 G. Also 7 Bench.) I'd like to do some planning for next season's draft. I've got 2 draft picks in the top 4 (not sure which ones), plus ALL the picks 5th-8th, so I'd REALLY like to solidify the top 8 of this list (since I'll get 6 of them). I also get the 13th overall pick...
The reason these guys are available to be drafted is that the league has a rule where each player can only be kept for 5 years after being drafted (being traded doesn't re-start the clock). So whoever I draft from this list, I can keep as one of my 10 keepers for the next 5 years. With that in mind, I'm likely to slide someone like Stamkos or Hedman down my list a bit due to age.
Side notes:
- This is also a rookie draft, so I could take someone like Bedard, Fantilli, etc.. However I've already got really strong minors keepers, so I'm not desperate to boost them. My main team is fairly weak now but I've got a load of high picks in 2023 & 24. I'm hoping to make a title push both years if all goes well.
- You can keep your 10 keepers for five years, but for your 5 minors keepers their clock doesn't start until they've reached 100 GP and get called up. So I may end up with someone like Cooley for 7 or so years total.
- The list of guys I have on this list post are ALL the guys whose contracts expire this year (plus Bedard). There will be some other decent guys who don't get kept, but not likely any worthy of a first round pick.
1) Matthews
2) Marner
3) M. Tkachuk
4) BEDARD???
5) Connor
6) Aho
7) Point
8) Saros
9) Barzal
10) DeBrincat
11) Stamkos
12) Hedman
13) Tavares
14) Markstrom
15) FANTILLI/MICHKOV/CARLSSON???
Can't decide when to draft the rookies, that's for sure!
12 Team Keep 6: G/A:1 W/SO:2
C - McDavid, Matthews, Schiefele
LW - Draisaitl, Fiala, Meier
RW - Marner, Barzal, Zuccarello
D - Dahlin, Morrissey, Dunn, Matheson
G - Skinner
B - Marchessault, Caufield, Saros
12 Team Keep 10 (& 5 Minors): G/A/OTL:1 W:2 SO:3
'24 Picks (16 Rounds) - 1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,5,5,6,6
F - McDavid, Rantanen, Point, Aho, Nylander, M. Tkachuk, Guentzel, Pavelski, Duchene, Nyqvist, Rossi
D - Bouchard, Dobson, Matheson, Andersson, Letang
G - Vasilevskiy, Markstrom
B - Mateychuk
M - Cooley, Michkov, Perreault, Hutson, Nikishin