I'm still mad at the NHL. Really mad. And they're not going to get a penny of my money for a long time. But that's not going to stop me from launching full-bore into hockey pool season.
Two of my leagues were drafting last night at the same time, so I had to juggle both AND talk on Skype with my co-manager in another league about our keepers at the same time.
One of the leagues is entering its third year as a keeper league. With 24 GMs and full 23-man rosters plus prospect slots, it's pretty friggin deep and you have to put your thinking cap on in the later rounds.
(All that and no money involved.)
I'm rebuilding in that one. My keepers were: Luke Adam, Carl Hagelin, Phil Kessel, Kyle Okposo, Matt Read, Mike Richards, Travis Zajac, Jake Gardiner, Andrej Meszaros, Niklas Backstrom and Braden Holtby, along with Jaden Schwartz and David Rundblad for the prospect slots. I've traded Backstrom, Okposo and Rundblad since then.
My draft picks were:
Dave Bolland (4th overall) - yeah, it's deep
Alex Burmistrov (28th overall)
David Savard (52nd)
P-M Bouchard (76)
Simon Despres (100)
Dennis Seidenberg (124)
Gabriel Bourque (148)
Lee Stempniak (172)
Cam Barker (196)
Jordan Caron (220)
The other league is run by my predecessor on the Merc sports desk, known as Brad Brown, Saskawhat or, in one of the all-time great team names in fantasy sports, Dr. Doak. Not a keeper league. 10 teams.
Picks:
Henrik Lundqvist (2nd)
James Neal (19th)
Anze Kopitar (22)
Alex Pietrangelo (39)
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (42)
Ryan Getzlaf (59)
Alex Edler (62)
Max Pacioretty (79)
Jason Pominville (82)
Kevin Shattenkirk (99)
Jeff Carter (102)
Valtteri Filppula (119)
Damien Brunner (122)
Tomas Fleischmann (139)
Brendan Smith (142)
I have another draft tonight that just became a keeper league and another one on Wednesday (the one with the $50 entry and in which I was handed the worst team you ever saw in your life one year ago).
I posted this for validation of how awesome my picks are, so just leave it below. Thanks. Bye.
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