I will sign up I thought it was later, didn't realize hockey started (yeah I'll do good in this league) lol

Geoff is correct, as usual. I went back and read the requirements and we are ok. In my fantasy football league, you need ALL 12 to start a league, so I assumed that it was the same in Hockey. We all know what happens when you ASSume. Now if DMC signs up, and Plaw, we'll have 8 teams. Thanks Don Malta.

Don Cardi

I'm in.

Plaw's Left Wingers.

I'm in as well, my team name is DMC but maybe I should change it to GWB.....

that way the left wingers have someone to blame when they do bad :p :p


(that joke would have been better and made more sense if it was Pat or DonT rather than Plaw )

When will our draft (hopefully live) be?

No politics allowed in fantasy sports.

My team name has no poltical connotation whatsoever. :rolleyes:

I simply consider left wing to be the most important position on a hockey team.

Draft was yesterday and everyone has their teams in place.

There are a lot of good players still left on the waiver list.


Don Cardi

Wow. It doesn't look like many people changed their default rankings.

I think that most did not change their default rankings because like myself, many just did not have a clue as to who are the good players and who are not this year. More than a year away from the game changes a lot of things. However they have to go to the waiver wire. There are really a lot of good players out there.
Some good teams can be built from that waiver list.


Don Cardi

It should be interesting. I'm building my team around S. Crosby.

I would have ranked my players if I knew when the draft was.

Also, looking over the teams and trying to reconstruct the draft (strangely, there's no link for draft results like we have in football), there are a few things that don't make sense.

Two examples (there are many):

The guy who had the 3rd pick (Five for Fighting) should have also had the 14th pick, but his second-highest rated player is 25th and his 3rd highest is 37th.

Meanwhile, Ray Dunlop wound up with the 2nd pick, and then wound up with the 13th and 14th highest rated players as well.

Doesn't make sense to me.

Also, Could we have the identities of all the players?

I can figure out who DMC, JJ, and JL is, but not the others.

PL, I think you're assuming that we got our players using the default rankings. There is no chance I would have would up with Iginla, Crosby, and Jagr using the default rankings. I had re-rated my top 30 or so picks.

I was assuming that no one had ranked their players, and that whoever we wound up with was based on the Yahoo rankings.

So you ranked your players, then?

Actually Plaw, I think that you wound up with a pretty good team.

C J. Sakic (Col - C) 33 54 11 42 13 3
C P. DatsyukNA (Det - C) 30 38 -2 35 8 4
LW R. Smyth (Edm - LW) 23 36 11 70 8 6
LW J. LeClair (Pit - LW) 23 32 20 51 8 4
RW M. Hossa (Atl - RW) 36 46 4 46 14 5
RW B. Guerin (Dal - RW) 34 35 14 109 9 10
D S. Gonchar (Pit - D) 11 47 -14 56 6 0
D D. Boyle (TB - D) 9 30 23 60 3 2
D S. Zubov (Dal - D) 7 35 0 20 4 1
D J. Pitkanen (Phi - D) 8 19 15 44 5 2
BN S. Gomez (NJ - C) 14 56 18 70 3 1
BN P. Bondra (Atl - RW) 26 23 -16 38 14 5
BN O. Kvasha (NYI - LW) 15 36 4 48 5 3

G A. Raycroft (Bos - G) 29 2.05 .926 3
G S. Burke (TB - G) 16 2.72 .909 2
BN J. Giguere (Anh - G) 17 2.62 .914 3

Don Cardi

Hey, this thing is for fun and for free. Is there any need to scrutinize and pick apart every fault of how yahoo structured this thing? C'mon, just go and pick up some free agents and have some fun.


Don Cardi

Yes, I ranked my players. I would have never gotten my team with the default rankings. That's how I managed to snag Crosby (rookie) and Heatley (injury in 03). I did mess up a little with goaltending, but other than the top 3 or 4 goaltenders, it's tough to tell who'll be starting for each team right now.

Osgood not too shabby. 31 WINS with a 2.24 GGA

Don Cardi

Did I complain about my team?

(Altho in a league with 8 participants and at least 30 starters at every position, no one should have a bad team.)

That's great, if he starts. It looks like Legace could be the starter, or at the least splitting time with Osgood though.

The biggest problem I had with the default rankings was that some of the older players on the downside in 03 where rated higher than young players on the upside.

Yes Lou, I noticed that also, and it bothered me. That is why, IMO, this season, everyone basically is taking a "shot" playerwise. Many of the stars have reached the 40 year old plataeu and are on the down size of their careers. And it is hard to judge the new young guys because we were afforded that opportunity to see these kids at the end of last season, etc., because there was no last season.

That is why my approach to Fantasy Hockey this year was to just take the cards dealt to me and have fun with it.


Don Cardi

No, I didn't say that you complained. I was just surprised myself when I learned that you did not pre-set your rankings and still wound up with the team that you did.
So I was saying that for someone that did not pre-set his rankings, you wound up pretty good.

So stop being so crabby and sensative. :p


Don Cardi

I didn't even know the draft happened (hence my earlier post about the "live" draft)...

Holy shit! My team kicks ass! Martin St. Louis, last years (seasons) MVP?!? Nikolai Khabibulin, arguably the *best* active goalie in the league right now?

Fuck yes, go autodraft!

I'd argue that. Right now, IMO he's not even in the top 5 anymore.

I'd rank them this way:
1)Brodeur
2)Turco
3)Luongo
4)Aebischer
5)Nabokov
6)Kiprusoff
7)Theodore
8)Roloson
9)Khabibulin
10)Esche

hey guys,

I just entered my name, didnt rank my players, and used the auto draft. All things considered, my team isn't that bad, but isn't half as good if I would have put some damn effort into this!

Anyway, good luck to all!! This should be fun to watch.

Paul,
Maple Leafs,
REG DUNLOP (Main character (Paul Newman) from Slap Shot)

Just a reminder that the season starts this week. So get your starting lineups in and propose your trades.


Don Cardi

This should be a new experience for me as I've never participated in fantasy hockey. I'm not real sure how this is going to end up. I might have 5 players playing on any given day while my opponent might only have 2 on that same day.

Oh well it's free and should be a lot of fun since I love hockey. Now I just need to call my cable company to order NHL Center Ice.


I can't complain about my team I noticed I do have Mario Lemieux. I'll admit he's one of the greatest hockey players ever. I just can't stand the team he plays for.


To end this I wish to add.


Go Dallas Stars!

Don't forget to set your starting lineups.

This week's matchups :

The Broadway Blues vs. Five For Fighting
Buffalo Chill vs. DMC
The Ice Picks vs. Reg Dunlop
Staten Island Rockets vs. Plaw's Left Wingers

Good luck to all!


Don Cardi

League Opens Tonight!


Don Cardi