The Hockey Pool Question and Advice Thread (Your thread missing? Likely merged here)

[AmazingNuck]

1. Pavel Datsyuk C

2. Dany Heatley LW

3. Martin Brodeur G

4. Marc-Andre Fleury G

5. Bobby Ryan RW

6. Henrik Sedin C

7. Loui Eriksson LW

8. Bryan Little RW

9. Duncan Keith D

10. Zach Bogosian D

11. Kimmo Timonen D

12. Paul Martin D -> waived for Erik Johnson.

13. Nikita Filatov LW -> waived for Perron

14. Tom Gilbert D

12 player pool with 14 picks.

And

1. Sidney Crosby C

2. Nicklas Backstrom C

3. Dany Heatley W

4. Marc-Andre Fleury G

5. Jonathan Toews C -> Traded for Corey Perry

6. Devin Setoguchi W

7. Tim Thomas G

8. Shane Doan W

9. Dennis Wideman D

10. Brad Boyes W

11. Zach Bogosian D

12. Ryan Suter D

13. Mikko Koivu C

14. Joni Pitkanen D -> waived for Niskanen and then Niskanen waived for Visnovsky.

15. Semyon Varlamov G

16. Sergei Gonchar D

17. Paul Stastny C -> waived for Stafford.

18. Erik Johnson D

10 player pool but it's a head-to-head.

Depending on the pool type, (in these cases, forward points = defensive points), I always take forwards first.. opting to take gambles with defense. ie. Bogosian, Suter, Visnovsky, Johnson.

[XXCanucksXX]

Is the potential upside of Visnovsky better than what Niskanen would bring? I have Wideman, Gonchar, Erik Johnson, Suter, and Bogosian. Should I take the risk and go with Visnovsky or go with Niskanen, who'd be a safer pick at this point? Also, Vis beats Nis in +/- and PPP. There's no PIMs.

Id say go with niskanen

[XXCanucksXX]

im not going to put my teams on here but i like to gamble in the later rounds and I usually pick filatov in about 12th round

[danny411]

im not going to put my teams on here but i like to gamble in the later rounds and I usually pick filatov in about 12th round

my team is called the Apostles

[Sterling Archer]

No doubt.

I need a second goalie

The funny thing is, most of my team I built on waivers. My league cannot draft worth crap.

[hutton94]

I did 2 draft 1 yahoo and 1 espn and boy what a joke here are my teams

1. (7) Jarome Iginla RW

2. (18) Dany Heatley LW

3. (31) Marc Savard C

4. (42) Marc-Andre Fleury G

5. (55) Thomas Vanek LW

6. (66) Ray Emery G

7. (79) Henrik Sedin C

8. (90) Brad Boyes RW

9. (103) Jason Pominville RW

10. (114) Loui Eriksson LW

11. (127) Mike Ribeiro C

12. (138) Cam Barker D

13. (151) Mike Smith G

14. (162) Brent Burns D

15. (175) Tomas Kaberle D

16. (186) Erik Johnson D

and ESPN's

9 Ryan Getzlaf, Ana

12 Jarome Iginla, Cgy

29 Mike Richards, Phi

32 Dany Heatley, SJ

49 Miikka Kiprusoff, Cgy

52 Evgeni Nabokov, SJ

69 Vincent Lecavalier, TB

72 Martin St. Louis, TB

89 Thomas Vanek, Buf

92 Marian Hossa*, Chi

109 Mike Ribeiro, Dal

112 Andrei Markov*, Mon

129 Ryan Miller, Buf

132 Tomas Kaberle, Tor

149 Ales Hemsky, Edm

152 Anze Kopitar, LA

169 Brent Burns, Min

172 Jason Pominville, Buf

189 Tom Gilbert, Edm

192 Andy McDonald, StL

209 Lubomir Visnovsky, Edm

212 Paul Kariya, StL

if i dont win both i will be pissed

[eatmore911]

take Centers last their are a lot of good centers

[Bure and Me]

Doesnt anyone want Semin? I would consider hard taking him top 5 overall. if it wasn't for that injury last year he could have won the art ross.

[DynamicDuo]

Offenseive Line 1

Henrik Sedin

Daniel Sedin

Eric Staal

Offensive Line 2

Ryan Kesler

Mike Richards

Zach Parise

Offensive Line 3

Steve Bernier

Marc Savard

Milan Lucic

Defensive Pair 1

Zdeno Chara

Mike Komisarek

Defensive Pair2

Garnet Exelby

Zach Bogosian

Defensive Pair 3

Marc Staal

Jay Bouwmeester

Goalies

Roberto Luongo

Steve Mason

Pascal Leclaire

[co2o]

Sidney Crosby

Henrik Zetterberg

Scott Hartnell

Michael Cammalleri

Patrick Kane

Mike Ribeiro

Ray Whitney

Alex Burrows

Ryan Kesler

Jeff Carter

Dustin Brown

Milan Michalek

Zdeno Chara

Andrei Markov

Kevin Bieska

Willie Mitchell

Marc-Edouard Vlasic

Shea Weber

Brent Seabrook

Martin Brodeur

Steve Mason

Cam Ward

[AmazingNuck]

Wheeler or Stafford?

[ilikeroberto]

C - Zetterberg

C - Thornton

LW - Parise

LW - Heatley

RW - Semin

RW - Langenbrunner

D - Mike Green

D - Streit

D - S. Niedermayer

D - Souray

G - Lundqvist

G - Huet

BN - Hossa

BN - Kronwall

BN - Ryan

BN - Blake

Only a six team league, explaining the depth. I had sixth pick and two people passed on Parise for Carter and Luongo. I didn't draft a goalie until about round 6 or 7. Took Parise and Green in Round 1 and 2. I was very happy to get Heatley and was able to nab Hossa fairly late, which is awesome (yes, I know he's recovering from surgery).

This was the first live draft I've ever done and it was awesome!

[Kran]

I got the 5th pick out of 6 rounds each round

Datsyuk

Parise

Backstrom (bad move)

E. Staal

Vanek

Franzen

Orr

Weber

Boyle

Kubina

Edler

Brodeur

Miller

[danny411]

I did 2 draft 1 yahoo and 1 espn and boy what a joke here are my teams

1. (7) Jarome Iginla RW

2. (18) Dany Heatley LW

3. (31) Marc Savard C

4. (42) Marc-Andre Fleury G

5. (55) Thomas Vanek LW

6. (66) Ray Emery G

7. (79) Henrik Sedin C

8. (90) Brad Boyes RW

9. (103) Jason Pominville RW

10. (114) Loui Eriksson LW

11. (127) Mike Ribeiro C

12. (138) Cam Barker D

13. (151) Mike Smith G

14. (162) Brent Burns D

15. (175) Tomas Kaberle D

16. (186) Erik Johnson D

and ESPN's

9 Ryan Getzlaf, Ana

12 Jarome Iginla, Cgy

29 Mike Richards, Phi

32 Dany Heatley, SJ

49 Miikka Kiprusoff, Cgy

52 Evgeni Nabokov, SJ

69 Vincent Lecavalier, TB

72 Martin St. Louis, TB

89 Thomas Vanek, Buf

92 Marian Hossa*, Chi

109 Mike Ribeiro, Dal

112 Andrei Markov*, Mon

129 Ryan Miller, Buf

132 Tomas Kaberle, Tor

149 Ales Hemsky, Edm

152 Anze Kopitar, LA

169 Brent Burns, Min

172 Jason Pominville, Buf

189 Tom Gilbert, Edm

192 Andy McDonald, StL

209 Lubomir Visnovsky, Edm

212 Paul Kariya, StL

if i dont win both i will be pissed

second team is good nabakov , kipper. Get rid of miller. You got alot of players that will get you points in all cats; iggy, richards,getz, lecav. Some good def: markov.

[Creed Bratton]

Ovechkin

Heatley

J. Carter

Thornton

Gagne

H. Sedin

M. Green

Lidstrom

T. Thomas

Luongo

Burrows

Toews

[grabner26]

should i take tavaras in my hockey pool

[Andy Q]

I think I did pretty well. I picked 3rd overall in a 10 team league. Let me know what ya think.

1. Evgeni Malkin

2. Dany Heatley

3. Joe Thornton

4. Tim Thomas

5. Zdeno Chara

6. Steve Mason

7. Bobby Ryan

8. Marian Hossa

9. Jay Bouwmeester

10. Jonas Hiller

11. Erik Johnson

12. Paul Kariya

13. Milan Lucic

14. Mikko Koivu

15. Victor Hedman

16. Mikael Samuelsson

17. Matt Duchene

[c00kies]

What round was Cam Ward picked? Just curious (and yes I know you didn't pick him, lol)

[Andy Q]

Ward was the last pick of the third round. I have a total Isles homer in my league. He took Tavares with the number 10 overall pick. lol

[iPwn]

How heatley and thornton drop to 18 and 23 is beyond me