The Puck Stops Here

Today my fantasy hockey league had its annual draft. Plan A was to hold it during training camp of the NHL season but the NHL season never came. Its kind of a lull for fantasy hockey right now since there is no real hockey. And that is the case in our league too. Its hard to keep a bunch of GMs together with no games. That said we are doing pretty well.

Here is the draft:

round 1

01 ANAHEIM - absent
02 NY RANGERS - Alexander Ovechkin
03 NEW JERSEY - Evgeni Malkin
04 MONTREAL (via TORONTO) - Cam Barker
05 NY RANGERS (via NASHVILLE) - Lauri Tukonen
06 BOSTON (via DETROIT) - Rostislav Olesz
07 COLUMBUS - Marek Schwarz
08 BOSTON - Robbie Schremp
09 COLORADO - Al Montoya
10 SAN JOSE (via CALGARY) - Andrew Ladd
11 TORONTO (via MINNESOTA) - Vaclav Nedorest (St Louis)
12 MONTREAL (via DALLAS) - A J Thelen
13 CAROLINA - Drew Stafford
14 NEW JERSEY (via BUFFALO) - Blake Wheeler
15 TORONTO (via PITTSBURGH) - Brooks Orpik (Philadelphia)
16 TAMPA BAY - Antero Nittymaki (Detroit)
17 EDMONTON - Jan Hrdina (Vancouver)
18 NEW JERSEY (via LOS ANGELES) - Alexandre Picard
19 ATLANTA - Alexander Radulov
20 PITTSBURGH (via SAN JOSE) - Jussi Markkanen (Detroit)
21 TAMPA BAY (via ST LOUIS) - Josh Langfeld (Calgary)
22 FLORIDA - Johannes Salmonsson
23 DALLAS (via PHILADELPHIA) - absent
24 CALGARY (via NY ISLANDERS) - Chris Clark (Edmonton)
25 DETROIT (via PHOENIX)- Kiril Koltsov (Toronto)
26 OTTAWA - Radoslav Suchy (Tampa Bay)
27 CHICAGO - Ladislav Smid
28 MONTREAL - Timofei Shishkanov (Montreal)
29 TORONTO (via WASHINGTON) - Jonas Johansson (Anaheim)
30 VANCOUVER - Miroslav Zalesak (NY Islanders)

round 2

31 NASHVILLE (via NY RANGERS) - Lukas Kaspar
32 NEW JERSEY - Boris Valabik
33 NY ISLANDERS (via ANAHEIM) - Joe Corvo (Carolina)
34 PITTSBURGH (via TORONTO) - Brian Leetch (St Louis)
35 NASHVILLE - Brad Isbister (Carolina)
36 ST LOUIS (via DETROIT) - Andrej Mezaros
37 COLUMBUS - Alexei Semenov (NY Rangers)
38 COLORADO (via BOSTON) - Andy Hilbert (Montreal)
39 DETROIT (via COLORADO) - Sean Bergenheim (Anaheim)
40 SAN JOSE (via CALGARY) - Bryan Allen (Minesota)
41 ATLANTA (via MINNESOTA) - Travis Zajac
42 BOSTON (via DALLAS) - Henrik Lundqvist
43 CAROLINA - Wojtek Wolski
44 SAN JOSE (via BUFFALO) - Shaone Morrisonn (Vancouver)
45 NEW JERSEY (via PITTSBURGH) - Devan Dubnyk
46 TORONTO (via TAMPA BAY) - Petteri Nokelainen
47 EDMONTON - Jaroslav Spacek (Toronto)
48 CAROLINA (via LOS ANGELES) - Patrik Eaves (Boston)
49 ATLANTA - Noah Welch
50 CAROLINA (via SAN JOSE) - Dennis Wideman
51 CAROLINA (via ST LOUIS) - Loui Eriksson
52 FLORIDA - Ossi Vaannanen (Minnesota)
53 COLORADO (via PHILADELPHIA) - Mike Green
54 NY ISLANDERS - Shawn Belle
55 OTTAWA (via PHOENIX) - Anders Eriksson (Pittsburgh)
56 BOSTON (via OTTAWA) - Shea Weber
57 CHICAGO - Manny Malhotra (Florida)
58 ANAHEIM (via MONTREAL) - absent
59 NASHVILLE (via WASHINGTON) - Eric Boguneicki (Phoenix)
60 CAROLINA (via VANCOUVER) - Hugh Jessiman (Atlanta)

It is a combined waiver/entry draft. Those players who were waiver picks have their previous affiliation in the league shown in brackets after their name.

There are a couple franchises that could be made available to new GMs. If anyone actually reads this blog and thinks this league sounds like fun leave a comment and we might be able to set you up with a fantasy hockey franchise.