the max

Don't make multi-player trades. Trade each guy as an individual asset. Especially goalies. Goalie trades can be hard to make.

Count me out big boy. I barely have the attention span for work and my real life, let alone a fantasy all-time draft. I honestly don't have time to sit here and ponder who the Bruins are going to take at 16. Chiarelli, Bradley and Smith are the guys to talk to about that.

Just played 3 Bruins games and 4 WannaB's games. I like that the defense improves based on your strategy in this game. When I first put Zherdev and Bergeron together, they would routinely each go for 3+ points each per game. Attack the middle of the ice, draw the D towards one of them as the other would creep towards the net, trade off and look for the quick one-timer or the goalie to flop and then flip in an easy goal. Now, I find that they're letting my defensemen be open at the points because with as much traffic in front of the net, there is no way for me to get the puck through it. They're both essentially being double-teamed and Krejci is single-teamed on the right wing. It's a great challenge to try to figure out a way past it rather than the usual EA defense of "sit back and get blown past." A player I drafted in my fourth year is currently playing in Providence. He has 49 goals in just 20 games. 6'7", skates like the wind, hits like a truck, I need to find a way to bring him up.

It's a donnybrook at the Fens.

I can usually fit around 3 games in an hour as well, no replays or time wasting shit like that. But I will play a lot on nights when the girlfriend is at work from 5-10 when she gets home. She goes to bed around 11 and I'm up until around 3 or so playing some more.

Every Boston Bruins game and probably 70 of Providence's games every season. I only play 5 minute periods though.

Had NHL 08 since it came out. In year 5 of dynasty on whatever the hardest thing is (Hall of fame? Something like that). Boston Bruins are about 90% draft picks, Providence consists entirely of draft picks and assorted undrafted nobodies. Currently at I think 14-2-1 with Boston, undefeated in Providence. Year 1: Snuck into the playoffs as the #7. Proceeded to beat #2 Pittsburgh, #1 Montreal and #4 Ottawa en route to the finals. Took #1 (President's winner) Detroit to 7 before Tim Thomas laid a fucking egg in game 7, letting in four on the first six shots of the game. I almost tied it late but Chara hit the post. Down in Providence, undefeated run to the Calder Cup. Year 2: Make a big splash trade before the draft, sending Kalus/1st/2nd to Columbus for Nikolai Zherdev to prop up the offense (finished 27th in the league in goals for) with Bergeron. Another big splash sends Axelsson/Alberts/3rd to San Jose for Steve Bernier. Top six was Zherdev-Bergeron-Bernier//Kessel-Savard-Sturm. Finished #4 in the conference, knocked out the #5 Rags, #1 Pittsburgh and #3 Ottawa to face the #7 Flames in the finals. Lost to them in six, Thomas again cracking in the final game. Providence wins Calder Cup, Bergeron wins Hart trophy, finishing with 160+ points. Year 3: Thomas is traded to someone for something. Signed Bryzgalov to do my goalieing. Finished #2 in the conference, Bergeron cracked 200 points, Zherdev broke Gretzky's single season goals record and finished with 98. Swept #7 Montreal, Swept #5 Philly, Had an epic 7 game series with #1 Pittsburgh. All seven games went into OT, Bergeron scored the winning goal on a shorthanded breakaway. Took on the Ducks in the finals. Won in six. Providence wins again. Bergeron for Hart and Pearson. Year 4: Midway through, Edmonton offers me a defenseman prospect and their 1st and 3rd picks for Bryzgalov and my 1st. I accept and move up my goalie from Providence (had a ridiculous, like, 1.15/.970 line in Providence), saving huge money. Also with Edmonton's pick I ended up picking at #2 and got a great scoring winger. Swept the playoffs, winning another Cup. Providence does the same. Year 5: Lost Bernier and Kessel to free agency, both have been ostensibly replaced by younger, cheaper players. Highest paid player is still Chara at 7.495 million, he's about to be traded by me to someone for picks. I need his salary cleared to lock up Zherdev and Bergeron.

It's honestly a crapshoot in the top ten and I think past Vancouver's pick, there's a big drop-off, meaning that there could be any sort of trade or any kind of euro player taken there.

Now I'm pulling out all the stops you motherfuckers. Too many of my sleepers have been taken, half my fucking sleeper list is gone. With my next pick, I select one of the greatest left-wingers ever. Sixteen 20 goal seasons with his career high of 51 coming at the age of 35. Retired as the highest scoring left-winger, to be surpassed by that fruit Luc Robataille. 1369 points came in over 1500 games, he's 21st all time in goals, 26th in assists. Hail to the fucking Chief. Johnny Bucyk. To add offense to my defensive minded team, the next pick totaled 1326 points over his 17 year career. He never won a Cup, never appeared in a Cup final and was never a first team all-star. But he played in a time where there were even better talents out there, leaving him to be overlooked and overshadowed. Still, one of the greatest finesse players ever: Gilbert Perrault.

Maybe shitty frozen waffles do. Real waffles certainly don't. Nigga, I made waffles. They're stingier than pancakes. I don't know what to tell you. Are you using a plastic fork to cut them or something?

You sonovabitch. I was seriously going to take him next.

It's Dany Heatley.

What a finish. Jesus.

Was Hawerchuk the guy you thought I would take?

Maybe shitty frozen waffles do. Real waffles certainly don't.

Pissed off that I missed the Tampa/Boston game for the Fish/Braves. Boooo.

Good picks Chris. Funny seeing Phaneuf go this early. Guy can barely play in his own zone.

Fuck. I was hoping Housley would get overlooked.

I'd have hired a GM first...

Tried that purple Mountain Dew last night. Better than the Revolution one, but that's not saying much. I'll try the Voltage one and probably just stick with my cola drinks after that.

With the, uh, whatever picks, the unnamed team is very proud to select: This player was often called the poor man's Bobby Orr. He finished in second behind Orr in the Norris voting four times, then finished second to Larry Robinson and Denis Potvin. Often overlooked, he was a very hard hitter, excellent positional defenseman, often letting the forward have his space and let the forward think he had gotten the better of him only for the forward to discover that he had no angle to shoot at. He was named the top defenseman on the ice in the famous 1972 Summit Series, which featured unbelievable defensive talent for both teams. He currently sits at 11th all-time in scoring by a defenseman, is a hall of fame player and one of the most overlooked two-way defensemen in NHL history. Of course I'm talking about: Brad Park. Defense. Playing it safe and going with defense, I'll pass on the many forwards I'd like to pick and go with goaltending depth. This goalie won two Conn Smythe trophies in back to back years, winning the Vezina in both years as well. He backstopped one of the most memorable teams in NHL history and still holds the record for most regulation regular season wins in NHL history. As much as it pains me to pick anyone from this team, I pick: Bernie Parent. Goalie.

Yeah, they really should've sat on their hands after witnessing something so pedestrian as a guy clubbing his 500th career homer. Marvin's just pissed because Red Sox fans treat Camden Yards as Fenway South.

Oates might be at the top of my list of underrated players of my lifetime. Loved him on the Bruins and I think I wept the day he was traded for those do-nothings Anson Carter, Jim Carey and Jason Allison. He was never drafted, signed as a free agent by the Detroit Red Wings.

Damnit damnit damnit. *crosses Oates off the list*

This is honestly the first part of the Finals I've watched. No rooting interest in either team really.