The NHL all-time draft

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Kris Draper, RW

 

The leader of the best checking line of this generation.

 

With my forwards picked, this makes my lines:

 

Kariya - Nilsson - Bure

Zetterberg - Yzerman - Makarov

Shutt - Clarke - Hodge

Ramsay - Carbonneau - Draper

 

Chelios - Lapointe

White - Provonost

Reardon - Gonchar

 

Brodeur

????

 

Coach: ????

[the max 0]

Yesssss.

 

With the final pick of whatever round this is, The Excitable Boys are very happy to select this player. He had a dynamic season as a 23 year old, finishing with 100 points (including 21 power play goals). He became an important part of the Flyers in the 1970's as a penalty killer who could produce offensively. He led all scorers in the Flyers 1974 playoff run with a 13-9=22 line in only 17 games. The following year he supplied 20 points in 17 games as the Flyers repeated. He finished with 107 points in 114 playoff games. Through the following years he became a two-way star for the Flyers. He finished his career with 759 points in 846 games, about .9 ppg. He is 42nd all-time in shorthanded goals. Motherfuckers,

 

 

Rick Macleish. C.

 

For my coach, this guy seems like a worthy candidate. 413 wins, 3 Cups, has a trophy named after him. Only person who has his name on the Cup as a player, coach and GM. As a GM, he built a farm system that produced some guys named Howe, Lindsay, Sawchuk, Kelly, Abel and Delvecchio. He finished his GM career under scrutiny for union-busting and a controversial trade of Ted Lindsay to Chicago. Most of the core left after that and he was fired. Motherfuckers,

 

 

Jack Adams. Coach/GM.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

To coach the Champs Are Here, we select:

 

Pat Quinn

 

He isn't my general manager and I have no rookies on the team so he should do fine.

[JJ Johnson 0]

I was either gonna take this guy or Tanguay, and Tanguay went, so instead I present to you:

 

 

Milan Hejduk, W

 

2001 Stanley Cup Champion

2003 Maurice Richard Trophy (50 goals)

Second in games played for Colorado (701, behind Joe Sakic)

2003 Czech Golden Hockey Stick, given to the best Czech hockey player

1998 Olympic gold medal

2006 Olympic bronze medal

598 points in 701 games

[Smartly Pretty 0]

 

John Vanbiesbrouck

[treble 0]

 

Alex Kovalev

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I hate absolutely everything about that post.

 

The Holiday Inn commercials are off YouTube, he was my pick this round, and I don't even wanna think about how much work you had to do to find that picture.

[the max 0]

Not pictured I'm sure was the opposing player breathing on Kovalev.

[treble 0]

It's like the 5th picture of him if you do a Google image search. I wanted to use the picture of his head on a baby's body, but it didn't work.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

It's like the 5th picture of him if you do a Google image search. I wanted to use the picture of his head on a baby's body, but it didn't work.

 

Just because it was easy doesn't mean I have to like it.

 

The head on the baby was admittedly funny.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Closing out my forwards, I'll take Tony Amonte, RW.

 

Scored 30+ goals five times, and 40+ goals another three times.

Five time all star.

A Masshole, and a team can't ever have too many players from the Mighty Massachusetts.

 

[MFer 0]

 

Bill Barber

 

6-time NHL All-Star

1-time NHL All-Star 1st team

2-time NHL All-Star 2nd team

Scored at least 20 goals every season of his career (12 seasons)

Scored at least 30 goals 9 times

Scored at least 40 goals 5 times (including 50 in 1976)

 

 

[Gert T 0]

With my next pick, (I swear I will have a team name soon), Gert's team selects:

 

 

 

Barry Pederson/C

[Guest]

Last forward I'll take...

 

Esa Tikkanen.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

Two more spots left to fill. I know none of you are going to take my back up goaltender. I need a left wing.

 

I'll take LW Ryan Smyth.

 

[JJ Johnson 0]

Can I nominate Ryan Smyth for an F'n?

 

I'm going to win a Stanley Cup... *sniff*... and bring it back to Edmonton... *sob*... because that's where my heart is! *bursts into uncontrollable tears*

 

Apparently, his bank account is in Denver. Fuck a bunch of Ryan Smyth.

[Zetterberg is God 0]

 

Trevor Linden, C

 

375 goals

492 assists

867 points

Two time all star

Member of 1998 Canadian Olympic team

King Clancy Trophy winner, 1997

Named captain of Canucks at age 21

 

Decent enough for a fourth line center.

[Gert T 0]

Great pick.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I had six players on my forwards depth chart for this round (as mentioned, my defencemen isn't going to be picked, so he can wait): Bill Barber, Alex Kovalev, Ryan Smyth, Esa Tikanen, Trevor Linden. You sons of bitches.

 

Still, I'm happy with my selection, and a little surprised he wasn't going to be a Max or Nskie Diamond-in-the-Rough. Peter McNab.

 

 

 

[Smartly Pretty 0]

Can I nominate Ryan Smyth for an F'n?

 

I'm going to win a Stanley Cup... *sniff*... and bring it back to Edmonton... *sob*... because that's where my heart is! *bursts into uncontrollable tears*

 

Apparently, his bank account is in Denver. Fuck a bunch of Ryan Smyth.

 

Yeah, the first page should definitely say Ryan F'n Smyth.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

Never mind, I got the McNabs mixed up.

[the max 0]

How dare you deface my player by misspelling his name!?

 

Stefan Persson. That's the name. Not Steffan Perrson. Jerk.

[CanadianChris 0]

For my backup goalie, I'll go with two-time Vezina winner and five-time Cup winner (despite missing three years in his prime while serving in World War II), and #60 on The Hockey News list of the 100 greatest players:

 

 

Turk Broda, G

 

And now my coach...a great man and a true coaching legend in all levels of hockey, be it collegiate, international or professional:

 

 

Bob Johnson

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Good picks. Broda was going to be my goalie before I picked Luongo.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

So I get two picks now??

 

Geoff Sanderson

 

Scott Mellanby

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

So I get two picks now??

 

Geoff Sanderson

 

Scott Mellanby

 

 

I was looking at Mellanby for a while as my last forward.

 

I had yet another guy I hate pegged as my final defenceman (specifically on the heels of Manson being taken), but my karaoke efforts of Saturday night trumped him. I'll call in the Griffey rule for my pick, but he gives me what my snubee has to offer, minus a resume chock full of knee-on-knees.

 

He disappeared that summer, in 1951. He was on a fishing trip, in a plane. The last goal he ever scored, in overtime, won the Leafs the cup. They didn't win another, until 1962, the year he was discovered.

 

 

I don't like that I have a pair of Leafs as my sixth line, but character, grit, and toughness; it's not all bad.

 

[Zetterberg is God 0]

To fill out my fourth line, I'm going to take a guy with solid two way play and a knack for scoring clutch goals (including a Cup winner):

 

 

Bob Nystrom, RW

 

235 goals

278 assists

513 points

1248 PIM

Four Stanley Cup championships

All Star, 1977

[CanadianChris 0]

I had yet another guy I hate pegged as my final defenceman (specifically on the heels of Manson being taken), but my karaoke efforts of Saturday night trumped him. I'll call in the Griffey rule for my pick, but he gives me what my snubee has to offer, minus a resume chock full of knee-on-knees.

 

He disappeared that summer, in 1951. He was on a fishing trip, in a plane. The last goal he ever scored, in overtime, won the Leafs the cup. They didn't win another, until 1962, the year he was discovered.

 

 

I don't like that I have a pair of Leafs as my sixth line, but character, grit, and toughness; it's not all bad.

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer

He was on a fishing trip

The last goal he ever scored

Won the Leafs the cup

They didn't win another until 1962

The year he was discovered

 

I stole this from a hockey card

I kept tucked up under

 

My fifty mission cap

I worked it in

I worked it in

To look like that

It's my fifty mission cap

His fifty mission cap

I worked it in

I worked it in

I worked it in

To look like that

And I worked it in

To look like that

 

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

I am so sorry. I knew when this draft started that I would end the draft with him. The fact of the matter, he is one of those athletes that you just like even though he wasn't good all the time.

 

With that being said, the last pick for me is...

 

G Ronald Frederick Bradley (Ron) Tugnutt

 

 

 

[Guest]

With my last pick, I'll take Glen Wesley, the last player on the Canes to still be around from the Hartford days, until he retired after this season. I'm done!