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Team Previews and Predictions Post Draft

Team Previews and Predictions Post Draft
 
Hey all, it’s that guy everyone hates, seed. Here’s a rundown of every team’s roster including a post draft analysis of the team, what their top line is as per their gm(jay and reap never answered so I guessed), and where I see them finishing in their respective division, conference, and the entire league.
 
 
Disclaimer: This article will examine what the team looks like after the draft, if any trades have been made since the end of the draft and this article being written it will not be mentioned because I did not know about it
 
Hope you enjoy the read, constructive criticism is always welcome, and if you think you can do better, prove it
 
Lets start with the east
 
Boston Bruins:
General Manager: Pistolpete7788
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
DodgesBlueShells
joeja15
Shaynestaa
 
Draft Results:
8 – iHyPeR_97
25 – You_mecca_me_sik
40 – TopGoalie613
54 – NowYoDead
72 – steezybabeh
89 – TheAppler
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster analysis:
Pete resigned 2 defenseman, Dodges and Shaynestaa, who are definitely not the best defenseman in the league, but they can play well enough that the offense can win some games. Pete picked hyper aka vezina aka shortsideallowed aka mcdavid in the first round and he’ll most likely be near the top of the league in scoring, especially with that 3 season ban in lg giving him more time for sp. Mecca was picked in the second and topgoalie in the third, both of these guys could contend for rookie of the year. Nowyodead is a sp veteran and is making his return after a few seasons of not being around, let’s see how he does on defense. Steezy looks like a depth acquisition but could turn some heads as a rookie aswell. Appler was picked to finish out the roster, and he’s always a fun guy to have around.
 
Top line:
LW – Pete
C – Hyper
RW – Mecca
LD – Dodges
RD – Shayne
G – TopGoalie
 
Prediction:
This team could make some strides and will most likely make the playoffs because 12/16 teams make it. In the playoffs, they’ll go as far as their defense takes them, which doesn’t look very far either. Topgoalie has some good potential and we’ve seen goalies carry teams through playoffs in the past (see last season Stanley cup final) but we’ll have to see how well he plays this season.
 
Patrick Division – 2nd
Eastern Conference – 5th
Entire League – 9th
 
 
Carolina Hurricanes:
General Manager: Diirty_Triix_13
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
CantTreadOnMe_
Freefaii
Mjvoell44
Mg2452
 
Draft Results:
9 – ACK-stonerboy
24 – scalz_yanks_24
55 – Jbturf69
87 – Soiceyboyz4
106 – Rugglestiltskin
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster analysis:
Triix did a great job acquiring mj and mg and resigning tread and free, that’s 5/6 top line already established before the draft. At 9th he picked stoner, and I expected him to pick someone registered as a goalie, but stoner is probably as good a goalie or better as most of the guys that were in the draft. In the second round he picked scalz, who could definitely challenge for a starting spot, and will most likely win one on defense. The next 3 picks were jbturf, soiceyboyz, and rugglestiltskin, who seem to be depth picks.
 
Top Line:
LW – Mjvoell
C – Tread(triix)
RW – Mg
LD – Triix(tread)
RD – Free
G – Stoner
 
Prediction:
This team will contend for the top spot in the east, that was established before the draft with the moves triix made. They will finish top in the Patrick division, and they are my early favorite to make it to the cup final from the east. Their top line is better than just about every team, their defense can shut down some of the best, and stoner is good enough to keep his team in games, although he shouldn’t face many high quality chances. Watch out for Carolina this season.
 
Patrick Division – 1st
Eastern Conference – 1st
Entire League – 2nd
 
 
Pittsburgh Penguins:
General Manager: Jayscott555
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
deadrising6669
TAR-Pit
tibod68
theevilmonkey123
 
Draft Results:
2 – Burst-NightOwl
31 – SNAKE_-_PLISSKIN
34 – DrWally
63 – Bigajd09
66 – puckzone
95 – Mathqc22
98 – kingilkillu
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Jay resigned some decent players, nobody that will contend for top scoring or any awards, but dead, tarpit, tibod, and monkey are all serviceable. He picked burstnightowl 2nd overall which for some reason seemed to surprise alot of people….. the guy is near or at the top of the scoring every season, he could have easily wen’t first. 2nd round he picked snakepliskin, who is one of the better dmen in the league, and apparently largely underrated aswell. Drwally, aj, puckzone, mathqc, and king are all guys that round out the roster, nothing very special about any of them, but they’re not terrible.
 
Top line:
LW – Burst
C – Jay
RW – Monkey
LD – Drwally
RD – Snake
G – Tibod
 
Prediction:
This team will fight with Boston for the 2nd spot in the Patrick division, and they’ll make the playoffs and probably play Boston in the first round. Whoever wins is up in the air, but this team is not good enough to beat Carolina. Burst will have to carry the offense and snake will have to carry the defense. Drwally had some mediocre stats in VG, and jay better hope those numbers don’t carry over into this league. Tibod can also win some games in net, but don’t expect him to carry the team throughout the playoffs.
 
Patrick Division – 3rd
Eastern Conference – 7th
Entire League – 13th
 
 
 
Tampa Bay Lightning:
General Manager: lxl-C-lxl
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
lxl-C-lxl
jamie14benn14
Budz_780
Grippinq
Holdfast308
Nocturnal_Turtle
Sullivanl93l
 
Draft Results:
22 – PEACEKEEPER500
118 – trickldik
139 – BALLZZDEEPINER
145 – Playmaker_x_7
146 – ThePoolMagician
 
Roster Analysis:
Mansel made a ridiculous amount of trades and resigns before the draft and wound up having 1 pick in the first 7 rounds, which he used on a goalie, even though he already had 2. Jamiebenn is overpriced and not good enough to live up to that 7 mil cap hit. Sullivan can play rd but is nothing to write home about. Their forwards are not looking good either, the only guy that doesn’t look bad is grippinq, but don’t expect him to do much when his team can’t do anything around him.They have 4 goalies….4, and that’s not including mansel, which is his best position.
 
Top Line:
LW – Magician
C – Mansel
RW – Grip
LD – Jamie
RD – Sullivan
G – Holdfast
 
Prediction:
Yikes, this team will most certainly finish last in their division, maybe the entire league. Not sure what mansel was thinking picking peacekeeper when he could have maybe picked a forward or dman to help his team. He traded away all his picks and literally couldn’t finish his roster in the draft, playmaker and magician were picked after the draft. Maybe he could trade one of his 4 goalies for a forward or defenseman, then this team will look a bit better.
 
Patrick Division – 4th
Eastern Conference – 8th
Entire League – 16th
 
 
 
New Jersey Devils:
General Manager: TrueLegend07
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
M_u_r_p_h_y_87
VinceT13
 
Draft Results:
5 – vish_b
28 – Nowelbaby
37 – GermanGretzky
60 – MAGIC_MIKEY1
69 – Kanefromcanada
86 – chicks-n-whips
92 – Way2goal
101 – iMC3dxx
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
True kept Murphy and traded for Vince, then drafted vish with the 5th overall pick, and he will most likely contend for roy. Nowel was picked in the 2nd and he’s a good dman to help carry the load on the backend. Not sure who germangretzky is, but true knows something. Magicmike, Kane, chicks, way, and ced round out the rest of the team, and they are all decent players.
 
Top Line:
LW – True
C – German
RW – Mike
LD – Nowel
RD – Vish
G – Vince
 
Prediction:
This is a tough looking division, all 4 teams can easily contend for the top spot in the Adams, if I had to pick a team to miss the playoffs, this might be it. The forward line looks shaky, and can true carry the oftense? Yea he can score but he doesn’t have redflag at c. Nowel is a good dman, but vish should be at center instead of rd, but this team has weak defensive players so vish might be stuck there. Vince didn’t register for goalie, and I don’t really know who he is. Chicksnwhips is the only goalie I see on the team, and he’s average at best. Put this team in the Patrick and they might finish second.
 
Adams Division – 4th
Eastern Conference – 6th
Entire League – 12th
 
 
 
Philadelphia Flyers:
General Manager: Cuban1616
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Iachoku
B-Wall919
ChiefTrout
 
Draft Results:
15 – HartySauce67
18 – Visualskillz10
47 – Quinzee
50 – Al_bundy128
79 – kevinhesspschamp
82 – FLINN_21-Xx21xX
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Cuban had some great resigns in choku, walle, and trout. He picked Harty in the 1st round who will probably play every game and be near the top in scoring. Visual in the starting goalie and is a top goalie in the league. Quinzee will challenge trout for that starting spot at RW, and probably win it. Bundy, kevin hess, and flin round out the roster.
 
Top Line:
LW – Harty
C – Walle
RW – Trout
LD – Cuban
RD – Choku
G – Visual
Prediction:
Playoff maker? Yes. Top in the division? Yes. They have all the pieces to make great strides throughout the season. Once again Cuban will have a top team in the league. They will have to deal with the other 3 teams in their division all being right behind them, but these guys will finish on top in the Adams. Carolina still wins the east though.
 
Adams Division – 1st
Eastern Conference – 2nd
Entire League – 5th
 
 
 
Toronto Maple Leafs:
General Manager: BiPolorBear1387
 
Pre-Draft Resigns and acquisitions:
Zredbeard
Goalieman92
 
Draft Results:
7 – Linde94
26 – u_1_2_b_me_
29 – monokuuu
36 – SMOKESHOWJOE
39 – robbeyy
58 – Dragonowlz801
71 – nemmiss74
90 – jielking
*Rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
The forwards on this team look great. Resigning redbeard, then getting linde, u12bme, and smoke makes this team probably one of the highest scoring in the league. Their question marks come in on defense. Monokuuu is a good rd, but robbeyy has struggled mightily in other leagues. Maybe goalieman can win that starting job on LD, he’s probably the better option anyway. Polor is a good goalie, so he may be able to make up for any defensive lapses.
 
Top Line:
LW – u12bme
C – Smoke
RW – Linde
LD – robbeyy
RD – Monokuuu
G – Polor
 
Prediction:
These guys make the playoffs, and probably play Washington in the first round. They won’t make it far though, eventually their defensive struggles will catch up to them and they will be ousted. If polor can improve that LD spot without taking away too much from the offense, remember he has zredbeard on the bench, watch out for Toronto.
 
Adams Division – 3rd
Eastern Conference – 4th
Entire League – 7th
 
 
 
Washington Capitals:
General Manager: shepard-88-
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Addybrant
francey2325
 
Draft Results:
6 – Ucantcme_kamakaz
11 – cornect57
23 – Phillysmvp
27 – Mrpenguin30
59 – Tik-tok-91
75 – Captain21canada
91 – CiNcHxUp
102 – Troublekid1999
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Shep had some good resigns in addy and francey. He then picked kamakaz in the first round, which is a bit early for a goalie, but still a good pick. Cornect was picked later in the first, and he will probably play every game at LW and be in the top 10 in scoring at the end of the season. Phillysmvp is a very underrated dman and has great numbers in other leagues. Mrpenguin is a good enough rookie to challenge for the calder, and tiktok, captaincanada, cinchup, and troublekid round out the rest of the roster. Trouble is a top 10 goalie in sp in my opinion, amazing how he didn’t get picked until the 7th round.
 
Top Line:
LW – Cornect
C – Addy
RW – Shep
LD – Phillys
RD – Francey
G – Kamikaz
 
Prediction:
These guys will probably be Philadelphia’s best challenger for top in the Adams division. Their forward line is solid, phillys and francey is a seriously underrated defense pairing, and kamikaz has the skills to win a vezina in this league. He also has mrpenguin who can slot in anywhere at forward, tiktok that can fill in for defense well, and trouble who can beat any team as a goalie. If you need a sleeper pick in the east, this is that team.
 
Adams Division – 2nd
Eastern Conference – 3rd
Entire League – 6th
 
 
 
Now on to the west
 
Anaheim Ducks:
General Manager: Reaper__2313
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
kidmon3y
Dougcbj
 
Draft Results:
14 – Tyler91seguin91
19 – M1keal
46 – WestSideHockey
51 – kc2917
78 – Mikester94
83 – digs387
110 – Castles720
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster analysis:
Reap resigned his usual guys, kid and doug, then went on to draft seguin in the first round, who went all the way down to 14th after leading the league in scoring last season. M1keal was picked early in the second, and him and Doug makes a good dpair. Westside looks to be their starting goalie, and kc, mikester, digs, and castles round out the rest of the roster.
 
Top Line:(had to guess this one)
LW – Seguin
C – Kid
RW – Reap
LD – Doug
RD – M1keal
G – Westside
 
Prediction:
This team will be in a battle all season long with Colorado for top in their division, in the end, they’ll probably win it. Reap is going to play every game as he usually does, so rip to anybody else that thought they would get a chance to play RW. They’ll get past the first round of the playoffs, but when that’s probably as far as they’ll go. Another thing to watch is how far westside will take them, and if he’ll even make it the entire season before quitting the league.
 
Norris Division – 1st
Western Conference – 2nd
Entire League – 3rd
 
 
Colorado avalanche:
General Manager: Eggman—1
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Etthan
Jhonny_Phonny
XIBIGMUMMYIX
AAli-21
 
Draft Results:
12 – Gui__20
32 – Sedinpower
33 – DeathClown27
65 – ILLUMINATI-NJ
96 – puckstopper3434
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Egg had a good looking team going into the draft, resigning etthan, Jhonny, and mummy and then trading for aali. His first round pick was gui, and with a 4 mil cap that is an absolute steal. Next was sedinpower, who even at 3-5 a week is one of the better centers on that draft board. Deathclown, illuminati, and puckstopper round out the rest of the roster.
 
Top Line:
LW – Gui
C – Sedin
RW – Aali
LD – Egg
RD – Mummy
G – Jhonny
 
Predictions:
Easily Anaheim’s biggest threat in the Norris. This team is solid from top to bottom. With  sedin’s games being limited, any of those other guys can slot into center, most likely aali and a rookie would play his rw spot, still solid. They’ll finish second, just because 2 teams can’t finish first in a division. Vegas will be their first round playoff matchup, and that should be a breeze for the avs. After the reseeding, if they play the winner of the smythe or Norris predicts how much further they will go. These guys can beat Anaheim in a best of 7 series, although it will be close.
 
Norris Division – 2nd
Western Conference – 3nd
Entire League – 4th
 
 
Vancouver Canucks:
General Manager: sportsgeek5
 
Pre-draft resigns and acquisitions:
Kinglyme89
Oduya_Like_That
 
Draft Results:
41 – FUQT
48 – beernpickles
56 – SgtVandoos
57 – bstieboydp
73 – Loyalty_Caper
88 – turdburgler169
105 – JRG173188
119 – Raja_Sandhu
120 – MPurch
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Not sure what sports was thinking trading a 1st and 2nd for kinglyme. He doesn’t have his usual tandem of true and redflag out there to play every game, true had to become a gm just to get away from him. In the draft he didn’t have a pick until the 3rd round, where he got FUQT, who is probably one of the better rookies in the draft, surprising he made it to the 3rd round. He also picked up beernpickles at the end of the 3rd, and he’s a decent defenseman. In the 4th he picked vandoos, so now sports doesn’t have to play goalie, and bstie, who will probably play center 3 games a week, so is there anyone else on this team good enough to play the other 6? No. Loyalty_caper is a good depth pick and can slot in at LW when somebody isn’t available. Turdburgler, jrg, raja, and mpurch round out the rest of the roster.
 
Top Line:
LW – FUQT
C – bstie
RW – King
LD – JRG
RD – beer
G – Vandoos
 
Prediction:
Not much good going on here, bsite and FUQT can be a solid pair at forward, but the defense is weak and vandoos won’t be able to make up for all their mistakes. This team will be last in their division, and probably last in the west. With no more true and redflag it seems sports didn’t know what to do and made some bad decisions with trades and then picks in the draft. They can fight with Tampa bay for the top pick in the draft next season, and that’s the best case scenario.
 
Norris Division – 4th
Western Conference – 8th
Entire League – 15th
 
 
 
Las Vegas Golden Knights:
General Manager: redconcept88
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
SA_Pliskin
RIGHT-POWER
rocketrasared
prodigytolegend
 
Draft results:
4 – rich2k8
30 – eXecuti0n80
62 – mudninja5555
67 – mikethenef
68 – ronniehexstall
94 – Randymarsh2012
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster analysis:
In his first season as gm, redconcept did an alright job building a roster. He resigned plisk, power, and rocket, then traded for prodigy. Not a bad start. He picked rich2k in the first round of the draft, and at 6 mil it’s a good deal for a guy that has won scoring titles in this league in the past. The next pick was execution, and this isn’t a bad pick, but there were much better guys available at the time. Mudninja is the backup to pliskin and red in net, mike, ronnie, and randy round out the rest of the golden knights roster.
 
Top Line:
LW – Rocket
C – Prodigy
RW – Rich
LD – Plisk
RD – Execution
G – Redconcept
 
Prediction:
These guys finish third, get out in the first round of the playoffs. Their forwards look good, and they are solid in net. The defense on the other hand, looks atrocious. Plisk is a goalie, not a dman. Execution has bad numbers in vg, and bad is a nice way of putting it. They’ll make the playoffs in the 3rd spot easily because vancouver will be so close to the bottom. Don’t expect them to contend for a top spot, because that’s a stupid expectation
 
Norris Division – 3rd
Western Conference – 6th
Entire League – 11th
 
 
 
 
Arizona Coyotes:
General Manager: FiVEpointOHHH
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Studword
Fishhure
Chalgi4ka
xTreeOfLife
Xx_at_ezzz_xx
 
Draft results:
13 – x_Jedi_x420
45 – TheMuffinnMann
77 – Barnickle_Sam
84 – New360Guy
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
Fivepoint did a great job keeping together the core of his team from their previous cup win. Stud, fish, chal, and tree are all good enough to help them win a cup again. Then he traded for ezz, and this guy will probably win the Norris this season. Their first round pick was Jedi, and he’ll probably be the rookie of the year. They didn’t have another pick until the third round, where they got muff, wow, what the hell was everything thinking letting muff fall all the way to the third round, a line of jedi-muff-fish is scary. Then they didn’t have a pick until the 5th and they got barnickle, where once again, what the hell was everyone thinking letting sam fall to the 5th round? New360guy rounds out the roster. Oh and they have probably one of the best goalies in the league in treeoflife.
 
Top Line:
LW – Jedi
C – Muff
RW – Fish
LD – Stud
RD – Ezz
G – Tree
 
Prediction:
Best team in the league right here, 1st in the smythe, 1st in the west, 1st in the league. They have no holes anywhere. If a forward isn’t available sam, 360guy, or firvepoint can slot in anywhere and they will still be awesome. If stud of ezz isn’t available, they have chal that can play a solid, shutdown defense. Tree is an awesome goalie, and if he isn’t available stud can hop in between the pipes and stop most of the pucks he sees. 2 cups in a row for these guys? I think so. There’s nobody in the division good enough to catch them, and they’ll probably be playing Carolina in the finals,  but that shouldn’t be a problem for them.
 
Smythe divison – 1st
Western Conference – 1st
Entire League – 1st
 
 
 
Los Angeles Kings:
General Manager: ttommyboiii
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
RickRage
 
Draft Results:
1 – redflag33
20 – GunzThe4th
21 – Bergysdeke
38 – IhockeygirlI
44 – PrimeTimePhresh
52 – PNCPark2k1
53 – SliyumShady
64 – pemm
70 – Arrowhunter14
 
Roster Analysis:
Tommy resigned rickrage and then traded for a bunch of picks. He picked redflag first overall, and there were definitely some better options, but redflag isn’t a bad pick. He then picked gunz and bergys and there’s his top d pair. Primetime and PNC are his starting goalies. He then has hockeygirl, sliyumshady, pemm, and arrowhunter to round out his roster. These guys don’t look fantastic on paper, but they can win games.
 
Top Line:
LW – Rickrage
C – Redflag
RW – Arrowhunter
LD – Gunz
RD – Bergys
G – PNC
 
Prediction:
These guys will fight with San Jose and St. Louis for 2nd and 3rd in the division, but it doesn’t matter because they aren’t good enough to beat Arizona. Their forwards are a bit suspect on the wings, and how will redflag do without true on his left flank? The defense is good but it’s nothing to write home about, and PNC is a good goalie, not great but good.  The playoffs won’t be nice to these guys either, they might sneak out of the 1st round and if they do they’ll probably get blown out of the second.
 
Smythe Divison – 3rd
Western Conference – 5th
Entire League – 10th
 
 
 
San Jose Sharks:
General Manager: Kozmo483264
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Full_melt707
 
Draft Results:
10 – Socotimmer13
16 – benner77
17 – Mclub326
35 – Breezy5457
42 – Notorious250
43 – Red_Pepsi98
49 – Dynasty1989
74 – Brodtshadow13
80 – Ushkilledya
81 – Royalty_Caper
*Rest of the draft was passed*
Roster Analysis:
Koz made a bunch of moves an got a lot of picks before the draft. He also traded for fullmelt, who is a good player that can put up big numbers. In the draft he picked socotimmer, who isn’t a bad defenseman but there were definitely better options at 10th overall. Benner and mclub were picked next, and that’s the starting center and right wing for kozmo. Breezy was taken in the 3rd round, and he’ll be the starting goalie for the Sharks. Notorious and Redpepsi were picked back-to-back next, and they’ll both be in the starting lineup. Dynasty, shadow, ush, and royaltycaper were picked next and they finish off the roster.
 
Top Line:
LW – Pepsi
C – Benner
RW – Club
LD – Soco
RD – Notorious
G – Breezy
 
Prediction:
These guys are another team that will fighting in the smythe to make those last 2 playoff spots. A lot of forward and defensive depth here, but not many outstanding names. This is a new look for kozmo’s team, no ransom or mx or stivii. These guys are in the same boat as los angeles, if they make it out of the 1st round, the 2nd round won’t be pretty, but they probably have a better chance of making it out of the 1st round. Don’t expect a presidents trophy or Stanley cup appearance from this kozmo team.
 
Smythe Divison – 2nd
Western Conference – 4th
Entire League – 8th
 
 
 
St. Louis Blues:
General Manager: EL_R_O_O_K_I_E
 
Pre-Draft resigns and acquisitions:
Deadant
navy_chief_2008
Ajax32123
bmarche2001
ciulla19
PghFANATIC
Seedoftavares
 
Draft Results:
3 – Noles2828
61 – Snach22
*rest of the draft was passed*
 
Roster Analysis:
El resigned a lot of the players from the abysmal team he had last season, not sure why he kept some of those guys. He also traded for seed(me) and ajax which looks to be their starting d pair. He has ciulla in net and bmarche is there as a backup. Deadant and pgh will be coming off the bench as resigns, but the more games they play the more game St. Louis will probably lose. Then in the draft he picked noles2828 win the 3rd overall pick, and noles has some great numbers in VG. He then didn’t have a pick until the 4th round where he picked a depth dman, snach. For some odd reason El decided to pass the rest of the draft, even though there will still some good names left on the board 2 or 3 rounds after he passed.
 
Top Line:
LW – Navy
C – El
RW – Noles
LD – Seed
RD – Ajax
G – Ciulla
 
Prediction:
If there was a team to finish last in the Smythe, this is it. Their defense is alright, but with seed and ajax not having the best availability, snach and somebody else will have to play a good amount of games on defense. The forwards are kind of suspect aswell, navy isn’t a top scorer in the league, El can play games at center, but don’t expect him to carry the load up from, and noles looks like he’ll have to do most of the scoring up front. They goaltending isn’t terrible, but it isn’t great either. Looks like another draft lottery season for El.
 
Smythe Division – 4th
Western Conference – 7th
Entire League – 14th
 
 
Division Standings:
 
Patrick Division:
1st – Carolina
2nd – Boston
3rd – Pittsburgh
4th – Tampa Bay
 
 
Adams Divison:
1st – Philadelphia
2nd – Washington
3rd – Toronto
4th – New Jersey
 
 
Norris Division:
1st – Anaheim
2nd – Colorado
3rd – Las Vegas
4th – Vancouver
 
 
Smythe Division:
1st – Arizona
2nd – San Jose
3rd – Los Angeles
4th – St. Louis
 
 
Conference Standings:
 
Eastern Conference:
1st – Carolina
2nd – Philadelphia
3rd – Washington
4th – Toronto
5th – Boston
6th – New Jersey
7th – Pittsburgh
8th – Tampa Bay
 
 
Western Conference:
1st – Arizona
2nd – Anaheim
3rd – Colorado
4th – San Jose
5th – Los Angeles
6th – Las Vegas
7th – St. Louis
8th – Vancouver
 
 
League Standings:
1st – Arizona
2nd – Carolina
3rd – Anaheim
4th – Colorado
5th – Philadelphia
6th – Washington
7th – Toronto
8th – San Jose
9th – Boston
10th – Los Angeles
11th – Las Vegas
12th – New Jersey
13th – Pittsburgh
14th – St. Louis
15th – Vancouver
16th – Tampa Bay
 
 
Thanks everyone for reading, if you think I could have done better, let me know. If you think you could do better, write your own article. If you think I made a mistake and your team is better, prove me wrong.
 
Thanks again,
seed �

Season 27 Breakdown

By SP Most Hated Fish
Hi guys its the most hated sp player minus seed!!!! Whelp since I didn’t make the cut for P/A I better just make up some more controversy for my home of SP
This is totally my opinion and regardless of what you say I’m right.
West Conference
Saint Louis blues
Offense – B-
Defense – C+
Goalie – B-
Although once again Rookie picks a guy I have never heard before I’m thinking third time is a charm. Navy chief is a well rounded forward back from the dead and his team doesn’t have 16 players again so only up from here. I just don’t see that big of improvements
7th in the west
LA Kings
Offense – C+
Defense – B-
Goalie -C
Cant say the moves were great from Tboy but handed a bad situation so I don’t expect that much. If hockeygirl does as well as the rookie showcase stats its a different story tho. For the most part mediocre players plus flag and tboy and not much depth at goalie.
6th in the West
Vegas Knights
Offense – B
Defense – C-
Goalie – C-
The dynamic duo are back again will it ever end? My perspective is the puck is going to be directed at rich at all times and after a week or two and teams realize that it will be in result of big ls… I don’t see a solid number 2 d man with plisk and the goaltending looks the weakest of all teams.
8th in the west
Vancouver Canucks
Offense – B
Defense – B
Goalie – C
This team is sneaky good if they can gel but most of the reason the look good is because bstieboy is on the roster one of the best defensive center but hes playing 3 games a week at the most. Raja is an ultimate utility guy should be a better team but the goaltending over here is really streaky with vando and sports.
5th in the West
Anaheim Ducks
Offensive – B
Defensive -A-
Goalie – C+
This team will do well like usual because the trap well and all forwards chase and come back. Their top D pairing is back again should help which play well together. Reaper and kid will do their damage but adding tyler91 the top scoring forward last year who was outed in the first round is more of a loss for them. Also Jatty the Hart and Vezina winner no longer there ….they will bend not break.
3rd in the West
San Jose Sharks
Offense B+
Defense B-
Goalie ?
Kozmo looks to be in the clear for another playoff run. He has a top 5 forward in Mclub and benner should a good match. Supposedly Koz is playing d though and I think that should frustrate his team and ultimately hell be back to middle sitting in net. Don’t know much about their first round pick but if it is anything like last draft they’ll be good through out the season.
4th West
Chicago”Arizona” Coyotes
Offense- B+
Defense- B+
Goalie- A
Defending champs are back and made it clear to get a more solidified starting lineup. Jedi is huge pick for the left side to open up the game and Muff coming back makes the departure of ACK a little less big. DID I FORGET TO MENTION xTREEOFFUCKINGLIFE . Solid 3 at D expect about the same in the regular season
2nd in the West
Colorado Avs
Offense – B+
Defense – A
Goalie – B+
This team definitely has my eye because the d pairings always makes the difference and they have 789097 sets of them but Eggman always does this to me, his teams always look great on paper and some how underachieves but I’m excited to see how it pans out
1st in the west
New jersey Devils
Offense B
Defense D+
Goaltending C+
In a draft that is mostly balanced this d is not. think they missed in the defense the top line can definitely score but can true do it without Flag?
8th in the east
Tampa Bay Lighting
Offense – C
Defense – C
Goalie – C
I believe the mediocrity on this team is real nothing caught my eye but then again nothing too bad either
7th in the East
Boston Bruins
Offense- B-
Defense- B-
Goalie – ?
Team is really not all that bad but they are putting the weight on a rookie goalie named topgoalie if he doesn’t live up to it they’ll be down here. plus with (vezina)(shortsideallowed)(iMCDAVID)or IHyper97 whatever his name is now you deserve to be predicted low for spending that much money on hiding your identity
6th in the East
Philly Flyers
Offense-B
Defense- B
Goalie -C
Cubano with another solid draft, I just have my doubts about the forwards playing well together I have been a line with all of them and all are very different. Also this Kevinhess guy got drafted so thanks a lot Cuban. All in all I think all five teams are really close and should be fun
3rd in the East
Toronto Maple Leafs
Offense B+
Defense B-
Goalie B
Think this is the most underrated top line in the league for sure red, U, Linde should really do damage. they’ll only care come playoff time so I know they’ll be lower in the standings
4th in the East
Pittsburgh Penguins
Offense B+
Defense B
Goalie B
Good fire power up front with my two favorite forwards to play with from sp jayscott and BustNightOwl yes I said bust and if dead plays d as well as he did last year they’ll be in good shape
2ndd in East
Washington capitals
Offense B
Defense B
Goalie B
I think they have good mix of players that can do a lot of things similar to my team last season its will have to where does everyone fit right another under the radar team here.
5th in the East
Carolina Hurricanes
Offense A-
Defense B
Goalie b-
Carolina is back as Eggman has the good looking team curse so does Trix can they maintain staying together? they have the most fire power in the league and a well constructed draft. Are they missing a goalie for the cup run?
1st in East

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Team Anaheim Wins!!!

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Team Anaheim Wins the SPNHL’s first ever Rookie Calder tournament.  2 games to 0 against team Washington.  Team organizer Reaper and original members consisting of Austin-_-Smash (7 GP 1 G 4 A), Xxzmrbardownxxz (5 GP 6 G 4 A), IhockeygirlI (13GP 18G 17A), Duckweed1989 (2GP 1G 2 A), Notorious250 (15GP 3G 15A), digs387 (4gp 13TK), JRG173188(1GP 2A) & Noles2828 (10GP 8G 12A).    Also added from eliminated teams during the semi finals are mudninja5555 (9GP 6W 3L 79 SV%), Rugglestiltskin (6GP 2G 5A) & Jbturf69 (14GP 7A 32H 30TK). Congratulations to them, we certainly hope you enjoyed the tourney.
 
Top FWD: Mrpenguin30 14GP 11G 25 A
Top DEF: scalz_yanks_24 11GP 3G 14A +15 53 TK
Top GOALIE: TopGoalie613 10 gp 5W 5L 79.43 SV%
Draft is this tues 8pm est.  Goodluck to all.  see you on the ice!

HIRED!!!

Voting has concluded and the community has spoken. Congratulations to our new Disciplinary committee and Players Association.
Head of PA: Kidmon3y
Member: Reaper
Member: Iachoku
This team will be your voice. When you have concerns or ideas you want brought up these are you people to speak with. you can bring an issue to any one of the three listed and they will discuss the concern as a team and vote to bring it up with the league.
Head of DC: Kozmo
Member: Diirty_Triix
Member: Bi-polor
This group is in charge of deciding if a player is breaking rules. They will be issuing the suspensions and Bans. Fear not they still have to have a case to warrant the punishments. Any and all punishments can be appealed.

Season 27 timeline.

GM selections between Dec 20th and 22nd.
Season registrations close Dec 22nd 8pm.
Re-signs due Dec 24th 8pm.
Calder cup (rookie games) TBD
Season 27 draft -Jan 2nd 8pm.
Season 27 puck drop -Jan 8th 9pm.

Help Wanted!!!!

Hello all you cool cats.   I am wanting to add a Players Association and a Disciplinary committee to the league.
if you have  a burning desire to help out around the house i encourage you to check out these job postings and let us all know you are down like a clown charlie brown!!  (dont judge).  Each position will be voted in so even if you do not have any desire to partake in a life altering SPNHL Career, then still check out the links to read and see who you have running for the very great chance to represent you!
http://spnhl.canadian-forum.com/t7860-spnhl-players-association#53396
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NYR a club where M lived – A Memoir

(Pliskin editorial note:) i almost didn’t post this one… but it was entertaining enough to warrant it. so again… read with the idea of humor in mind or your really not gonna wanna finish it..
 
FROM THE DYNASTY, TO THE REVERSE SWEEP
by Mclub.
Please remember while reading this that this is a work of satire with a pinch of frustration.
 
Wow talk about the biggest upset in SP history. I was planning on just covering the finals for the NYR in this write up but then I though why not just cover their entire season from day 1.
 
First lets talk about the making of this so called “NYR dynasty” that was full of cocky over confident players (Myself probably being on top of that list)  that choked in the finals harder than the GSW. Lets do this by going all the way back to the draft. The rangers used their #3 overall pick to draft Stiivii, (P.S Cuban stop pronouncing it wrong, Stiivii doesn’t like it, he wrote it like that because he sucks at English) many people were shocked by this move since he was a rookie, but for those who know him, Stiivii is arguably a top 10 dman on PS4 and has a very high profile on LG, he has one of the best offensive games and is very solid defensively…when he’s actually there, but that was the wrong draft choice we should taken GOAT tree-of-life at #3. The rangers then drafted mjvoel who is a great LW when he doesn’t miss his one timers after I feed him a perfect pass. And Mg who is another great RW and scored like 95% of NYR goals in the first 15 games of the season only to lose to Boston in game 1 and never playing again for some reason. He was going to play in the finals but rented some cheap ass motel with garbage internet.
Now let’s talk about the player the rangers already had on their roster that included another rookie known as Mxster-77 who is probably the most reliable defensemen I have ever played with, can shut down some of the best forwards in the game. He is the go to breakout guy when we play club against top clubs as he is able to carry the puck past blue-line to blue-line, but for some reason coughs it up at the first blue line when we play versus shitty teams. Ransom, the mastermind behind this dynasty, he is able to hold the puck forever in the offensive zone and find the open man for the 1timer, he also has one of the most effective wrap around’s i have seen. He was the top forward on the rangers and also played LD quite a bit.
On defence he thought he was Bobby Orr/Erik Karlson, holding on to the puck in the offensive zone last man back, looking for that one timer only to give the other team a breakaway 50% of the time. Kozmo was my favorite owner I ever played for in all the league teams ive been in. We fucked him over by putting him on LD in game 4 because we thought we were that good. But that wasn’t even the original plan, We planned to go Mx/Kozmo/Stivii   Ransom/Mclub(me)  Breezy. We played club with that line hours before the game with Tsibbs in net and it was so aids we decided to just go back to the original line-up, but Breezy refused to play anything but goalie and Kozmo got screwed over as he turned the puck over like 50 times and got walked by their RW like 17 times, but I will talk about that later on in this write up.
Time for the trades NYR made by becoming the worst dynasty of all time. They first did that by trading for Mclub326 (Me), who kinda team tampered his way to the NYR (Hehe..). Mclub thinks he can deke any dman in this league only to get 20+ turnovers a game while succeeding once. He dives every time he makes a beautiful pass to a teammate only for the teammate to miss the one-timer**Stiivii, Mj, Ransom**. And also tried doing the spin-o-rama wrap that he knows barely works in NHL 18 but tries it anyways and I’m pretty sure ransom hates every time I do it. They then got Voltage who has some of the sickest saucer passes I’ve seen and can undress some defensemen, the only time he turns it over is when ransom gives him a suicide pass.
Voltage also loves the penalty box as he probably took more penalties in the playoffs than the entire NYR did in the regular season. Finally the acquisition of Breezy, I never knew the islanders gm was the real life Peter Chiarrelli of the Edmonton Oilers. SeedforTavaras just sent his homeboy to the best team in the league because he knew his team wasn’t getting anywhere (Why cant I have friends like that Breezy). Breezy is another top dman on PS4, he has the offensive capabilities and turned into the Stiivii of the playoffs by averages something like 2.5 pts/game in playoffs on defense. He is a great player when he doesn’t go for dumb hits forcing me to cover for him all the time.
Now the playoffs, we all had hopes of going 12-0 in the playoffs but after we lost the first game we said fk it, and started having some fun. We beat Boston 4-1 and went over to the NJD, we went up 3-0 and were about to sweep the series until Stiivii said “Yo esti lets go enforcer tbnk” and me and ransom being the ideal guys go enforcer with stivii to have a full on enforcer line, that lost the first game of the series. We went back to the original lines in game 5 and won the series.
 
NOW THE FINALS
We absolutely destroyed the Chicago blackhawks in the first 3 games. Those games were easier than New Jersey and Boston combined. In all of those games the time on attack was like 9-12 min to 2-3 min. Then it was time for game 4. And they NYR being the cocky overconfident idiots they were thought it would be a good idea to make up a line that had Kozmo playing center. So Mx-Kozmo- Stivii fwds, and Ransom-Mclub on defense with Breezy in goalie. We forced Kozmo into doing it, even though he 100% denied it. That was the original plan along with everyone going on enforcer. But miraculously the NYR actually got on early for the first time to actually practice. We had the same line-up except the elite commentator, aka tsibbs was playing goalie, we played 1 game and soon realized that it wasn’t even going to be fun.
So we went to the original line-up with kozmo in net, but Breezy only brought his goalie equipment to the dressing room, so kozmo got screwed over once again and played LD. In my opinion we may not have dominated game 4 but we absolutely outplayed them, the game could have been 3-0 or 4-0 after the first but this unknown Tree-of-Life goalie comes out of nowhere and absolutely steals the fucking show, as the game went on it was 1-1 in the third with 5 minutes left and I made a beautiful spin pass to Stivii and he actually scored, If he didn’t I would’ve smashed my controller against the screen. So it was 2-1 and the blackhawks came back and tied it up a minute later. Then with 4 seconds left the blackhawks get a shot off on the goalie, and the elite Mclub pokes it into his own net… The NYR lose the game 4. For the rest of the series the Blackhawks Tree-of-Life shut down the door, and the blackhawks started trapping. The greatest strength of the NYR was the greatest weakness, and Chicago probably used it to their advantage without even knowing.
What is our biggest strength? The offence that every single one of our players are able to create, but what happens when that offence isn’t working because of GOAT tree-of-life. They all try to be the hero and start making selfish plays like trying to deke everyone and doing everything themselves. In game 7 this was the case, all of us got sick of each other because we were not able to get any past Tree-of-Life, the NYR were broken apart and we were not using each other, instead we tried to do everything ourselves and the team broke apart. Even though I would say we still outplayed the Blackhawks we somehow lost. *Why couldn’t you just cover the short side kozmo..* Fish and Hardy were great too but I don’t think they were the reason you guys won, Just my opinion. I THINK YOU GUYS WON BECAUSE OF THOSE ARIZONA JERSEYS WTF I swear their rigged, I was gonna choose them too in game 6 but ransom accidentally chose the wrong build and we had to restart everything… This write up is getting pretty long. I just wanna say congrats to the Arizona Coyotes, you guys played great and your Goalie single handedly broke the rangers apart…. With the #1 pick of S27 ________ drafts Tree-of-Life.
Player shoutouts/summaires:
Stiivii: The Rw On Rd/ The guy that cost me over 20 assists this season
Reaper   some other guy! (Pliskin Edit: ) : The guy who thought he was going to go 7 games with the NYR in the finals only to not even make the finals.
Kozmo: The guy who laughed at reaper some other guy! (Pliskin edit:) when he didn’t even make the finals only to lose against the same team after Choking harder in the finals than the 2016 GSW
Tsbibbs: The guy EA needs to replace with Eddie Olcheck
Tyler91seguin91: The guy who had a crazy regular season but couldn’t even do anything against Pittsburgh.
Mclub (Me): The troll that talks a lot and no one likes/ Gets 20+ turnovers every game
Seedoftavaras: The friend everyone wants to have/ The worst SP gm of all time
Cuban: The Dman who had more turnovers vs the Rangers than the # of words that come out of his mouth on his show. (Love your show btw).
SA_PLisskin: The Boss that could probably ban me in SP after this post  (Pliskin edit: Only because you spelt my name wrong…..)
ACK-STonerboy: The guy who changed the jerseys last second to the Arizona Coyotes after kozmo specifically told him to pick the Blackhawks
Tree-of-Life: The GOAT goalie that probably cost over 100$ in controller damages to the NYR.
Mxster: The shutdown dman that can only breakout vs elite teams, while turning it over against weaker teams.
Fishhure: The guy everyone on NYR hates
Ransom: The mastermind of the NYR dynasty that is probably going to get mad at me for this write up./ The guy who gives 5+ breakaways to other team while playing d.
Breezy: The guy that, if only agreed to play Def instead of Goalie in game 4 might actually have a cup.
Benner: The guy that Stiivii doesn’t like
Bi-polar: The guy that came on the show and said his defense was the reason to beat the leafs in the playoffs…only to allow an average of 7 goals a game in the next series.