quick shot: hockey hopes
Another year, another hockey draft. I’ve played in this league before, so I’m familiar with the general level of competition, even though there was substantial turnover in the participating teams. Last season I had a very late pick and some savvy moves into a winning season. This year I pulled the first pick. I’ve experienced the first pick in baseball, which tends to skew my strategy, but since I don’t have an established routine in hockey drafts it didn’t throw me off as much.
The lay of the land is 6 forwards (2 centers, 4 wingers), 4 d-men, 1 goalie and 3 misc. slots to fill per day plus 4 bench players in reserve. I did fairly well with holding three goalies last season, so I aimed to pull down the same set up essentially as last year. The first pick was super easy, nabbing Ovie and with a couple of picks for Center I managed to get a little extra versatility with dual listed position players which could help.
LW Alex Ovechkin (Wash)
LW Michael Cammalleri (Mon)
LW Milan Lucic (Bos)
C/LW Patrick Marleau (SJ)
C Marcus Johansson (Wash)
C Matt Duchene (Col)
C Anze Kopitar (LA)
C/RW Claude Giroux (Phi)
RW Corey Perry (Ana)
RW Phil Kessle (RW)
D Johnathan Carlson (Wash)
D Keith Yandle (Pho)
D Christian Ehrhoff (Buf)
D Dustin Byfuglien (Win) *
D Brian Rafalski (Det)
D Tobias Enstrom (Win)
G Carey Price (Mon)
G Jimmy Howard (Det)
G Jonas Hiller (Ana)
* also is elegable as a forward, albeit it the actual position isn’t listed yet, so how I use him is going to be determined as the season progresses.
[...] we’re essentially a little more than half-way through the hockey fantasy season and my hockey hopes are coming true from the wisdom of some of my picks. This has played well in the points based league that has me [...]
quick shot: hockey have nots « doormouse’s declarations and personal attributions said this on 19 January 2012 at 9:16 pm |