MHF - Hockey Thread

[Smitty-48]

Rasmus Sandin ! Let's go, baby !

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First NHL goal for Sandin.

Critical to being a perennial contender is getting elite players with later draft picks

29th overall pick Sandin panning out more like a 9th overall pick

Nick Robertson in Peterborough is another one; 2nd round pick playing like a 1st rounder

[Montegriffo]

I don't understand how the draft works.
Biggest chequebook gets the player over here.

[Smitty-48]

Jason Spezza ! $700K contract ftw

[Smitty-48]

I don't understand how the draft works.
Biggest chequebook gets the player over here.

The players are drafted in 7 rounds.

They are ranked by NHL Central Scouting, but teams can take them in any order.

You get 7 draft picks per year, rounds 1-7, you can keep them and take the pick, or trade the pick

The order for picks 16-31 is determined by the standings, worst picks first, best picks last

There is a lottery for the top 15 picks, the order is determined at random, with weighted odds

[Montegriffo]

I don't understand how the draft works.
Biggest chequebook gets the player over here.

The players are drafted in 7 rounds.

They are ranked by NHL Central Scouting, but teams can take them in any order.

You get 7 draft picks per year, rounds 1-7, you can keep them and take the pick, or trade the pick

So how do they decide what order the teams pick? Is it based on how they finish the previous season?

[Smitty-48]

Whatever happened to the Preds ?

They are making the Loafs look good here, Nashville has lost their mojo

[Smitty-48]

I don't understand how the draft works.
Biggest chequebook gets the player over here.

The players are drafted in 7 rounds.

They are ranked by NHL Central Scouting, but teams can take them in any order.

You get 7 draft picks per year, rounds 1-7, you can keep them and take the pick, or trade the pick

So how do they decide what order the teams pick? Is it based on how they finish the previous season?

It starts with where you finish in the standings, worst to first, but then there is a lottery for the worst 15 teams

The lottery is to discourage teams from tanking to get a high pick.

This is the lottery draft simulator, with the order of the teams as of right now.

If you click on 'Sim Lottery' it will simulate draft lotteries for you;

http://www.tankathon.com/nhl

[Smitty-48]

What a save by Fredo on Kyle Turris

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Sandin quarterbacking the second power play unit like a stud

Keefe had Tavares and Nylander out with Spezza, Sandin and Johnsson

Sandin launches another rocket from the point, almost scores again