Young Guns II

Alex and I will once again continue the Young Guns prospect draft. We are drafting:

6 9 forwards, 4 defensemen, 1 goaltender
Total of 22 young players with a birthday year no later than 1986 (24 yrs old max)
Contract status and/or cap hit will not be taken into account

The draft will take place live in the comments section for all readers to follow, so be sure to come out and provide your two cents as it happens. More details after the jump.

The intention of this exercise isn’t as a fantasy draft, it’s not the accumulation of points. We’re essentially carving the Leafs prospects into two sides and evaluating which of the two squads has more appeal.

Alex had first pick overall .. The following players have already been drafted from last night’s failed attempt. (Alex says his phone died .. in a bar .. with beer .. right.)

Alex Tran
Forwards – Kessel, Bozak, Kulemin

Defense – Gunnarson, Aulie

Goalie –

Kats
Forwards – Kadri, Versteeg, D’Amigo

Defense – Schenn

Goalie -

The following are all the remaining eligible players:

FORWARDS
Caputi, Luca
Carrick, Sam
Crescenzi, Andrew
Devane, Jamie
Greenop, Richard
Hanson, Christian
Irwin, Brayden
McKegg, Greg
Mitchell, Dale
Mueller, Marcel
Nicholls, Josh
Ross, Brad
Ryan, Ken
Slaney, Robert
Stefanovich, Mikhail

DEFENCE
Blacker, Jesse
Gunnarsson, Carl
Gysbers, Simon
Holzer, Korbinian
Lashoff, Matt
Smith, Barron

GOALTENDERS
Engelage, Andrew
Reimer, James
Rynnas, Jussi
Scrivens, Ben

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  • Lukey DeSchennion
  • Ensign

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    SicTransitGloria wrote:

    Ensign wrote:
    Dumb question…what is a Keeper League? I’ve done leagues for a few years now but never a keeper…
    you can keep a certain number of your players for another kick at the can next year

    I should of been in a league like that last year!!! I had Doughty, Ovetchkin, and Miller!!!

  • SicTransitGloria

    Ensign wrote:

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    dlb wrote:
    @ SicTransitGloria:
    our top line would be one of the best to come alone in decades… Parise-Richards-Kessel… We’d have a chance at a cup with that as our top line and our defense still intact from this year minus schenn and plus aulie/gyspers
    That is a nice line…could be up there with the St. Louis/Lecalvalier/Richards in its hey day

    even better… maybe… Parise is better than StLouis or lecavalier in their prime, but Kessel is probably around the same… hard to say if 2011 Richards is greater than 2003-4 Richards… he went down hill there for a while, but he seems to be back…

  • Ensign

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    SicTransitGloria wrote:

    even better… maybe… Parise is better than StLouis or lecavalier in their prime, but Kessel is probably around the same… hard to say if 2011 Richards is greater than 2003-4 Richards… he went down hill there for a while, but he seems to be back…

    Agreed that Parise on his own is better but the chemistry of that lineup was sickly good…. none of them have played as well since and I really believe it was a case of them being individually better when part of that unit.

  • SicTransitGloria

    Ensign wrote:

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    SicTransitGloria wrote:
    even better… maybe… Parise is better than StLouis or lecavalier in their prime, but Kessel is probably around the same… hard to say if 2011 Richards is greater than 2003-4 Richards… he went down hill there for a while, but he seems to be back…
    Agreed that Parise on his own is better but the chemistry of that lineup was sickly good…. none of them have played as well since and I really believe it was a case of them being individually better when part of that unit.

    Richard’s year last year was pretty impressive..

  • Ensign

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    Yup it was. I’d love for the Leafs to scoop him up…

  • Ensign

    I gotta say it:

    Hockeybuzz Headline: “Kaberle Trade Still Possible Before Deadline”

  • SicTransitGloria

    Ensign wrote:

    I gotta say it:
    Hockeybuzz Headline: “Kaberle Trade Still Possible Before Deadline”

    just ignore it… is it from that loser augello? guy wouldn’t know hockey analysis if it raped his mom

  • Ensign

    @ SicTransitGloria:
    SicTransitGloria wrote:

    Ensign wrote:
    I gotta say it:
    Hockeybuzz Headline: “Kaberle Trade Still Possible Before Deadline”
    just ignore it… is it from that loser augello? guy wouldn’t know hockey analysis if it raped his mom

    Haha I know but I’m leaving work soon so wanted to get all the Kabs rumor folks going to drive the rest of you nuts

  • Ensign

    Neal for Kabs straight up… and on that note I’m out

  • Snots

    When you got 63 dubs going to camp, it is hard to pick the starting team.
    Realistically, this are the finalists:

    FORWARDS
    Colby Armstrong, Tyler Bozak, Mike Brown, Luca Caputi, Jerry D’Amigo, Mikhail Grabovski, Christian Hanson, Nazem Kadri, Phil Kessel, Nikolai Kulemin, Clarke MacArthur, Greg McKegg, John Mitchell, Marcel Mueller, Colton Orr, Brad Ross, Fredrik Sjostrom, Kris Versteeg

    DEFENCEMEN
    Francois Beauchemin, Jeff Finger, Carl Gunnarsson, Tomas Kaberle, Mike Komisarek, Brett Lebda,Dion Phaneuf, Luke Schenn

    GOALTENDERS
    Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Jonas Gustavsson

    Don’t strike fear in anyone does it?

  • SicTransitGloria

    Snots wrote:

    When you got 63 dubs going to camp, it is hard to pick the starting team.
    Realistically, this are the finalists:
    FORWARDS
    Colby Armstrong, Tyler Bozak, Mike Brown, Luca Caputi, Jerry D’Amigo, Mikhail Grabovski, Christian Hanson, Nazem Kadri, Phil Kessel, Nikolai Kulemin, Clarke MacArthur, Greg McKegg, John Mitchell, Marcel Mueller, Colton Orr, Brad Ross, Fredrik Sjostrom, Kris Versteeg
    DEFENCEMEN
    Francois Beauchemin, Jeff Finger, Carl Gunnarsson, Tomas Kaberle, Mike Komisarek, Brett Lebda,Dion Phaneuf, Luke Schenn
    GOALTENDERS
    Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Jonas Gustavsson
    Don’t strike fear in anyone does it?

    maybe you’d like to cheer for another team then?

  • rpearce76

    If we get even half sensible goaltending (check) and can play a good defensive game (check) we have enough fire power to score some goals and keep us in a lot of games. We are not gunna take a president’s trophy with this roster, but godammit there is no reason we can’t hold our own in most games.

  • peterbleafs

    Snots wrote:

    When you got 63 dubs going to camp, it is hard to pick the starting team.
    Realistically, this are the finalists:
    FORWARDS
    Colby Armstrong, Tyler Bozak, Mike Brown, Luca Caputi, Jerry D’Amigo, Mikhail Grabovski, Christian Hanson, Nazem Kadri, Phil Kessel, Nikolai Kulemin, Clarke MacArthur, Greg McKegg, John Mitchell, Marcel Mueller, Colton Orr, Brad Ross, Fredrik Sjostrom, Kris Versteeg
    DEFENCEMEN
    Francois Beauchemin, Jeff Finger, Carl Gunnarsson, Tomas Kaberle, Mike Komisarek, Brett Lebda,Dion Phaneuf, Luke Schenn
    GOALTENDERS
    Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Jonas Gustavsson
    Don’t strike fear in anyone does it?

    Weird post. When I look at the list I see a pretty damn good team…highlight our top 6 players…Phaneuf, Kaberle, Giguerre, Kessel, Versteeg, Kadri…then compare it say with LA’s top 6 players. Doughty, Kopitar, Smyth, Brown, Simmonds, Johnson…….really not all that bad is it? In fact our top 6 players look damn good. How about New Jersey? Parise, Kovalchuk, Zajac, Elias, Brodeur, Langenbrunner…..again…ours looks pretty damn good.

  • peterbleafs

    What I like about the Leafs this year is that all four lines will have speed and the capability to play and play hard every shift…and when inevitable injuries set in we have another level of players who will step in and work just as hard. Last year when certain lines were on I knew I could go make a sandwich…nothing was going to happen!!!

  • flappypaddle

    New post is up………….

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