Hockey Pool Year 4: Draft Result Part 1

Today marked the first day of October, which meant that in six days from today the National Hockey League season will officially begin. Today is also the second last day of preseason. Haha, about the only thing I don't really care about of hockey is preseason! In fact, I don't really want the Canucks to win in preseason because teams get nothing from it, even if they win.

Anyways, I've pretty much spend the entire day doing three things: finishing my Art History readings, play NHL 12 and watch hockey / yahoo fantasy draft. I sure did play NHL 12 the longest of all, but I think I ragged a bit too much. It sure is frustrating when you have teammates who can't seem to get things right, even if you kept trying to give them chance after chance!! Well, to be honest I have one great game, where my team won 10-1, I finished the game with 8 points, 2 goals and 6 assist. The rest of the way was just an absolute joke.

Anyways, for the preseason games, Vancouver beat the Oilers 4-1, this time with our full lineup! See, once we play our regular team, we just steamroll everybody else!! Cody Hodgson was spectacular today, scoring 2 goals! As for the Oilers' only goal, it should not even have counted. Do they expect goalies to make saves when getting knocked down by skaters? Certainly is possible but not very likely. Though the game didn't end, while the draft began.

As for the draft goes, stunning how Captain decided to miss the draft :( It's just not like him. I know he's not that crazy over it, but the draft shouldn't be something he should be attending. But anyways, it's over already. Here are my draft results:

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1. (5) Martin St. Louis (TB - RW)
2. (12) Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C,LW)
3. (21) Ryan Getzlaf (Anh - C)
4. (28) Patrick Marleau (SJ - C,LW)
5. (37) Claude Giroux (Phi - C,RW)
6. (44) David Backes (StL - RW)
7. (53) Antti Niemi (SJ - G)
8. (60) Milan Lucic (Bos - LW)
9. (69) Brenden Morrow (Dal - LW)
10. (76) Tyler Myers (Buf - D)
11. (85) Alex Pietrangelo (StL - D)
12. (92) Dwayne Roloson (TB - G)
13. (101) Derek Roy (Buf - C)
14. (108) Cam Fowler (Anh - D)
15. (117) Patrik Elias (NJ - LW)
16. (124) Logan Couture (SJ - C)
17. (133) Brian Gionta (Mon - RW)
18. (140) Drew Stafford (Buf - RW)
19. (149) Brooks Laich (Was - LW)
20. (156) Niklas Kronwall (Det - D)
21. (165) Craig Anderson (Ott - G)

Time for a little bit of rant. I got most of my players, however players such as, Cam Ward, Dustin Brown, Patrice Bergeron and Shane Doan were taken. Cam Ward was by far my most desired goalie, however due to that Antti Niemi was available for pick, I decided to pick him first, thinking that no one wants Cam Ward, but my friend also happened to pick him on the same round :( Yes, I am aware my goalies are my weakest link, but one thing I have to say is, I do not expect every game they play, to be complete shit. Back to my old philosophy, I win with average goalies. This will be another test!