So the HFOil board has been pretty dead for a while now and we have had a lot of talk about having a mock draft but I haven't actually seen one posted officially. I know we started the last one May 1st in 2009. I figure we can use the same rules as before. A special thanks to Soli for the same format. I hope he doesn't mind as it worked very well last time. If you would like to be part of the show and a commish please contact me.
This is the Entry Draft for the draft class of '11.
The start of the Entry Draft will be May 13th. Trading will be allowed on May 12th till the end of the Draft.
30 GMs will each manage their own franchise through 5 rounds. Additional round will be added based on interest at the end of the 5th round.
Once assuming the GM position of a franchise, use your first post to setup your draft headquarters. Your Draft HQ will be linked to your franchise in the signup sheet, so it's fairly important. This post should be used to list your draft picks for the 2011 draft (and whom you draft with those picks as that information becomes available), your starting roster for 2012, trades you may have made, and your direction for the offseason.
Trades are allowed. The cap will be increased to 10% of the current cap, making the cap ceiling this offseason is 65.33 million. All trade will go through the Commissioners (DousedInOil) for cap approval. We will be using nhlnumbers.com/capgeek for our caphit reference.
Regarding UFAs and RFAs – You cannot sign a UFA or an RFA to a contract. In building your rosters for the upcoming season, you may use their last caphit as a marker for their share in your cap space. RFA's will have a 10% increase on their cap hit. At the end of the game, a jury of your peers will determine whether or not the UFAs on your roster are feasible and realistic based on their contract, your capspace, and general discretion. As it is, UFAs shouldn’t hold very much value in trades. Players can be placed on waivers. If they are it must be posted in this thread. Any teams that want to make a claim can either reply to the post in here OR send me a PM. The GM with the lowest standing who puts a claim in will get the player. Buyouts will not be permitted.
Familiarize yourself with your franchises draft picks that they may have acquired or may have moved in prior trades. A very good site for this can be found here. (Thanks to The Head Crusher!). If picks that you hold have built in conditions that are confusing or unclear or undetermined as of yet, post and we shall determine as a group.
Each GM on the clock will have 5 hours to make their draft selection. A freeze will occur from 1am to 6am. Thus is someone was on the board as of 11pm, they would have until 9am to make their selection. After time has elapsed, your pick will be made by your fellow GMs. Please PM the next GM in the draft order after you make your selection.
Any GM that misses two selections will be removed from their franchise. A new GM shall be assigned to the franchise.
The Draft Order is based upon the '10-'11 standings. 1 - 14 have been established and 15 - 30 will be determined through the playoffs till the beginning of the draft. Franchises that are still in the playoffs at the start of the game will be positioned by points in the regular season.
Enjoy your work GMs. If the Trade Deadline Game is any indication, all the participants should enjoy themselves thoroughly.
I will let a few posters take their respective teams before I select a team. I.E. whatever team is left that no one wants will be the team that I will select. This thread will be specifically for trading, talking to other GM's, selecting teams and discussing your teams rosters and HQ. We will have a seperate thread for the actual draft selections on May 24th. Give that their are 5 rounds with 30 selections in each round at 10 hours a peice that leaves us with a maximum total of 1500 hours or 62.5 days. Although their are only 45.5 days until the draft I expect that selections will be made much faster then this! If I missed anything please let me know! Here is a template:
*team*
*team*
GM: GM NAME
Contact via PM
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
Untouchable Players
List of Trades:
Chicago trades Ivan Vishnevskiy & Kyle Beach to Toronto for Nikolai Kulemin
Calgary trades Jarome Iginla & Curtis Glencross to Boston for the 9th Overall, 115th Overall, & Steven Kampfer
Dallas trades Stephan Robidas & Jamie Benn to Montreal for James Wisniewski, Yannick Weber, 17th overall, & 3rd round selection 2012
Calgary trades the 9th Overall to Minnesota for Brent Burns
Boston trades Micheal Ryder to Dallas for the 135th Overall pick
Dallas trades the 14th Overall, the 17th Overall pick & Scott Glennie to Minnesota for the 10th Overall and Pierre Marc-Bouchard
Nashville trades Shea Weber & Colin Wilson To Edmonton for the 1st Overall pick, Ales Hemsky and Liam Reddox
Boston trades Chris Kelly, Daniel Paille & Andrew Ference to Los Angeles for the 49th Overall & Nicolas Deslauriers
Florida trades Rostislav Olesz to Chicago for Brian Campbell
Carolina trades Brian Dumoulin to Dallas for Mark Fistric & Trevor Daley
Vancouver trades Alexander Edler, Kevin Bieksa, Mason Raymond, & Cody Hodgson To Calgary for Mark Giordano, Greg Nemisz, Rene Bourque &
the 104th Overall
Ottawa trades Brian Lee to Boston for Zach Hamill
Ottawa trades Milan Michalek, Bobby Butler & the 35th Overall to Colorado for Ryan O'Reilly & David Jones
Los Angeles trades Drew Doughty to Washington for Mike Green
Vancouver trades Daniel Sedin & Henrik Sedin to Florida for Erik Gudbranson, 3rd Overall Pick, & David Booth
Nashville trades Steve Sullivan to St.Louis for the 71st Overall & 84th Overall
Nashville trades JP Dumont, Kevin Klein & 111th Overall to Chicago for Chris Campoli & Rostislav Olesz
Chicago trades Marcus Kruger & 108th Overall to Vancouver for Manny Malhotra
Los Angeles trades Dustin Penner to Colorado for Jay McClemment & 92nd Overall
Washington trades Semyon Varlamov & Evgeny Kuznetzov to Calgary for Miikka Kiprusoff & Ryan Howse
Colorado trades Paul Stastny & Peter Budaj to Vancouver for the 30th Overall, Cory Schneider & Sergei Shirokov
Philadelphia trades Brendan Ranford & 114th Overall to Minnesota for Josh Harding
Carolina trades Tim Gleason & 72nd Overall to Minnesota for 17th Overall and 100th Overall
Dallas trades Mike Ribeiro & Niklas Grossman to Phoenix for Martin Hanzal & Rostislav Klesla
Nashville trades Francis Bouillon & Jerred Smithson to Edmonton for Colin Fraser & Kurtis Foster
Washington trades Jason Chimera to the Carolina Hurricanes for the 101st Overall, 102nd Overall & Justin Shugg
Buffalo trades Ryan Miller to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter & Scott Hartnell
Buffalo trades Jason Pominville & Mike Weber to Ottawa for Sergei Gonchar & Chris Niel
Calgary trades Olli Jokinen to Carolina for Bob Sanguinetti & 42nd Overall
Los Angeles trades Jonathan Bernier, Wayne Simmonds, Derek Forbort, Andrei Loktionov, & Thomas Hickey to Toronto for Luke Schenn,
Jerry D'Amigo, & the 99th overall pick
Colorado trades Joey Hishon & 30th Overall to Minnesota for the 14th Overall
Anaheim trades 22nd Overall, 82nd Overall, Jason Blake, & Sheldon Brookbank to Montreal for Mike Cammeleri & Jared Tinordi
Washington trades Alexander Semin & 119th Overall to San Jose for Ryane Clowe, Nick Petrecki, & 87th Overall
Los Angeles trades Jack Johnson to San Jose for Kent Huskins, Torrey Mitchell & 27th Overall
San Jose trades Dany Heatley, Scott Nichol, Jamal Mayers, & 117th to Los Angeles for Dustin Brown, Kyle Cliffard, & Brad Richardson
Los Angeles trades Scott Nichol to Boston for Anton Khudobin
Buffalo trades Paul Gaustad & Steven Shipley to Washington for Braden Holtby, Boyd Gordon & 102nd Overall
Calgary trades 13th Overall to Edmonton for 19th Overall and 31st Overall
Ottawa trades Chris Neil and Sergei Gonchar to Buffalo for Jason Pominville & Mike Webber
San Jose trades Patrick Marleau, Charlie Coyle, 58th Overall, & 1st Round in 2012 to New Jersey for Zach Parise
Nashville trades Joel Ward to Washington for Eric Fehr
Nashville trades Cal O'Reilly to Ottawa for Cody Bass & Ryan Potulny
Ottawa trades Jason Spezza & 66th Overall to Los Angeles for Anze Kopitar & Alec Martinez
Phoenix trades Nicklas Grossman to Buffalo for Brad Boyes
Last edited by DousedInOil: 05-21-2011 at 03:30 PM.
Sounds like you run a tight ship, DiD. If possible, I would like to join and represent the Florida Panthers.
You got it!! Haha don't want it to sound like a tight ship but from experience we tend to lose GM's in the later rounds. So its best that we have a 10 hour limit or else you can go on forever. Also having the draft 10 days after trading starts gives teams time to setup their draft order and do some research
And if I may make a suggestion, should we look at a sliding clock for the later rounds? ie Round 1, 10 hours, Round 2 8 hours, Round 3 6 hours, Round 4 4 hours, Round 5-7 2 hours? People would be encouraged to send lists then to other GMs they trust in order to make picks on time.
And if I may make a suggestion, should we look at a sliding clock for the later rounds? ie Round 1, 10 hours, Round 2 8 hours, Round 3 6 hours, Round 4 4 hours, Round 5-7 2 hours? People would be encouraged to send lists then to other GMs they trust in order to make picks on time.
Detroit is yours! Can't wait to see what steals you have up your sleeve Bugg. Also I'm up for having the time reduced as rounds go on but I have two concerns:
1. When the rounds switch their will be some confusion.
2. 4 hours and 2 hours are too low especially with people's sleeping schedules. I think 6-8 hours would be the miniumum amount of time for people to realize they are up. Having said that teams are encouraged to submit their lists prior to so that they don't miss their turn.
I don't mind at all. If you have any inquires or want to bounce ideas off me, I'd happily give whatever nuggets of wisdom I have.
I'll represent Boston.
Also... when I did this a couple years ago, the lull from when trading was opened to when the draft started proved to be too long (I think we had it at a week). I'd suggest the draft start 4 or 5 days after trading is allowed.
I don't mind at all. If you have any inquires or want to bounce ideas off me, I'd happily give whatever nuggets of wisdom I have.
I'll represent Boston.
Also... when I did this a couple years ago, the lull from when trading was opened to when the draft started proved to be too long (I think we had it at a week). I'd suggest the draft start 4 or 5 days after trading is allowed.
Thanks Soli! I figured the 24th was a memorable day but if things are looking up we could start earlier. Would you like to be commish again this year?
Thanks Soli! I figured the 24th was a memorable day but if things are looking up we could start earlier. Would you like to be commish again this year?
I'll pass, my next two months are going to get pretty hectic.
I'd suggest persuading a Mod to play and commish as well. Being able to edit posts makes thing much easier for posting transactions and keeping the draft board going. It was mostly verifying transactions that kept Ryan and I busy. If you can figure out how to segregate the work into equal halves so half of the field sends transactions to one commish and the other half sends it to the other commish, well my hats off to you. But you seem to be online enough that if you're game you can handle the majority of the workload yourself.
I'll pass, my next two months are going to get pretty hectic.
I'd suggest persuading a Mod to play and commish as well. Being able to edit posts makes thing much easier for posting transactions and keeping the draft board going. It was mostly verifying transactions that kept Ryan and I busy. If you can figure out how to segregate the work into equal halves so half of the field sends transactions to one commish and the other half sends it to the other commish, well my hats off to you. But you seem to be online enough that if you're game you can handle the majority of the workload yourself.
Thanks Soli!! Best of luck in the game. Any mods ready to participate?
<-- Credit goes to The Nemesis.
