nice pick, Jagger. I'm sad I never got to see him play, what I read about him is fantastic. The movie about him a couple of years ago is a must see for any hockey fan.
Alright by a little bit I meant twelve hours...anyways with the seventh overall pick, I would like to take Alexander Ovechkin in the position of eft wing.
What is there to say about the guy? He's an absolute force, and will be for years to come. He's the first player to win the Art Ross, Maurice 'Rocket' Richard, Lester B. Pearson and Hart Memorial trophies in the same season. He beat out Sidney Crosby for rookie of the year and has been a First Team All-Star every year he has been in the league. Among other things, he holds the record for most shots by a left winger in a season (446), and more importantly most goals (65), which is damn near incredible in the tight-checking game we have now.
Art Ross Trophy Winner 3 times (1960, 1962, & 1966) NHL First All-Star Team Left Wing 10 times (1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, & 1972) Stanley Cup Championship (1961) NHL Second All-Star Team Left Wing 2 times (1963 & 1971) Hart Memorial Trophy Winner 2 times (1965 & 1966) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Winner (1965) Lester Patrick Trophy Winner (1969)
Became third hockey player to appear on the cover of Time magazine WHA First All-Star Team 3 times (1973, 1974, & 1975) WHA Second All-Star Team 2 times (1976 & 1978) WHA Most Valuable Player 2 times (1973 & 1975) Avco Cup (WHA) Championships 3 times (1976, 1978, & 1979)
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983
Retired as the second leading goal scorer and ninth leading point scorer in NHL history (currently 12th and 43rd respectively).
Second in WHA history in goals, sixth in assists and third in points.
In 1998, he was ranked number 8 on The Hockey News'list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the highest-ranking left winger.
Upon playing his last playoff game in 1980, he and teammate Gordie Howe became the last active players that had played in the 1950s.
The Golden Jet popularized the curved stick, was the first player to score MORE than 50 goals in a season, led the league in goals 7 times, had a slapshot clocked at 118.3 mph (190.4 km/h) and could skate at 29.7 mph (47.8 km/h).
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With our first pick in the draft, Punks Puckers would like to select:
#33 Patrick Roy
Patrick Jacques Roy (pronounced [ʁwa]), (born October 5, 1965, in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada) is a retired ice hockey goaltender. Nicknamed "St. Patrick", Roy split his professional career between the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League, winning two Stanley Cup championships with each franchise. In 2004, Roy was selected as the greatest goaltender in NHL history by a panel of 41 writers, coupled with a simultaneous fan poll.[1] On November 13, 2006, Roy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.[2] He is the only player in NHL history to have won the Conn Smythe Trophy, the award given to the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup playoffs, three times. His number 33 is retired by both the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche.
Legacy
In 1989, 1990, and 1992 Roy won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender. He won the Jennings Trophy (fewest goals allowed) in 1987, 1988, 1989 (all shared with Brian Hayward), 1992, and 2002. He led the league in shutouts and goals against average twice, was named a First Team All-Star four times, a Second Team All-Star twice, and played in eleven All-Star games. Roy has also won a record three Conn Smythe Trophies as NHL Playoff MVP (1986, 1993, and 2001).
Among the many goaltending NHL records Roy holds are career wins (551), career games played (1029), career playoff wins (151), and career playoff games played (247).
It was a tough choice, but looking at who's been picked so far, how can you not take the greatest goalie of all time?
I completely had someone else in mind until seeing CM Punk's choice, so...
My team is glad to select the player the Flames took Trevor Kidd over...
Why would I take Brodeur over many others, especially the guy I was thinking of?
Patrick Roy has been deemed by many as the greatest goalie of all time. Goalie is a tough position to fill in hockey pools, fantasy hockey leagues, real life games, etc. So why not pick the guy who's going to break most, if not all of Roy's records?
Career Stats:
WINS:
Roy - 551
Brodeur - 554
GAA:
Roy - 2.53
Brodeur - 2.20
(Out of the top 10 goalies in wins, Broduer is tied for first in the GAA category)
SV%:
Roy - .910
Brodeur - .913
But one of the most amazing stats, a record that was believed to be untouchable 10 years ago, is that Brodeur is on pace to break Terry Sawchuk's shutout record some time in the next two seasons (if he can put together a full season).
SO:
Sawchuk - 103
Brodeur - 98
Roy - 66
(Next closest active goalie) Curtis Joseph - 51
Plus, Brodeur has scored more goals than Roy, with two to his credit.
#1 - .vs Montreal Canadiens, April 17, 1997 (playoffs)
#2 - .vs Philadelphia Flyers, Feb 15, 2000 (credited as last touched)
(Of the eleven goals scored by NHL goaltenders, six were shot into the opposing team's net by the goaltender.)
Hard not to take Brodeur at this point in the game.
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Milestones
Brodeur is the youngest goaltender in NHL history to reach the 300, 400 and 500 regular season win plateaus. His 300th victory came on December 15, 2001 with a 39-save shutout against the Ottawa Senators at the Corel Centre. His 400th victory was on March 23, 2004, at the Office Depot Center in Sunrise, Florida, as the Devils defeated the hometown Florida Panthers. Brodeur stopped twenty-one shots, and needed to work overtime to get the win. With the victory he also became the first goaltender to win 400 games playing every game for the same team.[2] He reached the 500 win plateau on November 17, 2007 against the Philadelphia Flyers, with a 6 to 2 win; Brodeur is second only to Patrick Roy who retired with 551 wins in regular season NHL games.
On December 23, 2007, he recorded his 95th career shutout by blanking the Calgary Flames 1-0 in overtime. The shutout places him second all-time to Terry Sawchuck (103 Shutouts), breaking a tie with George Hainsworth.
On March 15, 2008, he recorded his 40th win of the season giving him the most seasons with 40 wins, seven.
Records
In over 14 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Brodeur has acquired more than 30 franchise records, including most all-time, regular season and playoff wins, shutouts, games and minutes played by a goalie, shots faced, points by a goalie, losses, ties, and goals allowed as well as lowest goals-against-average and highest save percentage. He is also on several notable NHL records lists as listed below. Note: none of the below records include the current (2008-09) season and will be updated upon its completion.
Career
2nd place: Most wins (544)
2nd place: Most shutouts (98)
Most combined shutouts (118, both regular season and playoffs)
Most overtime wins (45)
Most consecutive 30-win seasons (12)
Most consecutive 35-win seasons (11)
Most 40-win seasons (7)
Only NHL goalie to score a game-winning goal
One of only two NHL goalies to score a goal in both the regular season and the playoffs
Regular season
Most wins in a single season (48, in 2006–07)
Most minutes played in a single season (4697, in 2006–07)
Playoffs
Most shutouts in a playoff (7, in 2002–03)
2nd place: 22 Shutouts
Most shutouts in a Stanley Cup final (3, in 2002–03)
3rd goaltender to win the Stanley Cup with a Game-7 shutout in 2002–03.
1st goaltender in history to have 3 shutouts in two different playoff series. (1995 against Boston in the Conference Quarterfinals, 2003 against Anaheim in the Stanley Cup final.)
Well the Beantown Bruins are proud to select with our first round selection my all time favorite player, Raymond Bourque
Raymond "Ray" Bourque (born December 28, 1960, in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a district of Montreal) is a retired professional ice hockey player and Hockey Hall of Famer who currently holds the records for most goals, assists and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League, and has become near-synonymous with the Boston Bruins franchise, for which he played 21 seasons. He also played for the Colorado Avalanche.
Bourque's prowess led him to become one of the most honored players in NHL history. During his career he was selected to thirteen First Team (the most in history) and six Second Team All-Star squads, second in total in league history only to Gordie Howe and most amongst defencemen. He won the Norris Trophy as the top defenceman in the league five times. Among his numerous other records and honors are the following:
Is seventh in all-time games played with 1612.
Is seventy-second in all-time goals scored with 410.
Retired second, and is currently fourth, in all-time assists with 1169.
Is ninth in all-time points scored with 1579.
Is first in all-time points scored by a defense with 1579.
Is first in all-time defense goals scored with 410.
The NHL career leader in shots on goal with 6206, nearly a thousand ahead of the second leading shooter, Marcel Dionne.
Is third in all-time cumulative plus-minus with 528, behind Larry Robinson and Bobby Orr.
Won the Norris Trophy in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1994.
Won the King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 1992.
Received the Lester Patrick Trophy in 2003.
Named a First Team All-Star in 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990–1994, 1996 and 2001.
Named a Second Team All-Star in 1981, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1995 and 1999.
Became only the sixth defenceman in NHL history to score 30 goals in a season, 1984
Became only the third defenceman in NHL history to reach the 1,000 NHL points milestone, 1992
Is the Bruins' all-time career leader in games played, assists and points; also ranks fourth in goals.
Registered his 1,528th point Oct. 25, 2000, vs. Nashville, to become the NHL's all-time leader among defencemen.
Registered his 1,137th assist Dec. 21, 2000 vs. L.A. Kings, for second place on the NHL's all-time assists list and first among defencemen.
Named to play in the All-Star Game for the 19th consecutive season, passing Wayne Gretzky for the league record, 2001
Was named the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Game in 1996.
Is third all-time in playoff assists and tenth all-time in playoff points.
In 1998, three years before the end of his career, he was ranked number 14 on The Hockey News' list of the one hundred greatest hockey players of all time.
GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1612 410 1169 1579 1141 214 41 139 180 171
And besides all that, he was playing in the first NHL game I ever went to and he was wearing a turtleneck. It was the Flames and Rangers at the Corral, a hotly contested match which saw the Flames edge the Rangers by a converted touchdown and a field goal. 11-1 was the final. Ron Duguay took a slapshot that deflected over the glass and over the head of every person in the building and punched a hole in the Sprite sign near the ceiling.
I was wearing one of those cotton "hockey shirts" for little boys that looked like a jersey and had a rubbery/felt crest sewn on the front. Anyone else ever have one of those things? I had a few.
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For our first pick in the All-Time Hockey Draft, The Flying Elbows would like to select our #1 Center...
From Cranbrook, British Columbia... Steve Yzerman!
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On January 2, 2007, the Red Wings retired Yzerman's jersey number, 19, before a game against the Anaheim Ducks. As an additional honor the captain's "C" was added to the corner of his banner to forever commemorate him as "The Captain". The official retirement ceremony was hosted by Yzerman's long-time friend, former NHL goalie and ESPN hockey analyst Darren Pang and featured such Red Wing luminaries as Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Alex Delvecchio (the three still-living Red Wings players to have their uniform numbers retired by the team), and Scotty Bowman. For the ceremony, the active Red Wings players wore Yzerman throwback jerseys representing the Red Wings, Team Canada (Canada won gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games), the Campbell Conference All-Star team and the Peterborough Petes. Former teammate Vladimir Konstantinov attended the ceremony, walking across the ice for the first time without a wheelchair since his last game in the 1997 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
On January 30, 2007, Hockey Canada named Yzerman the general manager of Team Canada for the 2007 IIHF World Championship in Moscow (April 27-May 13), where they beat Finland with a score of 4-2 on Sunday May 13th to win the Championship.
Yzerman is one of the most powerful figures in Red Wings history, and is considered a hero outside hockey as well. On January 2, 2007, Yzerman was presented the key to the city of Detroit by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at a luncheon prior to the jersey retirement ceremony. On January 13, 2007, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm (incidentally another Canadian-American) visited Detroit and the Joe Louis Arena and proclaimed the day as "Steve Yzerman Day” in the state of Michigan. On January 11, 2008, when the Red Wings visited Ottawa to play the Senators, Yzerman was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. Yzerman received another honor when he was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame on February 11, 2008.
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* NHL All-Star Roster - 1984, 1988 , 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000
* NHL First Team All-Star, Centre - 2000
* Lester B. Pearson Award - 1989
* Conn Smythe Trophy - 1998
* Frank J. Selke Trophy - 2000
* Stanley Cup Champion- 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008 (Executive)
* Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy - 2003
* Lester Patrick Trophy - 2006
* Sixth in NHL history in points, eighth in goals and seventh in assists
* First in Red Wings history in assists; second in points and goals; third in games played
* Number (19) retired with Detroit Red Wings - 2007
* Number (19) retired with Canadian Men's National Team - 2005
* Named Vice President of Detroit Red Wings - 2007
* Named General Manager of Team Canada - 2008
* Was Ranked #6 in The Hockey News The Top 60 Since 1967 - The Best Players of the Post Expansion Era
* Inducted into Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame - January 11, 2008
* Inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame February 11, 2008
* Inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame - 2008
