With the 338th and their final pick in the CP All-Time Hockey Draft, StrayBullet selects, Nassau Colisseum. (Arena)
Capacity of about 16,000, an impeccable home record for the Islanders' dynasty years, Co-Host to Wrestlemania 2 and the primary venue for Jehovah's Witnesses to hold their District Convention -- A classic since 1972.
Sorry everyone. My computer crashed a week ago and i've been busy recovering shyte rather than logging in here.
It looks like I have a couple of picks to make. For my RW 4 pick, Team Marleau! Hammered! selects Marian Hossa.
I'll do the other one later after Pete's pub night.
For my last pick As Coach, and it is my team so I can do what I want (and this draft was too long). With the experience of watching hundreds of hockey games I pick myself as coach of the team. Why? Because it is my team so I'll coach it if I want.
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For my last pick As Coach, and it is my team so I can do what I want (and this draft was too long). With the experience of watching hundreds of hockey games I pick myself as coach of the team. Why? Because it is my team so I'll coach it if I want.
The draft is officially a farce now. I quit.
Thanks for everyone who participated. I learned alot about the older players and it was cool to see how the teams were put together. The draft was a bit too long (like it always is).
If you have picks left, feel free to finish up and I'll update the board at the end.
We'll see if we can think another shorter draft. All the other draft threads are going really well
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For my last pick As Coach, and it is my team so I can do what I want (and this draft was too long). With the experience of watching hundreds of hockey games I pick myself as coach of the team. Why? Because it is my team so I'll coach it if I want.
Cyclones pick their last player, C-4 Robert "Butch" Goring
Robert "Butch" Goring's 16 year career included time with Los Angeles and Boston, but he will best be remembered for helping the New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup four times in the early 1980s.
Drafted by Los Angeles in 1969, Goring was promoted from Springfield to the Kings during his first pro season. He was supposed to stay in Los Angeles the next year, but a serious case of mononucleosis forced him to miss much of the season and he spent the rest of the year in Springfield getting his health and his timing back. After that he became a steady but unspectacular regular with the Kings for nine years, averaging 30 goals a season though not getting much credit because he played on the remote West Coast.
In Los Angeles he developed into one of the most complete players in the league. An excellent penalty killer, he could also score goals with the best of them. He was good on faceoffs and was a team leader in the dressing room. His passing was first rate and he had a reputation for being one of the best shooters on breakaways. He also had an "iron man" streak, going 379 games without missing one to injury.
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A long time racehorse owner, Goring was famous for a helmet that he was given when he was 12 years old and continued to wear his entire professional career. He was also known for being one of the poorer dressers in the league, a fact confirmed by a robber. On a road trip with the Kings, a burglar sneaked into his hotel room and took everything that belonged to his roommate but left all of Goring's clothes hanging in the closet untouched.
After the 1977-78 season, he was offered a huge five-year, $1-million contract by the Edmonton Oilers, then still in the WHA. Although he turned that incredible offer down, he realized he wasn't under appreciated around the league, a fact verified at the trading deadline during the 1979-80 season. Just before midnight, Islanders general manager Bill Torrey acquired Goring for Billy Harris and Dave Lewis.
The trade was sheer genius and had exactly the desired effect for the New Yorkers. That same spring Goring helped the Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, and the next year he was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for being the outstanding player of those playoffs. In all, he won four championships in a row with the Islanders and filled just about every role imaginable on the team. After winning the Conn Smythe, Goring was named the team's player assistant coach. But this experience gave him his first taste of coaching responsibilities, and he savored every moment.
After being traded to Boston during the 1984-85 season, he knew he was near the end of his career, but he was determined to be a coach one day.
That opportunity came in 1985 when the Bruins hired him to replace Harry Sinden, who was filling in temporarily behind the bench after firing Gerry Cheevers. His dream job lasted only a year and a half. After being fired by Boston, he reported with full equipment to the Halifax Oilers, the AHL affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers, in the hope of reviving his playing career.
After just 10 uneventful games with Halifax, he retired from play for good and returned behing the bench, this time with the WHL's Spokane Chiefs.
Goring spent a little over a year with Spokane, before joining the Islanders AHL affiliate in Capital District for three seasons before heading to the IHL's Las Vegas Thunder in 1993-94. Goring's stay in Las Vegas lasted only one season, and shortly after was appointed head coach of the IHL's Denver/Utah Grizzlies. For five seasons Goring was behind the bench with the Islanders IHL affiliate before making a return to Long Island as head coach in 99-2000. Goring stint as head coach would last two seasons, before being replaced following his second season. In 2001-02, Goring was appointed head coach of the WCHL's Anchorage Aces and subsequently was replaced midseason.
I mean seriously!
Team Cylones recap:
Center-1: Stan Mikita (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 6x1st team, 2x2nd team, 2x Bying, Patrick, HHOF)
Center-2: Guy Carbonneau (3x Selke, and 2x runner-up)
Center-3: Bill Cowley (Art Ross, 2xHart, 4x1st team, 1x2nd team, HHOF)
Center-4: Butch Goring (Smythe, Masterton, Bying)
Right Wing-1: Teemu Selanne (Richard, Calder, Masterton, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Right Wing-2: Boom Boom Geoffrion (2xArt Ross, Hart, Calder, 1x1st team, 2x2nd team, HHOF)
Right Wing-3: Bill Cook (2xArt Ross, 2xGoals lead, 3x1st team, 1x2nd team, HHOF)
Right Wing-4: Reggie Leach (Conn Smythe, Goals lead, 2nd team, 2 records)
Left Wing-1: Bobby Hull (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 10x1st team, 2x2nd team, Patrick, HHOF)
Left Wing-2: Michel Goulet (3xBying, 3x1st team, 2x2nd team, HHOF)
Left Wing-3: John Leclair (2x +/- lead, 2x1st team, 3x2nd team)
Left Wing-4: Doug Bentley (Art Ross, 2x led in goals, 3x 1st team, 1x 2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-1: Dit Clapper (3x1st team, 3x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-2: Pierre Pilote (3xNorris, 5x1st team, 3x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-3: Mark Howe (3xNorris runner-up, 3x1st team, 1x +/- lead)
Defence-4: Earl Seibert (4x1st team, 6x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-5: Jacques Laperriere (Norris, Calder, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team, 1x +/- lead, HHOF)
Defence-6: Vladimir Konstantinov (Norris finalist, 1x2nd team, Soviet National Team Captain)
Goalie-1: Dominik Hasek (2xHart, 2xPearson, 6xVezina, 3xJennings, 5x1st team, 81 career shutouts (6th all-time)
Goalie-2: Tiny Thompson (4xVezina, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team, 81 career shutouts (6th all-time), HHOF)
Coach: Brian Kilrea (2 Memorial Cups, 5 Memorial Cup Finals, 33 years coaching, 1200+ wins, 6 coach of the year awards, HHOF)
Arena: Maple Leaf Gardens
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For my last pick As Coach, and it is my team so I can do what I want (and this draft was too long). With the experience of watching hundreds of hockey games I pick myself as coach of the team. Why? Because it is my team so I'll coach it if I want.
Epic fail
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Thanks for everyone who participated. I learned alot about the older players and it was cool to see how the teams were put together. The draft was a bit too long (like it always is).
If you have picks left, feel free to finish up and I'll update the board at the end.
We'll see if we can think another shorter draft. All the other draft threads are going really well
well thanks for starting this one anyways GS, was fun while it lasted, Ill fill in my last Dman pick later
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If this is it, then my Arena pick shouldn't matter...
So I'm picking the place my favourite player of all time learned the game.
From Brantford Minor Hockey Association:
In 1960, he married Phyllis Hawkin and began a family. Wayne was born in 1961, followed by daughter Kim and sons Keith, Glen and Brent. Wayne showed great interest in hockey almost from the cradle. His grandmother would become his first goalie. Walter spent many cold nights watching Wayne at neighborhood rinks and finally decided to put a rink in the backyard. It would become affectionately known as the "Wally Coliseum". Walter coached Wayne in his first year of hockey and decided that was enough! He went on to coach Jr. B in Waterford and was instrumental in the development of Doug Jarvis, Stan Jonathan and Jim Turkiewicz.
From Wiki:
Born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Gretzky honed his skills at a backyard rink and regularly played minor hockey at a level far above his peers. Despite his unimpressive stature, strength, and speed, Gretzky's intelligence and reading of the game were unrivaled. He was adept at dodging checks from opposing players, and he could consistently anticipate where the puck was going to be and execute the right move at the right time. Gretzky also became known for setting up behind the net, an area that was nicknamed "Gretzky's office" because of his skills there.
Well flippin' heck. Girly you've done a great job so thanks so much. Unfortunately real life got in the way for me a bit. I was WAY too busy at work and there was also a crackdown on internet usage so...... something had to give.
A little disappointing to see this draft end this way
esp. considering I really wanted to see how the last round was going to go, as it could have influenced my pick greatly
as such, I am going to go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off the board here with my final pick
this could be highly controversial, but there is no doubt that they are one of the best to dawn the maple leaf
From Belfast, Ireland Defence 6: Geraldine Heaney
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Arguably the best offensive blueliner in Canadian women's hockey history, Geraldine Heaney was a member of six World Championship-winning squads. In both 1992 and 1994 she was named the Best Defenseman at the Women's World Championship, an honour that she also garnered at the Pacific Rim Championships in 1996. In 2008 Heaney joined Cammi Granato and Angela James as the first women to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
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She is generally regarded as among the best female ice hockey players, being compared to Bobby Orr.
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