CP All-Time Hockey Draft - Draft Over - I quit.

[GirlySports]

Working on the pictures. These team sheets are going to look pretty weird when the pictures are all different sizes. Later on when more players are picked, I'll have to gauge it somehow. Any tips?

[RougeUnderoos]

3rd Round pick

Goalie Bernie Parent


1 Memorial Cup
2 Stanley Cups
2 Conn Smythe Trophies
2 Vezina Trophies

He had a strange career -- starting with Boston, going to Philadelphia then traded to Toronto then "jumping" to the WHA with a team in Miami that never played a game and moved to Philadelphia as the "Blazers". He wasn't paid by the Blazers so he bailed on that team and was "claimed" again by the Flyers in 1973 where he went lights out for a couple years, winning the Cups, Conn Smythe and Vezina trophies two years in a row.

His career was cut short in 1979 by a stick in the eye that went through one of the little eyeholes in the mask in the picture.

[habernac]

Stolen from Wiki:

In February,1979, Parent's career was cut short by a career ending eye injury in a game against the New York Rangers. An errant stick entered the right eye hole of his mask causing permanent damage to his vision. This incident led many NHL goalies to move away from the fibreglass facemask toward the cage and helmet style widely used today.

Parent was awesome. Lights out when he was on his game, which was most of the time.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by habernac

Stolen from Wiki:

In February,1979, Parent's career was cut short by a career ending eye injury in a game against the New York Rangers. An errant stick entered the right eye hole of his mask causing permanent damage to his vision. This incident led many NHL goalies to move away from the fibreglass facemask toward the cage and helmet style widely used today.

Parent was awesome. Lights out when he was on his game, which was most of the time.

Thanks. 1979 it was.

Funny thing about that paragraph is the "cage and helmet style widely used today" at the end. I wonder when it was written.



I'm not sure when Tony Esposito put that contraption on (I think he later went to just a grid cage over his eyes) but I'm sure it had something to do with Parent's injury.

Strange Factoid: Parent and Esposito shared the Vezina Trophy in 73-74. Near as I can tell, it is the only time two guys on different teams have been awarded that trophy. According to hockeydb, until 1981 it was awarded to the goalie(s) of the team that allowed the fewest goals in a season. Also according to that site, Parent allowed 136 that year while Esposito allowed 141.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

The problem with Tony Esposito was that he was a choker when it mattered the most and never really lead a team to the cup, he had the one championship with Montreal but when he was the #1 goaltender with Chicago, even though he had some great teams he always lost the big game.

Bernie Parent on the other hand was one of the best clutch goaltenders that the game has ever seen. Actually I can think of 5-10 goalies that I would take over Tony O who haven't been selected yet.

[cyclone3483]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

The problem with Tony Esposito was that he was a choker when it mattered the most and never really lead a team to the cup, he had the one championship with Montreal but when he was the #1 goaltender with Chicago, even though he had some great teams he always lost the big game.

Bernie Parent on the other hand was one of the best clutch goaltenders that the game has ever seen. Actually I can think of 5-10 goalies that I would take over Tony O who haven't been selected yet.

In the 1972 summit series, Espo and Dryden split the games, 4 each. It was Espo that had the winning record, the better save pct and better GAA. Those Chicago teams had some HOF players (Hull, Mikita), but they did not have the depth that many other teams had.

[cyclone3483]

it's been 11 hours...what was the time limit again? 12 or 15 hours?

[habernac]

15 hours.

fanin80, where are ya?

[StrayBullet]

If that is in fact 15 hours, I can make my pick.

[habernac]

1pm is 15 hours.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by habernac

15 hours.

fanin80, where are ya?

I'm up? It says CMP, Protto and Tiger...

Edit: Never mind, I guess I am... Pick coming up!

[FanIn80]

With our next pick, The Flying Elbows would like to round out our top line by selecting our #1 LW...

The man who gave us the elbowing penalty and the NHLPA (indirectly)... also the first man to finish first in goals, assists, points and PIMs... but, more importantly, the man who started one of the most beloved traditions in all of sports in skating around the rink with the Stanley Cup... from Renfrew, Ontario... "Terrible" Ted Lindsay!

Ted Lindsay: Someone once said no one in the NHL was a stranger to Ted Lindsay, only someone he hadn't fought yet. He was the most hated player of his generation, someone who felt his stick could be usefully employed as a hacksaw and ended up taking more than 700 stitches to his face during his career. But while he liked to rough it up, "Terrible Ted" was also a very skilled forward and a key reason the Detroit Red Wings won four Stanley Cups during his time there. Lindsay was only 5-feet-8 and weighed 163 pounds, but playing on what was called the "Production Line" with Gordie Howe and Sid Abel, he retired as the highest-scoring left wing in history. An eight-time All-Star, and the league's scoring champion in 1950, Lindsay was the first player to finish first in goals, assists, points and penalty minutes. Despite everything he accomplished on the ice, Lindsay's most noteworthy contribution was sowing the seeds for the first players association. Lindsay got a union organized in the late 1950s because he wanted answers about the players' pension funds, but it was crushed quickly by the owners and ended up getting the star player traded to the lowly Chicago Blackhawks in 1957. He spent three years in Chicago before mending fences and returning to Detroit for one final season in 1964-65.

Although small in stature compared to most players in the league, he was a fierce competitor who earned the nickname "Terrible Ted" for his toughness. His rough play caused the NHL to develop penalties for 'elbowing' and 'kneeing' to discourage hitting between players using the elbows and knees.

In the 1949-50 season, he won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer with 78 points and his team won the Stanley Cup. Over the next five years, he helped Detroit win three more championships and appeared with Howe on the cover of a March 1957 Sports Illustrated issue. Ted was the first player to lift the Cup and skate around the rink with it, starting a great tradition.

[cyclone3483]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

With our next pick, The Flying Elbows would like to round out our top line by selecting our #1 LW...

... "Terrible" Ted Lindsay!

nice pick...I mean, screw you

[StrayBullet]

With the 47th pick in the CP All-Time Draft, StrayBullet selects, Scott Stevens.



By no means was he a scorer, but he would punish and instill fear into the hearts of wingers throughout his career. With 3 Stanley Cups and 13 All-Star games, Stevens defined the 90's bruising defenseman.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

I'm up? It says CMP, Protto and Tiger...

Edit: Never mind, I guess I am... Pick coming up!

Sorry bout that!!!!!

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Sorry bout that!!!!!

It's ok! I should have been keeping up with the picks.


(I mean, stop slacking imo! )

[HalifaxDrunk]

With our next selection team Halifax Explosion is please to select.

Bobby Clarke


A talented playmaker, he had three 100-point seasons, twice led the league in assists, and played in eight NHL All-Star Games. He was also a great defensive player, a great checker, and one of the best in the face-off circle. One of the game's great leaders, Clarke was the captain of the notorious Broad Street Bullies during their heyday in the mid-1970s. The Bullies were a reflection of their captain, who had a tireless work ethic, a strong will to win, and a willingness to do anything it took to win even if it meant bending the rules. The latter, some say, is exemplified best by Clarke's infamous slash to the ankle of Valeri Kharlamov during the Summit Series in 1972, which is still the source of controversy to the present day.

Clarke retired following the 1983–84 season with 358 goals and 852 assists for a total of 1210 points in 1144 games

[HalifaxDrunk]

To follow-up Clarke the Halifax Explosion are happy to put in net:

William John "Battlin' Billy" Smith


(born December 12, 1950, in Perth, Ontario) was a professional ice hockey goaltender and is best known for winning four Stanley Cups and being the first goalie to be credited with a goal.

A First Team All-Star in 1982, and played in the All Star Game in 1981 and 1982. He won the Vezina Trophy in 1982 and the William M. Jennings Trophy for lowest goals allowed in 1983 (shared with Roland Melanson). He was chosen to play for Canada in the 1981 Canada Cup, but was unable to play due to an injury sustained in a pre-tournament game.

Smith's regular season success, however, was surpassed by his performances in the Playoffs, as he helped the Islanders win four straight Stanley Cups (1980-81-82-83), reach the finals five straight times (1980-84), and win a record 19 consecutive playoff series from 1980–84.
His single most famous game may be his 2–0 victory in the first game of the 1983 Stanley Cup finals against the Edmonton Oilers, shutting out the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Jari Kurri. The Islanders went on to sweep the Oilers in 4 games, with Smith allowing the Oilers only 6 goals and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player in the Playoffs. A year later, Smith broke the record for the most Playoff victories: he led all goaltenders in playoff victories in total and in every individual year between 1980 and 1984. Then in 1985, Smith led the Islanders to win 3 straight games after being down 0–2 to the Washington Capitals, the first time such a comeback occurred in the NHL. Smith's playoff success feeds into his reputation as the supreme "money" goalie, the person you would want in net with the season on the line. Teammates and observers have said that Smith seemed able to sense when he needed to be perfect to win and when he could give up five goals and still come away with the victory.

Smith was also the first NHL goaltender to be credited with scoring a goal. On November 28, 1979, in a game between the Islanders and the Colorado Rockies, the Rockies' goaltender left the ice for an extra skater after a delayed penalty was called on the Islanders. The puck deflected off the chest protector of the Islanders' Smith into the corner. Colorado rookie Rob Ramage picked up the puck and accidentally made a blind pass from the corner boards in the opposing zone to the blue line. Nobody was there to receive the pass, and so the puck sailed all the way down the length of the ice and into the Colorado net. Smith had been the last Islander to touch the puck, and was credited with a goal.

[habernac]

If I could go back in time and punch a player, Clarke would be my first choice.

[StrayBullet]

With the 50th choice in the CP All-Time Draft, StrayBullet selects, Chris Chelios.



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