On the eve of the NHL 2009-10 season, Sportsnet’s hockey experts chime in with their own fantasy draft pool. Here’s how the draft shook down:
Scoring type: Head-to-Head (20 man roster)
Roster Positions
2 Centres
2 Left Wingers
2 Right Wingers
1 Forward
2 Utility Position (C,F,D)
2 Goaltenders
4 Bench Positions
Forwards/Defensemen Stat Categories: Goals (G), Assists (A), Plus/Minus (+/-), Powerplay Goals (PPG), Powerplay Assists (PPA), Shorthanded Points (SHP), Game-Winning Goals (GWG)
Goaltenders Stat Categories: Wins (W), Goals Against Average (GAA), Save Percentage (SV%), Shutouts (SHO)
Round 1
1 — Alexander Ovechkin (Daren Millard – Host)
2 — Sidney Crosby (Mike Brophy – Analyst)
3 — Evgeni Malkin (Garry Valk – Analyst)
4 — Ryan Getzlaf (John Shannon – Analyst)
5 — Pavel Datsyuk (Gord Stellick – Analyst)
6 — Roberto Luongo (RJ Broadhead – Host)
7 — Joe Thornton (Nick Kypreos – Analyst)
8 — Ilya Kovalchuk (Matt Marstrom – Producer)
9 — Jarome Iginla (Greg Buckley – Producer)
10 — Henrik Zetterberg (John Garrett – Analyst)
11 — Marc Savard (Doug MacLean – Analyst)
12 — Dany Heatley (Rob Faulds – Host)
13 — Martin Brodeur (Bill Watters – Analyst)
14 — Evgeni Nabokov (Eric Gagnon – Sportsnet.ca Fantasy Host)
Round 2
1 — Niklas Backstrom (Gagnon)
2 — Alexander Semin (Watters)
3 — Jason Spezza (Faulds)
4 — Zach Parise (MacLean)
5 — Nicklas Backstrom (Garrett)
6 — Rick Nash (Buckley)
7 — Corey Perry (Marstrom)
8 — Vincent Lecavalier (Kypreos)
9 — Miikka Kiprusoff (Broadhead)
10 — Mike Richards (Stellick)
11 — Marc-Andre Fleury (Shannon)
12 — Jeff Carter (Valk)
13 — Patrick Kane (Brophy)
14 — Mike Green (Millard)
Round 3
1 — Eric Staal (Millard)
2 — Michael Cammalleri (Brophy)
3 — Steve Mason (Valk)
4 — Henrik Lundqvist (Shannon)
5 — Marian Gaborik (Stellick)
6 — Jonathan Toews (Broadhead)
7 — Martin St. Louis (Kypreos)
8 — Cam Ward (Marstrom)
9 — Tim Thomas (Buckley)
10 — Daniel Sedin (Garrett)
11 — Chris Osgood (MacLean)
12 — Ryan Miller (Faulds)
13 — Marty Turco (Watters)
14 — Olli Jokinen (Gagnon)
Round 4
1 — Henrik Sedin (Gagnon)
2 — Simon Gagne (Watters)
3 — Thomas Vanek (Faulds)
4 — Semyon Varlamov (MacLean)
5 — Daniel Alfredsson (Garrett)
6 — Dion Phaneuf (Buckley)
7 — Johan Franzen (Marstrom)
8 — Ray Emery (Kypreos)
9 — Mikko Koivu (Broadhead)
10 — Nicklas Lidstrom (Stellick)
11 — Paul Stastny (Shannon)
12 — Bobby Ryan (Valk)
13 — Derek Roy (Brophy)
14 — Dan Boyle (Millard)
Round 5
1 — Patrick Marleau (Millard)
2 — Sergei Gonchar (Brophy)
3 — Brian Rafalski (Valk)
4 — Martin Havlat (Shannon)
5 — Anze Kopitar (Stellick)
6 — Patrick Sharp (Broadhead)
7 — Scott Niedermayer (Kypreos)
8 — Shane Doan (Marstrom)
9 — Cristobal Huet (Buckley)
10 — Patrik Elias (Garrett)
11 — Marian Hossa (MacLean)
12 — Tomas Vokoun (Faulds)
13 — Ales Hemsky (Watters)
14 — Alex Kovalev (Gagnon)
Round 6
1 — Devin Setoguchi (Gagnon)
2 — Jonas Hiller (Watters)
3 — Danny Briere (Faulds)
4 — Pekka Rinne (MacLean)
5 — Carey Price (Garrett)
6 — Brad Boyes (Buckley)
7 — Chris Mason (Marstrom)
8 — Nikolai Khabibulin (Kypreos)
9 — Mike Ribeiro (Broadhead)
10 — Jason Pominville (Stellick)
11 — Steven Stamkos (Shannon)
12 — Teemu Selanne (Valk)
13 — Mike Smith (Brophy)
14 — Joe Pavelski (Millard)
Round 7
1 — Travis Zajac (Millard)
2 — Pascal Leclaire (Brophy)
3 — Jean-Sebastien Giguere (Valk)
4 — Brenden Morrow (Shannon)
5 — Brian Campbell (Stellick)
6 — John Tavares (Broadhead)
7 — Alexander Frolov (Kypreos)
8 — David Krejci (Marstrom)
9 — Zdeno Chara (Buckley)
10 — Phil Kessel (Garrett)
11 — Jordan Staal (MacLean)
12 — Nathan Horton (Faulds)
13 — Andy McDonald (Watters)
14 — Chris Pronger (Gagnon)
Round 8
1 — Brad Richards (Gagnon)
2 — Alex Tanguay (Watters)
3 — Shea Weber (Faulds)
4 — Andrei Markov (MacLean)
5 — Dustin Brown (Garrett)
6 — Jason Arnott (Buckley)
7 — Jay Bouwmeester (Marstrom)
8 — Scott Gomez (Kypreos)
9 — Brian Gionta (Broadhead)
10 — Mark Streit (Stellick)
11 — Sheldon Souray (Shannon)
12 — Scott Hartnell (Valk)
13 — Kris Versteeg (Brophy)
14 — Ilya Bryzgalov (Millard)
Round 9
1 — Blake Wheeler (Millard)
2 — Dennis Wideman (Brophy)
3 — Derick Brassard (Valk)
4 — Bryan Little (Shannon)
5 — Jon Quick (Stellick)
6 — Sam Gagner (Broadhead)
7 — Ray Whitney (Kypreos)
8 — Michael Frolik (Marstrom)
9 — Claude Giroux (Buckley)
10 — Vesa Toskala (Garrett)
11 — Jason Blake (MacLean)
12 — Nikolai Zherdev (Faulds)
13 — Ryan Whitney (Watters)
14 — Milan Hejduk (Gagnon)
Round 10
1 — Milan Michalek (Gagnon)
2 — Nik Antropov (Watters)
3 — Joffrey Lupul (Faulds)
4 — Michael Ryder (MacLean)
5 — David Booth (Garrett)
6 — Chris Drury (Buckley)
7 — Slava Kozlov (Marstrom)
8 — J.P. Dumont (Kypreos)
9 — Chris Kunitz (Broadhead)
10 — Loui Eriksson (Stellick)
11 — Paul Kariya (Shannon)
12 — Kimmo Timonen (Valk)
13 — David Backes (Brophy)
14 — Jamie Langenbrunner (Millard)
Round 11
1 — Ryan Kesler (Millard)
2 — Patrice Bergeron (Brophy)
3 — Jonathan Cheechoo (Valk)
4 — Tim Connolly (Shannon)
5 — Stephen Weiss (Stellick)
6 — Tomas Kaberle (Broadhead)
7 — Lubomir Visnovsky (Kypreos)
8 — Ryan Smyth (Marstrom)
9 — Milan Lucic (Buckley)
10 — Todd White (Garrett)
11 — Kristian Huselius (MacLean)
12 — Mike Knuble (Faulds)
13 — Rob Blake (Watters)
14 — Daymond Langkow (Gagnon)
Round 12
1 — Ryane Clowe (Gagnon)
2 — Tuomo Ruutu (Watters)
3 — Patrick O’Sullivan (Faulds)
4 — Kris Letang (MacLean)
5 — Drew Stafford (Garrett)
6 — Niklas Kronwall (Buckley)
7 — Brent Burns (Marstrom)
8 — Pierre-Marc Bouchard (Kypreos)
9 — Shawn Horcoff (Broadhead)
10 — Brooks Laich (Stellick)
11 — Kyle Okposo (Shannon)
12 — Andrew Cogliano (Valk)
13 — Rick DiPietro (Brophy)
14 — Duncan Keith (Millard)
Round 13
1 — Valtteri Filppula (Millard)
2 — David Perron (Brophy)
3 — Ryan Callahan (Valk)
4 — Bryan McCabe (Shannon)
5 — Cory Stillman (Stellick)
6 — Steve Sullivan (Broadhead)
7 — Nikita Filatov (Kypreos)
8 — Matthew Lombardi (Marstrom)
9 — Alex Burrows (Buckley)
10 — Rene Bourque (Garrett)
11 — Wojtek Wolski (MacLean)
12 — Vaclav Prospal (Faulds)
13 — Matt Duchene (Watters)
14 — Radim Vrbata (Gagnon)
Round 14
1 — Marek Svatos (Gagnon)
2 — Zach Bogosian (Watters)
3 — Mathieu Schneider (Faulds)
4 — Cam Barker (MacLean)
5 — Kevin Bieksa (Garrett)
6 — Bill Guerin (Buckley)
7 — Dave Bolland (Marstrom)
8 — Jaroslav Spacek (Kypreos)
9 — Marek Zidlicky (Broadhead)
10 — Alexei Ponikarovsky (Stellick)
11 — Peter Mueller (Shannon)
12 — Filip Kuba (Valk)
13 — Brian Rolston (Brophy)
14 — Rod Brind’Amour (Millard)
Round 15
1 — Marc-Edouard Vlasic (Millard)
2 — Saku Koivu (Brophy)
3 — Daniel Cleary (Valk)
4 — Drew Doughty (Shannon)
5 — Andrei Kostitsyn (Stellick)
6 — Alexander Edler (Broadhead)
7 — Christian Ehrhoff (Kypreos)
8 — Justin Williams (Marstrom)
9 — Christopher Higgins (Buckley)
10 — Erik Cole (Garrett)
11 — Martin Erat (MacLean)
12 — Tomas Holmstrom (Faulds)
13 — Ryan Malone (Watters)
14 — Pavel Kubina (Gagnon)
Round 16
1 — Brendan Shanahan (Gagnon)
2 — Pavol Demitra (Watters)
3 — Joe Corvo (Faulds)
4 — Todd Bertuzzi (MacLean)
5 — Ryan Suter (Garrett)
6 — Matt Gilroy (Buckley)
7 — Francois Beauchemin (Marstrom)
8 — Tom Gilbert (Kypreos)
9 — Ales Kotalik (Broadhead)
10 — Keith Tkachuk (Stellick)
11 — Mikhail Grabovski (Shannon)
12 — Sean Avery (Valk)
13 — Craig Rivet (Brophy)
14 — Tomas Plekanec (Millard)
Round 17
1 — Jaroslav Halak (Millard)
2 — Fabian Brunnstrom (Brophy)
3 — Jose Theodore (Valk)
4 — Patrik Berglund (Shannon)
5 — Kari Lehtonen (Stellick)
6 — Craig Anderson (Broadhead)
7 — Mikael Samuelsson (Kypreos)
8 — Keith Ballard (Marstrom)
9 — Victor Hedman (Buckley)
10 — Andrew Ladd (Garrett)
11 — Alex Goligoski (MacLean)
12 — Kyle Turris (Faulds)
13 — Doug Weight (Watters)
14 — Erik Johnson (Gagnon)
Round 18
1 — Antoine Vermette (Gagnon)
2 — Martin Hanzal (Watters)
3 — Dustin Penner (Faulds)
4 — Brian Boucher (MacLean)
5 — Jonas Gustavsson (Garrett)
6 — Marco Sturm (Buckley)
7 — Brandon Dubinsky (Marstrom)
8 — Evander Kane (Kypreos)
9 — Rich Peverley (Broadhead)
10 — Oscar Moller (Stellick)
11 — John-Michael Liles (Shannon)
12 — Mike Fisher (Valk)
13 — Martin Biron (Brophy)
14 — David Moss (Millard)
Round 19
1 — Ty Conklin (Millard)
2 — Carlo Colaiacovo (Brophy)
3 — Andrej Meszaros (Valk)
4 — Jakub Voracek (Shannon)
5 — Jimmy Howard (Stellick)
6 — Kyle Wellwood (Broadhead)
7 — Ron Hainsey (Kypreos)
8 — Tuukka Rask (Marstrom)
9 — Mats Sundin (Buckley)
10 — Anton Babchuk (Garrett)
11 — Steve Ott (MacLean)
12 — Michael Nylander (Faulds)
13 — T.J. Oshie (Watters)
14 — Josh Harding (Gagnon)
Round 20
1 — Ed Jovanovski (Gagnon)
2 — Erik Ersberg (Watters)
3 — Chris Campoli (Faulds)
4 — Sergei Samsonov (MacLean)
5 — James Neal (Garrett)
6 — Mark Recchi (Buckley)
7 — James Sheppard (Marstrom)
8 — Mikkel Boedker (Kypreos)
9 — Petr Prucha (Broadhead)
10 — Paul Martin (Stellick)
11 — Niklas Hagman (Shannon)
12 — Josh Bailey (Valk)
13 — Mike Modano (Brophy)
14 — Matt Stajan (Millard)
