Tagger 2,722 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 (edited) Overall # Up/Down Positional # Up/Down Name Position TPE VHLM Team Nationality Username 1 1 Ryan Kastelic D 364 OTT SVN Enorama 2 1 Julian Borwinn LW 327 LVA CAN Jubo07 3 Up 1 2 Up 1 Joseph McWolf D 303 OTT ENG McWolf 4 Down 1 3 Down 1 Tzuyu D 295 HFX TWN Tfong 5 1 Scott Shawinganen C 256 LVA CAN Cornflakers 6 1 Alexander Pepper G 253 LVA KOR sonnet 7 Up 1 1 Dan Wilinsky RW 238 OTT CAN Oilmandan 8 Down 1 4 Sidney Crosby D 227 LVA USA SidTheKid87 9 2 Jose Gonzalez LW 226 LVA USA Jose Gonzalez 10 Up 3 5 Mountain Thunderfist D 193 LVA ? AdamEss 11 Down 1 2 Cole Mertz G 192 HFX USA ColeMrtz211 12 2 Vaydar Odinsson RW 191 OTT NOR BOOM 13 Down 2 2 Anthony Dabarno C 180 HFX CAN LordTony 14 Up 4 6 Jesse Wilson D 173 OTT CAN monkeywrench15 15 Up 4 3 Up 1 Rylan Peace RW 172 HFX CAN Peace T16 3 Chace Trepanier LW 166 OTT CAN ChaceT T16 Up 6 4 Up 1 Jorgon Weyed RW 166 LVA JAM Joubo T18 Down 3 5 Down 2 Kisshan Shan RW 164 OSL RUS Kisshan T18 Up 2 3 Rhett Stoffiday G 164 YUK USA Pierogituxedo 20 Down 6 3 Chance Matthews C 157 OTT USA DaftRaincloud 21 Down 4 4 Nathan MacKinnon C 139 HFX CAN Bagelbitesisbae 22 Up 1 6 Joey Boucher RW 134 LVA CAN joeyboucher1 23 Down 3 4 Down 1 Tyler Smith G 133 HFX USA DrHexDex 24 Up 2 7 Up 1 Toby Fitzgerald D 127 HFX CAN JohnnyT_77 25 Up 2 7 Up 1 Wlodzimierz Zajaczkowski RW 123 SASK POL nicolas01 26 Down 2 8 Down 1 James Lombardi D 116 LVA ITA Nymets5 27 Down 2 8 Down 1 Nikita Flipachyev RW 114 HFX RUS Arayvenn 28 Up 3 4 Up 1 Randoms LW 105 OTT LVA hedgehog337 T29 Down 1 5 Down 1 Athanasios Andrianopoulos LW 80 YUK GRC 803 T29 Down 1 9 Jessy Thomas RW 80 LVA CAN jtww 31 Down 1 9 Burnt Toast D 76 SASK CAN Toast 32 6 King Gow LW 70 HFX USA eaglesfan036 33 10 Gregor Rasputinov D 68 OTT RUS Joobles 34 5 Theodore Gauthier C 61 YUK CAN Frank 35 7 Anderson LaVey LW 60 SASK USA Doomzday 36 5 Johannes Benoit G 59 CAN PremiumFunk T37 10 Anssi Koivuhaka RW 53 FIN Pelimies T37 11 Robert Renner D 53 OTT USA Tacocat 39 12 Juri Rykonen D 50 HFX FIN Rykonen 40 6 Fizz G 49 YUK CAN Fizzwidget 41 6 Chris F. C 48 SASK CAN ChrisF 42 7 Mike Lavalee C 47 YUK CAN CB204 43 11 Zhang Shou Tian RW 42 YUK CHN Shou Tian 44 12 Rzerk RW 40 OTT CAN Rzerk 45 13 Jesse Sublime D 35 YUK CAN Sublime T46 T8 Bilal Syed LW 34 SASK CAN CanucksHD T46 T8 Lars Tommernes LW 34 HFX ISR Flare T48 T10 Paris Papadakis LW 32 YUK CAN Rosco T48 T10 Vander Peng LW 32 USA Dijital Aaron Butcher LW 30 HFX USA devilsfan35 Adam Werynski C 30 USA KnucklePuckAdam Ajay Minhas D 30 CAN brownboy102 Alex Schmidt G 30 CAN Schmidt Andreas Bergkvist G 30 OSL USA Foehammer Andrew McDade D 30 USA DurdenBrandSoup Anton Jokelainen RW 30 FIN mjrv21 Beckett London D 30 USA bdlondon Bernard Bernardov D 30 RUS Rad Russian Bobby Larkin LW 30 OSL USA DickRobbins Chris Jonah G 30 CAN Jonah38 Conor Scott G 30 CAN ViIlains Craig Kost D 30 USA Tigerteeo Dana Piebird C 30 USA Dude David Lance D 30 CAN Nelson Donald J Wafer RW 30 USA DonaldJWafer Edwin Bergstrand C 30 SWE FuzzyLeeroy Ethan Sawatzky C 30 SASK CAN Greenert11 Finn Schaefer D 30 OSL GER SupaSta Frenchie French LW 30 CAN Galchenyuk_Is_God Frenezo D 30 USA Sook Harrison MacDuff RW 30 CAN Pauly51 Ho-Train RW 30 LVA ? Josh Ho-Train Hyuk-Kyu Kim RW 30 KOR Deft Ian Drake RW 30 LVA USA Claust J.P Desjardin RW 30 YUK CAN Mike_Houle Jace Stravinsky G 30 USA Scorpio James Wolf D 30 USA Ventsan Jeremy Myalls D 30 HFX CAN Sllaym Jerramy RW 30 CAN Jerramy Jesus Christ G 30 JPN KyleS56 Joe Bronie RW 30 USA colton14 Johnny RW 30 CAN RealJohny211 John McCan RW 30 CAN McCan John Robertson C 30 CAN JR0B13 Johnson Johnston RW 30 USA libbyfanaccount Justin Graves C 30 CAN Gravyncarrots Justin Recker RW 30 USA Reckasaur Keywi Miles C 30 CAN Keywi LW 30 CAN Kyle Desjardins G 30 SASK CAN Desjar Magnus Backlund D 30 SASK SWE T65 Marcus Ruggiero LW 30 YUK CAN Ruggiero10 Matt Hart LW 30 CAN mhart97 Max Hosafros LW 30 USA madmonstermax Nick Blagden RW 30 CAN Nick Blagden Nick Ward RW 30 YUK CAN SirRupertBarnes Potato G 30 HFX ? Potato Prescott Triomphe D 30 CAN PaintingItOrange Radovan Svejkovsky LW 30 YUK SVK UltraMick Rick Slambone D 30 CAN Drob127 Riku Rantala G 30 FIN RickRandles Rob RW 30 USA Flyershockey90 Russell Jerome D 30 CAN Russell Jerome Ryan Cruise D 30 USA Steve Razyn Ryan Dodds D 30 SASK USA RJHockey21 Sebastian Dietz G 30 USA Bazmandoo22 Steve DeMatteo C 30 USA Nyr1994 Steven Hovden RW 30 NOR Steveziedoesit Ted Thomas G 30 USA DBCrumpets Toshinaga Akutsu D 30 JPN toshimann Trjegen Pisz C 30 CZE JaacTree Victor G 30 YUK USA Zetna White Goodman RW 30 USA Tniz15 1 – Riga Reign Ryan Kastelic – D At this point, this pick seems pretty much set in stone. Kastelic has been at the top of the rankings for the last month and is a perfect fit for a Riga Reign team that not only could use a player like Kastelic right away (he immediately joins the team as their highest TPE defenseman) but also a team that really has no right to be picking in this position in the first place given the talent on their roster! I believe if I am not mistaken, the 364 pre-draft TPE accrued by Kastelic is a league record (believe the previous was Mason Richardson's 348 TPE back in Season 40), which given that Kastelic joined two weeks after the trade deadline, had no carry-over and potentially has an absurd amount of TPE to follow through his recent recruits, who knows what heights Kastelic can reach! 2 – New York Americans (From Helsinki Joseph McWolf – D It was a bit of a curious decision to see New York willing to give up their early second rounder in this very deep draft in order to move up one place in the first round given that any one of the top three players look like they'll be fantastic contributors to their future VHL franchise. However, I would be surprised if the VHL League Mock Draft suggesting Joseph McWolf would go 2nd overall to the Helsinki Titans just prior to the trade happening was not a coincidence. McWolf doesn't have the recruiting reach of Kastelic or Julian Borwinn, but he is a super-consistent max-cap-per-week player who will engage in all activities available to him and will be a great initial piece for the New York as they aim to start their rebuild properly this season. 3 – Helsinki Titans (From New York) Julian Borwinn - LW Going at number three here, Julian Borwinn has every chance of doing in the VHL what fellow third overall selection Michael Jordan did in the NBA. Accruing 327 TPE in the lead-up to this draft without any carryover whatsoever, Borwinn has bested the likes of Beketov, Victor and DollarAndADream with his pre-draft earning despite the fact that he had no carryover and joined two weeks after the trade deadline. Despite this, the League Mock Draft was undecided as to who would be third overall between Julian Borwinn and Tzuyu, despite the fact that Borwinn has earned over 100 TPE more over the course of this season. Yes, Helsinki need defensemen, but they certainly aren't full on forwards by any stretch and considering Borwinn is a one-of-a-kind talent (he's already only 2 TPE off of Dan Montgomery, the highest drafted first-gen in the last draft), you simply don't pass on that. 4 – Helsinki Titans (From Toronto) Tzuyu - D 5 – Toronto Legion (From Seattle) Dan Wilinsky - RW Devise isn't going to know what to do with himself with all these first round selections! This is an interesting selection dilemma as the Legion are looking a lot different now in comparison to what they were in my original mock drafts which presumed they would still have the likes of Sebastien Ironside, Robert Malenko and Jake Davis. I would have liked to have seen Devise make a player that wasn't a goalie to bring more debate into where the talented Alexander Pepper would be selected, but since he has created a goalie that will join the team automatically, it looks like it will be all skaters for the Legion, and they will get two very talented ones in Tzuyu and Dan Wilinsky. Tzuyu is not expected to be one of the highest per-week earners once he joins the VHL, but he's still a very consistent player and is still very much capable of creating a good player. Wilinsky is maybe the surprise pick here given that he's behind Shawinganen in TPE, however while Wilinsky has pretty much been locked in as a max-cap player since joining the VHLM Magazine, Shawinganen hasn't quite kept to that level recently, which works in favour of the former Lynx winger. (Edit: Was written when Toronto still had 4th Overall, given his earning capabilities, there's every chance Wilinsky could go as high as #4, but I think this will likely be Tzuyu) 6 – New York Americans (From Davos) Scott Shawinganen – C 7 – New York Americans (From Quebec City) Jose Gonzalez – LW This was a difficult one for me as, using the same logic as the Toronto picks, New York can really go anywhere outside of goalie as they currently only have one active forward (Roctrion King) and one active defenseman (the just-drafted McWolf). I think that given the current TPE gap over the rest of his competitors, Shawinganen is very likely to be one of the two even though he's had to submit welfare the last couple of weeks. When he's on form, Shawinganen is right up there with the top prospects in this draft, so hopefully once he finds a team and thus new content to potentially write about, Shawinganen will be able to return to that form post-draft. After that, it's a very close run thing between Jose Gonzalez and Sidney Crosby, both of whom are right up there when it comes to earning capped-TPE. I'm going to give the slight edge to Gonzalez, as he's more commonly committed to doing reviewing to make sure he reaches the 12, although both are very good selections here. 8 – Quebec City Meute (From Calgary) Sidney Crosby - D There are positives and negatives for whoever gets drafted to Quebec with this pick. The positive is that they'll immediately jump onto a championship-challenging team, an opportunity that any rookie would love to have, but with that come the negative that through the current strength of the team, the player's initial minutes may be low. Looking at Quebec's current roster, it seems like any player drafted here would be set up to play on the third line of their respective position (unless there was a good tactical reason for the player to move up the lines). I've got Sidney Crosby going here as, not only is he the highest TPE skater currently on the board, he's also at a position where Quebec are perhaps more likely to need help in the future. While Quebec have five forwards on their roster who have at least five VHL seasons remaining till forced retirement, 3/4 of their defensemen are in the latter half of their career. This would be a great story for Crosby, a player who went undrafted in his first VHLM Draft progressing to become a first rounder in the VHL Draft, a story that perhaps would be the first of it's kind. 9 – Seattle Bears (From Helsinki) Jesse Wilson - D At this point, we're dealing with players who would likely be playing another season in the VHLM unless called upon. Seattle are in a position where, while they do have two full lines of forwards (providing Shephard resigns), both Shephard and McAllister will be retiring at the end of the season, which would mean that if Seattle were looking at this selection with future seasons in mind, position may not play that much of a factor. I was considering Odinsson here, but (unless I'm misremembering) I seem to recall there being an incident involving Boom and Seattle not too long ago (something about Boom not wanting to be traded to Seattle but still being traded there rings a bell), and since I'm not sure if that's a resolved issue, I'll go with Jesse Wilson, who will lead the second defensive line for the Bears in the future. Wilson joined very late in the process, but has surged up the rankings into the top 15, which is an impressive feat in itself given that I believe as a result, he missed out on the 10th Anniversary awards. 10 – Helsinki Titans (From New York) Vaydar Odinsson - RW 11 – Helsinki Titans (From Toronto) Alexander Pepper - G Odinsson might fall down the TPE pecking order slightly following this draft due to out-of-league commitments, but he's proven over the course of this season that he is a very talented TPE earner, and once he returns, he will help cement Helsinki's forward line as the one to look out for in the future. I could have had Helsinki pick Pepper a couple of picks later given that Riga (the next team selecting) don't need a goalie, but I think just to play it safe in case Davos were to try to leapfrog ahead of Helsinki to select Pepper, they'll select Pepper here. Like I mentioned in all the previous mock drafts, Pepper is not a player that warrants a second round selection as given different scenarios, he would easily have been a first round selection and, depending on what other trades happen during the draft may very well be the case. 12 - Riga Reign Rylan Peace - RW Heading into the season after this one, the Reign will have five active forwards and four active defensemen, so they go to Peace here to hopefully give themselves two full lines of active forwards. Peace, like Wilson, has been super active since joining the league late on and, based on that, could very well challenge for a higher selection. (At this point in writing, I was alerted that the Draft may be starting an hour earlier than I expected, so apologies for the shorter explanations, just wanted to get it out before the draft) 13 – Helsinki Titans (From Seattle) Mountain Thunderfist - D Thunderfist is a similar case to Oleksiy Revchenko and Karl Von Moltke in last years draft in that while he's not someone challenging the 12 TPE cap, he's very consistent in doing the activities that he does, however he does commit to more activities than those previously mentioned, which makes him a good mid-2nd round selection! 14 – HC Davos Dynamo Cole Mertz – G It's difficult to get a gauge on what exactly the Dynamo plan on doing this season given that they traded McAllister and a lot of their forwards are apparently in Free Agency. Either way, I don't think it's likely they compete past this season even if they do go for it, so they pick Cole Mertz here to be the future replacement for Shawn Brodeur. 15 – Quebec City Meute Jorgon Weyed – RW The Meute would have liked this selection to have been a center given that Sergei Komarov is retiring at the end of this season (and isn't even certain to be on the roster this coming season at the minute), but neither Anthony Dabarno nor Nathan MacKinnon have been on the site this month and Chance Matthews hasn't been earning TPE as effectively as he did at the start of his career. Therefore, Quebec take Weyed. It's tight between him and Kisshan Shan, but I think recently Weyed has shown more earning potential than Shan. 16 – Riga Reign (From Calgary) Anthony Dabarno - C Given that they'll have two full lines of active players, the Reign can afford to take a risk here. While Dabarno hasn't been on the site in a few days, prior to that he was earning at a better rate than the remaining players. Since it's only been a week or so of absence, if he returned, he'd be a solid player for the future. 17 – Helsinki Titans Kisshan Shan - RW Providing Shan makes the VHL, this would give the Titans two full lines of offensive players for Season 64. Shan has proven in the past he can earn near the cap, but hasn't been as much lately. Hopefully joining the early-favourites for the VHLM (The Yukon Rush) will help his activity climb back up to where it was. 18 – Helsinki Titans (From New York) Toby Fitzgerald - D Since they've gotten two lines worth of forwards, they move to address the second line of their defense and draft the best defenseman available in Toby Fitzgerald, a consistent welfare earner who does occassionally submit for press conferences 19 – Toronto Legion Chance Matthews - C Had Matthews claimed for the achievement tracker, he would have been much higher up the draft rankings and, in turn, probably taken earlier in the draft. His mag work gets him a consistent 7 TPE per week, but given we haven't seen a magazine released in a while, this obviously is under the presumption that the mag will still be an outlet for his creative talents. 20 – Riga Reign Randoms - LW Reign could risk it here and go for Nathan MacKinnon (who was at one point a max-cap player who stated a desire to play for the Reign), but they may as well go for Randoms, Hedgehog's other player, since with the pension he earns, he is earning more TPE per week than most of the players left to be taken. 21 – Helsinki Titans (From Seattle) Chace Trepanier - LW At one point a player rivalling Dan Wilinsky in TPE earning, both have gone in opposite directions and Trepanier is now a solid welfare player. 22 – Toronto Legion Rhett Stoffiday - G It's not exactly clear what the Legion plan to do at the goalie position given that they have Carison who they're looking to trade and just created a goalie themselves, but since Devise hasn't been a super-strong TPE earner in a while, maybe he gives Stoffiday a chance to prove he could potentially be a starting goalie and retire his recently created goalie prior to the draft if he winds up proving his activity. 23 – Quebec City Meute Joey Boucher - RW 24 – Quebec City Meute (From Calgary) Wlodzimierz Zajaczkowski – RW Two consistent players here who consistently submit for welfare and practice facility. Boucher submits PTs for special events while Zajaczkowski submits press conferences to boost his TPE. Best of luck to all those involved in the draft! @tfong @Enorama @Jubo07 @McWolf @Arayvenn @Sonnet @DaftRaincloud @ColeMrtz21 @Jose Gonzalez @Toast @SidTheKid87 @Cornflakers @BOOM™ @Frank @Joobles @Doomzday @AdamEss @Pelimies @LordTony @803 @Rykonen @DrHexDex @VV2O4 @Tacocat @ChrisF @nicolas01 @Sublime @nymets5 @Rzerk @Dijital @Zetna @devilsfan35 @brownboy102 @Schmidt @Foehammer @DurdenBrandSoap @mjrv21 @Bdlondon @Rad Russian @DickRobbins @ViIIains @Tigerteeo @oilmandan @Nelson @pierogituxedo @DonaldJWafer @FuzzyLeeroy @Greenert11 @SupaStu @Galchenyuk_is_God @Sook @ZST @Josh Ho-Train @Deft @Claust @Scorpio @ventsan @Sllaym @Jerramy @KyleS56 @colton14 @joeyboucher1 @McCan @libbyfanaccount @Mike_Houle @Reckasaur @Keywi @Desjar @T65 @mhart97 @bagelbitesisbae @Nick Blagden @SirRupertBarnes @Potato @UltraMick @Drob127 @RickRandals @Flyershockey90 @Russell Jerome @Steve Razyn @RJHockey21 @Bazmandoo22 @Nyr1994 @DBCrumpets @JaacTree @Tniz15 @ChaceT @Jtww @canucksHD @PremiumFunk @Gravyncarrots @JohnnyT_77 @Shou Tian @eaglesfan036 @KnucklePuckAdam @Flare @toshimann @Pauly51 @Kisshan @Joubo @RealJohny211 @madmonstermax @hedgehog337 @PaintingItOrange @Ruggiero10 @Steveziedoesit @monkeywrench15 @Dude @Rosco @Jonah38 @JR0B13 @Peace @Fizzwidget Edited February 7, 2022 by fishy BOOM, Enorama, Joubo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubo 1,839 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Thanks for doing this all season long, your dedication to new recruits is inpiring. Joubo, oilmandan and Tagger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilmandan 686 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 @McWolf biggest bust since dolly Parton. Calling it now Spade18 and Enorama 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McWolf 3,111 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Honoured. Thanks @oilmandan oilmandan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace 1,518 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 (edited) You nailed my draft position, @Tagger Edited October 10, 2018 by Peace Tagger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McWolf 3,111 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 9 at 200 at the draft, @Enorama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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