NHLVE Real Life Player Pool Reveal

[Devise 4,475]

INDEX

 

Welp, now that the draft is underway and we are almost completed a first round of the user created draft I figured I'd go ahead and reveal what the randomizer gave us for our Real Life/NHL player pool. The players were sorted by position and then randomly drawn into the remaining slots that we required which were; 24 Centers, 27 Right Wings, 23 Left Wings, 44 Defense, 10 Goalies. Good for 128 players and 16 draft rounds. 

 

It's important to note, this was the entire player pool of not just the NHL, but also some of the prospects, free agents, and AHL level players. So don't expect "just" big names. All in all it wound up being a pretty balanced list of players. The players are listed in order of how they came out in the randomizer, by position. Their OVR is in brackets beside their name. You can look at the players individual attributes inside the sim, which can be found in the Index which I have also put at the top of this post. 

 

Without further adieu, here is the real life players that will be joining us for the inaugural season of the NHLVE!  

 

Center
1. Carter Camper (61)
2. Matt Cullen (68)
3. Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (59)
4. Pavel Zacha (67)
5. Chris Tierney (69)
6. Matt Stajan (67)
7. Sean Kuraly (66)
8. Ryan White (57) 
9. Mathieu Perreault (71)
10. Calvin Thurkauf (59)
11. Rourke Chartier (57)
12. Kevin Lynch (59) 
13. Connor McDavid (80)
14. Alan Quine (61) 
15. Christian Dvorak (68) 
16. Kalle Kossila (62) 
17. Gabriel Fontaine (57) 
18. Mattias Janmark (69) 
19. David Kampf (63)
20. Andrew Poturalski (60) 
21. Jordan Staal (73) 
22. Mark Letestu (67) 
23. Stefan Matteau (60) 
24. Cameron Hughes (53)

Right Wing
1. Anthony Greco (59) 
2. Dylan Sadowy (53) 
3. T.J. Oshie (71) 
4. Jesper Fast (68) 
5. Ben Smith (62) 
6. Dante Salituro (53) 
7. Jason Akeson (54) 
8. Bobby Butler (60) 
9. Reid Petryk (57) 
10. Vladimir Tarasenko (75) 
11. Spencer Foo (60) 
12. Nikita Kucherov (78) 
13. Brian Gionta (60) 
14. Dustin Brown (74) 
15. Beau Bennet (62) 
16. Zack Kassian (66) 
17. Zach O'Brien (58) 
18. Colin Campbell (59) 
19. Nikita Sherbak (62) 
20. Stefan Noesen (67) 
21. Carter Rowney (63) 
22. Daniel Maggio (53) 
23. Logan Shaw (65) 
24. Kyle Okposo (70) 
25. Oliver Bjorkstrand (68) 
26. Corey Tropp (60) 
27. Matthew Ford (60)

Left Wing
1. Ryan Lomberg (59) 
2. Rudolfs Balcers (59)
3. Zach Parise (68) 
4. Matt Beleskey (60) 
5. Cody McLeod (63) 
6. Shane Prince (59) 
7. Dmytro Timashov (58) 
8. Jamie Benn (76) 
9. Evan Rodrigues (65) 
10. Joseph LaBate (57) 
11. Nick Ritchie (68) 
12. Tomas Nosek (66) 
13. Teemu Pulkkinen (61) 
14. Marcus Johansson (66) 
15. Erik Haula (73) 
16. Dave Dziurynski (57) 
17. Viktor Arvidsson (74) 
18. Luke Gazdic (57) 
19. Freddie Tiffels (54) 
20. Anton Blidh (58) 
21. Michael Raffl (67) 
22. Jesper Bratt (68) 
23. Tanner Pearson (69)

Defense
1. Yaroslav Dyblenko (56) 
2. Stuart Percy (58) 
3. Jake Chelios (56) 
4. Lukas Bengtsson (53) 
5. Alexander Edler (77) 
6. Josh Healey (55) 
7. Vili Sarijarvi (53) 
8. Nick Seeler (59) 
9. Reece Willcox (57) 
10. Jacob Graves (53) 
11. Ethan Prow (55) 
12. Kenney Morrison (53) 
13. Nick Holden (71) 
14. Jeremy Lauzon (56) 
15. Ville Pokka (58) 
16. Tyler Wotherspoon (60) 
17. Jakub Jerabek (60) 
18. Luca Sbisa (72) 
19. Patrick Cullity (54) 
20. Ludwig Bystrom (56) 
21. Gabriel Carlsson (58) 
22. Connor Carrick (63) 
23. Duncan Siemens (62) 
24. Mark Fayne (57) 
25. Jamie Oleksiak (70) 
26. Cody Ceci (74) 
27. Adam Pelech (71) 
28. Madison Bowey (63) 
29. Josh Gorges (68) 
30. Matt Dumba (74) 
31. Neal Pionk (63) 
32. Marco Scandella (74) 
33. Seth Jones (77) 
34. Jason Demers (71) 
35. Nate Prosser (66) 
36. Connor Clifton (54) 
37. Thomas Chabot (65) 
38. Viktor Svedberg (61) 
39. Kris Letang (76) 
40. Dylan DeMelo (65) 
41. Jalen Chatfield (56) 
42. Sami Vatanen (71) 
43. Jacob Middleton (59) 
44. Yannick Weber (63)

Goalie
1. Zachary Fucale (65) 
2. Martin Jones (83) 
3. Jeremy Smith (65) 
4. J-F Berube (70) 
5. Anders Nilsson (76) 
6. Corey Crawford (80) 
7. Brian Elliot (82) 
8. Maxime Lagace (72) 
9. Anton Forsberg (76) 
10. Ondrej Pavelec (76) 
 

Edited April 10, 2020 by Devise

[Devise 4,475]

Haha, what a weird list everyone. I'm honestly curious if McDavid goes 1oa or if Jones/Elliot stand a chance at going above him. 

[Jubis 1,343]

Very interesting. I like it

[Devise 4,475]

I'm presuming @diamond_ace would like to end up playing with Letang haha.  

[diamond_ace 3,110]

1 minute ago, Devise said:

I'm presuming @diamond_ace would like to end up playing with Letang haha.  

Eh for something like this, I don't really care

[NotAVHLM-GM 1,858]

I'm just glad I got Ryan Power on the Screaming Semen.

[Boragina 89]

no Ovi to compete with. Kinda nice lol

[Devise 4,475]

14 minutes ago, Boragina said:

no Ovi to compete with. Kinda nice lol

 

Yeah, McDavid, Kucherov, Tarasekno, Benn, Oshie, there are some names. Those goalies could end up mattering huge too. The fact that there is some 50-60 OVR type players though I think means we'll see some of our User Created guys on second and first lines. That should be interesting, and I think all in all this has given us a pretty good mix of varied user types to actually get something decent out of a simulation, just from a testing perspective. 

 

I'm going to be most interested to see how endurance matters for minutes, and how the overall scoring and goalie stuff are up. I've long been an arguing that Endurance and Dur as stats is supposed to be enabled, and that we've only gotten away with it for so many seasons due to how small our roster sizes were. There was only ever really just enough players for everyone to be able to succeed for such a long time, that put into an era where we have too many players who have to succeed, we finally have problems. We'll see though.