CLS Re-draft - First Round Overview

by Cassie McClellan on Jul 30, 2009 5:55 PM EDT in General

The first round of the Cycle like the Sedins Re-Draft has been completed. 30 bloggers have picked players for all 30 NHL teams. The second round is speeding right along, so I expect it to be completed by Saturday at the latest.

As a refresher, here are the known terms of the Re-Draft:

30 bloggers from various blogs around the internet - including a few others here on SB Nation - are team GMs.
Picks are in snake order: 1-30 for odd numbered rounds, and 30-1 for even numbered rounds. Last I'd heard that was the case, anyways. There was talk of doing a z-order, but I think that got shot down.
There is a $57 million salary cap. No cap floor has been mentioned.
Only the actual cap hit matters, not the full player salary.
Trades are allowed.
Presumably, this will be going 23 rounds. Or, at least, until we get bored or someone tells us to stop.
This is an offseason exercise only. This is not a fantasy league draft.
The winner will be determined by an NHL 10 simulation.

If you have any suggestion for the 58th (second round) and 63rd (third round) Lightning picks, please leave them in the comments. And please be respectful. Thank you.

The results are after the jump.

Pick	CSL Team	Player	NHL Team	Position	Cap Hit
1	Calgary	Ovechkin, Alexander	Washington	LW	$9,538,462
2	Vancouver	Crosby, Sidney	Pittsburgh	C	$8,700,000
3	Tampa Bay	Lundqvist, Henrik	New York Rangers	G	$6,875,000
4	Dallas	Malkin, Evgeni	Pittsburgh	C	$8,700,000
5	Chicago	Toews, Jonathan	Chicago	C	$2,800,000
6	New York Islanders	Lidstrom, Nicklas	Detroit	D	$7,450,000
7	Philadelphia	Datsyuk, Pavel	Detroit	C	$6,700,000
8	Edmonton	Parise, Zach	New Jersey	C	$3,125,000
9	Nashville	Getzlaf, Ryan	Anaheim	C	$5,325,000
10	Atlanta	Lecavalier, Vincent	Tampa Bay	C	$7,727,273
11	St. Louis	Luongo, Roberto	Vancouver	G	$6,750,000
12	Phoenix	Green, Mike	Washington	D	$5,250,000
13	Pittsburgh	Kovalchuk, Ilya	Atlanta	LW	$6,389,300
14	Washington	Backstrom, Nicklas	Washington	C	$2,400,000
15	Columbus	Chara, Zdeno	Boston	D	$7,500,000
16	Detroit	Iginla, Jarome	Calgary	RW	$7,000,000
17	Los Angeles	Carter, Jeff	Philadelphia	C	$5,000,000
18	Minnesota	Richards, Mike	Philadelphia	C	$5,750,000
19	Carolina	Brodeur, Martin	New Jersey	G	$5,200,000
20	New York Rangers	Kiprusoff, Miikka	Calgary	G	$5,833,333
21	New Jersey	Backstrom, Niklas	Minnesota	G	$6,000,000
22	Toronto	Savard, Marc	Boston	C	$5,000,000
23	San Jose	Pronger, Chris	Philadelphia	D	$6,250,000
24	Ottawa	Nash, Rick	Columbus	LW	$5,400,000
25	Boston	Thornton, Joe	San Jose	C	$7,200,000
26	Buffalo	Zetterberg, Henrik	Detroit	LW	$6,083,000
27	Florida	Booth, David	Florida	LW	$4,250,000
28	Anaheim	Staal, Eric	Carolina	C	$8,250,000
29	Montreal	Niedermayer, Scott	Anaheim	D	$6,750,000
30	Colorado	Gagne, Simon	Philadelphia	LW	$5,250,000

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Greatly appreciate the continued support and coverage :)

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by jamestobrien on Jul 30, 2009 6:46 PM EDT reply actions

One thing though: NHL 10 is just ONE of the ways we’re judging teams.

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by jamestobrien on Jul 30, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions

Oh, now you tell me!

Cassie
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by Cassie McClellan on Jul 30, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Rut roh. Today’s insane, but I’ll try to put up a rules page this weekend.

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by jamestobrien on Jul 31, 2009 8:03 AM EDT reply actions

There is a $57 million salary cap. No cap floor has been mentioned.

Oh geez, I really hope that didn’t need to be mentioned. If anyone tries to go on the cheap, I’d be embarassed.

Theres a few different winners out of this thing: NHL10 simulation, I think this is going to get fed into a fantasy hockey league draft, and there’s supposed to be a judging panel of some sort as well. Most people are just focusing on one aspect of it. RudyKelly is going for the video game win, some people are going for fantasy hockey numbers, and some of us, like me, are building a team that we just plain think would work very well, and will probably just go for the judging victory.

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by IAmJoe on Jul 31, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions