NHL All-Star Mock Draft

So for a little bit of fun tonight, a friend of the blog, Kevin Gregus of CL Game Misconduct, and I decided to do a cross-blog mock draft of tonight's NHL All-Star fantasy draft. We set up our draft with the same captains and assistant captains (Alfredsson w/ Lundqvist, Chara w/ Lupul) and format of tonight's draft. We also decided beforehand that Alfredsson most likely will "win the coin toss" for first pick. Finally, we did a coin toss to decide who gets who (I won and took Team Alfredsson) and off we went.

Round	Team Alfredsson	Team Chara
Captain	Daniel Alfredsson, F, OTT	Zdeno Chara, D, BOS
A. Captain	Henrik Lundqvist, G, NYR	Joffrey Lupul, F, TOR
1	Jason Spezza, F, OTT	Tim Thomas, G, BOS
2	Erik Karlsson, D, OTT	Kris Letang, D, PIT
3	Milan, Michalek, F, OTT	Evgeni Malkin, F, PIT
4	Marian Hossa, F, CHI	Phil Kessel, F, TOR
5	Marian Gaborik, F, NYR	Dion Phaneuf, D, TOR
6	Dan Girardi, D, NYR	Jonathan Quick, G, LAK
7	Jimmy Howard, G, DET	Tyler Seguin, F, BOS
8	Henrik Sedin, F, VAN	Daniel Sedin, F, VAN
9	Shea Weber, D, NSH	Brian Elliott, G, STL
(GOALIES) 10	Carey Price, G, MTL	Steven Stamkos, F, TAM
11	Claude Giroux, F, PHI	Kimmo Timonen, D, PHI
12	Ryan Suter, D, NSH	Corey Perry, F, ANA
13	Alexandre Edler, D, VAN	Brian Campbell, D, FLA
14	Keith Yandle, D, VAN	Jarome Iginla, F, CGY
(D-MEN) 15	Pavel Datsyuk, F, DET	Dennis Wideman, D, WSH
16	Patrick Kane, F, CHI	John Tavares, F, NYI
17	Jordan Eberle, F, EDM	Scott Hartnell, F, PHI
18	Logan Couture, F, SJ	James Neal, F, PIT
19	Jamie Benn, F, DAL	Jason Pominville, F, BUF

Both Kevin and I predicted that the captains would appease their teammates early, with Kevin making some Penguins picks in between and I guessed that Alfredsson would bring in Hossa, his teammate of seven years before bringing in the Rangers.

Other fun little tidbits we predict:

• We broke up the Sedins again, with me taking Henrik first this year after Daniel went first last year.
• The player nobody wants in this draft, Carey Price of Montreal (neither a Bruins or Sens player will want him), ended up with Team Alfredsson following a little gamesmanship by Kevin taking Team Chara's third goalie a round earlier than necessary.
• Fun lines we predict: Team Alfredsson runs out a Kane-Datsyuk-Hossa line (The Wings-Hawks Connection or Before-and-After line) or a Gaborik-Sedin-Giroux line (Multinational Goal Corporation line). Team Chara runs out a Seguin-Tavares-Stamkos line (the Young Guns line) or Kessel-Malkin-Lupul (the What-If Toronto Had A Star Center or the 44-Years-And-Counting line)
• Mr Irrelevant in our predictions: Jason Pominville of the Buffalo Sabres. Young man is getting a new car, makes up for playing on that crappy team this year.

Finally, we predicted how the rookies would break down for the skills competition:

• Team Alfredsson: Justin Faulk (CAR), Carl Hagelin (NYR), Colin Greening (OTT), Matt Read (PHI), Ryan Johansen (CBJ), Luke Adam (BUF)
• Team Chara: Raphael Diaz (MTL), Gabriel Landeskog (COL), Cody Hodgson (VAN), Sean Couturier (PHI), Nick Johnson (MIN), Craig Smith (NSH)

There's our mock draft for tonight's All-Star Fantasy Draft. The second half of our fun was a cross-blog fantasy draft that we would do if we were picking captains, asst captains, and our own teams of 2012 All-Stars (i.e., if we were captains). You can check that out over at CL Game Misconduct, a blog that I highly recommend you spend some time checking out while there. This was such fun that I can promise more cross-blog endeavours in our future, something I hope y'all will enjoy.