The second half of the teams:

Greased Lightning
F-Corey Perry ANA
F-Jamie Benn DAL
F-Mikhail Grigorenko BUF
F-Jordan Staal CAR
F-Mark Scheifele WPG
F-T.J. Oshie STL
F-Joffrey Lupul TOR
F-James Van Riemsdyk TOR
F-Andrew Shaw CHI
F-Martin Hanzal PHO
F-Jamie McGinn COL
F-Jarome Iginla CGY
D-Dougie Hamilton BOS
D-Brendan Smith DET
D-Travis Hamonic NYI
D-Duncan Keith CHI
D-Jeff Petry EDM
D-Dennis Seidenberg BOS
G-Henrik Lundqvist NYR
G-Cory Schneider VAN
B-Roberto Luongo VAN
B-Johnny Boychuk BOS
B-Devin Setoguchi MIN
B-Bryan Little WPG
B-Magnus Paajarvi EDM

Farm
Robin Lehner OTT
Mathew Dumba MIN
Cory Conacher TAM
Nino Niederreiter NYI
Petr Mrazek DET
Zemgus Girgensons BUF
Teuvo Teravainen CHI
Sami Vatanen ANA
Kyle Beach CHI
Brad Ross TOR

Vipers
F-Loui Eriksson DAL
F-Adam Henrique NJD
F-Marcus Johansson WAS
F-P-A Parenteau COL
F-Jason Spezza OTT
F-Radim Vrbata PHO
F-Martin St. Louis TAM
F-Carl Hagelin NYR
F-Viktor Stalberg CHI
F-Derek Dorsett COB
F-Valtteri Filppula DET
F-Jason Chimera WAS
D-Shea Weber NAS
D-Ryan Suter MIN
D-Mark Streit NYI
D-Tobias Enstrom WPG
D-Christian Ehrhoff BUF
D-Ryan Ellis NAS
G-Pekka Rinne NAS
G-Ryan Miller BUF
B-Ondrej Pavelec WPG
B-Jannik Hansen VAN
B-Curtis Glencross CGY
B-Thomas Greiss SAN
B-Tyler Kennedy PIT

Farm
Alexander Khokhlachev BOS
Scott Wedgewood NJD
Tanner Pearson LOS
Mark McNeill CHI
Mattias Ekholm NAS
Jacob Josefsen NJD
Jonathan Audy-Marchessault COB
Zac Dalpe CAR
Tyler Johnson TAM
Kevin Poulin NYI

Red Sox Nation
F-Jonathan Toews CHI
F-Blake Wheeler WPG
F-Steve Ott BUF
F-Teddy Purcell TAM
F-Matt Moulson NYI
F-David Desharnais MON
F-Alexandre Burrows VAN
F-Stephen Weiss FLA
F-Tyler Bozak TOR
F-Johan Franzen DET
F-Thomas Fleischmann FLA
F-Alexander Semin CAR
D-Zdeno Chara BOS
D-Dustin Byfuglien WPG
D-Nick Leddy CHI
D-Mike Green WAS
D-Dan Boyle SAN
D-Sheldon Souray ANA
G-Jimmy Howard DET
G-Kari Lehtonen DAL
B-Jhonas Enroth BUF
B-Brad Boyes NYI
B-Ryan Whitney EDM
B-Alexei Emelin MON
B-Dan Carcillo CHI

Farm
Jaden Schwartz STL
Paul Postma WPG
Marc-André Gragnani CAR
Roman Cervenka CGY
Ben Bishop OTT
Anders Nilsson NYI
Luke Adam BUF
Torey Krug BOS
Ryan Garbutt DAL
Scott Laughton PHI

Flying Hellfish
F-Alex Ovechkin WAS
F-Anze Kopitar LOS
F-Evander Kane WPG
F-Bobby Ryan ANA
F-Patrick Kane CHI
F-Phil Kessel TOR
F-Marcus Foligno BUF
F-Tyler Ennis BUF
F-Cody Hodgson BUF
F-Nick Foligno COB
F-Craig Smith NAS
F-Nathan Horton BOS
D-P.K. Subban MON
D-Jack Johnson COB
D-Matt Carle TAM
D-James Wisniewski COB
D-Dmitry Orlov WAS
D-Jared Spurgeon MIN
G-Tuukka Rask BOS
G-Craig Anderson OTT
B-James Reimer TOR
B-Wojtek Wolski WAS
B-Cody Franson TOR
B-Gabriel Bourque NAS
B-Nick Bonino ANA

Farm
Jacob Markstrom FLA
Gustav Nyquist DET
Brett Connolly TAM
Damien Brunner DET
Ben Scrivens TOR
Patrick Maroon ANA
Mark Barberio TAM
Tyson Barrie COL
T.J. Brennan BUF
Andrei Loktionov LOS

Gilly's Gamers
F-John Tavares NYI
F-Ryan Getzlaf ANA
F-Taylor Hall EDM
F-Jeff Skinner CAR
F-Vladimir Tarasenko STL
F-Alex Galchenyuk MON
F-Sean Couturier PHI
F-Kyle Turris OTT
F-Mikko Koivu MIN
F-Erik Cole MON
F-Patrick Marleau SAN
F-Martin Havlat SAN
D-Cam Fowler ANA
D-Dmitry Kulikov FLA
D-Erik Gudbranson FLA
D-Dan Hamhuis VAN
D-Steve Montador CHI
D-Josh Gorges MON
G-Carey Price MON
G-Corey Crawford CHI
B-Brandon Sutter PIT
B-Lars Eller MON
B-Shane O'Brien COL
B-Andrei Markov MON
B-Johan Larsson MIN

Farm
Andrej Vasilisevski TAM
Griffin Reinhart NYI
Boone Jenner COB
John Gibson ANA
Jarred Tinordi MON
Brett Ritchie DAL
Martin Marincin EDM
Michael Sgarbossa COL
Jordan Caron BOS
Louis Leblanc MON

Midnight Reader
F-Henrik Sedin VAN
F-Daniel Sedin VAN
F-Mika Zibanejad OTT
F-Ryane Clowe SAN
F-Patrick Sharp CHI
F-Jakub Voracek PHI
F-Kyle Okposo NYI
F-Patrik Berglund STL
F-Alex Burmistrov WPG
F-Kris Versteeg FLA
F-Josh Bailey NYI
F-Todd Bertuzzi DET
D-Erik Karlsson OTT
D-Keith Yandle PHO
D-Adam Larsson NJD
D-Brent Burns SAN
D-Cam Atkinson COB
D-Braydon Coburn PHI
G-Cam Ward CAR
G-Ilya Bryzgalov PHI
B-Philip Larsen DAL
B-Benoit Pouliot TAM
B-Vladimir Sobotka STL
B-Shawn Matthias FLA
B-Kris Russell STL

Farm
Anton Khudobin BOS
Roman Josi NAS
Filip Forsberg WAS
Jonas Brodin MIN
J Merrill NJD
Radek Faksa DAL
Cody Ceci OTT
Christopher Nihlstorp DAL
Matt Puempel OTT
Zach Budish NAS

Thanks for your comments md!

On my draft list, I had Stamkos, then Ovechkin as 1-2 as Stamkos is 4 yrs OV's junior and less of a cap hit (by about $2M). It was odd to see OV get taken 10th overall.

I had Erik Karlsson, then Letang on my D draft list and I absolutely LOVE Letang in roto leagues. Doughty came in around #5 for me.

I've told our commish (I'm not commish in this one!) that the salary cap may be too low - how could a guy like Datsyuk go undrafted!? There are several top end players that weren't taken mostly due to cap reasons. So if one of your top guys gets hurt, you can put him on IR and effectively replace him quite easily. It's not reflective of the NHL, when a team loses a top guy, they have to find a replacement from within, not bring in a Lecavalier or Vanek from the Free Agent wire!

I love the team I drafted (Flying Hellfish), but the draft was tough as many of my players kept getting scooped. I took as many young talented players as I could manage under the cap and filled in the gaps with great values. Unfortunately, many of the great values were taken right under my nose, so I ended up with good value players!

I usually have very strong goaltending and the best defence, but this time, I ended up with what I think will be the top scoring forward group in the pool. With the way the categories are structured, it's almost like double-tapping the points: G, A, Pts, PiMs, Hits, BS, SOG, Fwd Pts, Def Pts, then 3 cats for Goalies: Wins(2pts)+OTL(1 pt)+ShO(3 pts) as one category, GAA, SV%.

I only have one player over 30, the 31 year old Craig Anderson, the rest are all in their early to mid-20's. This is very important as it's a Dynasty League where we keep 25 players and then draft another 10 every year.

I'm pretty sure one could build a team from the waiver wire and compete just fine for 2-3 seasons.. I know that I'd be looking at ways to swap some salary for 1st rounders in order to scoop Datsyuk.

How much are hits worth, because Chara in round one (with a $7+ caphit) seems kinda crazy????

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12 team H2H Keeper (weekly)
(12-man active roster: 2C/2RW/2LW/4D/2G/6BN)
(G,A,+/-,PIM,SHP,SOG / W,GAA,SV%,SO)

Hard Luck Hosers (1st year expansion)

C: Kopitar, Carter
RW: Backes, Doan
LW: Benn, Couture
D: Subban, Goligoski, Doughty, Ekman-Larsson
G: Niemi, Bobrovsky

BN: Wheeler, Yakupov, van Reimsdyk, Plekanec, Carlson, Ward[IR]

keepers in bold

We used a 65 mil cap and we used last year's cap hits so I got Karlsson and Tavares at low costs. In our 10-team league we had a lot of excellent players go undrafted including Doughty, Thornton, Zetterburg, Keith, Gaborik, EStaal, Ryan Miller, Yandle, Cam Ward and more. It was because of their cap hit in relation to our 65 M cap. After our 20 round draft, players became free agents with the minimum starting bid being 25% of their cap hit. The teams that appear the best stocked up on young, cheap players during the draft and kept a lot of cap space for free agency. For example, Staal, Gaborik, Thornton, and Zetterberg all went between 3.2 and 4.1 M. Miller and Ward went for around 2.5 M.

We won't have your problem of replacing an injured superstar with a free agent superstar since you get only half of a player's salary for injury replacement purposes.

Overall, managing the cap and issuing contracts involve more levels of planning and consideration and makes the league fascinating. I'm in another league that doesn't have a cap and it's not nearly as interesting. Good stuff Comish!

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Salary Cap/Dynasty
C- Tavares, Backstrom, Ribiero, Turris, Eakin
RW- Gaborik, Perry, Downie, JWilliams
LW- Eriksson, Moulson, Duchene, Clowe, Johansson
D- Karlsson, Phaneuf, Enstrom, Burns, Gardiner, Voynov, Ellis
G- Fluery, Kipper, Dubnyk, Lindback

Farm- Huberdeau, Nyquist, Silfverberg, Grigorenko, Bjugstad, Teräväinen, Lack