Thanks for the shout out Steve, at 10 I knew I had to grab a goalie, I was thinking double goalie with my first 2 picks to be honest. I was hoping to land Quick with how the default Yahoo! rankings were going, but everyone had the same idea of grabbing goalies early. Which left me with Rask. He should be fine, B's are a solid defensive team, and he faced very little competition beside Khudobin, so I was thinking he should be a high start, high win goalie with decent stats.

I reached a bit on Backstrom, but I knew he wouldn't have made it back to me in my 3rd round pick and I needed to swing for the fences for a high end offensive production. But you figured out my strategy of filling out the points categories first, then getting support later on. I wanted Smith, but Gates snagged him a couple of picks before mine, and I figured there wasn't much of a gap between the "mid ranged" goalies anyway, so I could wait till the 3rd round to secure my 2nd goalie.

With 8 of the next 18 picks being goalies, that almost screwed my plan, but I had to overreach to grab Hiller. Who fit the mold of high start, high win goalie with decent stats...

Getz, MSL and Green were once again swing for the fences picks... not a lot of peripherals but I was thinking the "name" factor as well. I'm generally pretty good at making offers and improving my team as the season progresses, so if I'm running into peripheral trouble, I can always move these pieces later on was the thought that was running through my head.

Your Hanzal pick was great, especially after I was cursing after missing out on Vinny, who I wanted to pair up with MSL. Then you stole Plekanec who I thought was under-rated as well... That had me spewing...

Not too fussed about Souray, since we have IR slots and a decent amount of bench slots, if Souray is hurt I can always add the flavour of the week in as a replacement. The fact of the matter is the Ducks have a pretty potent PP if things roll properly and with a good PP QB. Souray is the man there with Getz, Perry, Selanne and Fowler/Ryan, that unit should be great. Plus he brings a decent amount to the table, with SOG, points, along with a reasonable amount of HIT.

Robidas I was thinking along the same lines as you too, but what sold me was the departure of Souray. Souray really hurt Robidas stats last campaign cause he took up a lot of that 2nd unit PP time. Now that Souray is gone, Robidas gets that responsibility back. Also I needed help on the HIT front 269, 216, 191 (in 75) last 3 years, so that should really help boost that category for me.

I didn't really like my Tanguay pick, but LW were very slim, and he generally has pretty good chemistry with Iggy, so I went back to my early selections of points-heavy players... figured it was worth it. The one that I really wanted at the time was Marc Staal, but I was thinking he'll last till the turnaround, since the D selections have died down, but of course when you get complacent and you think they're safe, they're bound to be sniped...

The Khabibulin snipe really hurt... just cause I honestly had him all queued up and ready to go. I shoulda taken him at that Stoll spot, looking back at it retrospectively. The thing is between that spot and Garon (82 spots), there was only 1 goalie taken, so I was thinking it was safe to hold off... I was also thinking in my head with BTL having no goalies, that's a great target to stock up goalies and jsut fleece him during the season...

With Rask, Hiller, Theodore, I was planning on grabbing Mason and Khabibulin so I had enough protection to move a goalie, but as you can tell, you guys are smart cookies thinking along the same lines a me...

The Mason hit hurt me even more...

Either way great breakdown on your blog. Enjoyed reading it throughly!

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