I'd like to begin by thanking GMGates for sponsoring the All-Star Keeper League here on the Dobber forums. Not only will our league gain exposure but forum members can hopefully find our league useful and entertaining.

I was flirting with the idea of forming a league with some of Dobber's best and have an "all star" cast. The idea turned into reality very quickly. I was ecstatic at the members that showed interest. We have some of the forum's most active members along with a couple article writers and Dobber beat writers. Here is the list of the GM's and their team names:

Big Ev (Silver Seven)
Bomm Bastic (Crease Crashers)
Dr. Gregg (Louisville Laughers)
drury2396 (Velvet Morning)
Gotlaid (Maaasquito Bites)
playmaker26 (Jersey 18's)
Renegade (Renegades)
Seadawg (Seadawgs)
Shakedown (Shakedown Smackdown)
wendelclark17 (Wendel's Warriors)

Here are some league details:

10 teams
Full Keeper (Dynasty)
Points Based (Yearly)
Starting Lineup: 12 forwards, 6 defenseman, 2 goalies
Bench: Resets at 8 every offseason
Prospects: Unlimited but prospect skaters lose eligibility after 4 seasons. 5 seasons for goalies.
Scoring: Goal (1), Assist (1), PIM (0.1), Shot (0.05), SOG (1), +/- (+0.2, -0.2)
Goalies: Win (2), Shutout (3), PIM (0.1), Goal (10), Assist (2)

Roster moves: Sent to Commish. Benching a healthy roster player makes him ineligible for 3 weeks.

The Inaugural Draft order was done by a random order generator. Here are the results:

1. Jersey 18's
2. Renegades
3. Seadawgs
4. TBA (Gotlaid)
5. Wendel's Warriors
6. Velvet Morning
7. Louisville Laughers
8. Silver Seven
9. Shakedown Smackdown
10. Crease Crashers

I invite everyone to keep up with the league's progress. Feel free to chime in with any opinions of trades, draft picks, etc. We are all active members on the forum so having this added wrinkle to the league is another way to make this league unique for us.

I will be posting draft results periodically. Finally, here is a link to our league if you want to check it out: http://askl11.proboards.com/index.cgi

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Something about the league's commish picking first ... kidding of course!

10 Solid community members - I'll be excited to see how this draft unwinds.

When do you start drafting?

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We are underway already. Here are the results thus far.

1. Jersey 18's - Sidney Crosby
2. Renegades - Alexander Ovechkin
3. Seadawgs - Evgeni Malkin
4. Maaasquito Bites - Steven Stamkos
5. Wendel's Warriors - Corey Perry
6. Velvet Morning - Nicklas Backstrom
7. Louisville Laughers - Daniel Sedin
8. Silver Seven - Henrik Sedin
9. Shakedown Smackdown - Ryan Getzlaf
10. Crease Crashers - Claude Giroux

Round 2
1. Crease Crashers - Carey Price
2. Shakedown Smackdown - Jonathan Toews
3. Silver Seven - Zach Parise
4. Louisville Laughers - John Tavares
5. Velvet Morning - Pavel Datsyuk
6. Wendel's Warriors - Anze Kopitar
7. Maaasquito Bites -
8. Seadawgs -
9. Renegades -
10. Jersey 18's -

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Wow, those are some interesting draft results so far. When I saw Toews I was like then saw it was Shake... haha

I plan on picking whichever goalie will score the most goals. 10 points per goal is beastly.

Draft results through 2 rounds:

Round 1
1. Jersey 18's - Sidney Crosby
2. Renegades - Alexander Ovechkin
3. Seadawgs - Evgeni Malkin
4. Maaasquito Bites - Steven Stamkos
5. Wendel's Warriors - Corey Perry
6. Velvet Morning - Nicklas Backstrom
7. Louisville Laughers - Daniel Sedin
8. Silver Seven - Henrik Sedin
9. Shakedown Smackdown - Ryan Getzlaf
10. Crease Crashers - Claude Giroux

Round 2
1. Crease Crashers - Carey Price
2. Shakedown Smackdown - Jonathan Toews
3. Silver Seven - Zach Parise
4. Louisville Laughers - John Tavares
5. Velvet Morning - Pavel Datsyuk
6. Wendel's Warriors - Anze Kopitar
7. Maaasquito Bites - Roberto Luongo
8. Seadawgs - Patrick Kane
9. Renegades - Eric Staal
10. Jersey 18's - Taylor Hall

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LOL I was gonna pass , but man I just cannot do it. Gotta take Capt. Serious. It's in my DNA.

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Round 3
1. Jersey 18's - Matt Duchene
2. Renegades - Ilya Kovalchuk
3. Seadawgs - Drew Doughty
4. Maaasquito Bites - Brad Richards
5. Wendel's Warriors - Bobby Ryan
6. Velvet Morning - Rick Nash
7. Louisville Laughers - Jeff Carter
8. Silver Seven - Martin St. Louis
9. Shakedown Smackdown - Shea Weber
10. Crease Crashers - Alexander Semin

Here's Round 4 and a few picks in Round 5.

Round 4
1. Crease Crashers - Keith Yandle
2. Shakedown Smackdown - Henrik Lundqvist
3. Silver Seven - Henrik Zetterberg
4. Louisville Laughers - Joe Thornton
5. Velvet Morning - Jeff Skinner
6. Wendel's Warriors - Kris Letang
7. Maaasquito Bites - Patrick Marleau
8. Seadawgs - Mike Green
9. Renegades - Ryan Kesler
10. Jersey 18's - Jason Spezza

Round 5
1. Jersey 18's - Ryan Miller
2. Renegades - Erik Karlsson
3. Seadawgs - Marc-Andre Fleury
4. Maaasquito Bites - Dany Heatley

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Can't believe Green went after Weber, Yandle, and Letang...