Ricochetii Challenge

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Created by: ZPirtle

Team: 2021-22 Custom Team

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 20, 2021

Published: Sep. 20, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Created by @Ricochetii

Select one player from each team.

When finished:
You must be within $1M of the cap.
You may have no more than 2 forwards on ELC's.
You may have no more than 2 defense on ELC's.
You must have a full 23 man roster including scratches.
Move the remainder of your selections to LTIR (not on final roster).
Set lines and defense pairings.

This is intended to be done in one sweep. Start with any team and make selections alphabetically by team. If there are players you have in mind for later, you may want to pick lesser players from earlier teams.
Mistakes are okay, but don't redo your selections. You'll set your roster from the players you selected and sacrificing some of your picks while making final choices is part of the exercise.
(Think of it like having a 32 player training camp and making final cuts. As you can see, I made a number of selections I had to cut and send to LTIR to be compliant).

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,377,053	$0	$850,000	$2,122,947

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Connor, Kyle $7,142,857$7,142,857 LW UFA - 5	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Huberdeau, Jonathan $5,900,000$5,900,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 2	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 5
Mangiapane, Andrew $2,425,000$2,425,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Cirelli, Anthony $4,800,000$4,800,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Roslovic, Jack $1,838,362$1,838,362 C, RW UFA - 1
Comtois, Maxime $2,037,500$2,037,500 LW RFA - 2		Järnkrok, Calle $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 1
	Bonino, Nick $1,025,000$1,025,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Fox, Adam $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1	Nedeljkovic, Alex $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
	Pesce, Brett $4,025,000$4,025,000 RD UFA - 3
	Pulock, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Vanecek, Vitek $716,667$716,667 G UFA - 1
Ekholm, Mattias $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Graves, Ryan $3,166,667$3,166,667 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Schenn, Luke $850,000$850,000 RD UFA - 2		Hakanpää, Jani $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA - 3
Khaira, Jujhar $975,000$975,000 LW, C UFA - 2		Greenway, Jordan $2,100,000$2,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2		Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
		Rodrigues, Evan $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1
		Smith, Craig $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW UFA - 2
		Stephenson, Chandler $2,750,000$2,750,000 C, LW UFA - 3
		Petersen, Cal $858,333$858,333 G UFA - 1
		Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 4

Sep. 20, 2021 at 12:43 p.m.

ZPirtle

Go Preds

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@ricochetii

Sep. 20, 2021 at 1:38 p.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

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Very solid team.

Goaltending is probably the weakest position just because they both only really have one season under their belts -- even if they were goodseasons. Would be nice if you could've snuck Petersen in there over Vanecek (not that I dislike him).

Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:45 p.m.

ricochetii

Go Habs Go

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 10,667

Likes: 4,091

I figured people would go for MacKinnon, probably one of the best values in the league right now.
Chychrun should be another popular choice. Even if he's on the 2nd pairing, the dollar value is good.
Bonino is probably an underrated choice. Would have been my preferred 3C if I didn't go with Hertl.

It's interesting to see what people can come up with when options are more limited. This challenge probably isn't restrictive enough, but too many limitations and all the teams look sameish.

Did you find the final cuts difficult after seeing who you were left with? (I picked too many RD so it was a tough call for the final spots.)

Another aspect is where people choose to make budget cuts. You elected not to pick up any "high priced" skaters and probably made your D a little deeper with cheaper options in goal. Risky, but part of the fun.

Nice job overall!

Sep. 21, 2021 at 9:55 a.m.

ZPirtle

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Go Preds

Joined: Dec. 2016

Posts: 682

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Quoting: ricochetii

Yeah, I had some of the same problems when I got to the end. I wanted to build a mostly two-way top 9 and strong defense. Goalies may be young/unproven, but that group in front should help out. Hardest part at the end was making Pulock work. I originally had Hakanpaa, but that seemed silly, so I moved stuff around.

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