Tournament – NHL player most thankful (for his fantasy value)

Rick Roos

2014-12-03

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Which NHL player is most thankful for his situation (linemates, team around him, etc)?

 

It's time again for the fun and festivities of a Cage Match tournament, where your votes will award a fantasy hockey related "title" to an NHL player! I put title in quotes because although one past winner can wear his crown with honor (you voted David Backes the NHL's best multi-cat player) the other likely sees it as something he'd rather forget (Mike Green as fantasy hockey's most frustrating player to own).

This time I thought I'd go with a holiday vibe, as just last week it was Turkey Day in the US and in less than a month all of us will be making New Year's resolutions. A common theme is giving thanks, so I decided this tournament will crown the NHL player who should be most thankful for his current fantasy situation, whether because he'd do much worse on another team (or even for the same team, but on another line) or since he's either fortunate to be on his particular team or to have lucked into his current spot. Basically – whatever his situation is, he has plenty of reasons to be thankful for it.

 

How Voting Will Work

As in the past, there are four voting brackets, which in this case are (1) goalies, (2) gray hairs, (3) lucky lines, and (4) miscellaneous. The top two vote getters from each bracket will advance to round two (i.e., the quarterfinals), where they'll face each other next week in four separate matches. Then in two weeks the champions from each bracket will face off in the semifinals, with the highest vote getter from the quarterfinals facing the lowest vote getter, and the middle two vote getters doing battle. Then finally we'll have the championship among the last two left standing to see who truly should be most thankful for his fantasy hockey situation.

Voting will take place in the General Hockey Chat area of the DobberHockey Forms. I'll put a direct link to vote for each bracket after the list of players in that particular bracket. And for added objectivity in voting, I'll alphabetically list the players (by last name) below and in the voting areas.

Top Skater Views

  Players Team
CHARLE-EDOUARD D'ASTOUS T.B
VIKTOR ARVIDSSON DET
BERKLY CATTON SEA
EMMITT FINNIE DET
JOEL FARABEE CGY

Top Goalie Profile Views

  Players Team
CONNOR HELLEBUYCK N.J
STUART SKINNER WPG
JACOB FOWLER MTL
DEVIN COOLEY CGY
TRISTAN JARRY EDM

LINE COMBOS

  Frequency STL Players
20.3 ROBERT THOMAS JIMMY SNUGGERUD JAKE NEIGHBOURS
20.0 MASON MCTAVISH PAVEL BUCHNEVICH JONATAN BERGGREN
19.3 CONNOR MCMICHAEL DYLAN HOLLOWAY DALIBOR DVORSKY

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