The Top 10 (Bottom 10?) worst draft picks from our experts league

A couple of weeks back, many of the writers here on Dobber Hockey participated in an experts league draft, and while it was a lot of fun, it was more interesting to see everyone's draft strategy.

The 11-GM roto Yahoo league is made up of four each of centres, left wingers and right wingers, six defencemen, two goalies and four bench players. The scoring categories are goals, assists, plus-minus, power play points, shots on goal and hits for the forwards and defencemen, and wins, goals against average and saves for goalies.

As for my team, it's pretty bad. I missed the first half of the draft because of Bell screwing up my Internet connection, and when I logged on, I had no defence, two horrendous goalies (Mike Smith and Steve Mason), and a bunch of Band-Aid boys (Evgeni Malkin, Jason Spezza, and Pavel Datsyuk). So whenever you see an update from one of the writers, it's safe to say I'm probably in last place.

As for the others general managers, it was a pretty good draft, but it wasn't perfect. There were some reaches and some bad picks. I realize everyone has their own strategy, and so maybe the picks make sense in their heads, but for me, these picks weren't that great.

Here were the top 10 worst draft picks from the expert draft.

10. Brad Richards, 12^th round, 124th overall, chosen by Chris Wassel

There's been a lot of hype of Richards moving to Chicago, but we still need to look at the facts. Richards won't be getting top power play time, like he did with the Rangers, and he also won't be shooting the puck as much as he has in the past. He doesn't hit, and his points-per-season has gone down for five straight seasons. He won't be rejuvenated in Chicago, and with Ryan Callahan, Jason Pominville and Paul Stastny still available, there were much better options still available in our draft.

9. Semyon Varlamov, round two, 16th overall, chosen by Anthony Lancione

I'll never understand the need to choose a goalie so high when they only count for three categories, and you can choose goalies later on that is pretty much on the same level. But even if one wanted to take a goalie early, there were much better options than Varlamov, who will be hitting a wall this year as the Avalanche come back to earth. Carey Price was chosen with the next pick, and Marc-Andre Fleury, Sergei Bobrovsky, Cory Schneider and Corey Crawford were also taken within the next nine picks.

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8. Dany Heatley, round 18, 197th overall, chosen by Brad Wilson

Many of us here at Dobber are familiar with the man most commonly referred to as Dany Heatley's corpse. While there is not much risk at taking Heatley in the 18^th round, there's not much reward either. He was already injured going into our draft, and Heatley's fantasy stock is falling as fast as his hockey skills. Last year, Heatley managed just 12 goals, 28 points and a minus-18 in just 76 games. He doesn't even shoot the puck anymore, taking just 110 shots last season.