DRAFT DAY!

As much as we would LOVE to hold our very own Combine (Running! Jumping! Flexing!) and rent out an arena in which to hold said draft, we just can’t.  WUYS doesn’t actually make any money (yet).

So to help you create your ultimate fantasy hockey team, I put together a listing of my top 75 players fantasy players, based a number of statistical categories.

While I was tempted to take into consideration the statistics of  foxiness, awesome hockey hair, and hug-ability when compiling these rankings, I decided just to go with the good old-fashioned stats.

Pants wanted me to add a category for squatting ability and derpness…but I had to veto that.

I am the Commish, after all.  I have the power.

Before drafting your players keep in mind that our league is a “Head to Head – Points” league.  This means that teams are matched up weekly and each manager tries to accumulate the most points from each statistical category.  In our league, points will be earned as follows:

Forwards/Defencemen Stats

• Goals (G) = 3 pts
• Assists (A) = 2 pts
• Plus/Minus (+/-) = 1 pt
• Penalty Minutes (PIM) = 0.5 pt
• Powerplay Points (PPP) = 1 pt
• Shots on Goal (SOG) = 0.4 pt

Goaltending Stats

• Wins (W) = 4 pts
• Goals Against (GA) = -1 pt

Each team will consist of 2 centers, 2 right wings, 2 left wings, 4 defencemen, 2 goalies, and 4 bench players (from any position).

For those of you who are new to fantasy hockey, you can use the list below to help you decided which players you want to draft.  But you don’t have to.  You can pick whom ever you want.  Full list of all players available for the draft can be found at http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey/1325/draftanalysis

The teams are set.

Bieksa’s Got Back.  Gator Goldfish.  Joey the Jr. Reporter.  Shut Your Five Hole.  Don’t Toews Me!.   I Laich It Hot.   El Coop.   I Like ‘Em Skinner.   Easy Being Greener.   Dave’s a KILLER!.

10 teams will enter…but only one will get Toews.

WUYS Fantasy Rankings

1. Steven Stamkos, C
2. Alex Ovechkin, LW
3. Daniel Sedin, LW
4. Henrik Sedin, C
5. Corey Perry, RW
6. Henrik Lundqvist, G
7. Martin St. Louis, RW
8. Roberto Luongo, G
9. Nicklas Backstrom, C
10. Bobby Ryan, LW
11. Pavel Datsyuk, LW
12. Anze Kopitar, C
13. Sidney Crosby, C
14. Evgeni Malkin, C
15. Jarome Iginla, RW
16. Pekka Rinne, G
17. Jonathan Toews, C
18. Tomas Vokoun, G
19. Brad Richards, C
20. Patrick Kane, RW
21. Tim Thomas, G
22. Ryan Miller, G
23. Ilya Bryzgalov, G
24. Shea Weber, D
25. Mike Green, D
26. Zdeno Chara, D
27. Zach Parise, LW
28. Henrik Zetterberg, LW
29. Antti Niemi, G
30. Ryan Kesler, C
31. Iyla Kovalchuk, LW, RW
32. Jeff Carter, C, RW
33. Eric Staal, C
34. Ryan Getzlaf, C
35. Carey Price, G
36. Drew Doughty, D
37. Patrick Marleau, LW
38. Rick Nash, LW, RW
39. Marc-Andre Fleury, G
40. Dustin Byfuglien, D
41. Alexander Semin, RW
42. Corey Crawford, G
43. Joe Thornton, C
44. Keith Yandle, D
45. Lubomir Visnovsky, D
46. Jonathan Quick, G
47. Mike Richards, C
48. Nicklas Lindstrom, D
49. Dan Boyle, D
50. Jimmy Howard, G
51. Claude Giroux, RW
52. Thomas Vanek, LW
53. Patrick Sharp, C
54. John Tavares, C
55. Mikka Kuprusoff, G
56. Duncan Keith, D
57. Danny Briere, C, RW
58. Dany Heatley, RW
59. Matt Duchene, C
60. Kris Letang, D
61. David Krejci, C
62. Milan Lucic, LW
63. Jeff Skinner, C
64. Christian Ehrhoff
65. David Backes, RW
66. Loui Eriksson, RW
67. Martin Havlat, RW
68. Marian Gaborik, RW
69. Vincent Lacavalier, C
70. Brent Burns, D
71. Ryane Clowe, LW
72. Joe Pavelski, C
73. Cam Ward, G
74. Johan Franzen, RW
75. Marian Hossa, RW