Geek Misconduct: All Star Weekend

Saturday, January 29, 2011

All Star Weekend - Fantasy Draft

I missed watching this live as we recorded the NHL Network's 2 hour pre-draft show (really?) instead of the actual thing. WHOOPS. So we recorded the replay, watched a movie ("Exit Through the Gift Shop" - it was good), and watched it later sans commercials.

I'll go on record to say I didn't really care for the whole fantasy draft scenario. I found it cheesy in a very uncomfortable way. Perhaps I'm just projecting long buried feelings of getting picked near the bottom of my class during gym as a kid. Besides, if the point of the whole draft was to "mix things up" a bit, it really didn't offer too many surprises. The captains picked teammates, all of the Hawks with the exception of Sharpie landed on the same team, and one Staal picked another. The only "surprise" was the Sedin Twins were split up, but we all knew that would happen anyway. Some of the interviews after the players were picked were cringe worthy. Hey NHL, you really want to mix things up? Get a Lotto machine and put a ball in there for each All-Star - bonus points if you put their faces on them. Have fans pick out players one-by-one by position (goalies, defensemen, forwards). Once the players for each team have been picked, then they can vote for their captains. That's the way I would do it anyway *shrugs*

Rather than attempting a lame recap, here is the summary of the Draft in macros: