Round One Summary

Friday night the UFHL held the first round of their annual entry draft. This is the first year that the draft has followed the NHL and had the first round on a different day than the rest of the rounds.

As anticipated, there were a number of trades as teams moved around. However, despite the uncertainty of draft day, it seems as UFHL managers had a fairly intimate knowledge of draft rankings as there were few surprises.

To come up with a ranking of players, lists from The Hockey News, ISS, the CSB, Bob Mckenzie (midseason), and a blogger called CUP have been averaged WITH the actual UFHL draft position to create a ranking of players prior to the NHL draft.

This gives interesting insight to where players have been selected. Here is the breakdown.
Stamkos ranked #1, selected # 1 - 0 spots earlier than predicted
Doughty ranked #2, selected #3 - 1 spot later than predicted
Bogosian ranked #2, selected 4, 2 spots later than predicted
Pietrangelo ranked #4, selected 5 - 1 spot later than predicted
Filatov ranked #5, selected 2 - 3 spots earlier than predicted
Schenn ranked #6, selected 9 - 3 spots later than predicted
Boedker ranked #7, selected 6 - 1 spot earlier than predicted
Hodgson ranked #8, selected 7 - 1 spot earlier than predicted
Wilson ranked #9, selected 8 - 1 spot earlier than predicted
Beach ranked #10, selected 11 - 1 spot later than predicted
Myers ranked #11, selected 15 - 4 spots later than predicted
Boychuk ranked #12, selected 10 - 2 spots earlier than predicted
Bailey ranked #13, selected 14 - 1 spot earlier than predicted
Teubert ranked #14, not selected
Sbisa ranked #15, selected 17 - 2 spots later than predicted
Tedenby ranked #16, selected 16 - 0 spots earlier than predicted
Del Zotto ranked #17, selected 12 - 5 spots earlier than predicted
Pickard ranked #18 (based on only 3 lists), selected 13 - 5 spots earlier than predicted
Markstrom ranked # 19, selected 17 - 2 spots earlier than predicted
Carlson ranked #20, selected 27th - 7 spots later than predicted
Robak ranked #21, selected 20 - 1 spot earlier than predicted
Colborne ranked #22, selected 26 - four spots later than predicted
Dalpe ranked #23, selected 24 - one spot later than predicted
Cuma ranked #24, not selected
Deschamps ranked #25, not selected
Eberle ranked #26, selected 28 - 2 spots later than predicted
Nemisz ranked #27, not selected
Stefanovich ranked #28 - selected 19th - 9 spots higher than predicted
Gardiner ranked #29, selected 29th - 0 spots earlier than predicted
McCollum ranked #30, not selected

Players selected outside of top 30 rankings:
Ness at 21 was ranked 36 - 15 spots earlier than predicted
Toews at 22 was ranked 38 - 16 spots earlier than predicted
Sateri at 23 was ranked 46 - 23 spots earlier than predicted
Karlsson at 25 was ranked 34 - 9 spots earlier than predicted

Biggest riser: Sateri
Biggest fall: Teubert (and still dropping)

When round two begins, some GMs may look at the guys who are still on the board unexpectedly, or perhaps there are more surprises in store! It will also be interesting to see where these players go in the NHL. Will the teams that took guys like Ness, Toews, Sateri, and Karlsson look like geniuses or suckers? In the end, its not really about the draft position but what a player does after being drafted. Only time will tell, but draft position plays into hype, which certainly has tangible value in a fantasy league.

Enjoy round two! Canucks pick first!