Post by QC Mike on Aug 29, 2023 22:25:11 GMT -7
In the vein of Down Goes Brown silly season articles, here's one for our league. Construct a roster (12 F, 6 D, and 2 G) based on the first letter of a player's last name. You have to take all the player's whose last names start with that letter but you can't go over the allotted number of F, D, and Gs.
I'd start my team with the letter M, and this is both a blessing and a curse as it completes my defensive corps in one go:
Makar, McAvoy, Morrisey, Miller, Mahura and Merrill.
This means that there are a number of players unavailable up front as they would require adding a seventh+ defenseman: B (Borgen), D (de Haan), J (Juulsen & Jokiharju), K (Knyzhov), L, Leddy), P (Provorov), and s (Stecher). This knock out players like Kadri, Lindholm, Pinto, Strome, ...
The letter G takes care of my Goaltending with Georgiev and Grubauer and throws in Claude Giroux and Barclay Goodrow as a bonus but also saddles me with Julian Gauthier. My third goalie (Korpisalo) was already out with the Ks.
Now to come up with 9 forwards. Whew! 9 forwards left that don't put me over the limit so that gives me this line up (and no one's OP as an added bonus).
Forwards
| Nugent-Hopkins | Cozens | Farabee |
| Fiala | Giroux | Terravainen |
| van Riemsdyk, J | Rasmussen | Zetterlund |
| Wood | Goodrow | Gauthier |
Defense
| Morrisey | Makar |
| Miller | McAvoy |
| Merrill | Mahura |
Goalies
Georgiev
Grubauer
Pretty weak on the right side but not too bad team and it only used 9 letters (8 if you count JVR as an R - then de Haan would drop the H's which wouldn't impact this line up).
