The Bear Skins are Born

In a press release today, the GDC Bruins announced that they are changing their name to the "Bear Skins".

In an interview, GM MacCormack explained, "There are many reasons for our name change, first and foremost, we want to start a winning tradition here at GDC. Last year's second place finish in the GDHL is just not good enough. We in the front office realized that we need to be less reliant on one team. You know what killed our team last year? Our main supplier of talent, the Boston Bruins, were shutout in half of their last 10 games. We had so many Bruins on board we could not recover from that. This year we have players from 19 different NHL clubs. That should insolate us from prolonged slumps by any one team."

MacCormack did acknowledge that he will not totally abandon the Bruins. "The Bear Skins will always have Boston Bruins on their roster. That is not going to change. We currently have what we consider to be 5 of the best Bruins." he added, "We'd also love to get big dman Chara, but GM Shannon is being very stubborn in his dealings with us. "

The team is planning a series of advertisements to promote its new name which will feature hairless bears dancing to music by the Bare Naked Ladies.

GDHL: Draft Movers and Shakers

Here is an analysis of the biggest movers in the draft this year. The list contains all the players that were drafted in our 2006 draft, the round they were drafted in in 2006 and 2007 and how far they moved up or down. For comparison purposes, round 1 of this year's draft is considered round 11, round 2 is 12, etc. Free agency is listed as round 21. Enjoy!

Player/Pos/2006 Round/2007 Round/Mov

D Roy F 20 12 8
J. Blake F 20 13 7
Brunette F 18 12 6
M.A. Bergeron D 19 13 6
Sykora F 17 13 4
Weight F 19 15 4
Guerin F 20 16 4
Kunitz F 16 13 3
Perry F 17 14 3
Commodore D 20 17 3
S. Koivu F 13 11 2
Ribeiro F 16 14 2
Corvo D 19 17 2
Bryzgalov G 20 18 2
Tkachuk F 13 12 1
Erat F 14 13 1
Morris D 14 13 1
Hartnell F 15 14 1
Leopold D 18 17 1
Wolski F 18 17 1
Huselius F 14 14 0
JP Dumont F 15 15 0
Preissing D 15 15 0
Zubrus F 15 15 0
J. Carter F 16 16 0
Upshall F 17 17 0
Higgins F 19 19 0
Khabibulin G 12 13 -1
Avery F 13 14 -1
Tucker F 13 14 -1
Langenbrunner F 16 17 -1
Holmstrom F 18 19 -1
Brewer D 19 20 -1
Latendresse F 19 20 -1
Ozolinsh D 20 21 -1
Stajan F 20 21 -1
Brule F 20 21 -1
Brind'amour F 9 11 -2
Langkow F 9 11 -2
G. Murray F 12 14 -2
Zhitnik D 12 14 -2
Samsonov F 13 15 -2
Jokinen F 14 16 -2
Hecht F 16 18 -2
Lang F 16 18 -2
Reinprecht F 17 19 -2
Aranson F 19 21 -2
Bondra F 19 21 -2
M. Richards F 19 21 -2
Parrish F 19 21 -2
Sheppard F 19 21 -2
Cammalleri F 8 11 -3
Jordan Staal F 8 11 -3
Schneider D 8 11 -3
Seabrook D 12 15 -3
Prospal F 13 16 -3
Eminger D 18 21 -3
Esche G 18 21 -3
Ladd F 18 21 -3
Pettinger F 18 21 -3
Steen F 18 21 -3
Walz F 18 21 -3
Justin Williams F 7 11 -4
Beauchemin D 11 15 -4
Knuble F 11 15 -4
Connolly F 13 17 -4
C. Neil F 17 21 -4
F. Modin F 17 21 -4
Kronwall D 17 21 -4
Lehtinen F 17 21 -4
Spacek D 17 21 -4
Kovalev F 7 12 -5
Ryder F 9 14 -5
K. Ballard D 10 15 -5
Samuelsson F 15 20 -5
Ruutu F 15 20 -5
Calder F 16 21 -5
K. Johnsson D 16 21 -5
Mike Van Ryn D 16 21 -5
Pisani F 16 21 -5
S. Federov F 16 21 -5
Forsberg F 5 11 -6
Hejduk F 5 11 -6
Morrow F 5 11 -6
Arnott F 6 12 -6
Doan F 6 12 -6
Satan F 12 18 -6
Armstrong F 15 21 -6
Bell F 15 21 -6
Regehr D 15 21 -6
Sutton D 15 21 -6
Selanne F 5 12 -7
S. Sullivan F 10 17 -7
Comrie F 11 18 -7
Sturm F 14 21 -7
A Ward D 14 21 -7
Desjardins D 14 21 -7
Modano F 7 15 -8
Lupul F 9 17 -8
Kubina D 11 19 -8
Boyes F 12 20 -8
Ekman F 13 21 -8
A. Carter F 13 21 -8
Kotalik F 13 21 -8
Bertuzzi F 4 13 -9
B. Jackman D 9 18 -9
Garon G 12 21 -9
Gerber G 12 21 -9
Horcoff F 6 16 -10
B. Morrison F 9 19 -10
Conroy F 11 21 -10
Hamhuis D 11 21 -10
Jason Williams F 11 21 -10
Witt D 11 21 -10
Yashin F 11 21 -10
Prucha F 10 21 -11
Theodore G 10 21 -11
Zherdev F 4 17 -13
Auld G 8 21 -13
Rucinsky F 8 21 -13
Stillman F 4 18 -14
Berard D 7 21 -14
Gratton F 7 21 -14
Svatos F 7 21 -14

Great Minds Think Alike

During the recent GDHL draft I created large list of players I wanted in the draft. Of course the list was much too large to be able to draft them all, but I did get a fair number of them. I also kept track of who took players off my list. Below is an analysis of the number of players each of you stole from me, and the average round in which you drafted them. Enjoy!

GM #Stolen/Average Round
Ryan 5/6.6

Mark 4/5.25

Ken 4/6.75

Trevor 4/6.75

Kevin 4/7
Victor 3/2.67

Ihor 3/4.34

Jordan 2/6.5

Paul 2/8.5

Adam 2/9

JW 1/9

GDHL: 2007 Draft Picks Round 10

GM Pick# Traded to Selection Team Position
Ken Kyswaty 109 Roberts PIT F
Adam Byrne 110 Weiss FLA F
JW Berarducci 111 Phillips OTT D
Ryan Tizzard 112 Latendresse MTL F
Trevor Shannon 113 Foster MIN D
Jordan Kreuger 114 Brown LA F
Mark Atkins 115 Samuelsson Det F
Paul Berlinguette 116 Ruutu T. CHI F
Ihor Triska 117 Boynton Pho D
Victor Khoo 118 Brewer STL D
Mike MacCormack 119 Boyes STL F
Kevin Kwasny 120 White ATL F

GDHL: 2007 Draft Picks Round 9

GM Pick# Traded to Selection Team Position
Ken Kyswaty 97 Clowe SJ F
Adam Byrne 98 Holmstrom DET F
JW Berarducci 99 Duncan Keith CHI D
Ryan Tizzard 100 Kaberle CAR D
Trevor Shannon 101 Reinprecht Pho F
Jordan Kreuger 102 Stumpel FLA F
Mark Atkins 103 Koivu MIN F
Paul Berlinguette 104 Suter Nas D
Ihor Triska 105 Higgins Mon F
Victor Khoo 106 Morrison VAN F
Mike MacCormack 107 Kubina TOR D
Kevin Kwasny 108 Barker CHI D

GDHL: 2007 Draft Picks Round 8

GM Pick# Traded to Selection Team Position
Ken Kyswaty 85 Lang CHI F
Adam Byrne 86 Jackman STL D
JW Berarducci 87 Hecht BUF F
Ryan Tizzard 88 (to Ihor) Holmqvist TB G
Trevor Shannon 89 O'Brien TB D
Jordan Kreuger 90 Sillinger NYI F
Mark Atkins 91 Satan NYI F
Paul Berlinguette 92 Stempniak STL F
Ihor Triska 93 Bryzgalov ANA G
Victor Khoo 94 Comrie NYI F
Mike MacCormack 95 Stillman CAR F
Kevin Kwasny 96 Pavelski SJ F

GDHL: 2007 Draft Picks Round 7

GM Pick# Traded to Selection Team Position
Ken Kyswaty 73 Leopold COL D
Adam Byrne 74 Wolski COL F
JW Berarducci 75 Langenbrunner NJ F
Ryan Tizzard 76 Upshall PHI F
Trevor Shannon 77 (to Kevin) Corvo OTT D
Jordan Kreuger 78 (to Ihor) Commordore CAR D
Mark Atkins 79 Steve Sullivan NAS F
Paul Berlinguette 80 Ouellet TB F
Ihor Triska 81 Bouchard Min F
Victor Khoo 82 Handzus LA F
Mike MacCormack 83 Lupul PHI F
Kevin Kwasny 84 Connolly BUF F