Everyone into the pool!

Here are the rules: The names of 102 current NHL players included on the Olympic Rosters of the "Big Six" teams (CAN, CZE, FIN, RUS, SWE, USA) are included in the groups below. (I've also noted their NHL team.)

All you have to do is choose any ONE player from each of the four groups of forwards, the two groups of defensemen, the two groups of goalies, and any TWO players from each of the two Wild Card groups. In the end, you’ve got a total of TWELVE players on your "Team."

Points are awarded as follows: Goal - 1 point; Assist - 1 point; Win (for goalies only) - 1 point; Shut-out (for goalies only) - 3 points. I’ll post the standings on a daily basis. The winner will be the Outsports Member whose "Team" has accumulated the most points at the end of the tourney.

This pool is for *FUN* only. The winner will only receive the glory, bragging rights, and unending praise from all Outsports Olympic hockey fans. But that’s enough, ain’t it?

Submissions are due BEFORE 9:00 a.m. PST, Friday, February 15th. No one can join and no player trades are allowed after that deadline, no exceptions. Submit your selections to: sephmontreal@hotmail.com My picks will be posted late Thursday, Feb. 14th.

NOTES: 1) The team rosters come directly from the NHL/Olympic site. If any player listed is currently injured, or becomes injured between now and the submission deadline, the onus is on you to find that out! 2) Overtime shoot-out goals WILL count as goals. 3) Remember, countries that finish Gold-Silver-Bronze-4th Place will all be playing the SAME number of games.

Good luck to all. Go for the Gold!

GROUP 1 - FORWARDS (pick ONLY ONE player)
CAN Mario Lemieux (PIT), Eric Lindros (NYR), Brendan Shanahan (DET)
CZE Patrick Elias (NJ), Milan Hejduk (COL), Jaromir Jagr (WSH)
SWE Daniel Arfredsson (OTT), Markus Naslund (VCR), Mats Sundin (TOR)

GROUP 2 FORWARDS (pick ONLY ONE player)
FIN Sami Kapanen (CAR), Jere Lehtinen (DAL), Teemu Selanne (SJ)
RUS Pavel Bure (FLA), Sergei Samsonov (BOS), Alexei Yashin (NYI)
USA Mike Modano (DAL), Jeremy Roenick (PHA), Keith Tkachuk (STL)

GROUP 3 - FORWARDS (pick ONLY ONE player)
CAN Paul Kariya (ANA), Joe Sakic (COL), Steve Yzerman (DET)
CZE Martin Havlat (OTT), Robert Lang (PIT), Petr Sykora (NJ)
SWE Ulf Dahlen (WSH), Michael Nylander (CHI), Mikael Renberg (TOR)

GROUP 4 - FORWARDS (pick ONLY ONE player)
FIN Olli Jokinen (FLA), Tomi Kallio (ATL), Ville Nieminen (COL)
RUS Sergei Fedorov (DET), Alexei Kovalev (PIT), Alexei Zhamnov (CHI)
USA Bill Guerin (BOS), Brett Hull (DET), Doug Weight (STL)

GROUP 5 - DEFENSEMEN (pick ONLY ONE player)
CAN Rob Blake (COL), Al MacInnis (STL), Chris Pronger (STL)
CZE Roman Hamrlik (NYI), Tomas Kaberle (TOR), Martin Skoula (COL)
SWE Kim Johnsson (PHA), Nicklas Lidstrom (DET), Mattias Ohlund (VAN)

GROUP 6 - DEFENSEMEN (pick ONLY ONE player)
FIN Janne Niinimaa (EDM), Teppo Numminen (PHO), Kimmo Timonen (NSH)
RUS Sergei Gonchar (WSH), Danny Markov (PHO), Oleg Tverdovsky (ANA)
USA Chris Chelios (DET), Brian Leetch (NYR), Brian Rafalski (NJ)

GROUP 7 - GOALIES (pick ONLY ONE player)
CAN Ed Belfour (DAL), Martin Brodeur (NJ), Curtis Joseph (TOR)
CZE Roman Cechmanek (PHA), Dominik Hasek (DET), Roman Turek (CAL)
SWE Johan Hedberg (PIT), Tommy Salo (EDM)

GROUP 8 - GOALIES (pick ONLY ONE player)
FIN Jani Hurme (OTT), Jussi Markkanen (EDM)
RUS Nikolai Khabibulin (TB)
USA Tom Barrasso (CAR), Mike Dunham (NSH), Mike Richter (NYR)

GROUP 9 - WILDCARDS "A" (pick ONLY TWO players)
CAN Theoren Fleury (NYR), Simon Gagné (PHA), Jerome Iginla (CAL), Joe Nieuwendyk (DAL), Owen Nolan (SJ), Michael Peca (NYI), Ryan Smyth (EDM)
CZE Jiri Dopita (PHA), Radek Dvorak (NYR), Jan Hrdina (PIT), Robert Reichel (TOR), Martin Rucinsky (DAL)
SWE Magnus Arvedson (OTT), P.J. Axelsson (BOS), Tomas Holmstrom (DET), Niklas Sundstrom (SJ)

GROUP 10 - WILDCARDS "B"(pick ONLY TWO players)
FIN Mikko Eloranta (LA), Niklas Hagman (FLA), Jarkko Ruutu (VAN), Juha Ylone (TB)
RUS Maxim Afinogenov (BUF), Valeri Bure (FLA), Ilya Kovalchuk (ATL), Viktor Kozlov (FLA), Oleg Kvasha (NYI), Igor Larionov (DET), Andrei Nikolishin (WSH)
USA Tony Amonte (CHI), Adam Deadmarsh (LA), Chris Drury (COL), John LeClair (PHA), Brian Rolston (BOS), Mike York (NYR), Scott Young (STL)



(NOTE: Edited to move forward the submission deadline by three hours to 9:00 a.m. PST, due to first game starting at 10:00 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST Friday. Thanks.)

[ February 11, 2002: Message edited by: Seph ]

[ February 14, 2002: Message edited by: Seph ]

Thanks for the thread this will be fun....

Mats Sundin
Sami Kapanen
Joe Sakic
Alexei Kovalev
Nicklas Lindstrom
Chris Chelios
Dominik Hasek
Nikolai Khabibulin
Michael Peca (if for nothing else he is dropdead good lookin)
Niklas Sundstrom
Ilya Kovalchuk
Chris Drury

Thanks for doing all the hard work:

D ALFREDSSON
K TKACHUK
J SAKIC
S FEDOROV
R BLAKE
T NUMMINEN
C JOSEPH
N KHABIBULIN
J IGINLA
R DVORAK
M ELORANTA
C DRURY

Let the games begin!

~Adam

*bump*...only 120 hours to join in...

Of note tonight in the NHL:
USA Modano, 1G, 4A
FIN Lehtinen, 1G, 2A
CZE Dvorak 1G, 2A
USA Leetch 1G, 1A
FIN Niininmaa 1G, 1A
FIN Selanne 1G, 1A
CAN Fleury 2A
CZE Elias 2A
RUS Kovalev 2A
Wins: Richter, Salo, Brodeur

Thanks.

1. Lemiux
2. Modano
3. Yzerman
4. Guerin
5. Lidstrom
6. Niinimaa
7. Hasek
8. Khabibulin
9. Niewendyke, Nolan
10. Amonte, Kovalchuk

*bump*...only 68 hours to join in...

So far have received picks from: Adam, Ballbusters, George_vikingfan, JoeinPhilly, sjtexasex.

From last night's NHL action, to tempt and tantalize:
SWE Sundin 1G, 2A
RUS Fedorov 2G
CZE Kaberle 2G
CAN Shanahan 1G, 1A
RUS Gonchar 1G, 1A
CAN Sakic 1G, 1A
CAN Blake 1G, 1A
CZE Jagr 2A
SWE Renberg 2A
SWE Lidstrom 2A

Down to the final hours to join! C'mon in!

Also received picks from Chip, Zeno, petedave.

I'll post my picks tonight.

Last call, boys! It's now or never! Time to participate in the true meaning of the Olympic Spirit - guys with wooden sticks bashing each others' heads in. And scoring pretty goals.

Games start tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. PST - no entries after the deadline, please!

Just received picks from pat125. Thanks!

My picks, to keep things on the up-and-up:

Markus Naslund (SWE)
Keith Tkachuk (USA)
Paul Kariya (CAN)
Doug Weight (USA)
Rob Blake (CAN)
Sergei Gonchar (RUS)
Dominik Hasek (CZE)
Nikolai Khabibulin (RUS)
Jerome Iginla (CAN)
Owen Nolan (CAN)
Ilya Kovalchuk (RUS)
Igor Larionov (RUS)

Cheers!

Well I will Join in. I know nothing about Ice Hockey.It is not a sport we play dowm under.
So here goes;

Eric Lindros
Pavel Bure
Steve Yzerman
Bill Guerin
Tomas Kaberle
Kimmo Timonen
Ed Belfour
Tom Barrasso
Radek Dourak
Ryan Smith
Igor Larionon
Chris Drury

NO LAUGHING AT MY SELECTIONS.
LET ME KNOW IF THEY ARE GOOD OR BAD SELECTIONS

Aussiebomber, a problem I see with your selection is the goalies. You chose Belfour (Canada) but he is more like the third goalie and I don't know if he will be playing at all. Joseph is starting the first game for Canada and Brodeur will also play in the first round. That is part of the reason why I picked Hasek. I believe he will play all the games for his team.

I am not aware of the first goalie for the US team. Puckman keeps wishing for Richter, so Barasso may not play in many games. I prefer Khabibulin anyway.

Being so far away, it is difficult for you to know the lineups. I picked Simon Gagné but learned yesterday he will not play in the first game for Canada, maybe he will take the place of Ryan Smith in a future game. I changed my selection since I know Gagné will miss at least one game.

Some nice picks in there, Aussie B. Thanks for joining up!

Like in any pool, anything can happen - ya never know! But it makes watching the games even more fun, imo.

We've got 11 players in the pool. I'll try to post the standings (in a new thread) at the end of every day with games. Good luck, poolies! And thanks for playing!