The Inside Hockey dynasty league is in its debut season. The nice part of joining a league so fresh and new is meeting some new fantasy experts and some old ones too. Now we are hoping the Excel gods are with us this morning as we import this bad boy over from the mother computer. Here is our 32 man veteran roster and the contract breakdown. Please note every four players has a 1,2,3,4 sequence. That just means the years he will be signed for. Here is that table.
| PLAYER | POS | CONTRACT |
| Martin Brodeur | G | 2 |
| Ryan Miller | G | 4 |
| Brent Seabrook | D | 1 |
| Jason Spezza | C | 3 |
| Bobby Ryan | F | 4 |
| Chris Pronger | D | 1 |
| Travis Zajac | F | 2 |
| Tobias Enstrom | D | 3 |
| Alex Kovalev | F | 1 |
| Pavel Kubina | D | 2 |
| David Clarkson | F | 3 |
| Devin Setoguchi | F | 4 |
| Anton Volchenkov | D | 3 |
| Mike Modano | F | 1 |
| Jason Arnott | F | 2 |
| Matt Moulson | F | 4 |
| Andy MacDonald | F | 1 |
| Steve Downie | F | 2 |
| Dan Sexton | F | 3 |
| Jason Demers | D | 4 |
| Brian Rolston | F | 1 |
| Mike Smith | G | 2 |
| David Jones | F | 4 |
| Zenon Konopka | F | 3 |
| Darren Helm | F | 2 |
| Andrew Brunette | F | 1 |
| Justin Abdelkader | F | 3 |
| Liam Reddox | F | 4 |
| Ruslan Salei | D | 3 |
| Viktor Tikhonov | F | 4 |
| Jaromir Jagr | F | 1 |
| Robert Esche | G | 2 |
Nice shiny table isn’t it? So every four players there was a shift in contract length. That is a unique facet about this league that most do not have. So no it does not look like a combination from the movie “Spaceballs“, there is an actual pattern. The idea in handing out contracts is to balance your young players with old and segment them then slot them into contract like a GM would. The hard part was the four player segments to be honest. At the end, I know I made a crtical mistake with Jagr and Esche but who knows, they may come back one day.
Also, the reason why I took two goalies so early was to have an even spread. I also took a blue chip prospect named Jonathan Bernier in the Prospects Draft. I was not all that worried about defense. Going with the guns and butter approach, I went all out arming myself with Forwards that I could mete out contracts that were easy on the stomach. We also made sure to pick up some very old vets who have one last kick at the can to make sure we could give out some 1 year deals with a clear conscience.
The toughest choice was only giving Martin Brodeur a 2 year deal. Most people seem to think he could play three even four years but realistically I think he has two good years left. It is a tough call but when you have a guy like Bernier on the horizon who may win a few Cups, you can make sacrifices.
Lastly, it is also not a secret that sometimes us “experts” like to experiment a bit to see what works and will not work. Mock Drafts can often be used for that but a league of this scale leads to some degree of “reaches”. With 8 prospects and 32 players, it is a pool of talent not quite seen ever. So if there are any disputes, by all means comment away. It should be fun to see what the readers think of a league like this and the picks, and contracts as well.
