The Elite Hockey League (EHL) just lately accomplished their 32 annual NHL hockey fantasy draft. The draft began with solely 6 groups participating, in a draft held in Al Sellars basement on 8th Road. Shawn Bolack, Craig Richardson, Keith Richardson, and Al Sellars are the longest serving workforce house owners, having participated within the inaugural draft in 1991/92.
Via growth through the years, the league has grown to incorporate twelve groups. Ten of the workforce’s twelve house owners have been a part of the league for 28-years or extra. All through the years, the draft has been held at quite a few areas all through the town together with the outdated Brandon Membership, Keystone Centre Board Room, WCG Boardroom, Royal Oak Inn, BDO Dunwoody and most just lately the Victoria Inn.
Whereas the league’s possession group has gotten older through the years, the competitiveness nonetheless stays. Quite a few disagreements are a typical prevalence come draft day together with one 12 months the place an unnamed proprietor dared one other proprietor “to go forward, take a poke” throughout a heated dialogue.
Within the early days, the stats have been entered manually. At this time the league makes use of Fantrax as their official stats program. “Shifting to a web based stats program was a recreation changer” mentioned Pylon’s proprietor Shawn Bolack. “Within the outdated days I must run to Sellars home each Tuesday to pickup the weekly stats package deal simply to see how my workforce was doing. Now the stats are up to date in real-time” added Bolack.
A slightly complicated draft sees every proprietor draft a workforce of 20-players (2g, 6d, 12f) through a reside public sale draft of every participant till their roster is full. Every workforce receives a $30 wage cap. Groups additionally draft a reserve listing of 10 gamers and a rookie draft proceeds the public sale the place groups can defend as much as 5 rookies. As soon as the season begins, various classes (objectives, assists, hits, +/-, STP, SOG, wins, and GAA) are used to find out a winner. Every year the winner receives their workforce identify on the league’s trophy and a small amount of money.
