2016 World Cup of Hockey Draft Date

The World Cup of Hockey will face-off on September 17th and we should be seeing camps open for all the announced rosters in the couple weeks before that.  That should give us ample time for us poolies, however many there may be, to scout the teams and prepare a list for drafting.

The beginning of September is usually quite the busy time for the ol' Opiated Sherpa, so we'll have to stage a mid-week draft, for those who are interested in doing a little bit of pre-NHL season gambling.  The best day to go will be the Thursday before puck drop, September 15th.  By then, we'll know who will be playing with who, who hasn't conditioned themselves very well and got hurt in camp and who will have replaced Slava Voynov for the Russian team.

The location will be determined on the premise of how many people will be taking part in this draft, I have a couple of places in mind, so we'll work on that closer to the date.  If you are interested in taking part, please let me know one way or another, so I can get a solid count.

This draft will go, no matter how many people want to get involved and it will be a little bit of a free-for-all draft, where the expectation is that we'll draft until there are no more players left to take and there will be no positional limits.  Player lists and all the necessary information will be provided and hopefully our location will either have screens or a projector for easy viewing.