Hops & Barley Conferences Formed

Hops & Barley are the key ingredients to our ever popular league.

Although the NHL is currently under a lockout (as of midnight last night), the ABC League is showing growth through expansion.  This growth has created a need to divide the teams into conferences.  After much debate and discussion, the conference names have been selected and the teams have been divided into their new divisions.

Hops Conference

Alien Hockey

Puckheads

Red Alert

Voodoo

Barley Conference

Forklifts of DM/Kyles Bikes

Cup O' Kryptonite

Rink Rats

Victors

Although the teams will still have inter-conference play throughout the season, there will be Conference Finals at the end of the season as part of the playoff format, with the Conference champs playing each other for the Fleming Cup.

Draft Day Approaches

This Thursday at 6:30 PM, the first ever ABC League Draft will be held. For the entire summer, the 8 captains have studied film, held training camps, tryouts and had players take part in medical physicals.  After all this, they are ready to assemble what they believe will be the best combination of players to ever take the ice for 4 weeks.

Although each captain has kept their picks a complete secret until draft day, I am providing some insight as to how the draft order will go.  After inputting all the data, here is the way I believe the players will be drafted.  Keep in mind, it is not simply talent and skill, but rather intangibles like attitude, beer drinking ability and locker room moral.

Here is the order:

Dave Lasnek
John Riechart
Larry LePera
Adam Krultz
Erik Keece G
Dustin Gordon
Dave Green
Dave Ross
Nathan Brand
Shon McDonough
Jason Wolf
Rick Kavan
Will Koch
John Coffie
Scott Jacobson
David Stember
Dusty Beenen
Chad Waters G
Dave Gannon
Tony Toigo
Brett Damos
Jason Mrachina
Sean Bremer
Chris Hansen
Jason Seebaeck
Mike Dylo
Dave Natale
Rob Wheeler
Mark Scholz
Joe Bafia
Pat Scholer
Jason Tritch
Matt Johnson
Mark Dylo
Lisa Schumacher
Steve Kuzynowski G
Chris LeFleur
Chris Hill
Josh Lohmeier
Doug Beebe
Dan Becker
Jim Goeke G
Dave Swift
Adam Lowell
Brian Pierce
Mitch Stein
Adam Keller
Mike Herrmann
Brett Swanson
Brent Hanke
Todd Bentzen
Brian Gugat
Nick Dawson
Nataliya Dudechenko
James Chung
Dan Bishop
Dave Miller
Darren Stout
Aaron Clutts
Kacy Reeves G
Ryan Smiley
Davis Stout
Nick Giunta
Paul Adams
Scott Kundell
Ben Hudson
Andrew Mellein
Tony Hansen G
Dan Hoy
Nick Radcliff
Gregory Propst
Dan Koenig
Paul Curran
Shaun Greene
Adam Schneiders
Rich Cohan
Jeff Starr
Mark Wurzer
Marc LePera
Dave Chongo
Mike Fascian
John Evans
Tim Close
Rich Hrabak
Pat Houlihan
Nick Hrabak
Ryan Stout
Jon Rech
Cody Gavin
Nick Worth
Cody Fredericks
Ed Brafford
Pat Cashman
Josh Burkhart
Scott Anderson G
Brad Dean
Monty Brown
Brian Woline
Nathan Pirie
Blake Upmeyer
Javi Rodriguez
Jeff Dayton
Jeremy Knipper
Ryan LePera
Jon Young
Bill Goodman
Tom Kirvin
Caleb Harrelson
Tyler Wallace
Frank Meeink
Mike Bartak
Ryan Parker
Rich Hyuck
Scott Roskilly
Justin Williams
Bret Christensen
Mike Beede
Brendan McCallum
Paul Knight
Tim Kirgan
Derek Hickey
Jerome Miller G
Matt Whipps
Laura Stein
Mark Loverude
Josh Feathers
Brad Bedwell
Ben Paoli
Matt Whitaker
Rick Radcliffe
Don Mudge