Take part in a real draft

As soon as we receive your order form, we'll send you a complete draft packet, including NHL player lists. Players are listed by position, and include last year's Scoresheet Hockey point totals for every player. Both season totals and points per game played last year are shown, along with players' ages. You can draft by either postal mail or e-mail! A full description of how the draft is run, and complete rules for Scoresheet Hockey , will be included with the draft packet.

Each team will end up with 25 players, consisting of:

5 Centers             5 Left Wings
5 Right Wings         6 Defensemen
3 Goalies, and 1 extra player 
       from any position

After you've had time to look over the NHL player lists included with the draft packet, you'll fill out a ranking sheet and send it to us. On this sheet, you will rank the players in the order you want them. You can list players from different positions in whatever order you wish, according to how valuable you think they will be in the coming season.

The draft order will be determined randomly, and whoever picks first in round one will pick last in round two, and so on. When your turn comes up, we'll give you the highest-ranked, undrafted player on your list, subject to our procedures for ensuring you get a balanced team. These roster-balancing procedures automatically ensure that each owner will get a team with the correct number of players at every position, and are fully explained in the draft packet.

This year we will also be offering a web based draft system where you can change your ranking list between every round of the draft, giving you the same control over the draft as if you were doing a live in-person draft. A description of the new web draft system can be found on the web here. A full explanation of the draft rules for both web drafting and for drafts that send lists to our office will be included in the drafting packet that we will send you as soon as we receive your team order.

League Set-up

12-team leagues we set up have 2 conferences, with 6 teams in each conference. The top three finishers in each conference qualify for the playoffs, which are played during the last 4 weeks of the regular NHL season. (The Scoresheet Hockey playoffs go for 3 weeks-we no longer use the final week of the regular NHL season due to too many NHL teams resting their stars for the Stanley Cup playoffs.) Engraved trophies are awarded to league winners and certificates are given to each conference winner.

To register, you should send in your order form by early September to make sure you have enough time to prepare for the draft. (You can send in your order form after that, but you'll find yourself rushing somewhat to get your draft list ready in time.) If you are running your own draft, you can ignore these dates, but if you want your games to start the first week of the NHL season, you should finish your draft by/before September 28th - the first NHL game of the 2007 NHL season is September 29th! The sooner you send in your order form, the more time you'll have to prepare for the draft!