How's it going in EHM2007? What team Are You?

[djskek]

Getzlaf did all the season on the first and the third?? darn.

yes, but one month he was injured (Playoff time). [134 Points (49 + 85) and 145 Points ( 53 + 92) incl. Playoffs]

[djskek]

So, that's my transaction for the new season:

Players in:

Ducks:

Mr. Malkin (free agent), A. Raycroft

(San Antonio & Bakersfield) All Backup

D. Robertson, D. Ryder, R. Garlock, B. Birch, B. Kessel, C. Summers, J. LaVallee-Smotherman, M. Cousineau, T. Lagerström, M. Neal, N. Musitelli , 8 x regn players (6 x by Entry Draft)

out:

Festerling, Mitera, Hamel, MacMillan, Moon, Chipchura, J. Braithwaite, M. Smith, M. Ganzak (all free agent)

Joe Thornton (by Waiver), Pielmeier (trade), M. Gardiner (trade), Deschamps (trade)

[mark_htfc]

It is certainly great to see that this community is still alive after so long. It's also good to see a lot of old faces still around .

I decided to install EHM again on my new PC after finally deciding to figure out how to unlicence it from my laptop. It didn't take me long at all to find out what I needed to know. So after unlicencing it from my old computer, I can now get back into playing EHM.

I haven't decided who I am going to be yet. I might just start a career with Mancester Phoenix to get back in to the seing of things and then move into the minor leagues in America.

[djskek]

Welcome back to TBL!

[philou21]

Gald to see you back Mark!! Been a long time for sure!

[mark_htfc]

Cheers guys .

It certainly has been a long time, that's for sure. Good to be back though.

[marko11]

I just won my 5 Stanley Cup with Washington in 13 years! I'll soon have to rebuild the team as Oveckhin and Backstrom are coming to the end of their careers!

[bruins72]

It is certainly great to see that this community is still alive after so long. It's also good to see a lot of old faces still around .

I decided to install EHM again on my new PC after finally deciding to figure out how to unlicence it from my laptop. It didn't take me long at all to find out what I needed to know. So after unlicencing it from my old computer, I can now get back into playing EHM.

I haven't decided who I am going to be yet. I might just start a career with Mancester Phoenix to get back in to the seing of things and then move into the minor leagues in America.

Hey! It's nice to see you back!

Get some practice in so you can join us for the next challenge. We'll probably start a new one next month.

[philou21]

So it seems the playoffs got me back into EHM. Haven't played it since January I think. Still with my custom DB managing the Nordiques.


Year 3 just ended, missing the playoffs after two qualifications. Finished 12th in the east and 24th overall in the NHL, exactly what I wanted and expected. I don't even know how in the world I've made the playoffs the first 2 years with a team like this. The fact that my division is really weak helped alot. I'm in the North-East with MTL, Leafs, Sens and the Panthers ( now in Hamilton ). All of them suck bad so even with an ugly overall I can be third in the East with 10-12 pts less than the 4th or 5th position.

The draft was extremely talented this year with Duchene, Tavares, Paajarvi, Hedman, Bondra regen, Schroeder etc....My goal in the game, to keep a good challenge, is to have players in my team that was drafted ONLY by the Nords. Because I just started the game I can't do that for now but with alot of draft picks I'm getting close to it. I made a huge trade with Nashville who was last in the league at the deadline to get the first overall because I wanted Duchene so bad to be my franchise player with Nash. Unfortunately, they got a nice sequence at the end of the season due to my trade and finished 25th overall in the league! Luck was on my side though, they won the lotery draft.

Now I have a great pool of prospects such as Duchene (#1 overall 2009 ), Couture (#9 2007), Brassard(#6 2006), Perron(#45 2007), Mason(#69 2006), Bondra regen(#7 2009), Tyler Ennis(#26 2008) and Voracek(#5 2007). Because it was my first editing ever, I told to myself that if I ranked a guy very too high, I'll trade him away, because I'm considering this as cheating. So now my awesome line up looks like this..........

Nash-Parise- ?
Fritsche-Brassard-Balastik
Dingman-Maholtra-Rasmussen
Konsorada-Platt-Motzko


Methot-Berard
Klesla-Weber (not edited)
Westcott-Foote


Leclaire
Mason


Basically all the guy in dark were drafted by the organization. Not a bad start! Perron, Couture and Duchene will soon be in the line-up too, so I'll be able to get rid off Parise ( I signed him as an RFA ). The only thing missing is a big time D-man, I don't have good defensemen in my prospects pool, just 4th-5th potential. I hope to miss the playoffs again next year and try to pick up a good defenseman. We'll see about that.

[Vikke]

Hah, I haven't been on here since we released EHM 2005, I think. I used to work for SI on EHM, researching Sweden and translating to Swedish, as well as countless hours of betatesting. Miss those days.

I've started to play EHM 07 again, after a few years. Currently just finished my fifth season in the WHL with the Chilliwack Bruins.
Sorta tanked the first season, won the championship and memorial cup the next two. I was planning on going for it during my third season, but in the second some youngguns stepped up and my goalie carried the team all the way.
Fourth season I lost in the finals, and this season I finished 3rd overall, but lost in the conference quarters 4-3. Oh, well.
It's fun to play again at least.

[Terva]

Wow, you guys still on this forum? i´ve been playing the game since the start and I´m on right now.

I started a new campaign for a while ago where I removed Nashville and replaced with a fantasy team - Hamilton Tigers. I also created a fantas player - just for the fun - a center with potential 199 who became killer. He´s like scoring +150 points every season.

But the game got really fun after like 6-7 season when the regen players started showing som real class. I´m in the 2015/2016 season right know and have managed to pick up the regens of Hasek, Roenick, Guerin, Weight, Bondra and Lidström.

[philou21]

This forum got along way to go before dying, a very long.

[Wroom]

I'm in August 2012 on my game. Sixth straight Stanley Cup with the Rangers last season. With a pretty solid team. So, this off-season I decided to shake things up a little.

The head coach's contract was up, so Bob Hartley was let go. I think he demanded to much. Hired Doug Shedden as new Head Coach. The last six years he has been at Jokerit in Finland.

Roster shakeup:

30.06.12 - Bruno Gervais (AHL) : Free Agent
30.06.12 - Ville Leino (2nd line C) : Free Agent
30.06.12 - Nikita Klyukin (AHL) : Free Agent
30.06.12 - Aleksandr Taverov (AHL) : Free Agent
30.06.12 - Dan Carcillo (AHL) : Free Agent

03.07.12 - Cédric Aubin (Prospect C) : Gatineau (Free)
05.07.12 - Vincent Lecavalier (1st line C) : UFA (Free)

06.07.12 - Chris Drury (1st line C) : Capitals (Trade)
06.07.12 - Mathieu Perreault (AHL C) : Capitals (Trade)
06.07.12 - Nikolai Lemtyugov (3/4th line W) : Capitals (Trade)
06.07.12 - 2nd round 2013 pick (WSH) : Capitals (Trade)

10.07.12 - Dmitri Kalinin (2nd-6th D-man) : UFA (Free)

11.07.12 - Patrick Sharp (3rd line C) : Ducks (Trade)
11.07.12 - 2nd round pick 2013 (ANA) : Ducks (Trade)
11.07.12 - 3rd round pick 2013 (ANA) : Ducks (Trade)
11.07.12 - 5th round pick 2014 (ANA) : Ducks (Trade)

12.07.12 - Henrik Sedin (2nd line C) : UFA (Free)

13.07.12 - Karri Rämö (Backup G) : UFA (Free)
13.07.12 - Mike Fisher (3rd/4th line) : UFA (Free)

14.07.12 - Kyle Quincey (7th D-man) : Wild (Trade)
14.07.12 - Joe Theodore (backup G) : Bruins (Trade)
14.07.12 - Chris Kelly (4th line RW) : Lightning (Trade)
14.07.12 - 4th round pick 2013 (MIN) : Wild (Trade)
14.07.12 - 2nd round pick 2013 (BOS) : Bruins (Trade)
14.07.12 - 4th round pick 2014 (TB) : Lightning (Trade)
14.07.12 - Ryan Miller (Starting G) : UFA (Free)

15.07.12 - Henrik Lundqvist (Starting G) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 3rd round pick 2013 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 2nd round pick 2014 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 4th round pick 2014 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 6th round pick 2014 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 4th round pick 2016 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)
15.07.12 - 4th round pick 2017 (VAN) : Canucks (Trade)

17.07.12 - Landon Wilson (3rd line RW) : Bruins (Trade)
17.07.12 - 4th round pick 2013 (BOS) : Bruins (Trade)

31.07.12 - Nigel Dawes (13th forward) : Panthers (Trade)
31.07.12 - Josef Vasicek (2nd line LW) : Panthers (Trade)
31.07.12 - 2nd round pick 2015 (FLA) : Panthers (Trade)
31.07.12 - Alexandre Picard (1st line LW) : Panthers (Trade)

Last season lineup(2011/12): 56-20-6 , 342-255 , 15,89%PP - 85,95%PK

Grabovsky-Drury-Heatley
Vasicek-Leino-Afinogenov
Higgins-Sharp-L.Wilson
Semin-Bergqvist-Kelly
(L.Toews)

Stuart-Campbell
Kulyash-R.Wilson
Staal-Warrener
(Quincey)

Lundqvist
(Theodore)

Lineup this season(2012/13)

Picard-Lecavalier-Heatley
Grabovsky-Sedin-Afinogenov
Higgins-L.Toews-Cruz
Semin-Bergqvist-Lemtyugov
(Aubin)
(Fisher)

Stuart-Campbell
Kulyash-R.Wilson
Staal-Warrener
(Kalinin)

Miller
(Rämö)


Going to be interesting to see if the offense will generate more, and if the 3rd and 4th line will do as well as those last year did.

[Manimal]

[Jypfan92]

Funny thing happened in World Championships 2009 at original db.

Canada played in Group C with Switzerland, Austria and Italy. First Canada won Switzerland 7-1, then they beat Austria 6-0. Last game was against Italy and Canada lost 3-0 Garon has stopped 35/36 shots in first two games and now he stopped only 20/23. All 8 defenders has positive +/- and +7 rating. Rick Nash has scored 4+2 in first matches, Pierre-Marc Bouchard 2+4. Bouchard and Spezza (1+2) were out of Italy match. Paulo Colaiacovo has stopped 45/53 shots against Switzerland (Italy lost 1-5) and Austria (Italy lost 2-3) and played shutout against Canada, stopping 32 shots overall. Both teams took 20 pms and their pp and sh were 0%. However, Italy went to relegation round and Canada won Group C.

[Wroom]

Was that to me?

Just started the new season. 6-0-1 so far.

[Manimal]

Was that to me?

Just started the new season. 6-0-1 so far.

err... sorry! To each his own I guess

[Wroom]

Was that to me?

Just started the new season. 6-0-1 so far.

err... sorry! To each his own I guess

Usually I stay with the same core for decades. But, My main center was Forsberg. And, of course he retired. And I wasn't happy with the overall performances by my first two lines(Even though Drury actually got 120 points). And, Grabovsky isn't really good enough to be the first line LW over time(Though he actually somehow managed to win the Conn Smythe the season before).

This season Lecavalier and Heatley got 19 points after 8 games.

I have two better offensive lines now. And, the third and fourth are on paper worse, but much younger. It's going to be interesting to see how the evolve. Staal has made it to the first d-pair. Bumped Stuart down to third, and Warrener out of the lineup. Kalinin takes his spot.

7-0-1 now, 48-22 in goal difference, 24,3% PP and 83,3% PK.

[Jypfan92]

3rd season with Sabres. My pp wasn't pretty good in early season, mostly cause of Jaroslav Spacek's poor play on blueline, so I traded him to Panthers with rights of Vladislav Egin (3rd round pick 2007) and 2nd round pick in 2009 for Andrei Markov at trade deadline. Markov (FLO: 57 games, 5+23=28, 28 pms, +18, BUF: 25, 3+6=9, 26 pms, +6), Spacek (BUF: 55 games, 2+13=15, 79 pms, -4, FLO: 25, 2+9=11, 20 pms, -8). I was 5th in Eastern Conference and I didn't vote for anything good in playoffs.

1st round I played against 4th seeded Carolina Hurricanes, which was very offensive-minded team (offense: Eric Staal, Rod Brind'Amour, Jussi Jokinen, Tuomo Ruutu, Sergei Samsonov, Scott Walker, Trent Hunter, Brandon Sutter, Todd White. Defense: Joni Pitkänen, 41-points in regular season scored rookie Jamie McBain, Dennis Seidenberg, Tim Gleason). For my luck, Cam Ward was injured in January, but they had two pretty good backups, Vesa Toskala (34 games, 21 wins) and Patrick Lalime (9 games, 4 wins).

Carolina - Buffalo 1-2 OT : Jason Pominville scored game-winning goal at 60:32. Ryan Miller stopped 30 shot of 31.
Carolina - Buffalo 2-1 : I was 1-0 lead until Canes scored two quick goals. Miller 30/32
Buffalo - Carolina 0-1 : Jokinen scored only goal of the game in 3nd period. Miller 22/23.
Buffalo - Carolina 2-5 : I was leading 2-0 in 2nd period until Canes scored 2 quick goals and three more in 3rd period. Miller 43/47.
Carolina - Buffalo 1-4 : Sabres scored 3 goals in first 14 minutes and the series were 3-2 for Canes. Miller 39/40.
Buffalo - Carolina 4-3 : I was leading 4-1 before Canes started to play, but the game ended before they scored tying goal. Miller 32/35.
Carolina - Buffalo 2-3 : That's what I call hockey, game 7 and Canes were in 2-1 lead after 2 periods. Gaustad and Kotalik scored two quick goals in late 3rd period and Canes were out. Miller 29/31.

Ryan Miller stopped 227 shots of all 241 possible with av. rat. 9.28. Daniel Briere (1+3), Ales Kotalik (4+2), Tim Connolly (0+4) and Tomas Vanek (3+1) were my top points-scorers in that serie.

2nd round I played against 2th seeded New Jersey Devils, which had tough defense (Dan Boyle, Paul Martin, Darius Kasparaitis, Jaroslav Modry, Darryl Sydor, Greg de Vries and Patrice Brisebois) and offense wasn't that bad (Parise (23 points in only 27 games), Elias (84 points), Langenbrunner (59), Zajac (71), Gionta (72), Bergfors (42), Lapointe (33) and Battaglia (43?!?!?)).

New Jersey - Buffalo 2-3 OT : Vanek scored game-winning goal at 62:25 at pp. Miller 39/41.
New Jersey - Buffalo 2-1 : Bergfors scored 2-1 goal at 40:17. Miller 34/36
Buffalo - New Jersey 5-4 OT : I was leadin 4-1 after 2nd period but Gionta tied in 56:25. It was pretty long overtime: Pominville scored 5-4 -goal in the begin of 8th period at 141:50. Miller 54/58.
Buffalo - New Jersey 4-2 : Devils was leading 1-2 in 2nd period but finally I won 4-2. Miller 25/27.
New Jersey - Buffalo 4-1 : I was leading 0-1 but they won 4-1. Miller 31/35.
Buffalo - New Jersey 6-3 : I crushed Devils in 6th game, instead of they made 3 goals I had good lead during whole game. I won series 4-2. Miller 25/28.

Miller stopped 208 shots of 225 possible with av. rat. 8.83. Jason Pominville (4+4), Briere (4+2), Kotalik (1+4), Connolly (2+6) and Vanek (1+5) were my best scorers in that playoff-serie.

In Eastern Conference finals I played against 6th seeded Washington Capitals, which had superb line-up (1st line: Ovechkin-Jason Allison-Zubrus and Visnovsky-Green. 2nd: Semin-Bäckström-Anson Carter, Hamrlik-Rafalski. 3rd: Sutherby-Peca-Mike Johnson, Eminger-Witt. 4th: Colt King-Fleischmann-Fehr. They had also Chris Clark and David Vyborny in their roster) but poor goalie situation, Brent Johnson (62 games, 35 wins, 87.7%, 3.17) was their starting goalie whole season, until they acquire Jose Theodore (13 games, 7 wins, 90.3%, 2.96) from UFA in March.

Buffalo - Washington 4-2 : Caps was leading 0-1 but I scored next 4 goals and won the game. Miller 21/23.
Buffalo - Washington 3-1 : Allison scored early goal, but I scored next 3 goals. Miller 30/31.
Washington - Buffalo 2-3 OT : Rafalski tied 2-2 in 3rd period, but Markov bombed us to 3-2 win at 65:44. 34/36.
Washington - Buffalo 1-4 : I scored goals in beginning of 1st and 3rd periods (1:16 and 40:27). Caps played loose after my 2nd goal and it took 2 mins and I lead 4-0. Visnovsky scored their only one in 59:51. I won series 4-0 and continued to Stanley Cup finals. Miller 44/45.

Miller stopped 129 shot of possible 135 with av. rat. 9,25. My best scorers were Pominville (1+3), Kotalik (2+2) and Connolly (2+2).

In Stanley Cup finals I met Vancouver Canucks that was seeded 2nd in Western Conference. First round they dropped St. Louis Blues in Game 7. They won Detroit Red Wings in semi-finals, in the Game 7, too. In Western Conference finals they played against San Jose Sharks and Canucks won them in.... why to tell, you know it... in Game 7. Not the easiest playoffs for Canucks. They had good roster (1st line: Sedin-Sedin-Kesler with Öhlund-Streit. 2nd: Näslund-Morrison-Bernier with Mitchell-Salo. 3rd: Burrows-Nieuwendyk-Gagner with Bourdon-Edler. 4th: Nazarov (sometimes Mikko Jokela as 7th d-man)-Backes-Carcillo). They had the flow after winning three Game 7:s.

Buffalo-Vancouver 3-2 OT : H. Sedin scored 1-2 in 58:57, but Afinogenov tied in 59:47. Gaustad scored winning-goal at 66:24. That's what call Stanley Cup -hockey!! Miller 25/27.
Buffalo-Vancouver 4-2 : Canucks were leading 1-2 but I scored 3 goals in 3rd period. Kotalik was the man of the match scoring 2+2. Miller 21/23.
Vancouver-Buffalo 4-2 : Vancouver won third game by Öhlund's 2 goals (+one assist). Miller 38/41.
Vancouver-Buffalo 2-3 OT : I was leading 0-2 after 1st period but Canucks scored 2 goals in 2nd and the game went to overtime. Afinogenov finished the game at 89:06. I was leading the serie 3-1. Miller 53/55.
Buffalo-Vancouver 2-3 OT : I was leading 2-1 before Kesler tied in 3rd period. Bernier scored game-winning goal at 82:25. Miller 37/40.
Vancouver-Buffalo 3-1 : Game that tied series and give nothing to us. Miller 37/40.
Buffalo-Vancouver 2-1 : Game 7 is here! Teppo Numminen scored 1-0 in early 1st period, but Willie Mitchell tied 10 minutes later. Game was going to overtime, but then, Numminen got the puck and scored 2-1 by Connolly's superb pass. Pominville got 2 assists in game. 40-year-old Numminen thanked his team after negotiating new one-year contract. Miller 24/25.

Miller stopped 235 shots of 251 possible with av. rat. 9,14. Pominville (2+4), Connolly (1+5), Briere (1+3), Kotalik (2+3) were best scorers in Stanley Cup finals.

I'll add player stats tomorow, I've no time right now.

[Wroom]

I'm in August 2012 on my game. Sixth straight Stanley Cup with the Rangers last season. With a pretty solid team. So, this off-season I decided to shake things up a little.

The head coach's contract was up, so Bob Hartley was let go. I think he demanded to much. Hired Doug Shedden as new Head Coach. The last six years he has been at Jokerit in Finland.


Last season lineup(2011/12): 56-20-6 , 342-255 , 15,89%PP - 85,95%PK

Grabovsky-Drury-Heatley
Vasicek-Leino-Afinogenov
Higgins-Sharp-L.Wilson
Semin-Bergqvist-Kelly
(L.Toews)

Stuart-Campbell
Kulyash-R.Wilson
Staal-Warrener
(Quincey)

Lundqvist
(Theodore)

Lineup this season(2012/13)

Picard-Lecavalier-Heatley
Grabovsky-Sedin-Afinogenov
Higgins-L.Toews-Cruz
Semin-Bergqvist-Lemtyugov
(Aubin)
(Fisher)

Stuart-Campbell
Kulyash-R.Wilson
Staal-Warrener
(Kalinin)

Miller
(Rämö)


Going to be interesting to see if the offense will generate more, and if the 3rd and 4th line will do as well as those last year did.

So, make it seven straight SC!

59-19-4, 375-266, 19,8% PP - 80,1% PK

Best Power Play in the league, and my goalscoring improved from last season. My defense struggled a bit with the younger guys on the PK(28th in the league, started out horrible but improved during the season).

Heatley : 82 gms, 80+60 = 140 points, +65
Lecavalier : 77 gms, 43+92 = 135 points, +62
Picard : 74 gms, 30+76 = 106 points, +55

B. Campbell : 82 gms, 19+49 = 68 points, +26
R. Wilson : 80 gms, 15+37 = 52 points, +38


Lecavalier had 40 points in 20 games in the Playoffs. I had the top 5 guys in Playoff-points actually:

Heatley 35
H. Sedin 30
Grabovsky 29
Afinogenov 26


Playoffs:

Rangers - Lightning 6:4
Rangers - Lightning 4:0
Lightning - Rangers 3:0
Lightning - Rangers 3:2 OT
Rangers - Lightning 6:4
Lightning - Rangers 2:3 OT

Rangers - Canadiens 9:4
Rangers - Canadiens 12:2
Canadiens - Rangers 3:4
Canadiens - Rangers 1:6

Rangers - Hurricanes 4:5
Rangers - Hurricanes 5:1
Hurricanes - Rangers 1:4
Hurricanes - Rangers 2:6
Rangers - Hurricanes 7:3

Rangers - Ducks 5:2
Rangers - Ducks 5:2
Ducks - Rangers 2:4
Ducks - Rangers 5:4
Rangers - Ducks 10:1


Conn Smythe winners:

2012/13: Vincent Lecavalier (Rangers)
2011/12: Dany Heatley (Rangers)
2010/11: Mikhail Grabovsky (Rangers) - Forsberg retired after.
2009/10: Peter Forsberg (Rangers)
2008/09: Jaromir Jagr (Rangers) - Jagr retired after.
2007/08: Jaromir Jagr (Rangers)
2006/07: Peter Forsberg (Rangers)

[Jypfan92]

3rd season with Sabres. My pp wasn't pretty good in early season, mostly cause of Jaroslav Spacek's poor play on blueline, so I traded him to Panthers with rights of Vladislav Egin (3rd round pick 2007) and 2nd round pick in 2009 for Andrei Markov at trade deadline. Markov (FLO: 57 games, 5+23=28, 28 pms, +18, BUF: 25, 3+6=9, 26 pms, +6), Spacek (BUF: 55 games, 2+13=15, 79 pms, -4, FLO: 25, 2+9=11, 20 pms, -8). I was 5th in Eastern Conference and I didn't vote for anything good in playoffs.

1st round I played against 4th seeded Carolina Hurricanes, which was very offensive-minded team (offense: Eric Staal, Rod Brind'Amour, Jussi Jokinen, Tuomo Ruutu, Sergei Samsonov, Scott Walker, Trent Hunter, Brandon Sutter, Todd White. Defense: Joni Pitkänen, 41-points in regular season scored rookie Jamie McBain, Dennis Seidenberg, Tim Gleason). For my luck, Cam Ward was injured in January, but they had two pretty good backups, Vesa Toskala (34 games, 21 wins) and Patrick Lalime (9 games, 4 wins).

Carolina - Buffalo 1-2 OT : Jason Pominville scored game-winning goal at 60:32. Ryan Miller stopped 30 shot of 31.
Carolina - Buffalo 2-1 : I was 1-0 lead until Canes scored two quick goals. Miller 30/32
Buffalo - Carolina 0-1 : Jokinen scored only goal of the game in 3nd period. Miller 22/23.
Buffalo - Carolina 2-5 : I was leading 2-0 in 2nd period until Canes scored 2 quick goals and three more in 3rd period. Miller 43/47.
Carolina - Buffalo 1-4 : Sabres scored 3 goals in first 14 minutes and the series were 3-2 for Canes. Miller 39/40.
Buffalo - Carolina 4-3 : I was leading 4-1 before Canes started to play, but the game ended before they scored tying goal. Miller 32/35.
Carolina - Buffalo 2-3 : That's what I call hockey, game 7 and Canes were in 2-1 lead after 2 periods. Gaustad and Kotalik scored two quick goals in late 3rd period and Canes were out. Miller 29/31.

Ryan Miller stopped 227 shots of all 241 possible with av. rat. 9.28. Daniel Briere (1+3), Ales Kotalik (4+2), Tim Connolly (0+4) and Tomas Vanek (3+1) were my top points-scorers in that serie.

2nd round I played against 2th seeded New Jersey Devils, which had tough defense (Dan Boyle, Paul Martin, Darius Kasparaitis, Jaroslav Modry, Darryl Sydor, Greg de Vries and Patrice Brisebois) and offense wasn't that bad (Parise (23 points in only 27 games), Elias (84 points), Langenbrunner (59), Zajac (71), Gionta (72), Bergfors (42), Lapointe (33) and Battaglia (43?!?!?)).

New Jersey - Buffalo 2-3 OT : Vanek scored game-winning goal at 62:25 at pp. Miller 39/41.
New Jersey - Buffalo 2-1 : Bergfors scored 2-1 goal at 40:17. Miller 34/36
Buffalo - New Jersey 5-4 OT : I was leadin 4-1 after 2nd period but Gionta tied in 56:25. It was pretty long overtime: Pominville scored 5-4 -goal in the begin of 8th period at 141:50. Miller 54/58.
Buffalo - New Jersey 4-2 : Devils was leading 1-2 in 2nd period but finally I won 4-2. Miller 25/27.
New Jersey - Buffalo 4-1 : I was leading 0-1 but they won 4-1. Miller 31/35.
Buffalo - New Jersey 6-3 : I crushed Devils in 6th game, instead of they made 3 goals I had good lead during whole game. I won series 4-2. Miller 25/28.

Miller stopped 208 shots of 225 possible with av. rat. 8.83. Jason Pominville (4+4), Briere (4+2), Kotalik (1+4), Connolly (2+6) and Vanek (1+5) were my best scorers in that playoff-serie.

In Eastern Conference finals I played against 6th seeded Washington Capitals, which had superb line-up (1st line: Ovechkin-Jason Allison-Zubrus and Visnovsky-Green. 2nd: Semin-Bäckström-Anson Carter, Hamrlik-Rafalski. 3rd: Sutherby-Peca-Mike Johnson, Eminger-Witt. 4th: Colt King-Fleischmann-Fehr. They had also Chris Clark and David Vyborny in their roster) but poor goalie situation, Brent Johnson (62 games, 35 wins, 87.7%, 3.17) was their starting goalie whole season, until they acquire Jose Theodore (13 games, 7 wins, 90.3%, 2.96) from UFA in March.

Buffalo - Washington 4-2 : Caps was leading 0-1 but I scored next 4 goals and won the game. Miller 21/23.
Buffalo - Washington 3-1 : Allison scored early goal, but I scored next 3 goals. Miller 30/31.
Washington - Buffalo 2-3 OT : Rafalski tied 2-2 in 3rd period, but Markov bombed us to 3-2 win at 65:44. 34/36.
Washington - Buffalo 1-4 : I scored goals in beginning of 1st and 3rd periods (1:16 and 40:27). Caps played loose after my 2nd goal and it took 2 mins and I lead 4-0. Visnovsky scored their only one in 59:51. I won series 4-0 and continued to Stanley Cup finals. Miller 44/45.

Miller stopped 129 shot of possible 135 with av. rat. 9,25. My best scorers were Pominville (1+3), Kotalik (2+2) and Connolly (2+2).

In Stanley Cup finals I met Vancouver Canucks that was seeded 2nd in Western Conference. First round they dropped St. Louis Blues in Game 7. They won Detroit Red Wings in semi-finals, in the Game 7, too. In Western Conference finals they played against San Jose Sharks and Canucks won them in.... why to tell, you know it... in Game 7. Not the easiest playoffs for Canucks. They had good roster (1st line: Sedin-Sedin-Kesler with Öhlund-Streit. 2nd: Näslund-Morrison-Bernier with Mitchell-Salo. 3rd: Burrows-Nieuwendyk-Gagner with Bourdon-Edler. 4th: Nazarov (sometimes Mikko Jokela as 7th d-man)-Backes-Carcillo). They had the flow after winning three Game 7:s.

Buffalo-Vancouver 3-2 OT : H. Sedin scored 1-2 in 58:57, but Afinogenov tied in 59:47. Gaustad scored winning-goal at 66:24. That's what call Stanley Cup -hockey!! Miller 25/27.
Buffalo-Vancouver 4-2 : Canucks were leading 1-2 but I scored 3 goals in 3rd period. Kotalik was the man of the match scoring 2+2. Miller 21/23.
Vancouver-Buffalo 4-2 : Vancouver won third game by Öhlund's 2 goals (+one assist). Miller 38/41.
Vancouver-Buffalo 2-3 OT : I was leading 0-2 after 1st period but Canucks scored 2 goals in 2nd and the game went to overtime. Afinogenov finished the game at 89:06. I was leading the serie 3-1. Miller 53/55.
Buffalo-Vancouver 2-3 OT : I was leading 2-1 before Kesler tied in 3rd period. Bernier scored game-winning goal at 82:25. Miller 37/40.
Vancouver-Buffalo 3-1 : Game that tied series and give nothing to us. Miller 37/40.
Buffalo-Vancouver 2-1 : Game 7 is here! Teppo Numminen scored 1-0 in early 1st period, but Willie Mitchell tied 10 minutes later. Game was going to overtime, but then, Numminen got the puck and scored 2-1 by Connolly's superb pass. Pominville got 2 assists in game. 40-year-old Numminen thanked his team after negotiating new one-year contract. Miller 24/25.

Miller stopped 235 shots of 251 possible with av. rat. 9,14. Pominville (2+4), Connolly (1+5), Briere (1+3), Kotalik (2+3) were best scorers in Stanley Cup finals.

I'll add player stats tomorow, I've no time right now.

Head coach: Lindy Ruff (82, 47-26-9, 103, 266-221, pp: 17.2%, pk: 82.3%) -> Jack Adams Award
Goals for: 10th most in the league
Goals allowed: 4th less
Penalty minutes: 791 -> 30th most in the league

Goalies (games, wins-losts-overtime losts, minutes, ga, gaa, save-%, shutouts, av. rat.) / playoffs
Ryan Miller 65, 38-21-6, 3944, 170, 2.59, 91.7%, 3, 8.65 / 24, 16-8-0, 1583, 53, 2.01, 93.8%, 0, 9.13 -> Conn Smythe Trophy, runner-up Vezina Trophy, runner-up Roger Crozier Award
Chris Mason 17, 9-5-3, 1024, 44, 2.58, 89.7%, 0, 7.88 / no games played

Defenders and forwards (games, goals+assists=points, +/-, pms, av. rat.) / playoffs
Jaroslav Spacek 55, 2+13=15, -4, 79, 7.33 (to FLA)
Andrei Markov 25, 3+6=9, +6, 26, 8.04 (from FLA) / 24, 1+7=8, -4, 12, 7.83
Nathan Paetsch 29, 0+3=3, -1, 6, 6.66 / 4, 0+0=0, +/-0, 0, 6.25
*Andrei Sekera 82, 3+22=25, -4, 16, 7.30 / 24, 0+4=4, +5, 8, 7.17
Henrik Tallinder 77, 6+6=12, +19, 38, 7.25 / 24, 2+6=8, -1, 8, 7.42
*Vyacheslav Buravchikov 3, 0+0, -2, 2, 7.33 / 8, 1+1=2, +2, 2, 7.25
Toni Lydman 79, 5+17=22, +13, 12, 7.33 / 16, 3+2=5, -1, 0, 7.00
*Tyler Myers 77, 2+25=27, -1, 34, 7.35 / 20, 1+6=7, +2, 8, 7.55
Teppo Numminen 77, 6+9=15, +14, 16, 6.77 / 24, 3+1=4, +8, 2, 6.63
Jochen Hecht 81, 22+21=43, +14, 16, 7.43 / 24, 2+4=6, -2, 14, 7.00
*Dylan Hunter 81, 16+20=36, +4, 36, 6.90 / 24, 0+5=5, -1, 14, 6.58
Ales Kotalik 75, 27+33=60, +14, 57, 8.03 / 24, 9+12=21, +4, 22, 7.83
Daniel Paille 82, 8+13=21, +2, 30, 6.71 / 24, 1+3=4, +2, 8, 6.83
Tomas Vanek 70, 21+38=59, +4, 20, 7.91 / 24, 7+8=15, +3, 14, 7.71
Daniel Briere 78, 29+50=79, +17, 58, 7.78 / 24, 7+10=17, +5, 24, 7.25
Tim Connolly 77, 25+41=66, +4, 26, 7.87 / 24, 8+16=24, -3, 12, 7.46
Paul Gaustad 81, 10+23=33, +4, 107, 7.38 / 24, 4+4=6, +4, 40, 7.33
Derek Roy 80, 14+19=33, -3, 56, 6.83 / 24, 2+5=7, -4, 18, 6.58
Maxim Afinogenov 72, 25+42=67, +14, 44, 7.67 / 21, 5+8=13, +/-0, 20, 7.29
Jason Pominville 65, 19+37=56, -9, 14, 7.32 / 24, 9+12=21, +2, 12, 7.29
*Drew Stafford 72, 12+16=28, +6, 40, 7.10 / 24, 2+4=6, +2, 14, 7.04
*rookie

[Gretzlaf]

Currently playing the Rangers in the 2019-20 Season. We've won four Stanley Cups (2011, 2012, 2013, 2018), and were the runner-up in 2014. My current lineup looks like this:

Alex Ovechkin - Sidney Crosby - Petri Siira
Chris Kreider - Eric Staal - Nathan Horton
Tomi Akkanen* - Jonathan Willock* - Ryan Callahan
Damir McMillan - Patrick Crowder* - Jonathan Plante*

Marc Staal - Ken Redmond*
Anton Savalev - Issac Sertich*
Ron McCullough* - Ernie Anderson*

Henrik Lundqvist
Maksim Terekhov*

*Drafted and developed by me.

For some reason I have a lot of trouble developing forwards. I do great developing defenseman, but it seems like every forward prospect I get busts out, so I must not be doing something right.

[ChoseQuiVole]

For some reason I have a lot of trouble developing forwards. I do great developing defenseman, but it seems like every forward prospect I get busts out, so I must not be doing something right.

I get the opposite, also with the Rangers. I have 5 of my top 6 and 11 of my current 14 fowards (with 7 under 25, pretty nice streaks of drafts) that came through our system, but only my 6th and 7th defencemen. This, despite drafting a dman in the first round almost every other year... I do have one very promising prospect now.. but this has happened before.

[Firebird350]

Hey everyone. Im new to the forum. I havent played EHM in awhile, but just recently got the urge to start a new game with my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. I must say, it is awesome that you guys have kept this game going strong and since I enjoy playing it, it makes sense to become a member of this community.

Anyway, using the 3.0 Lidas roster update, Im halfway through my first season with the Leafs and we currently sit in 2nd place in the Eastern Conference, 3 points behind the new Jersey Devils. It was a busy summer full of trades. My goal was to build a young roster that could also compete right away, and I got a lucky start by managing to pry one of my favorite players in the league-Mike Richards-away from the flyers. I also canned my entire coaching staff and 75% of my scouting staff. Basically a complete overhaul of the entire organization. For my new head coach I went a little off track and hired Mariusz Czerkawski, but his mental attributes are very high and he excels at coaching defence. He currently has my penalty killing at 5th in the league.

My current roster:

David Booth - Mike Richards - Phil Kessel
Alexander Frolov - Mikhail Grabovski - Nikolai Kulemin (my all-soviet line!)
Nazem Kadri - Dainius Zubrus - Colby Armstrong
Craig Adams - Wayne Primeau - Colton Orr

Thomas Kaberle - Dion Phaneuf
Anton Babchuk - Luke Schenn
Adam Pardy - Carl Gunnarsson

Evgeni Nabokov
Jonas Gustavsson

Ill post updates as the playoffs get closer. I may or may not make a move at the deadline, as Im pretty happy with how things are going right now.

[Gretzlaf]

For some reason I have a lot of trouble developing forwards. I do great developing defenseman, but it seems like every forward prospect I get busts out, so I must not be doing something right.

I get the opposite, also with the Rangers. I have 5 of my top 6 and 11 of my current 14 fowards (with 7 under 25, pretty nice streaks of drafts) that came through our system, but only my 6th and 7th defencemen. This, despite drafting a dman in the first round almost every other year... I do have one very promising prospect now.. but this has happened before.

Yeah, I'm in 2022-23 right now and it looks like I'm finally getting the hang of it. Eight forwards on my team now are homegrown, as well as three defenseman and a starting goalie. I think I've just been rushing them into the lineup too fast, giving them two seasons in the AHL really helps them out.