Challenge 39 Rebuilding the Bruins - Discussion

[stone169]

Take Two on this...

Trades
2016Draft

[bruins72]

I hate to break it to you but you over-did that Panthers trade. You took 3 players and a draft pick in return for Bergeron.

[stone169]

I hate to break it to you but you over-did that Panthers trade. You took 3 players and a draft pick in return for Bergeron.

I just looked at it again. I pretty much did all the same trades as before, minus the draft pick from the Panthers trade.

[Peter_Doherty]

You have the old screen up though, which is with the draft pick

[stone169]

I'm not questioning you guys or nothing, but when I click on the link to the screen shot, it's the new one. Like I said, I made all the same trades pretty much minus the draft pick from Florida and instead of taking a draft pick from St. Louis, I got Robby Fabbri.

[Peter_Doherty]

I still see Crouse+Gudbranson+Bjugstad+wild 3rd.

[stone169]

I don't see it.

[bruins72]

Yeah, that's strange. I still see the old screenshot too, even after refreshing the screen.

[stone169]

It is strange. I removed the previous screenshot from photobucket.

[batdad]

I don't see the pick.

[bruins72]

It looks correct now.

[Forward]

Yesterday i was exciting to the Bruins adventure, made the trades (with fans rage), drafted players and also forgot to re-sign the youngers with contract ending and then....puff error Forgot to save the game

Error 1
Error 2

Don't know why, but i guess my disk went crazy

[stone169]

Final season ticket totals sold...6758.

[stone169]

Opening Day Lineup
---------------
Marchand - Bjugstad - Hayes
Skinner - Spooner - Pastrnak
Beleskey - Sheahan - Connolly
Ferland - Khokhlachev - Randell

Krug - Gudbranson
Morrow - Miller
Irwin - Trotman

Subban

(Irwin is in for the injured Tommy Cross)

[bruins72]

Yesterday i was exciting to the Bruins adventure, made the trades (with fans rage), drafted players and also forgot to re-sign the youngers with contract ending and then....puff error Forgot to save the game

Error 1
Error 2

Don't know why, but i guess my disk went crazy

Yikes! I'd make a fresh start on that. You might want to consider deleting the save that you downloaded, running a Windows disk utility, and then re-downloading the save to start over.

[bruins72]

Opening Day Lineup
---------------
Marchand - Bjugstad - Hayes
Skinner - Spooner - Pastrnak
Beleskey - Sheahan - Connolly
Ferland - Khokhlachev - Randell

Krug - Gudbranson
Morrow - Miller
Irwin - Trotman

Subban

(Irwin is in for the injured Tommy Cross)

That second line looks interesting. If Spooner is up to the challenge, he's got some nice skilled wingers. I could've grabbed Bjugstad but I traded for him in one of the other challenges and was so frustrated with him. I avoided him like the plague!

[Peter_Doherty]

I too avoided Bjugstad, he was OK for my Nucks but so inconsistent, drove me nuts. My PP is terrible, will completely rework it soon, removing playmakers is the first step and simplifying is the second step. On the flipside my PK is doing well.

[stone169]

Right now Spooner hasn't done too much. Sure he's got 3 points in 6 games and he's a +5, but he's had a 6 rating for the last 3 games. So he's sitting for a game or two. My top line is slowly starting to come together.

My PK is a huge work in progress as it is sitting at 57.1% (the lowest I've ever had my PK). I'm a little surprised at that considering how many defensive players are on this team. Sheahan has been fairly inconsistent, and I should've known better, because every time I take this guy, he always ends up on my 4th line (which is where I don't want him) and then I end up waiving him in my second season with him.

Oh well, gotta stick with it.

[stone169]

I too avoided Bjugstad, he was OK for my Nucks but so inconsistent, drove me nuts. My PP is terrible, will completely rework it soon, removing playmakers is the first step and simplifying is the second step. On the flipside my PK is doing well.

My PP has been pretty pitiful, running at 3.4%. A lot of it has to do with Marchand, Bjugstad, and Hayes not doing too much.

[Peter_Doherty]

I too avoided Bjugstad, he was OK for my Nucks but so inconsistent, drove me nuts. My PP is terrible, will completely rework it soon, removing playmakers is the first step and simplifying is the second step. On the flipside my PK is doing well.

My PP has been pretty pitiful, running at 3.4%. A lot of it has to do with Marchand, Bjugstad, and Hayes not doing too much.

Mine started good hovering at 15% for 10 games, after that it has been all downhill, currently around 10% (30 games in). I went with having Spooner and K.Hayes as playmakers for one PP each, maybe they just aren't good enough to be good playmakers for a PP, so i will start by removing that and take it from there.

My biggest problems right now are that Mrazek and Marchand are underperforming, i'm surprised that i can't get Marchand going but i'll just tinker with his settings until he starts playing well.

[bruins72]

Final season ticket totals sold...6758.

For the Boston Bruins? In season 1? How did that happen? I'm in mid-August and had both the fans and the board enraged and I've got 11,918 season tickets sold.

[stone169]

Final season ticket totals sold...6758.

For the Boston Bruins? In season 1? How did that happen? I'm in mid-August and had both the fans and the board enraged and I've got 11,918 season tickets sold.

Strange though, because I had 17k come out and watch me beat the Kings 4-2.

[Rono]

This is my first EHM challenge!

David Krejčí + Dennis Seidenberg to
Tyler Toffoli to

Loui Eriksson + Adam McQuaid + Zdeno Chára to
Petr Mrázek to

Patrice Bergeron + Tuukka Rask to
2nd overall pick (Auston Matthews) to

Trades

My probably lines:
Marchand - Matthews - Toffoli
Beleskey - Spooner - Pastrňák
Khoklachev - Kemppainen - Hayes
Connolly - Griffith - Randell/Ferlin

Zbořil - J. Morrow
Krug - Miller
Cross - Trotman

Mrázek
Subban

[bruins72]

I'm glad to see so many new people joining the challenge!

[Satyr]

I'll give this a shot. Love ruining the Bruins