AlexCobra in Pittsbourgh - dynasty game

[AlexCobra]

Hi everybody!

I thought about creating the tread about my dynasty NHL:EHM 2005 game for a long time. Think now I’m ready to create it. I’m not sure if anyone will like it, if anyone even read it through, but it doesn’t matter anyway. Probably through playing it I’ll gain some useful experience and that wiil be of some help to others interested in EHM. Probably not. I don’t care.

Pittsbourgh Pingwins Season 2004-2005

I chose this club for no particular reasons. Not because it is weak or poor (well, actually it is, but no). I took it for the past glory in 1990-1994, when it was one of the strongest side in the world.
Through all season and playoffs I used “red lights v1â€

[Tasku]

Good stuff! Keep it coming.

I especially like the fact you signed Landon Wilson (from Espoo) and Steve Konowalchuk.

[AlexCobra]

I especially like the fact you signed Landon Wilson (from Espoo) and Steve Konowalchuk.

Sorry, but actually Landon was the worst player through the whole season and I will not use him in next one.

Awards

Marc-Andre Fleury - Colder Memorial Trophy
Steve Konowalchuk - Frank J. Selke Trophy

Marc-Andre Fleury was chosen for Rookie All-Star Team this year.

Signed Malkin and a dozen of youngsters... too much probably, but I lost 7-8 low-grades who will not develop for sure. Will search for a good fighter.

Alex

[Tasku]

Sorry, but actually Landon was the worst player through the whole season and I will not use him in next one.

Thät's okay... he's always welcome back to Espoo...

[AlexCobra]

Some stats from season.

Biggest win - 9:2 against Trashers
Biggest defeat - 2:8 against Bruins East Conference PO Finals 1st game
Highest scoring game - 4:7 versus Senators
Most games won in a row - 5
Most games lost in a row - 5
Most games without losing - 8
Most games without winning - 7
Most points by a rookie - 18 Ryan Whitney
Most goals by a rookie - 2 Maxim Talbot
Best GAA - 2.42 Marc-Andre Fleury
Best SV% - 0.926 Marc-Andre Fleury
Highest average rating - 7.77 Paul Kariya
Most First Star selections - 10 Paul Kariya
Most goals in a game - 3 Recchi
Most PIM in a game - 15 Paul Kariya
Most assists in a game - 5 Josef Melichar
Post points in a game - 5 (0+5) Josef Melichar
Youngest player - Marc-Andre Fleury 19+48 days
Oldest player - Mario Lemieux 39+184 days.

Alex.

[Octavian]

I'm interessed to see how you will perform later on. Could you post a screen of Kraft?

You had a good season by reaching the PO Finals .

[AlexCobra]

Could you post a screen of Kraft?

I'll try tomorrow.

You had a good season by reaching the PO Finals .

Actually, Conference Finals, not the Cup game itself... [-(

Pittsbourgh Pingwins Season 2005-2006

Mid-Season Results.

Need to say I can never expect such results, even in my wildest dreams (well, that's a bit too much - my wildest dreams are wilder then Sakhara desert, but anyway). I didn't invite new players... almost, and didn't change the tactics. The only thing that had such impact was practice - I see a big boost in attributes of every player.

Trades.

1) In July traded Rico Fata, Rob Scuderi, some rights and 3rd round pick for Chris Neil (Oilers) - do u remember what I said about my trading abilities? here' s the example... hope I'm wrong.
2) In October took Richard Matvichuk (Devils) from waivers.
3) October - traded Rick Jackman for Tomas Klouchek (Trashers)

41 games played and I'm leading NHL with 29 wins, 4 loses, 7 draws and 1 game lost in OT. This makes 0.805 percentage of wins. I scored 152 and conceded 68 goals (huge improvement in defence!); I'm going with 19,6% PP (3rd in league) and 89,7% PK (1st in league!! - compared to 27th last season). I got 66 points so far.

Leaders are:
1) Mario Lemieaux - 45 (17+28)
2) Marc Recchi - 43 (20+23)
3) Aleksei Morozov - 36 (20+16)
4) Paul Kariya - 34 (10+24) missed app. 10 games to injury
5) Brad Mair - 29 (6+23)

+/- leader is Dick Tarnstrom (+28), second is Morozov (+27)

Penalty minutes bank holder is Chris Neil - 97 mins, second to him Brad Mair - 65 mins.

Especially want to say about my goalkeeper. His play give me 40% of my success, I think. Marc-Andre Fleury played 40 games, had 29 wins, 5 loses and 7 ties. His GAA is 1.55 and SV% - 0.947. He already produced 10 shutouts!

I hope for the similar performance from my team during second part of season...

Alex.

[Octavian]

Wow, that's impressive. What about this traing you use? This general to intensive? Does it really work? You apply it to all skaters? Defenders and Wingers/Centres? Tell me .

EDIT: Kloucek is very good, I always try to trade him (quite easy) and he has good defensive attributes. (And he plays for the Thrashers )

[Minstrel]

Thanks for the info, I always like to see what other people are doing in their games.

I have to say I'm most impressed with the shutouts! No matter how well my goalies play they never seem to get more than one or two a season...

Also reading your post reminds me that I'm going to miss the waiver draft, especially since I usually start with teams that have gaping holes that need to be filled...

[AlexCobra]

What about this traing you use? This general to intensive? Does it really work? You apply it to all skaters? Defenders and Wingers/Centres? Tell me .

Yes, I just set all roster except goalkeepers to 'general' schedule and turn all to 'intensive'. Well, some players never get tired using this practice schedule, and some do fall in fitness. This players I intend to switch to 'resting' schedule from time to time, they recuperate in 1 or 2 days.

Back to....


Full season results.

I hoped for the better performance, seeing flashy play of my team in the first half of season… but we got problems with the gameplay in second half and the results are not so great. Anyway, the President’s Cup is in my hands!! Great success for the side… and for manager too.

Ok, finished 1st in league with 57 wins, 17 loses, 12 ties and 1 OT lose. This makes 0.713 win percentage. I scored 282 goals (3.44 per game) and conceded 176 (2.15 per game). My PP% was 20.2% (4th in the league), PK% - 85.4% (7th in league).

Snipers list:

1) Mario Lemieux – 74 (19+55)
2) Marc Recchi – 71 (38+33)
3) Paul Kariya – 68 (30+38)
4) Aleksey Morozov – 64 (33+31)
5) Evgeni Malkin – 58 (27+31)
6) Dick Tarnstrom – 52 (12+40)
7) Brooks Orpik – 50 (17+33)
8) Ryan Malone – 47 (23+24)
9) Adam Mair – 39 (10+29)
10) Ryan Whitney – 37 (8+29)

My lines during the season: Player (age; games played – avg. rating)

Paul Kariya (31; 67-7.78) – Mario Lemieux (40; 80-7.65) – Marc Recchi (38; 82–7.62)
Ryan Malone (26; 82-7.48) – Evgeny Malkin (19; 78–7.74) – Aleksei Morozov (29; 82-7.74)
Steve Konowalchuk (33; 82-7.52) – Maxim Talbot (22; 70-7.06) – Konstantin Koltsov (24; 70-7.03)
Adam Mair (27; 78-7.55) – Sean Avery (26; 82-7.15) – Chris Neil (26; 82-7.26)

Best +/- score: Aleksey Morozov (+37), next to him was Michal Rozsival (+35).
Most PIM: Chris Neil – 167 mins, second was Adam Mair – 114 mins.
Best avg. rating: Marc-Andre Fleury (7.90), Tomas Kloucek (7.80), Paul Kariya (7.78)
Fights: Chris Neil was involved in 19, winning only 6 of them. Adam Mair won 2 of 4.
Goalkeeper: Marc-Andre Fleury was 77 times in the net during season; he got 47 wins, 17 loses and 12 ties. His GAA was 2.01 and SV% was 0.934. He produced 10 shutouts.

I'm gonna challenge Atlanta Trashers in first PO round (season record was 2-1-1, goals 11-10). Hope I will beat them...

PS: Mario Lemieux extended his contract with the club for two more years!

PPS: screens




Alex.

[Tasku]

What the Dickens has happened to Fleury?

Are you feeding steroids and umm... some hockey-skill-pills on these poor youngsters!?

(Do you have any to spare? )

[Octavian]

I like your cyrillic alphabet / russian windows XP "start" button .

Amazing results, good luck

[AlexCobra]

Play-offs.

Well, ice hockey is such a game, where you can expect the unexpected and reverse that. The latter thing happened to me in this season’s playoffs. I hoped for solid performance, keeping in mind President’s Cup, but the reality was cruel and disappointing. Trashers trashed me in 6 games 4 to 2. Fleury failed to keep the nerve in the net, was substituted, but Caron wasn’t good too. 20 goals in 6 games – definitely lack of concentration.

Top pointers were:
1) Marc Recchi – 8 (4+4)
2) Paul Kariya – 5 (3+2)
3) Evgeni Malkin – 5 (2+3)

Best average rating – Marc Recchi with 8.17
Most PIM – Sean Avery, 14 mins.

I think I unbalanced the team a bit with 4 hitters in 3rd and 4th lines – Konowalchuk, Mair, Avery and Neil. Also Koltsov was weak and definitely reached his potential so next season, I suppose, will see one of younger talents on his place… I got plenty of them. Lemieux is degrading, his physics is already bad, but technics is still good, so I’m facing hard choice – to substitute him for a young rocket, loosing smart captain, or to stay with him and take the risk of counter attacks. Malkin will definitely play in 1st line next season, he’s ready for that; Calder Memorial avoided him for Ovechkin, but they were equal in points.

And records update (here are only changed records).

Most points in a season – 117
Most wins – 52
Most goals scored – 282
Biggest win - 8:0 against Kings (A)
Highest scoring game (and League game) – 6:8 against Capitals (A)
Most games won in a row – 6
Most games without losing – 15
Most points by a rookie – 58 Evgeni Malkin
Most goals by a rookie – 27 Evgeni Malkin
Most wins – 47 Marc-Andre Fleury
Most shutouts – 10 Marc-Andre Fleury
Most 1st star selections – 12 Marc-Andre Fleury
Most points in a game – 5 (2+3) Marc Recchi
Youngest player – Evgeni Malkin 19 + 66 days
Oldest player – Mario Lemieux 40 + 174 days.

Alex.

[Octavian]

What an anti-climax. Next season better .

[AlexCobra]

Pittsbourgh Pingwnins season 2006-2007

Mid-season results.

All the things I wanted to change in the end of previous season still remains to be done. Lines are just the same as last season... except for one player - Mario Lemieux retired in June. Can anyone answer is there any meaning in signing 3-year contract and retiring before it even comes to action? I signed him as an assistant coach. My young reinforcement is still not ready for big hockey so I need to wait one more year.

Oh yea, I took Steve Begin from the wavers.

The results are average. In the middle of season I'm 7th in conference with 20 wins, 9 loses, 11(!) ties and 1 OT lose. Scored 137 and conceded 110. PP% is 18,4% and PK% is 84,4%. I got 52 ponts so far.

Snipers are:
1) Ryan Malone - 42 (20+22)
2) Aleksei Morozov - 39 (21+18)
3) Milan Kraft - 36 (17+19)
4) Paul Kariya - 35 (15+20)
5) Evgeni Malkin - 35 (13+22)

Best in +/- are Milan Kraft and Alex Morozov - both got +26
Most PIM - Tomas Kloucek (79 mins), second is Brooks Orpik (48 mins). So where are the fighters, you can ask? Mmm... They are probably trying to play creative flashy style of hockey... darn, Mario, what are told them?
Best average rating - Milan Kraft with 7,93, next to him is Malkin with 7,83.

That's all for now, let's see what the rest of season will bring...

Alex.

[AlexCobra]

Full season report.

Not bad, not so shine as previous season, but never the less. I finished 5th in Eastern Conference, 6th otherall in league with 106 points. League record is: 43 wins, 19 loses, 18 ties (tie champion) and 2 OT loses. Win percentage is 0.646: I scored 269 and conceded 213 goals. My powerplay realisation was not good, only 18,3% (14th in league) and powerplay killing percentage – 85,0 (7th in league).

Trades… I didn’t plan to change the lines during season but was forced to it by severe physical degrading of Marc Recchi. I was in desperate need for 1st line scorer and made another awful trade with Oilers. I gave away Josef Melichar, Sergei Anshakov and two 2nd round picks for Milan Michalek, Czech right winger. Was I right or not, it’s for you to decide. His screenshot is below.

Lines: Player (age;games played – avg. rating)

Paul Kariya (32; 82 – 7,68) – Evgeni Malkin (20; 82 – 7,70) – Milan Michalek (22; 37 – 7,65)
Ryan Malone (27; 82 – 7,76) – Milan Kraft (26; 81 – 7,95) – Aleksei Morozov (30; 81 – 7,72)
Adam Mair (28; 56 – 7,38) – Maxim Talbot (23; 82 – 7,30) – Marc Recchi (39; 82 – 7,11)
Steve Konowalchuk (34; 82 – 7,39) – Sean Avery (26; 82 – 7,04) – Chris Neil (27; 82 – 6,83)

Tomas Kloucek (27; 82 – 7.59) – Brooks Orpik (26; 74 – 7.57)
Dick Tarnstrom (32; 82 – 7.68) – Ryan Whitney (24; 82 – 7.56)
Andre Benoit (23; 40 – 7.63) – Michal Rozsival (28; 76 – 7.45)

Marc-Andre Fleury (20; 75 – 7.68)

Snipers list:
1) Milan Kraft – 76 (32+44)
2) Ryan Malone – 73 (34+39)
3) Paul Kariya – 68 (33+35)
4) Aleksei Morozov – 68 (33+35)
5) Evgeni Malkin – 64 (23+41)
6) Tomas Kloucek – 49 (10+39)
7) Dick Tarnstrom – 49 (12+37)
8) Brooks Orpik – 42 (6+36)
9) Ryan Whitney – 30 (3+27)
10) Milan Michalek – 29 (15+14)

Best in +/- were both Milan Kraft and Aleksei Morozov, they got +42 each.
Most PIM got Tomas Kloucek (147), second was Brooks Orpik with 138 mins.
Highest average rating belongs to Milan Kraft – 7,95, solely on the top; Ryan Malone with 7,76 (second result) wasn’t even close to him.
Number of fights was totally negligible.
Goalkeeper: Mark-Andre Fleury had average season; playing in 75 games, he won 39, lost 19 and tied 16. His GAA was 2,45 and SV% 0.925. Only 2 shutouts this season, average rating was 7,68.

Few words on upcoming playoffs. My chances on proceeding through first round of playoffs are low. Tiny. Molecular size. I’ll explain why. I’m facing unevitable and cruel destiny: second season in line I’m contesting in first round Atlanta Trashers. Considering this:
a) season record against them is almost exact as was year ago – 2-1-1.
b) I cann’t stand against the Kovalchuk – Heatly pair. Believe me, I tried. 2-1-1 was the best I got, but K-H scored me 7 of their 8 goals. Kovalchuk got 110 points and Heatly 100.
c) I played my last season game against Trashers. Lost 2-5. No reasons to be too optimistic, how do you think?

Time will tell.

Alex

[AlexCobra]

Play-offs.

Need to remember one simple thing: never, never, never… thousand times never play Trashers in play-off series. This time I lost billions nerve cells watching my team battling them. The series ended 3-4, 6th game had 3 OTs. I lost final game 2:3. I’ll check is there still something breakable at the hand distance… I learnt one thing about myself during this series: I HATE TRASHERS!!!

Snipers:
1) Milan Michalik – 7 (3+4)
2) Tomas Kloucek – 5 (0+5)
3) Evgeni Malkin – 5 (3+2)

Best in +/- was Milan Michalik wit +3.
Most PIM got Aleksei Morozov – 8.
Best AvR – Tomas Kloucek – 7.86.
Goalie: Marc-Andre Fleury: played 7, win 3 lost 4; GAA=2.36, SV%=0.907. AvR=7.29.

During this season (and miserable play-offs) only 2 records were updated:
Most goals in a game – 4 by Marc Recchi
Youngest player - Jan Taticek – 19 + 15 days.

Alex.

PS Screens.

[Tasku]

Quality!

Keem 'em coming. Fun to read.

...

I wanna play EHM now...

Really should go to sleep...

Maybe just for half an hour...

[Octavian]

LOL, I love the Thrashers. But I feel sorry for you

Well, don't worry for EHM 2006 coz we sold Heatly and we won't keep Kovalchuk for much longer

[AlexCobra]

Pittsbourgh Pingwins Season 2007-2008.

Mid-Season results

I didn't do any trades during mid-season. Had some troubles with re-signing existing players, Malkin seemed to be the most tough one... after 3-month struggle I convinced him to sign until 2011. This will not help me much if I continue to play in current up-and-down style. No chance to predict the result of upcoming match no matter the team I oppose. I'm experimenting on different tactics to use, changed about 4 or 5 of them, but still searching.

I'm 8th in Conference after 41 games, I got 21 win, 14 loses, 5 ties and regular 1 OT defeat. I scored 115 and conceded 110. My PP% is awful, only 14,1, and PK% isn't good too - 85,6.

Snipers(?) are:
1) Paul Kariya - 39 (17+22)
2) Milan Michalek - 29 (16+13)
3) Aleksei Morozov - 29 (14+15)
4) Evgeni Malkin - 27 (11+16)
5) Ryan Malone - 24 (7+17)

Best in +/- is Paul Kariya with +13.
Most PIM - Aleksei Morozov (!!) with 56 mins.
Best average rating - Evgeni Malkin, 7.84

After 3 seasons I can expect some improvement in play... but there's no such. Seems like I missed something. Yes, greatest are leaving - Lemieux, Recchi, but I think I can find some good youngsters to replace them though... or try to replace. Only one bright thing I see here - I'm good in playoffs when I start from the bottom!

Alex.

[Minstrel]

Hopefully your team is just in a transitional middle ground, where your new guys haven't quite taken over the team yet but will continue to improve as the season goes on. Seems like you've been planning well so I'd guess you'll be okay in the long-run, but in the overall scheme of building a team half a season isn't very long, hang in. Good luck.

[AlexCobra]

Full Season Report

Nothing really interesting during second part of the season.

I collected 42 wins, 30 loses and 9 ties; standart 1 OT lose. Finished 6th in Conference with .0573 and 94 points. Scored 244 and conceded 215, my PP% was 16,0 (20th in League) and PK% was 84,7 (9th in League).

My lines were: (age – games played; avg. rating)
Paul Kariya (33 – 82; 7,71) – Evgeni Malkin (21 – 78; 7,91) – Milan Michalek (23 – 82; 7,60)
Ryan Malone (28 – 80; 7,38) – Milan Kraft (27 – 63; 7,43) – Aleksei Morozov (31 – 82; 7,63)
Jan Taticek (20 – 42; 7,14) – Maxim Talbot (24 – 82; 7,51) – Logan McMillan (18 – 74; 7,08)
Adam Mair (29 – 81; 7,30) – Sean Avery (27 – 80; 7,00) – Steve Konowalchuk (35 – 82; 7,28)

Tomas Kloucek (28 – 77; 7,53) – Brooks Orpik (27 – 49; 7,65)
Dick Tarnstrom (33 – 82; 7,67) – Ryan Whitney (25 – 82; 7,61)
Andre Benoit (24 – 82; 7,57) – Michal Rozsival (29 – 82; 7,37)

Marc-Andre Fleury (23 – 71; 7,75)

Snipers are:
1) Paul Kariya – 72 (32+40)
2) Evgeni Malkin – 67 (22+45)
3) Milan Michalek – 65 (34+31)
4) Aleksei Morozov – 57 (30+27)
5) Ryan Malone – 53 (20+33)
6) Dick Tarnstrom – 42 (10+32)
7) Tomas Kloucek – 36 (8+28)
8) Milan Kraft – 35 (14+21)
9) Michal Rozsival – 31 (7+24)
10) Ryan Whitney – 31 (8+23)

Best in +/- was Andre Benoit, he got +24. Second to him was Paul Kariya with +20.
Most PIM award goes to Sean Avery, who sit 112 mins in box during matches. Second was Milan Michalek with 92 mins.
Best average rating – Evgeni Malkin, 7,91; Marc-Andre Fleury was second – 7,75.
Goalie: Marc-Andre Fleury grabbed 37 wins from his 71 game, 28 loses and 5 ties. His GAA was 2.50 and SV% - 0,923. 2 shutouts also. Not shiny if you ask me… I know that are good stats for an average NHL goalie, but seeing his performance 3 years earlier, I hoped for some more then that.

I’m facing Boston Bruins in the first PO round. Well, let’s check for bright sides here… mmm… never was good against ‘em… hey, found one! It’s not Trashers!

Wish me luck, ‘cause I’ll need it.

Alex.

[AlexCobra]

Play-offs.

Nothing really interesting happened, ‘cause I faced Tampa Bay instead of Boston and they killed me in 4 games, outscoring me 17 to 5. Disgusting.

Pittsbourgh Pingwins 2008-2009 season

Season report.

Kinda thrilling season. At the end of previous one I decided to trade most of my players, invite some youngsters and cut my salary balance. Well, second one was fulfilled, but others not. My players value nothing to the clubs so far. Also need to mention that Morozov rejected all my contract offers and left me for Toronto, Sean Avery – for Tampa. Traitors.

The season started badly, I was losing, and my keepers were somewhere in other world. Michalek was injured for 3 months, played a week and was injured again for another 3 weeks. I was tossing the lines seeking for some wonder chemistry to happen. Can’t say I found something, but in the end it wasn’t so awful as in the beginning.

Ok, after 60 games I was 9th and there was 12 points difference between me and Buffalo (8th place). I said to myself: “No playoff this yearâ€

[AlexCobra]

Pittsbourgh Pengwins Season 2009-2010.

Full season report.

During summer months I got rid of a group of half-talented players, about 20 of such. Signed only 4 players instead, wich was certainly wise for me considering my salary cap. Right now I got 30-33 players including farm, but this gave no free salaries, even a bit out of limit. This I consider the main reason slowing me on my run for Stanley Cup. Salary cap was never rised since I started to rule in Pittsbourgh, and I definitely need a couple of players Kariya caliber to sucessfully withstand all this monster teams like Vancouver and Ottawah.

Introducing newcomers:

1) Aleksei Sopin (ex-Anaheim) – traded him in my only successful trade (well, in my opinion...). His greatest skills are wristshot and stickhandling, things that I always very highly appreciate. Considering his play during season, I can say he lacks defensive abilities.
2) Jurki Louhi (ex-Hameenlinna) – drafted this Finnish guy in 2008. He is already mature player, 31 year old, winger. No special features, played on substitutes... not a great one.
3) Bryan Allen (ex-Columbus) – I needed some reinforcements in defence, so I took him from waivers to support my younger defenders, but it turned so that he played in starting roster all the way. Nothing special, Kloucek-Orpik type of power-oriented defensive type guy... I definitely need skillful attacking def. Hope I got one during draft.

Finished 2nd in league (3rd overall) with 106 points, recording 49 wins, 25 loses, 7 ties and 1 OT lose. Scored 276 and conceded 204 goals. My PP% was 20,2% (4th in league) and PK% - 84,9% (6th in league).

Lines (age; games played – average rating):

Ryan Malone (30; 82 – 7,43) – Evgeni Malkin (23; 82 – 7,94) – Milan Michalek (25; 81 – 7,75)
Adam Mair (31; 82 – 7,77) – Milan Kraft (29; 82 – 7,30) – Paul Kariya (35; 51 – 7,69)
Steve Konowalchuk (37; 81 – 6,68) – Maxim Talbot (26; 81 – 7,62) – Logan MacMillan (20; 82 – 7,23)
Jan Taticek (22; 71 – 6,99) – Ryan Stone (25; 76 – 7,09) – Aleksei Sopin (23; 82 – 7,51)

Tomas Kloucek (30; 65 – 7,68) – Brooks Orpik (29; 77 – 7,65)
Dick Tarnstrom (35; 82 – 7,63) – Ryan Whitney (27; 80 – 7,51)
Bryan Allen (29; 82 – 7,49) – Michal Rozsival (31; 78 – 7,33)

Marc-Andre Fleury (25; 59 – 7,64), Sebastian Caron (29; 31 – 7,26)

Snipers:

1) Evgeni Malkin – 99 (44+55)
2) Milan Michalek – 86 (41+45)
3) Adam Mair – 62 (24+38)
4) Ryan Malone – 62 (27+35)
5) Paul Kariya – 50 (20+30)
6) Brooks Orpik – 50 (12+38)
7) Dick Tarnstrom – 48 (11+37)
8) Maxim Talbot – 45 (15+30)
9) Aleksei Sopin – 44 (23+21)
10) Tomas Kloucek – 39 (6+33)

Best in +/- was Evgeni Malkin (+42), second was Milan Michalek (+37)
Most PIM – Brooks Orpik, 134 mins; Adam Mair came second with 121 mins.
Best avg. rating – Evgeni Malkin with 7,94; Adam Mair with 7,77)
Goalies: Marc-Andre Fleury played 59 games; he got 35 wins, 14 loses and 4 ties. His GAA was 2,32 and SV% was 0.925, and he leaved empty four times.

And now I have some reasons to open a new title here...

The Trophy Room.

Evgeni Malkin was awarded Art Ross Trophy award this year.
Evgeni Malkin was awarded Bill Masterton award this year.
Evgeni Malkin was awarded Hart Memorial Trophy award this year. (hat-trick, baby!)
Marc-Andre Fleury was awarded Vezina Trophy award this year. (his third Vezina)

Play-off.

First round faced me against... (guess who?) ..Trashers of course. It’s my destiny to meet them in play-offs every year, it seems so. Well, their style of play was very similar to mine and I certainly beat them – just a who-outscores-one-another type of game... taking home games and providing some good action on the foreign ice give me 4 to 2 serie win. Well, in the second round I met Ottawa and here I saw the difference between me and more wealthy teams. They got 2 star lines who could run, score and defend perfectly well. Considering their closed-up style of play, I had no chances against them. Lost it 2 to 4. That’s all for this year.

Best Scorers:

1) Evgeni Malkin – 13 (7+6)
2) Tomas Kloucek – 9 (3+6)
3) Dick Tarnstrom – 9 (1+8)

Best in +/- were Jurki Louhi and Logan MacMillan, both got +3.
Richest in PIM was Jakub Voita with 20 mins, Adam Mair got 18.
Bryan Allen got highest average rating – 7,80; Paul Kariya – 7,75.

Some records updated:

Most wins in a row – 11
Most loses in a row – 6
Most points in a game – Brooks Orpik – 6 (2+4)
Most carrier shutouts – Marc-Andre Fleury – 28.