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

[mark_htfc]

I have just started a new game with the Manchester Phoenix just to get myself back into EHM before I move onto the challenges and the NHL. So far I am in pre-season, not played a game yet as I have been sorting my team out, I have signed a couple of scouts and some other staff as the Phoenix only have 2 to start off with. I have also signed a player. Will update as I go along and start my season.

[alexob18]

So I started a franchise with the Leafs...
I started out pretty average, sitting at 8th place for 4 months...

My first move was to get Gerber and Kolzig out and make up some cap room, and send the two of them and White out to get Tobias Enstrom (spent one year with AHL, playing on my 2nd pairing with B. Berard).

Shipped out some useless AHL players who were eating up my reserves for some 4th rounders (ie. Tim Stapleton)

Traded for Cody Hodgson for Jimmy Hayes and Robert Slaney.

Shipped out Harrison, Hollweg and Hamilton out for 3rd and 4th round picks each. Signed Ryan Garlock for my AHL team, and now has a real shot at making my team. Schenn played in the jrs., now in my AHL Team along with Hodgson and Tulusty, all looking like they can make the step up.

Before my first game, I got D. Langkow and C. Drury off of waivers. Drury had a phenomenal season, 45G, 63A playing with Blake and Stempniak.

Shipped out Kubina and a 3rd rounder and some salary out for B. McCabe. Played with Kaberle, who had 92 pts.

Shipped out Van Ryn and Vorobiev to SJ for their 1st.

My team went on a tear at the end of the season, finishing 5th in the strong Eastern Conference and went to the Conference Finals, being beaten out by Pittsburgh 4 games to 2.

No notable draftees except for Seth Hegleson, who I signed immediately and put him in the ECHL where he is doing great.

Re-signed all players, same roster except no Cujo and Gustavsson is in.

Started the 07-08 season bad, Stempniak went down for 3 mos, Blake for 2 and McCabe for 2. We were 10th in the Conference, with Drury and Kaberle saving games, sometimes putting up 4-5 pts. Tulusty and Kulemin stepped in and played phenomenal, both scoring over 30 pts in the absence of my starters.

We stormed back into the playoffs, back into the 4th seed by going on a 13-1-1 tear, with Gustavsson and Toskala both getting 3 SOs each in that span.

Nabokov was injured for 4 mos, so SJ got another starter, when he was healthy they waived him, I picked him up and traded Toskala for a 1st in the 08 draft. (Pulkkinen) Also wheeled for the 1st overall and got Hall, who looked absolutely amazing.

Took an early bow in the playoffs, only making the 2nd round.

Re-signed all players, traded Blake and Hagman for some picks to sign Kovalchuk.

Got some good players in the late rounds and have a large amount of 1st rounders going into the 2010&11 drafts.

Depth Chart:

Kovalchuk - Drury - Stempniak
Modin - Langkow - Kulemin
Ponikarovsky - Stajan - Laperriere
Battaglia - Grabovsky - Devereaux

Kaberle - McCabe
Enstrom - Stralman
Berard - Sifers

Nabokov
Gustavsson
Pogge

Overall we are considered by the overall rankings issued at the beginning of the year to finish 1st. I'm 1.5 mil off the cap. I have some very deep prospects that can step in at any time.

Thoughts? Comments?

[mig174]

Is this your first game? If so, good job!

I didn't make the playoffs in my 1st year with the leafs, but managed to land Tavares and Lander at the draft who are tearing it up. However, I found trading can get quite easy - e.g. if Washington is just out of the playoffs, you can land Ovechkin for 1st rnd pick + prospect. Same for Kovalchuk. Keep playing, but once it gets easy, try to up the difficulty artificially - i.e. no players in via FA, limit yourself to 2 or three trades/season, etc.

[alexob18]

Yeah I'm starting to limit myself already... I'm letting some players go into free agency so I have more room to play with in the cap and things like that. I made 1 trade this year, which was Langkow and 2 AHL players that would be 3rd liners at best for Ryan Getzlaf.

[Philip Rolfe]

After not playing for almost a calendar year, have gone back to my Sabres game in the 2012/13 season, off the back of my second Cup in five years. Didn't sign any FAs or promote any prospects, we've gone with the same team as last year and through half the season we are top of the East and Vanek is beginning to fly. He's got points in 15 straight and is doing it all.

Vanek - Roy - Pominville
Semin - M. Koivu - D. Brown
Franzen - Gaustad - Stafford
Paille - Dupuis - Mancari

Campbell - ? (totally forgotten who I have here )
Gleason - Jurcina
Sekera - Sanguinetti

Miller
Ludvik

Looking forward to this year's draft already, been scouting heavily all year inspired by the real life draft, and will be looking to try and score the #1 pick to get in on the Aaron Allard action. I don't tend to move up but I might this year, and have the tools to make it happen.

Says everything about the game that I can leave it for a year whilst my hockey interest fell behind the NFL massively, then come back and get immersed again immediately.

[Stravz]

I took control of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Marlies (AHL), Columbia Inferno (ECHL) and the first things I took care of were practice schedules and hiring of an assistant manager, new head coach (Jacques Demers), and adequate assistant coaching staff. I demoted Paul Maurice to assistant coach. I started off the year by looking for a sound defenseman, which I found in Mattias Norstrom. Although he was pretty old, he had a few key attributes I was looking for, mostly checking, hitting, pokecheck, positioning. I shipped out Bryan McCabe due to his poor camp performance, and being completely out of shape. I brought in Scott Clemmensen, a new prospect, and Jedd Ortmeyer at first. Antero Nittymaki was brought in after I slipped down to 15th in the eastern conference, with a record of 2-6-1. Since Antero's arrival, my team's record improved by 5-1-0.

Trades:

McCabe to Ducks for S. O'Donnell, R. Niedermayer, F. Beauchemin
Kubina to Kings for M. Norstrom
Wellwood to Panthers for A. Semenov, 2007 4th round pick (FLA)
Aubin to Devils for S. Clemmensen
Rigths to Ford to Penguins for Rights to Vladimir Malenkykh (hard checking defenseman, good for next season)
Kilger to Rangers for J. Ortmeyer
Ian White, John Pohl, 3rd round pick (STL), 4th round pick for A. Nittymaki

Waivers:
Randy Robitaille (PHI)
Dmitry Afanasenkov (TBL)
Serge Payer (OTT)

This is what my team looks like now:

G1 A Nittymaki
G2 M. Tellqvist
Backup: A. Raycroft (terrible camp performance, so he's not getting much ice time. I'm thinking of offloading him to a willing team on draft day for a couple of extra picks. As far as the draft goes, I'm going for size (6'2", 180lbs, and above) and skill).
Backup: S. Clemmensen (might bring him down to Marlies)

LD Kaberle RD Norstrom
LD O'Donnell RD Beauchemin
LD Gill RD White

LW Tucker C Sundin RW Niedermayer
LW Ponikarovsky C Peca RW O'Neill
LW Antropov C Steen RW Ortmeyer
LW Afanasenkov C Stajan RW Robitaille

I'm looking at a few kids in College/University leagues around North America. Just offered a 4 week tryout to Sean Brown and a few other young guns. Pogges is doing great in Calgary (Hitmen). My scouts are all over the place. 2 of them (Craig Button, Garth Malarchuk) are watching the NHL Entry Draft. Some are watching Sweden, Czech Republic, Europe, and North America for good prospects.

My record is 6-7-1 right now. My leading point scorers are Sundin (14GP, 16P), O'neill (14GP, 10P), and Tucker (14GP, 10P). In my previous leafs game I managed to pick up Marc Staal and David Bolland both on waivers, so I am hoping I might luck out in that department once again. I'm thinking of giving up D. Tucker for someone younger, but it's very hard to engineer a trade involving him. I tried offering Tuckker, Antropov, Rights to Dmitry Vorobiev, and a second round pick for Jeff Carter, but it did not work. I also have my eye on Philadelphia's young puck moving defenseman, Joni Pitkanen, but he is next to impossible to get. My marlies are doing good, although we can't seem to get past Rochester Americans, I've lost 2 games to them so far, and both of those were on Penalty Shootouts. Maybe I should bring Clemmensen down and let him handle it for a while, although my current goalie is pretty sound by AHL standards.

Tellqvist got a shutout against the Sens in the first game of the season, but as of right now his record is at 2-6-1. Since I brought in A. Nittymaki, I've won 5 games and lost 1...and that one loss was a 4-0 rout in Montreal. Turns out I had my shooting set to barrage and low shots, but Huet outsmarted my team in that department.
I'm still tweaking with my tactics. I am forced to play a defensively minded game since my lines aren't capable of playing a sound offense minded game. I tried trading tucker but when I offered him to teams around the league, I didn't see anything I liked. I set my team needs, according to what Jacques Demers and Paul Maurice identified.
I am also controlling both of my farm teams, and the Marlies are the top contender in the AHL.

[Stravz]

Update:

Peca was struggling. So was Antropov, so I got rid of them.

Trades:

Peca, 4th round pick in 2007 to NYR for Blair Betts
Antropov to FLA for Juraj Kolnik (26gp, 29p...compared to antropov's 11gp, 2p)

Raycroft, 2nd round pick in 2007, 2nd round pick in 2011 to VAN for Marty Schmidt (Goalie Prospect, starter in ECHL's Columbia inferno, and so far made a huge difference for the team), and M. Chouinard (to Marlies)

Rights to James Reimer to WSH for rights to Daren Machesney

Carlo Colaiacovo to SJS for D. Murray (needed a second puck moving defenseman, and since Philadelphia didn't want to give up J. Pitkanen, I got D. Murray)

So far in the game I'm just slightly past the half-way point of the season, and I'm sitting in 7th place in the Eastern Conference. Marlies are doing great, in second place in their division, and Columbia is doing OK, with a record of 15-16-7.

Point Leaders:

1. Markus Naslund VAN 42GP 31G 31A 62P
2. Marian Hossa ATL 43GP 26G 36A 62P
3. Dany Heatley OTT 42GP 32G 29A 61P
4. Jason Spezza OTT 43GP 23G 37A 60P
5. Peter Forsberg PHI 39GP 15G 44A 59P
6. Scott Gomez NJD 40GP 14G 45A 59P
7. Daniel Alfredsson OTT 43GP 20G 38A 58P
8. Jarome Iginla CGY 40GP 25G 32A 57P
9. Mats Sundin TOR 42Gp 21G 36A 57P
10. Brendan Morrison VAN 42GP 19G 35A 54P

[Stravz]

Just brought the cup home in my first year as the GM. I faced the Devils in the first round, and won the series 4-1. Next two series both went to game seven, first against NYR, winning 5-3 in the last game at home, and the winning 5-3 against Buffalo in game 7 away. I faced the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup Final, and won the series 4-1.

Sundin lead the playoff group with 9 goals and 27 assists in 24 games, ending up with a +/- rating of +11.

My coaching staff is as follows:

Head Coach: Jacques Demers
Assistants: Ron Wilson (Defense, genral), Paul Maurice(Defense, General), Paul Dennis(Forwards, Technique), Josef Bruk(Goalie, Technique), and Eddie Hakewill (Defense, General).

Playoff Stats:
1. Mats Sundin TOR GP 24 G9 A27 P36
2. Mike Modano DAL GP18 G6 A19 P25
3. Jonathan Cheechoo TOR GP22 G16 A7 P23
4. Maxim Afinogenov BUF GP16 G7 A16 P23
5. Mike Cammalleri TOR GP24 G11 A11 P22

On the deadline day, I dealt D'arcy Tucker and rights to Dmitry Vorobiev to SJS for Jonathan Cheechoo (Out with a separated shoulder for 4 months. His first game for me was the third game in the first playoff series against NJD). Next, I traded Matt Stajan, Hal Gill and a first round pick in 2010 to LA for Mike Cammalleri. My board was very angry with the trade, but I needed a reliable playoff performer since I was hanging on to the 8th spot in the East. I ended up finishing the regular season in 6th place, with Sundin leading my team with a grand todal of 107 points. I picked up Andrew Peters after the Sabres put him on waivers on February 19, 2007. He scored 2 clutch goals against his former team to help me get to the Stanley Cup Final. I also grabbed Boyd Devereaux for my 4th line after Red Wings put him up on waivers on January 18, 2007. Marlies got swept int he first round by Grand Rapids, so I called up A. Suglobov (the team's leading scorer), and he had a good playoff run with the lafs, scoring 11 goals, and assisting on 5 others in his 20 games for the Leafs. He has more than earned a spot on my roster for next season.
When I traded D'arcy Tucker, he was my second best goal scorer (after Mats), but his contract was only good until June of 2008, whereas Cheechoo was making less money and had a contract that runs til June 2011.

It's June 7th now, the draft is only a couple of weeks away. I just locked up Kulemin, Tlusty, Oreskovic, Stralman, and a handful of other top notch prospects to 3 year entry-level deals. They are going to spend some time in the minors, and if their match rating after the first 1/4 of the season is about 8.50, I will bring them up. That's all for now.

[mrt3991]

Should this team not be owning every team in its path...? They score tons of goals, but the defensive play is just horrible. Maybe my defensive pairings are just wrong. Should i maybe pair up an offensive D and a defensive D on each pairing? Iono, Kipper gets good ratings but he seems to give up 3-5 goals most games.

2008-2009 San Jose Sharks

Marc Tarbuskovich(My created Ovy copy that has developed alot since his creation) - Joe Thornton - Cody Hodgson
James vanRiemsdyk - Anze Kopitar - Evgeni Malkin
Sergei Kostitsyn - Steve Downie - Bobby Ryan
Ryane Clowe - Blair Betts - Jordin Tootoo

Dion Phaneuf - Dan Boyle
Tomas Kaberle - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Braydon Coburn - Marc Staal
Mathieu Schneider

Miikka Kipprusoff
Al Montoya

My farm team is pretty stacked right now too. They are first in the AHL and are tearing it up currently. It includes players like Victor Hedman, Jacob Markstrom, Nick Petrecki, Mark Mitera, Lars Eller, Derrick Brassard, Sergei Shirokov, Logan Couture, Thomas Greiss, Wayne Primeau, Torrey Mitchell and Mikkel Bodker.

[RyanSmythe]

What are your tactics set too?

[Philip Rolfe]

After not playing for almost a calendar year, have gone back to my Sabres game in the 2012/13 season, off the back of my second Cup in five years. Didn't sign any FAs or promote any prospects, we've gone with the same team as last year and through half the season we are top of the East and Vanek is beginning to fly. He's got points in 15 straight and is doing it all.

Vanek - Roy - Pominville
Semin - M. Koivu - D. Brown
Franzen - Gaustad - Stafford
Paille - Dupuis - Mancari

Campbell - ? (totally forgotten who I have here )
Gleason - Jurcina
Sekera - Sanguinetti

Miller
Ludvik

Looking forward to this year's draft already, been scouting heavily all year inspired by the real life draft, and will be looking to try and score the #1 pick to get in on the Aaron Allard action. I don't tend to move up but I might this year, and have the tools to make it happen.

Says everything about the game that I can leave it for a year whilst my hockey interest fell behind the NFL massively, then come back and get immersed again immediately.

Sabres finished 4th, after choking away the top seed. Swept the Penguins, cast aside the Habs, and then the Rangers in 6. Met the Wild in the Final, they took me to 7 but Derek Roy won it in overtime for back to back Cups. \o/

The guy I forgot in that lineup above btw was Ryan Wilson, and it was that team which won the Cup save for Frantisek Kaberle (aged 39) as a rental for Sekera, who was poor. Oh, and Ryan Parent for Tim Gleason, I wanted a return on him and he wasn't signing a new deal. I missed Roy suspended in games 1 and 2, Semin injured in game 3, and Campbell injured in games 4 and 5. Tough run, but we got there.

[bossman]

I have just recently decided to start a game with the Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL. Has anyone else done a fairly long game out of the ECHL? I wanted to do this since it was different from the leagues I usually play, those being the NHL and the OHL.

So far, the preseason preview had me pegged for dead last in the league. I am currently first in my division through 9 games at 7-2-0. Not bad me thinks!

[mrt3991]

What are your tactics set too?

My tactics are set very similar to the Barrage tactic, except modified a bit to be a little more defensively minded.

[Lars30]

Sonovagun.
I was in my second season with the Oilers. The first season I finished 8th, upset the Wings in the first round of the playoffs and everything was great. Expectations for this year were once again "make the playoffs".
Well, after 30 games I was 14-12-4 and in 10th, 5 points out of a playoff spot. And I got canned. Unfreakinbelievable. That Oiler franchise should be set for years with Cogliano, Gagner (AHL right now) and Josefson in the pipeline.
I'm disgusted. 30 games?
I think I'll apply for some new jobs (I've never had to do that before) and come back and crush the Oil. I hope they never win another game.

[darino]

I started with the 06-07 Coyotes and wheeled and dealed early, getting Ovechkin, Drury, Handus and Lacavelier and Bondra. Got Niittymanki, Jason Blake, Adrian Aucoin, Mike Van Ryn, Brian Campbell and Tim Connally about mid-season. Picked up Datsyuk at the deadline and Parise and Milan Michelek, both whom i promptly sent to the minors since their was no room on the roster. Datsyuk stunk, so i reprimanded hinm a few times. He copped an attitude on how he was 'indespensible to the team'. So i showed him who was boss and benched him for the last 20 games or so. He never snifed the playoffs, in which i lost in the finals in seven games to the Rangers. Statisticly, i led th eleage in scoring by a wide margian. Ovechkin scored 97(!) goals--nearly 40more than the next guy, and he finished with 144 points, nearly 40 more then second place Vinny. But Vinny slumped down the stretch, going goaless in the last 15-20 games. My defense was subpar, allowing a middle-of-the-pack 3.4 gpg. Just startign season two, and i am concentrating on improving my defensive play. We'll see what happens! Thanks for 'listening'.

[drew22]

I'm playing with the Thrashers, we're doing pretty bad, but that's okay.

The weirdest thing is the Blues though. They're in first place in the West, and it's getting close to the trade deadline. They have traded away their entire future for this year. Here are there trades

They gave up Hedmen for Chris Pronger.
They traded Ian Cole, Lars Eller, David Perron, and there first rounder for Miroslav Satan.
They traded there first and second round draft picks from last year for Paul Kariya.
They traded Patrik Berglund for Shane O'Brien.

I've not been playing long, but they gave more up than anyone I've ever seen.

[gazzw87]

I got many offers at the start mainly from Norway and England, i took the job with Bracknell Bees in the EPL and managed to win the league in my first year, they up'd my wage budget to a 'massive' £6000 a week which i could never fill up! the most i could fill was £4500 because nobody wanted to play in the EPL! the 2nd season i finished 2nd but won the EPL CUP and same again in the 3rd season i finished 2nd but won the EPL CUP after then i deicded to look for some other jobs, i was offered a job in the Austrian league with Graz 99ers i believe they are called, hopeless team, dead bottom and no money compared to the others, but i got in some new faces and gave it my best, 16 games in i was doing just enough to say off bottom and the AK KAZAN job was goin in the Russian Superleague, so i applied just for the sake of it, and they offered it to me, i taken it, they had a excellent team and loads of money, i played about 10 games and the NY Islanders job was going i applied again and i got the job?? i was abit shocked, the only league i proved my self in was the EPL! and i got straight to the NHL so fast! I have been trying for 2 seasons to sort out the Islanders but its hopeless Brick wall so im going to start my task again, my aim is always to get to the DEL and stay there for a good few years to get some reputation but i can never get to Germany!!

Just thought i'd share my story

[ccmequip]

I finally did it! In the 2015-16 season, I united all four Staal brothers (Eric, Marc, Jordan, Jared) by getting them all onto my team. It took a whole decade to get it done, but it's great to see goals like: E.Staal (J. Staal, M. Staal)

[matt44]

REBUILDING THE AVS!

I have got rid of Sakic, Smyth, Laperriere, Raycroft and a few others. Simmed the first season and traded up to draft Duchene.

Only players bought of note are Chris Neil & Daniel Carcillo. Other than that I traded for Toivonen & bought in a handful of 22/23 yr old Swedes.

Just doing pre-season for season 2. Think my line up will be:

Sundh - Stastny - Hejduk
Wolski - Andersson - Svatos
Klasen - Bates - Neil
Bayden - Johansson - Parker

Hannan - Clarke
Liles - Foote
Salei - Semenov

Toivonen
Budaj

[Grimcat]

FLORIDA PANTHERS

The lowly Florida Panthers began their quest for respectability by signing legendary hockey great Filthy McNasty to be their GM. In 2007 they just squeaked into the playoffs and got knocked out in the first round. Defying all odds, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2008 where they were eliminated in 7 games.

July 2008 is known as "The Great Remake" among Panthers fans. McNasty lived up to his reputation by trading three key players on the team and signing Henrik Zetterberg, Ilya Kovalchuk and Roberto Luongo in the offseason.

The 2008-2009 season brought Florida into the ranks of the NHL elite. The Panthers won the President's Trophy and went 16-0 en route to their first Stanley Cup in team history. Kovalchuk won the Hart, Art Ross and Conn Smythe trophies.

The 2009-2010 season was much the same, with the Panthers winning the President's Trophy en route to their second Stanley Cup, going 16-2 in the playoffs. Kovalchuk again won the Hart, Art Ross and Conn Smythe trophies. Luongo won all goaltending trophies. In the offseason Mike Grier walked and McNasty signed underachieving center Chris Drury to a 3 year, 4.8 million dollar contract.

During the 2010-2011 season, the Florida Panthers Board of Governors irrationally decided the team had no money to sign prospects, forcing McNasty to trade veteran Michal Handzus at the deadline. The loss of Handzus plus Mike Grier in the offseason proved costly to the Panthers, as they struggled in the playoffs, going 11-7 and getting eliminated in 7 games in the Eastern Conference finals.

In the current 2011 offseason Florida signed winger Corey Perry in the hopes he can rebound from last year's totals of 33 points in 45 games. The team's roster consists of:

Kovalchuk - Zetterberg - Horton
MSP - Tavares - Perry
Pullkinen - Drury - Russell
Hollweg - Anderson - Tripp

Hannan - Bouwmeester
Hedman - Edler
Kulyash - Sarich

Luongo
Gustavsson

[Footnote75]

I am SO proud of myself: after twelve years of managing Manchester Phoenix we have finally won the Continental Cup.

We rode the ridiculous hot streak of a goalie who'd I'd just managed to get drafted into the NHL, #71 overall to Carolina. He was awesome and shut out several teams, winning the Goaltender of the Tournament award in the process.

I feel like I've achieved everything now - maybe I should restart. Then again, I've not defended it...

[stone169]

I'm currently in the 2014/2015 season and I've won the Stanley Cup for the last two years and currently going on my 3rd.

My current lineup consists of:
Herman - Tavares - Brown
Foligno - Richards - Lupul
Clowe - Fisher - Horton
Bickell - Shafigullin - Mancari

O'Brien - Teubert
Methot - Kulda
Cowen - Weber

Leclaire
Elliott

Aside from Herman and Cowen, this is the team that's won me the Stanley Cup for the last two years. Here's hoping for a 3rd.

[batdad]

Update on my Canucks with Lidas 1.2...

With this team I have never dealt more than one roster player per year. Each player must play at least 4 seasons in the organization before they are eligible to be traded. This means they ALL get a 2nd contract after entry level.

This team has never signed a UFA, other than players that would not resign with me (Sedin's did it once).

I have only ever made one deal at the deadline for a star...and that was for Gaborik at age 32. He then played for me for 8 seasons before retiring. To get him I gave up Anthony Stewart, Jannik Hansen a prospect and my 1st round pick that year. Which I did not replace with someone elses.

Sundin, Ohlund, Sedin, Sedin, and soon Alex Edler have all retired as Canucks under contract. gaborik went UFA and retired.

Edler is now 35 and has played every year with me. I just signed him to what will be his last NHL contract which takes him to age 40.

I have only once picked higher in the draft than 30th. I traded up and got the first overall pick by dealing the Mogilny regen to the Isles (was disappointing in his 4 years with me). I also added in my 1st rounder that year to get the top pick and my 2nd rounder.

Anyway, this team has been awesome! I develop players only. Guys I have dealt for are spare parts, and I have made as I said 1 trade per year at most. Most guys I don't need leave when they go UFA the first time.

I am currently in 2019-2020. The only Stanley Cup I have lost...when I dealt Luongo at the deadline to Boston in my only deal that year because I thought the Hasek regen was gonna take it for me.

Well..guess what happened. Boston went from out of the playoffs to 4th in the confernece, and Roberto beat me in the final. I got a top notch prospect from Boston...and darn he turned out to be the Mogilny regen who I dealt five years later cause he sucked. That was the WORST move of my life as an EHM GM.

Anyway the only player on my roster that is not a regen right now is Edler. With no trading and no UFa signing this team has always been very young. Edler is 35. The next oldest on the team is my 1st round pick from 2008...a Czech centre regen. I have no idea who he is a regen of.

This career has been a ton of fun, and the team although it wins the cup has not dominated all the time. It is real fun watching guys develop (such as the 7th rounder I posted about earlier.) Unfortunately, when you grow attached to them and have to move them or let them go...it gets real hard to do so. I just had to let that 7th rounder go for a 7th round pick again. Because he was no longer strong enough to stay on the team, and would have lost him to waivers.

[Prowl]

I'm going to restart a new game with Lidas' database with my beloved Canucks with a focus on building from within and restricting myself when it comes to free agents. Unless the FA is a significant upgrade over any prospect I have, my focus will be on building through youth and trades for young players.

Will keep you guys posted on how I do

[nickflyers]

I'm entering my 4th year with the Flyers. Lost to the Nucks in 7 Games the 1st year. Got my revenge on Vancouver the following year, then got knocked off by Montreal(Luongo, Tanguay, Niedermayer, Koivu; They were STACKED).

Offseason traded Timonen to i believe Nashville for the rights to sign Shea Weber. Did that to shave Cap for my ATTEMPT at signing Pronger($5.5 Million) instead Pronger signed with Atlanta so I had to settle for Brendan Witt and Eric Brewer. Had a sick draft in the 2nd year(Traded Briere and 1st to Chicago for Kane and 1st pick(turned into the 1st Overall), so i got Tavares and also managed to get Kadri.

Team has been amazing. Carter, Richards, Gagne, Giroux, and Kane all are PPG scorers with Richards leading the way with 149Pts last year. Gagne is consistantly over 60 Goals. Niitty has been great and Toivonen filled in well last year when Niitty tore his ACL(4 Months).

Lines going into 09-10 Season
Gagne-Richards-Carter
Giroux-Tavares-Kane
Walker-Pahlsson-Leino
Nodl-Powe-Bergenheim

Coburn-Witt
Sbisa-Brewer
Parent-Weber

Niittymaki-Toivonen