EHM The Blue Line

bruins72 wrote:

Danny wrote:
I'm guessing the reason he didn't want to negotiate with you was because you insulted him with the low-ball offer and kept after him, nagging him to sign a bad deal. He probably got sick of you. I bet if you waited a week or two and offered him a decent deal, he would've signed.

i think when u trade alot u get this more often. couse u destory the team chemestry and u trade away the players best friends...

I'm not doing so bad in my season as the Predators new GM. Take a look at my blog to read more about the season.

I don't want to type out 6 paragraphs of stuff here that you can view over there in seconds.

I've just finished my first season with Minnesota, I got 13th in the west, on the bright side, Gaborik won the Rocket Richard and the Art Ross with 56 goal and 116 pts. Demitra not far behind with 99 pts.

I think my team will be alot better next year, and It must because the board wants the cup..

So here my team partial line-up for the next season:

Parrish-Demitra-Gaborik -> my super scoring line will stay intact
Rolston-Sutherby-Bouchard
Blake-Koivu-Radivojevic
??? - Betts - ???

The question marks are for available spots for rookies or marginal players, I'll pick 4 from them:
Veilleux -> decent 4th liner last season
Boogerman -> only good at fisticuff, but I prefer him scratched than a nice prospect
Ortmeyer -> played not great last year, but could do wonder on checking line
Foy -> it's now or never for him.
Weinhandl -> all-around, was usefull on the PP from time to time
Pouliot -> could play NHL, but the first 3 lines spots are filled, unless I play Blake RW or get rid of Bouchard

My Defensive squad:

Johnsson - Schultz
Burns - Hill -> having the kid with the team captain should be beneficial
Vaananen - Yonkman -> uncreative but highly efficient defensively

Skoula

Goalies -> probably my concern for the upcoming season

Harding
Waite

Capitains:
C Sean Hill
A Brian Sutherby -> surely the next captain
A Brian Rolston

My first draft pick was James Van Riemsdyk. Funny enough, most of my picks were american players. Maybe in 5 seasons the Wild will be the home of America's finest On the same pattern, I've tried to grab Minnesota natives Blake and Hedican, only succeeding with Blake, Hedican prefering Atlanta.

Currently in the 20/21 season with the canadiens.

Mostly regens in my team now.
Only original are Ryan O'marra,Carey Price,J.Johnson and M.staal.

Got the best checking line in the league with my centre winning the selke two years in a row with my lw and rw runners up

Hi Colt! How many Cups won in all those seasons? I guess you now have a nice collection of trophies

By the way, welcome to TBL You should go to introduce yourself in our Arrivals section

Capitals and jut wrapped up the 2010-2011 season (lost in first round after winning Presidents Trophy) I'm getting rid of my big namer (excluding Ovechkin) and gonna try to play some prospects this upcoming season.

I've won 1 cup 2009-2010

Hi Shad

I've won the cup 5 times and runner up twice.Presidents trophy 3 times.

Hoping to make it six cups this season,My team went 11-0-0 with 61 goals for,they were really clicking.
Carey price is dominating,but have now lost 4 strait since 2 key players for 5 and 1 month.

Back to back cup wins (my first cups) in 10/11 & 11/12 with the Rangers. Just got hit pretty hard though with Forsberg & Jagr retiring within a few weeks of each other.

John Tavares is a beast (coming into his 3rd season) as is Patrick O'Sullivan.

Stll having problems getting players over 100 points though. Not had anybody do it since my first season when Jagr & Shanahan both did.

Von Muff wrote:Back to back cup wins (my first cups) in 10/11 & 11/12 with the Rangers. Just got hit pretty hard though with Forsberg & Jagr retiring within a few weeks of each other.

John Tavares is a beast (coming into his 3rd season) as is Patrick O'Sullivan.

Stll having problems getting players over 100 points though. Not had anybody do it since my first season when Jagr & Shanahan both did.

I grabbed Tavared as well. I left him in the Juniors tearing it up until he was 20 (no room in Hershey or on Roster) and now I've got him on the Caps. He only had 30 points in 59 games his rookie season but next year I'm moving him up on the depth chart which should help him.

Tavares had 41 points in 72 games playing on line 3 in his rookie year, 82 in 80 games on line 2 last year and has 26 points in 24 games so far in my current year. Only 22. Well worth trading up for (or taking with your #1 pick if your team sucks )

I'm back in the game after a few month layoff, taking over the Islanders with updated rosters and I realized rather quickly... I've got quite a challenge ahead of myself! A mediocre, veteran team with few real prospects in the system and no draft picks in the first 2 rounds. And a coaching staff, outside of Ted Nolan, that I quickly replaced upon taking over the reins. I brought in Joey Kocur and Paul Martin and some 28 year-old goalie coach wunderkind and so far I'm surprisingly holding my own with a 7th spot in the conference after 15 games. I know, I know... it's early.

I do have a lot of cap room, and I wanted to bring in some young talent so I immediately traded Shaun Bates who I like, but is making over $1 mil. in the last year of his contract and picked up Brent Burns. Which was crucial because I've got a mish-mash of D-men and my PP QB Marc-Andre Bergeron went down for 3 months with a torn MCL.

Then I traded Jon Sim ($1 mil and seeing 4th line duty) and a 3-star prospect for Chris Neil, who will bring a solid checking game that I'm sorely lacking right now. We'll see how my 2 year rebuilding plan works...

JUst finished my 2014-2016 regular season with the Blues. My third year phenom Howie Leblanc was second in scoring and first in goals and my #1 center Ryan O'Marra first with 138 points. I finished the season at 60-16-4... not bad.

Just started my 2013 regular season with the Rangers. Here is my GM's rating:
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=887

I'm starting up with my first EHM experience as the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL.

It's a challenge to learn the ropes on this level of play, but luckily Pittsburgh keeps me well stocked with veteran defensemen. The hardest part is finding Icetime for everyone!

My team has been solid so far with a 22-5-2 record even though we take WAY too many penalties. We are playing the Norfolk Admirals right now and lead 3-2 w 18:07 left in the 3rd.

-Bob

I am on my 3rd season with Leksand in Swedish Elitserien, started in Allsvenskan and won promotion the first year and bearly made it to the playoff the second (beaten in the first round 0-4 in games). Have started the 3rd season good and it´s looks much more intresting this year, but the next year will be it! After I won the cup with Leksand I will aim for a NHL team to manage!

Now in my 3rd season with my all-new Dallas Stars game. Won the cup last year, now I'm 2nd in the conference, having more goals against than goals for.. Hopefully, Turco is back healthy and I just got some reinforcement: Mike Knuble and Chris Philips

My lines looks something like, but I often swap my wingers:

Knuble-Modano-Crombeen
Jokinen-Lindgren-Dumont
Morrow-Halpern-Lethinen
Avery-Hagos-Dingman

J.Lundqvist and T.Harvey are my back-ups

Sydor-Zubov
Daley-Philips
Yonkman-Boucher

Grossman's the 7th guy (but Daley really sucks.. )

Good Ol' Marty and Mike "Red Light" Smith are my cerberas.

Got some nice prospect knocking at my door: Ryan Wilson, Alex Grant and James Neal. They'll surely play next year, when Sydor, Zubov and Knuble will all be in retirement

[quote="holydogg"Got some nice prospect knocking at my door: Ryan Wilson, Alex Grant and James Neal. They'll surely play next year, when Sydor, Zubov and Knuble will all be in retirement [/quote]
Don't know much about R.Wilson, but A.Grant and J.Neal are your very good assets! They are steady and classic two-way players in my team (2013), actually being my 3rd dman (after Bouwmeester&Tyutin) and 2nd line LW respectively. They can log high minutes and play both PP and PK.

CrockerNHL wrote: Don't know much about R.Wilson, but A.Grant and J.Neal are your very good assets! They are steady and classic two-way players in my team (2013), actually being my 3rd dman (after Bouwmeester&Tyutin) and 2nd line LW respectively. They can log high minutes and play both PP and PK.

I assure you that Wilson is equal if not better than Grant. They'll be my Defensive top pairing in a near future. Last two seasons, he shined during playoff, even if he got less than 50 games in NHL! and that the kind of players I want,

Just starting my 4th season, roster looks like:

G: Turco - Kilpelainen

F: Morrow-Halpern-Dumont
Jokinen-Lindgren-Knuble
Lehtinen-Modano-Crombeen (Modano's too old for playing top minutes.. )
Neal-Hagos-Dingman

Holtet and Lundqvist back up

D: Philips - BOucher
Daley - Wilson
Yonkman - Grant

Grossman's the 7th guy

right now i am playing two NHL teams, the Coyotes (my favorite) and the Blue Jackets (as well as the AHL teams) approaching September.

With the Coyotes we finished the first year at 31-44-7 had two first rounders at 4th and 5th which was nice. anyways the current roster for the 07-08 season is

Heatley-Reinprecht-Doan
York-Leino-Hossa
Saprykin-Kaigorodov-Fedotenko
Sjostrom-Zigomanis-Christov

Defensive lines
Bouillon-Boynton
Vaananen-Cairns
Vishnevski-Morrisonn

Goalies: Lalime and LaCosta

The Blue Jackets finished 32-42-8 and had the first pick in the draft (got the Wilds pick and they won the lottery)

Nash-Demitra-Vyborny
Straka-Zetterberg-Recchi
Picard-Malhotra-Zherdev
Kang-Brassard-Brule

Malik-Kankaanpera
Gauthier-Klesia
Kuznetsov-Method

Leclaire and Norrena

Ville Leino is a jewel, and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd be in the NHL in real life aswell quite soon, with how he's doing in SM-liiga and how he played in the Euro Hockey Tour game against Sweden today.

I have him in my own game with Washington aswell... and in my game, he's also the second line center.

Using a roster update I did a fantasy draft with the Edmonton Oilers, gave myself the number 1 pick and chose:

Rick DiPietro
Ty Conklin
Miika Wiikman (free agent)
Darren Machesney

Jay Bouwmeester
Brad Stuart
Marc Staal
Brooks Orpik
Mike Commodore
Bryan Allen
Branislav Mezei
Tobias Enstrom
Marc Methot (free agent)
Kyle Quincy (free agent)
Cody Franson

Patrik Elias
Evgeni Malkin
Justin Williams
Brad Boyes
Daniel Sedin
Daymond Langkow
Matt Cullen
Niklas Hagman
Jay Pandolfo
Jed Ortmeyer
Joel Lundqvist
Andre Roy
Anthony Stewart
Lukas Kaspar (free agent)
Blake Comeau (free agent)

Thought I'd chosen a pretty good selection but forgot to check their contracts so have alot of UFAs after the 1st season though it will make the trade deadline abit more fun.

I've got about 8+ saves, because I keep switching back and forth between them and thinking of new things to do, but. Right now, back to a non-fantasy draft Thrashers team, first season. Doing well at the start, 8-3-1, second in the east, but surprisingly, only Tampa's currently looking bad in the Southeast. The Panthers are 8-4-1 and the Caps are 7-2-1.

Kovalchuk-Handzus-Hossa
Kozlov-Holik-Sim
Slater-Perreault-Sean Collins
Pandolfo-Rucchin-Ortmeyer

Staal-Havelid
Morrisonn-Martinek
Therien-Odelein

Lehtonen-Hedberg

Go go faceoff mastery.

Wow, with eight games I'd be far too confused! I normally stick with one or two. Currently I'm the Sharks and am starting to storm ahead at the top of the Western Conference after about 50 games in my first season.

XD It does get confusing. It's actually.... 6 fantasy drafts. A Blue Jackets save that started to explore some things, a Blackhawks save, three saves for the three CHL teams I like (Huskies, Knights, and Rebels), and my current Thrashers save. Then a couple saves for teams that I wanted to check out, but haven't got around to playing. ...I have a bit of a short attention span.

archibalduk wrote:Wow, with eight games I'd be far too confused! I normally stick with one or two. Currently I'm the Sharks and am starting to storm ahead at the top of the Western Conference after about 50 games in my first season.

Awesome, I'm interested to see what your lines are like? and who is performing, and who isn't?