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1. Love the Ducks trade. I want Theodore, because the kid is smooth as silk in real life...great skater and his vision is outstanding.
2. That draft--Barzal at 12. Wow. Eriksson Ek is looking like a stud in my game, and Lindgren everyone and his dog has (except me) and he looks good too. Course you have an advantage in this area since you probably know EVERYONE's PA.
I hate this: Bonino had this "doesn't wish to negotiate new contract" thing. Offered him 8mil. Nope. He left as a free agent and signed for Detroit for 3.5mil. And I tried offering him contract while he was UFA just for fun. And suddenly he wants back for just 2.2mil. This whole contract thing is driving me nuts. There's no logic.
And Sanguinetti left too the same way.
Yeah, right, "I don't want 8mil in the team who was in the finals but I'll go to a team who finished at the bottom for less than half of that amount". That's just dumb in my opinion.
Ok, calm down, calm down...
Finished season 2 late yesterday night. As my PP sucked a lot, a diminished the agressiveness of my team. As a result, i finished with 393 PIM Season 2 was a lot better for me, as this screenshot shows :
Particulary in Q4, where I been able to got some wins in a row.
For the statistics, Jensen and Bonino did well, as Klingberg and Muller gave more points !
So season 1 is in the books. Utica lost in the second round. Came back from being down 3-0 when I put Demko in, but eventually lost 4-3.
Stars won the Cup 4-2 over the Lightning, after the Lightning went 12-1 to get to the Finals.
Nashville, who finished 10th in the West, won the Lottery, so I pick 3 (because apparently Buffalo was worse than I was throughout the year, which was actually a shock).
Ended up trading Dorsett and Matthias, because I absolutely could not stand having them in the line up this year.
Matthias to TB for Tanner Richard, had a breakout 70+ point season in the AHL, but more importantly, is not Shawn Matthias.
Dorsett to CAR for Erik Karlsson, decent checking winger, who again, most importantly, is not Derek Dorsett.
Drafted Auston Matthews in the first round for something a little different. Have Kale Clague in another save and wasn't too impressed with his first year or two of development, and wanted to take someone I hadn't seen taken on here yet.
Both Lack and Conacher would not resign.
So, here's to hoping everyone develops pretty significantly!
Manimal wrote:
Thanks! It took a whole week for the trade to come through. I was very nervous there for a while.
Here are my trades:
I really like a few of those deals. You really picked apart the Canadiens, didn't you. I remember trying to get Tinordi in one of my tests. I think I may have gone after Gallagher too. Getting Pouliot from the Pens was pretty good too.
batdad wrote:
2. That draft--Barzal at 12. Wow. Eriksson Ek is looking like a stud in my game, and Lindgren everyone and his dog has (except me) and he looks good too.
I remember seriously considering drafting Eriksson Ek but passing on him. I'm kicking myself now!
They've only got 17 shots. My goalies decided to take a holiday it seems. Markstrom had only been in for 9 minutes after I pulled Demko to start the second. On the bright side I've started the second season 3-3-1.
Also, the Flames got a 1st round pick AND prospect for Brandon Bollig.
Aladyyn wrote:Ok I encountered the bug where your team somehow claims a player by itself . Is it okay if I just waive and release him or what should I do in this case?
edit: IT HAPPENED TWICE WHAT THE HELL, all I did was look at the waiver wire once and read all the messages and I somehow ended up with Khudobin and Richards on my team...
That's one I haven't seen before. That's crazy! Just go ahead and waive them. If they clear, send them to the AHL.
Aladynn, are you under the salary floor? Now I've had two waiver claims put in my behalf on this save. It's never happened to me before but I've never run a game with the team under the floor before so I think the game might be coded to try and make us cap compliant.
bitterjoy wrote:hi, quick question. Can I loan out my player to another AHL teams? I got A LOT of Dmens in my Utica team and need them to have as much ice time..
Yes, you can loan out your players to other minor league teams to get them playing time.
batdad wrote:
2. That draft--Barzal at 12. Wow. Eriksson Ek is looking like a stud in my game, and Lindgren everyone and his dog has (except me) and he looks good too.
I remember seriously considering drafting Eriksson Ek but passing on him. I'm kicking myself now!
The only reason I did not take him, is I had him in the other Canucks game I am doing, and I knew. I did not want to go all Marleau.
Also re the waiver claiming thing....not sure that being under the floor is the issue. We are ALL under the salary floor and it is not happening to all of us. It has not happened to me and I am sure others would be mentioning it if it had happened to them.
For season previews...I have been rated
Season 1: 2015-16 19th
Season 2: 2016-17 6th
I have 2 in the top prospects....Thatcher Demko #2, Bo Horvat #10
1. Linden Vey 2-1-3 (all pp-plays on 4th line)
2. Zack Kassian 1-2-3 all from third line
3. Yannick Weber 0-3-3
4. Hunter Shinkaruk 2-0-2 (1 4th line goal to open season, GW PP Goal in game 2 vs Calgary)
5. Bartschi, Scheifele and Trouba all with 2 points as well.
batdad wrote:
2. That draft--Barzal at 12. Wow. Eriksson Ek is looking like a stud in my game, and Lindgren everyone and his dog has (except me) and he looks good too.
I remember seriously considering drafting Eriksson Ek but passing on him. I'm kicking myself now!
The only reason I did not take him, is I had him in the other Canucks game I am doing, and I knew. I did not want to go all Marleau.
Looking back on that draft, I missed out on him because I didn't have a 3rd round pick. I looked at him in the 2nd round, instead taking Matthew Spencer and Chaz Reddekopp with my two picks in that round. Obviously, I'm kicking myself now.
Q3 S2 done and we sit in 7th, looking pretty good for a playoff spot, all 4 of my top wingers produce real good. Jensen 35+29, Bärtschi 29+34, Kreider 22+32 and Conacher 25+27. Bonino and Bjugstad are still inconsistent but they are still OK, especially Bonino, both play on the PK aswell and from my experience that usually drags the rating down, especially since my PK is always bad. Lowry has elevated his play on the 3rd line ever since i told manimal to stay away from him (sorry), and i brought Blomstrand up from Utica and he's been great in my bottom-6.
My D-men are about the same as last season with one big difference, Kylington is a BEAST. 6+35, +19 and 7.18 AvR as a 19 year old, he's a stud.
Great numbers from Kylington with some low attributes. I have him in my other Canuck game as well as Erik Ek. He looks good there too.
My PK always brings ratings up for guys. I cannot imagine how bad Shawn Matthias would look without the PK. He would be getting 3 ratings every game. Dude sucks.
batdad wrote:Great numbers from Kylington with some low attributes. I have him in my other Canuck game as well as Erik Ek. He looks good there too.
My PK always brings ratings up for guys. I cannot imagine how bad Shawn Matthias would look without the PK. He would be getting 3 ratings every game. Dude sucks.
Makes sense that a good PK brings rating up and bad PK brings it down...
So before the draft I was looking for a new center to replace Bonino and got the Leafs to trade a star player in Nylander for a bunch of depth old players. Traded all my available players except Alex Beiga for Nylander, Percy and 3 high picks. It's funny the game also has the leafs making terrible trades. I'm pretty sure the board was raging but I was just happy to open up some roster space and get a good center. After the off season I was feeling confident Kyle Connor was moving up the depth chart and I had him in the lineup for the start of the season. Most of the good prospects were up to see if they could make an impact and because I didn't have much other choice after trading away all the older players. A few games in and Connor goes down with a major 4 month injury and my third and forth line is mostly filled with players under 22.
First quarter was really good with a few minor injuries other then Connor. Had a good momentum right from Training camp and didn't try to do to much. Jenner was recommended to start first line for a few games but Nylander spent most of the season as first line center. Second quarter it kept running pretty smooth not having to change to much toward the end of this quarter first line really started going scoreless. Second line really started picking up the slack when Tarasenko got injured for 3 weeks or so at around the 45 game mark. Nylander was putting up some bad ratings and I still had my under age trade so I traded Bealieu straight up for Trouba as he looked better and I only had one defenseman with a good shot. The board and fans raged again... It took a while to take effect as my scoring slump continued and had some inconsistent performances from Markstrom and Eriksson in third and fourth quarters.
After many disciplines one to almost everyone and a few to the same people... Conacher was unhappy for a long while from one Markstrom took his without complaint. Same with Eriksson I disciplined a few young guys and sent down the spares to get some playoff experience in the AHL. Going into the playoffs I wasn't to confident in the consistency of the forwards or goaltending... First two games Markstrom let in 2 and 3 but the forwards started scoring. Up 2-0 against Winnipeg I gave Eriksson a start and he let in 3 but we scored 3/6/7 after that Markstrom went in and stood on his head. After finishing off Winnipeg 6-2 next up was the Kings. First game it seemed like my scoring was broken again getting shut out 1-0... I figured if I didn't do something drastic I wouldn't be able to score in this series. I changed to overload slot on my regular strength lines and that seemed to do the trick...
The rest of the playoffs seemed like a cake walk as I was blowing out everyone almost every game after winning the next game 5-0 against the Kings. Finished them off 4-1 and swept next two series against Minnesota and Tampa Bay. Nylander really showed his stuff in the playoffs after a pretty inconsistent season winning the Conn Smyth. Scoring 11 goals and 20 assists in 17 games with Markstrom letting in 3 goals only once after the loss to the Kings. Trouba really seemed to help the team get going again and I was pretty happy with my under age trade. I just feel like the young core of this team is really good and the faster you get them in the line up the better. I was pretty impressed by the playoff consistency the core of this team shows... Also broke a record thought it was pretty funny caption.
Season 2 was a lot better for me, as this screenshot shows :
and Klingberg neither, he is RFA 
