EHM The Blue Line

After a couple of months break from EHM I decided to pick it up again and take over my beloved Avs. 25 games in a BOY I cant wait for this first season to end!!!!!!

LOTS of dead wood to get rid of and a half decent netminder wouldnt go amiss either! lol. Not to mention all the money tied up in ageing stars.

Going to be very interesting rebuilding this franchise!

Figured I'd start posting about the game since I enjoy it so much. I don't have the full version yet as I had a problem purchasing it which should be all settled by 3pm tomorrow which means I can finally get past Feb 27th and continue my season.

Because of the fact that I can't get past Feb 27th, I've started about 5 different games that are all at that point. This has given me a lot of opportunity to understand the game better and figure out which tactics seem to suit me.

I decided to play as the Vancouver Canucks (because they're my favorite team) and have decided to rebuild the franchise how I would like it done. This led to the following (Using Lidas DB1.3):

I'm going to build the team around Hodgson and a couple other future draft picks, with some nicely aged talent at the moment. I try to keep the game as realistic as possible and won't use the "Extended Injury Trade Cheat", "10million = 50,000", or try to pick up players like Ovechkin or Crosby that would never happen in real life.

From what I've read around here, the 2008 draft year seems to be really weak, and therefore I decided to unload my higher round draft picks (RD1,2,3) to pick up good talent. These are the changes I made:

From Me:
Demitra
Pyatt
Burrows
Sauve
Edler
07 RD1
08 RD1
08 RD2
08 RD3

and a few other random picks + players


To Me:

Zetterberg
Antropov
Hagman
Lucic
Stamkos
07 DET RD1

Not sure what everyone thinks of these trades. I felt a little bit sneaky getting Stamkos, as I doubt the Lightning would get rid of him, but I thought I proposed a good trade:

Stamkos for 08RD1, Edler, 08RD3 + random OK player

They took the deal and I was happy, but a bit worried it wasn't quite realistic I left the idea of realistic as possible.

I got rid of a good defensive prospect and was worried about that, but decided I am going to spend the next few picks drafting a few good D-Men.

Then for some reason, mid way through the season the the Blackhawks put Seabrook on waivers and I was the lucky team that got to claim him.

Currently, Grabner, Hansen, Raymond, Seabrook, and Schneider are all in the AHL. I put Seabrook in the AHL 'cause he wasn't needed 100% on my NHL roster as it seemed to be gelling really well. He is absolutely dominating the AHL and has actually improved more stats into the green because of this. At his age and skill he's panning out to be a franchise DMan for me.

Grabner and Hansen aren't doing very well this year for the Moose, but luckily they're not needed in the Bigs yet.

Lucic, Hodgson, and Stamkos are all in the Juniors right now. I'm not worried about rushing them at all as I plan for all three to have long careers with the team. Lucic and Hodgson are absolutely dominating the juniors. At first glance Stamkos seemed to be lacking a bit averaging a PPG, but his rating of >8.00 shows he's more important in other areas for his team. I'm going to let Lucic and Stamkos finish their year in Juniors, and then move them to the AHL as they'll be passed Junior eligibility. Hodgson will stay one more year in Juniors.

I partially screwed up this year as I forgot to apply for GM of the Canadian u20 team. This caused Hodgson not to get picked, and slowed his development down a little. Every year I've been chosen I've selected Hodgson to the team and had him play with Tavares and Duchene (Won 3 Golds, 1 Silver). After the tournament, he's always increased his stamina and playmaking abilities by 1-2 points. This game, I forgot to do it and I regret it.

Seabrook is going to finish the year in the AHL (unless serious injury occurs to someone on the main roster) and then he'll move to the bigs next year.

As for my NHL team, no one is leading the League in PTS or goals, but my first line is doing very well. My whole team is doing very well as well ranked 2nd in the NHL, 2pts behind the wings (who got Demitra and is lighting it up) for the President's. My current roster is:

Zetty-Sundin-Antropov
Sedin-Sedin-Bernier
Hagman-Bates-Lapointe
Hordichuk-Kesler-Boulerice

Mitchell-Ohlund
Davison-Salo
Vaanenenenenen-Bieksa



Lapointe and Bates were UFAs. Lapointe will not be resigned at the end of the year, whereas Bates has another year on his contract. Boulerice was a waiver pickup as well and has been playing very well switching between 4th and 3rd lines.

I plan on dealing a bit around draft time to move up a few picks. I have Detroit's 1st Rder, which I think can get me a solid Dman, but I really want to trade someone (maybe the Sedin's or something) to get up enough to draft a future 1st or 2nd liner, whether Duchene (if he drops low enough) or Evander Kane.

The Sedin's were hot commodity at the trade dealine but I decided not to trade them as I want to make a push for the Cup and I feel I can with the team I have and the way they're performing. I don't plan on re-signing them next year unless I can talk down what they'd want. I feel like I have too much young talent coming to the team that having the Sedin's would limit the quality time the youngsters would get to play.

I'm of the mindset that if you're training someone to be a 1st or second line scorer/playmaker, you don't want them on the 4th line playing with enforcers.

I just signed Sundin to a 1 year extension on his contract. I'd like to keep him on the team as long as I can, even if he declines to the point where he is barely 2nd line material. He has amazing Influence and in my opinion is a great leader for the team that doesn't really have a captain. Plus, he thinks Josh is an excellent GM, haha. I hope that Sundin can pass his Influence and Captaincy over to Zetterberg as the years go by, and eventually to Hodgson.

Sundin does have a HUGE contract (he wants 7.8 per year), but luckily with me letting the Sedin's go, I'll have plently of room. I've also chosen to let the Sedin's go so I can make room to re-sign Luongo. Schneider is doing well, but I hope for at least 2 years of him backing Luongo up. Therefore, a 3-4 year extension for Luongo would be preferred.

Zetty has 3 more years on his contract so he's good. Same with Antropov.

I personally like Antropov and hope he can keep his play up and eventually be a force to be reckoned with. Right now he's averaging a PPG.

My D is pretty good. Mitchell, Bieksa, and Cambell are going to be my top 3 for the next few years. And I hope to draft a good offensive DMan to develop, and eventually pick up a UFA Def-Dman.

My tactics are pretty good. Only use personal tactics and tailor them towards every situation. I feel that they are one of my strong points.

Will let you guys know what happens as I go along. Tomorrow I'll get to hopefully finish the season.

Comments and criticism are welcome and asked for. Let me know what you think of everything. I am a noob.

I can't belive that I almost read all you said jtilson, lol,!

jtilson23 wrote:I partially screwed up this year as I forgot to apply for GM of the Canadian u20 team. This caused Hodgson not to get picked, and slowed his development down a little. Every year I've been chosen I've selected Hodgson to the team and had him play with Tavares and Duchene (Won 3 Golds, 1 Silver). After the tournament, he's always increased his stamina and playmaking abilities by 1-2 points. This game, I forgot to do it and I regret it.

That's pretty interesting, I've never noticed that before. Might have to have a couple of goes running the Under-20's.

Yea, I didn't think it would make a difference at all considering he would be playing for Brampton anyways. But, it seems that playing in the WJC boosts his stats a little (as long as they do well and he is paired well) due to it being such a high profile tourny.

Kinda like this year's tourny, Hodgson went from a good prospect to a very, very hot prospect because of his play.

INteresting on Hodgson for sure jtilson. I say that because I have just finished 2014 with the Canucks. I won the cup in 07-13. But I just lost it in 14. Here is what happened.

I have played by the rule that each year I am allowed to trade out One original Canuck (lidas 1.2) for an appropriate need or deal. This season, the deal was Luongo as he was about to be UFA and I needed to unload him. Two years ago, I had dealt a 1st, Jannik Hansen and a 2nd for Marion Gaborik (That is the only 1st I have ever dealt) at the deadline. Gabby was an impending UFA. I resigned him, but it cost alot and has thrown off the books a bit. Never over, but with some of my picks starting to get raises I had to move Roberto.

I looked east...Moved Roberto to Boston (who was in 13th place at the time, Jan 2014), and in return received their 1st, which appeared to be a good pick, a prospect (Aaron Harouf-a regen) and Trevor Cann a 3rd string goalie. Well...Boston then goes on and finishes 5th in the conference, and I end up with them in the final and Roberto smacks me down. Painful, but was glad to see the old man (now 37) kick my arse and show me who was the boss.

My Canucks roster right now heading to draft

Iannis Nilsson (Swede Regen-1st round, 30th overall, 2011), Bretislav Chaloupka (1st round, 30th overall, Cze, 2009-Marion Gaborik

Sedin-Sedin-Hodgson
Lasu (swede-2nd round, 52nd, 2009)-Kesler-Bernier
regen (Can, 2010 2nd round)-regen (Can, 2010, 4th round)-regen (Rus, 2010 1st rounder obtained from Blues in Cory Schneider deal)

Sauve-Edler
Helgeson (1st round, 30th 2007)-Ryan Ellis (2nd round-60th-2007)
Ohlund-Phillip Samuelsson (5th round 2008)
Neron (regen, 3rd round 2008)

Stefan Bauer (Hasek regen, drafted 30th overall, 2010)
Jonathon Bernier (FA signed for goalie depth when was looking at having to move Roberto)


So heading to 2014-15 I still have Sedin, Sedin, Bernier, Hodgson, Sauve, Edler, Ohlund from the original Canucks. Demitra retired, Sundin retired (both as Nucks), and I am thinking Ohlund will move soon.
This Chalopka regen from Czech is unreal. He is lighting it up with Gaborik...he is only 23 and he has already won a Calder Cup, AHL playoff MVP, AHL 1st all star, 2 Stanley Cups, and a Conn Smythe Trophy. Not bad for 30th overall.

For those wondering...Samuelsson put up a 7.4 rating in 2013-2014 in 40 games (mid season call up) This was his rookie year, and was good enough to get him on the rookie all stars. He is 24.His rating increased to 7.55 in the post season. A good sign for a late draft pick to develop to something good. He played mainly as my 6th d in and out of lineup with Ohlund the vet.

I'm glad you're doing well with the Canucks. My original idea was to keep the Canucks as consistent with the real NHL roster as possible, but then I decided not to for two reasons:

1) I don't agree in real life with their roster and feel they could improve on it
2) After the Sedin's become UFAs and Roberto's contract is done, Sundin leaves, etc they will be a completely different team.

Therefore, I decided to build the team around who I believe will be the future in the real NHL (Hodgson, who reminds me a lot of Linden), and then add to that. I'm hoping to actually pick up the Linden Regen too if I can find him.

Lucic is a Vancouver boy, so that is why I picked him up. I think I will eventually get rid of Zetterberg (within the next two years) for a more Canuck-esque player. Antropov fits as he's a OK swedish player. Bernier stays because he's a current Canuck with potential and my future goaltending is in Schneider's hands. I'm also really leaning towards unloading Stamkos when he improves because I couldn't foresee the Canucks ever landing him.

djskek wrote:So,

i was manager of

EHC Eisbären Berlin (15th August 2006 - 29th January 2010)
Bruins (29th January 2010 - 13th July 2012)

On 5th February 2013, I have the weak team of Mora IK accepted and the descent preserves.

In the summer I have an almost completely new squad structure.


My current line up is: (6th January 2014)

Janne Lahti-Richard Hallgren-Florian Busch
Dan Carcillo-Christoph Ullmann-Roman Kukumberg
Jimmie Ölvestad-Alexander Larsson-Niclas Monberg
Jakub Petruzalek-Daniel Wessner-Kenneth Bergqvist

Rory Rawlyk-Mathieu Biron
Jonas Frögren-Dan Girardi
Martin Schnitzer-Daniel Grillfors
Mike Egener-Henrik Bergman

Ari Ahonen
Andreas Andersson


Games: 38
Points: 89
Position: 1

Yes!! Just in my first full season, I won the Swedish Elitserien. Terrific!

Now begins the next season. I was a bit of shopping and have diligently built the team.

My current line up is: 21th August 2014

Korpikoski - Cibak - Blunden
Lahti - Hallgren - Busch
Carcillo - Larsson - Bergqvist
Pihlman - Wessner - Kukumberg

Rawlyk - Lojek
Wallin - Girardi
Frögren - Finnström
Egener - Grillfors

Ari Ahonen
Andreas Andersson

Yes, we can.....

After a long Fallout3 induced break, i've come back to EHM. I just finished my first season with Winnipeg (pho) using the great Lidas db. The awful defense and little scoring has left me with picks 8 and 10 in the upcoming draft. A hot streak during mid-March moved me out of the top 5.

So i'm looking for opinions, Hedman looks really good, and i need defense, do i package both picks to move up to #1? How does he turn out? he looks too good to pass up now. I assume he would go #2 behind tavares.
Or keep both and try for Schroeder and MSP, and add to my young forward stable?

frisland wrote:After a long Fallout3 induced break, i've come back to EHM. I just finished my first season with Winnipeg (pho) using the great Lidas db. The awful defense and little scoring has left me with picks 8 and 10 in the upcoming draft. A hot streak during mid-March moved me out of the top 5.

So i'm looking for opinions, Hedman looks really good, and i need defense, do i package both picks to move up to #1? How does he turn out? he looks too good to pass up now. I assume he would go #2 behind tavares.
Or keep both and try for Schroeder and MSP, and add to my young forward stable?

After trading a good prospect and a +1 pick to some low end team for a decent vet and a #1, I ended up with the 2nd pick in that draft. I picked up Hedman and put him in the AHL for one season, he did very well (PPG) and the next season I was going to leave him in the AHL but he felt he was treated unfairly so I moved him to the NHL and he's been doing awesome. Second line pairing at the moment, and he could easily be on the first line pairing. At 21, he's got stats like most 27+ defenders (better than a lot too).

So, in my game he's definitely worth the pick and I plan on keeping him for his entire career.

On another note, if you can't move up and want a good DMan, go for Jared Cowen.

So i ended up taking Hedman #1 and Svensson-Parjarvi #8.

Then sarich goes down for 3 months during camp, and without any warning i get fired after a 5-11 start?? there are a couple open jobs, but i take Koo-Vee in the Suomi (fin3). Jets end up dead last and Koo-Vee wins everything and gets promoted to the Mestis.
Jets were not that bad, i was planning for a playoff appearance.

My team is Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

I am in my second season. First season I wasnt good in regular part, finished 10th and was eliminated in first round of playoffs against CSKA Moscow.

Second season just started, played few rounds. I signed Tyson Nash from Coyotes and Tomi Kallio form Frolunda Indians.

I will post my lines and some other details later.

NHL has indicated that they have accepted that you have valid grounds for your appeal.

The suspension given to Chris Chelios has been revoked.



Colin Campbell shouldnt even have a rule book, I know it was my guy who got off the hook but sheesh...

I'm playing as the Canucks with Lidas 1.3. Halfway through the third season. I like to shake up my roster a lot, especially during free agency. I tend to dump any high contracts and only use the big money for my stars. I look for good players with low salaries that can contribute without breaking the bank. I also try and keep my AHL team stocked with a few prospects.

Right now my roster is completely different than when I started save for Alex Edler, Pavol Demitra, and Roberto Luongo. The Sedin's wanted too much money for the production they put up. Burrows and Kesler ended up being duds (which sucks cause I like them) so they got dealt. Ohlund, Mitchell, and Bieksa were taking up too much money compared to other players. They got dealt out as well. I've got a better D-corps than when I started, and taking up less money as well.

Sundin put up good numbers for me (110+ points in one season) but as he got older he got too slow and his numbers dropped (still put up 90 points). I got rid of him for some prospects. By the time he got dealt I had basically got my roster the way I wanted it, so he was more of a salary dump. Nobody would give up much for him.

Because of the trading and free agency pick-ups I've got guys like Kovalchuk, Hossa, Lidstrom, Niedermayer, Luongo, Afinogenov, Derek Roy, and Demitra, and I'm still under the cap by about $4 million. I made sure to do this so I'm in good shape for resignings and any potential high-dollar UFA's I want to pick up in the offseason.

On my AHL team I've got some decent prospects like Zach Hamill, Kris Versteeg, David Perron, Michael Grabner, and a guy I picked up named Jonas Junland. Varlamov is highly touted in my game, so he's waiting in the wings to take over Luongo's job, or be his back-up. All the scouts say he's starting material, and I've gotten some first round offers for him, so I think he's going to be good.

I've got some other prospects developing in Juniors waiting as well. Cody Hodgson, Kyle Beach, Jordan Eberle, and some good guys I picked up in drafts and trades. Hodgson is absolutely tearing up the OHL with 103 points in 46 games. I've been ousted in the first round of the playoffs two years in a row. Right now my team's sitting at 32-10-4. Hopefully this year I can get the Cup.

I am just in the process of downloading this again from SI, not played it in a while but will activate it this evening. Not sure who I will be yet, I might pick Manchester to slowly work my way around EHM again or I may pick an unknown team at the bottom, not too sure yet but I will hopefully do better than I have done before.

Good stories everyone - keep them coming.

I posted in this thread before, but here's a little update for those interested:

I'm trying to play the game by not "cheating" as much as possible (e.g. getting star players off IR, signing star prospects after their teams don't qualify them, getting people off waivers, waiting a bit, then flipping them for 3rd-4th round picks (but i did this in my first ever season ))

Anyways, I've just made the transition from 5th to 6th year as GM of Maple Leafs and completely changed my philosophy with regards to drafting and player development. This was needed as I had a team with a considerable number of aging veterans that came off an injury-ridden season, but still managed to get to the conference finals, before getting shut down by DiPietro and the Islanders.

Line up at the end of the season

Briere* - Thornton* - Cole***
Huselius* - Tavares - Turris*
Kulemin - Mair* - Lander
Pettinger - Hollweg - Jessiman

Schenn - Bouwmeester*
Doughty - Niedermayer*
Pietrangelo - Kubina**

7th: Grossman*

Goalies:
Esche
Larsson

*injured at least once for longer than one month in total
**injured for more than 4 months
***played only 3 reg season games and the final playoff game, was out for 8 months with a torn ACL. Turris and Lander moved up a line to cover for the loss. Lander moved to the top line when Turris was on the shelf.

So, coming into the draft, I had to

• replace the 39 year old Niedermayer who I had no intention of resigning
  replace the 36-year old Briere, who had a recurring injury and wasn't really justifying 6.5 million/year with last season's AvR of 7.8.
  replace Esche, who cannot stay above .900 and probably cost the team the conference crown
  replace the 34 year-old Cole, who is but a shadow of his former self after the injury, but still on a 5.7 million/year contract
  give Tavares, Lander and Schenn significant pay raises.

So, I traded Briere and Cole for one 1st round pick each (22nd and 30th).
Then, I traded my 1st overall from two years ago (wasn't developing well in the AHL) for Minnesota's 8th overall.
To replace Briere, I traded that 8th + another prospect (2nd line potential) for Kovalchuk. Was really surprised that Atlanta agreed so quickly, but I guess they wanted to rebuild.
After a few more trades, I ended up with 3 late picks in the first round, 2 in the 2nd, 2 in the 3rd, and 2 in the 5th. Missed out on ALL the good goalies in the draft, unfortunately, but picked up a lot of good D/forwards.

I'm going to be a LOT more patient with prospects, even those who have good stats already and are tearing up junior leagues. I made a mistake taking Tavares out too soon, and now his stats are pretty much 'stuck' at where they were after his rookie year. And so are his point totals. Ditto for the Euros - let them play a bit in their own home leagues before bringing them over to the AHL.

In the off-season, signed Coburn (not the best replacement for Niedermayer, but it'll do), Lehtonen (subsequently traded Esche + 5th for 2nd), Fehr, and Chubarov. Also signed a bunch of college players + prospects and put them in the AHL.

Lineup at the start of the 6th season:
Kovalchuk (7M/yr) - Thornton (7M/yr) - Turris (726k/yr LOL, RFA next year)
Huselius (1.8M/yr) - Tavares (3.7M/yr) - Lander (1.5M/yr)
Kulemin (1.9M/yr) - Chubarov (1.9M/yr) - Fehr (525k/yr)
Pettinger (700k/yr) - Hollweg (620k/yr) - Jessiman (525k/yr)

spares: Boogard, Tarnasky, Mair

Doughty (2M/yr) - Bouwmeester (5.5M/yr)
Pietrangelo (1.1M/yr) - Coburn (3.7M/yr)
Schenn (1.7M/yr) - Kubina (5.5M/yr)

spares: AHL prospects

Lehtonen (4.7M/yr)
Larsson (800k/yr)

spare: AHL prospect

Hopefully, this lineup can get it done this season.

frisland wrote:After a long Fallout3 induced break, i've come back to EHM. I just finished my first season with Winnipeg (pho) using the great Lidas db. The awful defense and little scoring has left me with picks 8 and 10 in the upcoming draft. A hot streak during mid-March moved me out of the top 5.

So i'm looking for opinions, Hedman looks really good, and i need defense, do i package both picks to move up to #1? How does he turn out? he looks too good to pass up now. I assume he would go #2 behind tavares.
Or keep both and try for Schroeder and MSP, and add to my young forward stable?

The Wild picked up Hedman in my game and threw him into the NHL right away. He's pulling 8.3 AvR in his 5th year, which is just a .36 lower than that of Norris-winning Chara. He will probably be one of the best D in the league for years to come. In contrast, both Schroeder and MSP haven't seen any prolonged NHL action yet and probably never will. This is with Lidas 1.2.

So I'm in the 6th season and something is really wrong with balance.

Each team, on average, has about 3 or 4 PPG players. The two leading scorers in the league are 2 PPG (Thornton on the Leafs that I manage and Iginla on the Senators) after 44 games. The third leading scorer is around 1.8 PPG. Thornton also has an AvR of 9.92.

Kovalchuk, also on my team, but not a points leader because of an injury has 40 points (20 G and 20A) in 14 games.

Neither Kovalchuk or Thornton play more than 22 min/night and only have first line and powerplay duty. Same for the aforementioned Iginla, who has PK duty, in addition to that.

Similar but opposite thing with the goalies. Only about 5 or 6 goalies are over .900 in save %, and the leader (Luongo) has .934 and 1.76 GAA. Everyone else is ~3.00 GAA and .890.

It's not uncommon anymore to see teams score 10 or more goals per game Records are being set left and right. Thornton has a 30-game point streak, Iginla over 20 or something ridiculous..

The only things that's staying normal is defense scoring and ratings.

This is with Lidas 1.2 and is getting quite frustrating. It was really good for the first 5 seasons, but now it's absolutely out of whack.. Any ideas on how to fix this?

All the other leagues appear fine, just the NHL that is messed.

I'm in 2021 and decided to take care of the Canadian team only
I have began with the canadians, winning 4 cups in my five first years (adding Shane Doan, some heavy trade for draft pick, Nitty and Iginla through free agency really help in the long run), then moved to the thrashers, won the cup 3 times (Lethonen is a beast, I got Hasek regen just in time to save cap space as Letho was hitting free agency, Kovalchuk stays healthy and Malkin is unloaded by the Pens), quitted, signed with Columbus who had a strong core of young players but had struggled badly. I unloaded some veterans who weren't effective, brought some gritty leaders in and won again 4 years later.
The things I have always looked for is building a strong staff, at first and then getting ride of the dead wood for young prospects.
There is one player that always follows me : Artem Dubinin. I don't know how well he performs for you guys but he is a rock, the backbone of my defense from the start of his career

I started with the Sharks and created myself as almost a copy of Alexander Ovechkin and put myself on the Sharks to complement Joe Thornton. After a year and a half of wheeling and dealing to get young players and to completely change the face of the franchise this is how my team looks. I couldn't be more happy.

Myself(Ovy Copy) - Joe Thornton - Devin Setoguchi
Martin Havlat(Got in UFA) - Anze Kopitar - Evgeni Malkin(asked for a trade from Pit)
Mike Comrie - Cody Hodgson - Lars Eller
Blair Betts - Wayne Primeau - Mason Raymond

Dion Phaneuf - Tomas Kaberle
Dan Boyle - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Kyle McLaren(resigned for 625k) - Alex Edler(Injured right now)
Marc Staal - Tobias Enstrom

Miikka Kipprusoff
Thomas Greiss

Notable AHL/Drafted Prospects:
Jared Cowen
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Samuel Groulx
Charles Landry
Mark Mitera
Douglas Murray
Ryan Ellis
Ryane Clowe
Jamie McGinn
Matt Beleskey
Sergei Shirokov
Logan Couture
Matt Duchene
Nazem Kadri
Anton Krysanov
Philip McRae
Torrey Mitchell
Mikkel Boedker
Toni Rajala
Jared Staal

How is this for epic: the Stanley Cup Finals, we (the Bruins) were down in the series 0-3, but battled it back to a game 7. Down 1-4 in the Stanley Cup Finals Game 7. Come back to tie the game with only 7 seconds left. Win the Stanley Cup in Game 7 overtime. The comeback of comebacks in the most important game in the entire season. Can you think of a more epic game than this?



I've posted this screen shot before, but it definitely deserves its own thread.

Feel free to post your own epic games.

MOD NOTE: Nope. It really didn't need it's own thread. We have a thread for discussing your current team/career (this thread) and a cool screenshot thread (where you already posted the screenshot). We don't need to add another thread just for big games. I've merged this into the "talk about your team" thread. - B72

Wow i am having some major line chemistry difficulty here. My current lines are only outputting 1-2 goals per game and giving up 5-6 goals per game, but they are filled with studs. I need some help figuring out some line combos that might work out.

Myself(Ovy Copy) - Joe Thornton - Devin Setoguchi
Martin Havlat - Anze Kopitar - Evgeni Malkin
Mike Comrie - Cody Hodgson - Lars Eller
Blair Betts - Wayne Primeau - Anton Krysanov

Dion Phaneuf - Tomas Kaberle
Dan Boyle - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Marc Staal - Alex Edler
Kyle McLaren - Tobias Enstrom

Miikka Kipprusoff
Thomas Greiss

Likely, lines aren't the problem - tactics are. If you set Thornton to hit hard, make creative passes, carry puck, but make sure his CON stays up there by not playing him much on the PK, he should be able to generate points with any type of linemates (assuming your team tactics are ok).

I would replace setoguchi with someone else on that 1st line RW. Perhaps Malkin.

Tinker around with your offensive defensemen and what they do with regard to passing/shooting/join rush.

Also, if your goalies are bad with the puck, tell them to stay in the crease.

This lineup should be able to do very well, as it has 2 amazing lines, 1 ok line, 1 filler line. Make sure that someone in your bottom two lines is allowed to fight.

Starting the 2019/2020 season now with the Rangers:

Won the Stanley Cup 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014.

Joel Carnevale - Jonnie Lennartsson - Ville Takala
Marc-Andre Sauve - Juraj Sykora - Samuel Håkansson
Ricard Lidström - Nik Roy - Teuvo Parkinnen
Kris Versteeg - Mikael Johansson - Spence Dempsey

Marc Staal - Erik Karlsson
Danny Gordon - Cody St. Louis
Peter Nedorost - Gregg Dagenais

Axel Tapper - Pekka Riihimäki

Since almost everyone is regen its hard to judge how good the team is unless you see them. I should have a really good chance to go all the way this year though with Axel Tapper coming off a great rookieseason with 45 GP and a 91.7SV%.

Won my 2nd cup in my 7th season! I basically feel like I bought it at the deadline by trading for Ovechkin (for a very good prospect, roster player, AHL player), then trading Ovechkin back to the Caps for a 1st round pick at the draft to get under the cap for the next season. God knows I needed him, seeing as I was facing the Canucks, who only thanks to Luongo, have been in the Stanley Cup finals for the 5th straight year (won 2 years in a row). Was able to finish off the series in 5 games.

All in all, this was a great year. My team had 5 100-point scorers - Kovalchuk (141), Turris (125, damaged knee cap in last rnd of playoffs, out for 8 months), Thornton (119), Ovechkin (109), Tavares (103), and a Hart and Norris Trophy winning defenseman in Bouwmeester. Really solid group of defensemen in Bouwmeester, Coburn, Schenn, Doughty, Pietrangelo and Sarich, all of whom were 7.5 AvR+ in the regular season this year.

My first line of Kovalchuk - Thornton - Turris was asbolutely insane, with each player being +75, Turris topping out at +81.

Interesting note: after trading Ovechkin back to the Caps, the Capitals sign - guess who - Sydney Crosby to a three-year deal. Pens decided to spend 10 million on Malkin and let go of Sid, I guess. Will be interesting to see what happens.