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I want some of my prospects to be named to their Nationality roster but how do i get them on the roster... Like during camp i have to give them as much ice time to develop as i can or something.

Other than becoming the national team GM and picking them yourself, you're only hope is that they're good enough to make it.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend holding your breath. Unless they're a top prospect for their country, they won't be called-up. Though, with that being said, the lower countries should provide the best hope, since their pool of players is limited in the game, so they'll likely call-up anyone they can... as opposed to deep countries like Canada who can afford to pick only the best.

As reputation plays a large roll in who gets called up, you could try to bump up their playing time, especially on the power play. That would improve their stats and therefore their reputations.

How do you get a chance to become the National GM like how often does that happen?

MKoivuFan wrote:How do you get a chance to become the National GM like how often does that happen?

You get a chance whenever the current GM is fired. Then you can apply, and hope they hire you.

However, Canada and US will be open often, since they only hire temporarily. Expect to see them looking for a GM at the start of just about every event.

It's not hard to become the GM for the US or Canada teams.

The only team that I find it difficult to get a seat in is the Finland team.

Does it matter what Team u are the GM of at the time and how your team is doing or no?

I don't think the specific team and your record matter, instead it's your reputation. As you win games, etc, you earn a reputation and they evaluate you against that. Typically i've found if you are an NHL GM you have the ratings to get these jobs.

In my experience, US/Canada typically pick non-NHL Gms, depending on the competition, I assume because you should be focusing on your NHL team during those times, but since the other nationalities hire their GMs permanantley you can get those jobs.

Also, keep in mind there are seperate positions for the U-20 and the main team, if your goal is to get your players into the WJC, you'll want to apply for the Under 20 position.

After my 2nd season as GM I applied and was named GM of the U.S. U-20 team and it was pretty cool selecting from the pool of players who was going to make up the squad. Plus I got to stick 2 promising draft picks on the squad. I ended up leading an undermanned, but gritty U.S. team to the gold over Canada. Next season I was hired again but the U.S. finished a distant third. I got fired and despite applying a few times since then I've not gotten the call. The U.S. is now in the WJ relegation pool, so personally I think I deserve another shot, but oh well... not my decision!

mac-the-mouth wrote:After my 2nd season as GM I applied and was named GM of the U.S. U-20 team and it was pretty cool selecting from the pool of players who was going to make up the squad. Plus I got to stick 2 promising draft picks on the squad. I ended up leading an undermanned, but gritty U.S. team to the gold over Canada. Next season I was hired again but the U.S. finished a distant third. I got fired and despite applying a few times since then I've not gotten the call. The U.S. is now in the WJ relegation pool, so personally I think I deserve another shot, but oh well... not my decision!

With u as the gm of the U-20 can you pick anyone you want or only a certian players... Like if i get picked as the GM i want to pick some of my prospects who i picked up who were not ranked in the draft but not sure if i can or not if i was named the GM.

MKoivuFan wrote: With u as the gm of the U-20 can you pick anyone you want or only a certian players... Like if i get picked as the GM i want to pick some of my prospects who i picked up who were not ranked in the draft but not sure if i can or not if i was named the GM.

From what I remember and from what I understand, you can pick anyone who is eligible to play for that country. So if you wanted, you could load it with all your prospects and this being a game, you don't have to answer to any other irate GMs for playing favorites!

I found it tough when you get down to the last few spots to decide which players to take. I tried for a balanced team by adding some grit as opposed to all flash and skill. It suited me well, but I imagine with a team like Canada it's an embarrassment of riches to choose from. The U.S. had only a handful of no-brainers. Good luck!

I just wanted to confirm... if I agree to become the GM of Team Canada (or any other country's National team, for that matter) I don't give up my NHL team, do I?

No you don't. You stay with the NHL team as well.

Does anyone think the World Juniors rosters are sometimes a bit weird? For example, in my game in 2011, the US got relegated to the 2nd-tier Juniors Championships, to a large degree because they insisted on playing a horrible, undrafted college goalie all through the tournament. Why not take my 3rd-round pick from 2010, the 2009/10 OHL goalie of the year, 2009/10 OHL Most Outstanding Player runner-up and 2010/11 multiple OHL Player of the Week and 2010 OHL Player of the Month, who's pretty much single-handedly keeping the St.Michael's Majors fighting for the top spot in OHL East? He's American, and didn't even make the US WJC roster.

Kekkonen wrote:Does anyone think the World Juniors rosters are sometimes a bit weird? For example, in my game in 2011, the US got relegated to the 2nd-tier Juniors Championships, to a large degree because they insisted on playing a horrible, undrafted college goalie all through the tournament. Why not take my 3rd-round pick from 2010, the 2009/10 OHL goalie of the year, 2009/10 OHL Most Outstanding Player runner-up and 2010/11 multiple OHL Player of the Week and 2010 OHL Player of the Month, who's pretty much single-handedly keeping the St.Michael's Majors fighting for the top spot in OHL East? He's American, and didn't even make the US WJC roster.

I noticed this as well, it seems to be a problem mostly with the US team - they often use players from Junior A/B leagues like the EJHL etc.

Sweden has also a few times pulled the "play a goalie with 3 in glove" trip.

That's happened in a couple of my games. The first two or three years the U.S. team seems to do okay but after that it's all downhill. A couple of times i've seen them relegated, and they don't usually even do that well in the 1. div. either, they just pick useless players and struggle every year. I think they might prefer players in college over guys in the OHL, haven't got a clue why...

Personally, I blame their choice in GMs, but that's just me.

When do they usually announce their looking for a GM either for U-20 or U-20 Div 1

Late November, Early December

is there like a difficult on which teams are easier to become the gm of then others or no?

Yes there is. The worse the team is, the easier it is to get a job there. except in some cases, your nationality you listed at the start of the game may inhibit you from getting a job. For example if you say you are from Iceland, you ain't getting a job with Team Canada.

FWIW--I have applied for both Canada and USA, and also Sweden. I always list as a Canadian, and I have gotten all the jobs every time I applied/

can u be a gm of a NHL team and still run a team at the world juniors like a country team? or u can own do that when ur a gm of a world junior team?

Try it and find out.

i've GMed Sweden jr and mens teams, Canada jr and mens teams, USA jr team and Poland mens team(what a pain in the ass)

national teams are fun and you have to spend tons of time on them and your can still run your other team without killing yourself.

unless you GM poland
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i enjoyed GMing the jr teams the more, it's harder than GMing the mens teams... but GMing mens teams when you get hired by canada or usa can be hard during the nhl season as you have to use canadians or americans in europe.

You think Poland is bad, try Latvia. Had some success with Ukraine and Sweden, although both are a challenge in-season.