Challenge #40 - All-American New York Rangers - Discussion

[bruins72]

Definitely! Join in! You'll quickly see that even if you do terrible, you won't be alone in that misery.

I think this should be the tagline for the Challenges!

P.s. I'm loving the Challenge image as always.

Thanks! I really liked the bold imagery of the announcement image but I wasn't sure how well it would go over with folks outside the U.S.

So where can we add that tagline?

[Peter_Doherty]

I thought i would be in the Auston Matthews race after i saw the team but by some miracle i've started the season 8-0-2, i have no idea how. Stepan is beasting it and my entire top-9 apart from Nelson is doing good. I am expecting a major downswing very soon, this team is not good enough to do this well, atleast i don't think so.

[bruins72]

I'm only 3 games in but these guys are actually performing better than I expected. In 3 games we have 5 points. In our most recent game we blew out the Blue Jackets 8-2. Has Nick Leddy been a stud for anyone else? He's far and away better than Yandle, IMO. Oh and I want to bury Vitale. I had him on my team in the Canucks challenge and he was very useful. He'd be an okay PKer/4th liner if his fitness wasn't so terrible. He's not injured and he hasn't been able to keep his condition up about 50% since the preseason.

For the most part, this is a pretty big (size) team. I know Riz said he tweaked the code to make height and weight not play as big of a factor as they used but sometimes I wonder...

[Peter_Doherty]

Leddy has been good, so has Yandle, McDonagh and Braun. I'm still a bit unsure about who to send over to RD, right now i'm having Yandle there but thinking about moving McDonagh over instead, we'll see. Vitale is staying fit enough for me, his Av R is super low though, but i can't afford to scratch him since he's the only guy that can take a faceoff so i need him for PK.

[bruins72]

Yeah, all of those defensemen have been good for me too, Leddy in particular is really shining though. I guess I just didn't expect this much out of him going into the challenge.

Despite the low face-off attribute, Stepan and Hayes are doing better than 50% on their faceoffs. Nelson is a little bit under 50%. If Vitale doesn't smarten up soon, I may have to call up Connor Brickley to replace him.

[Seraquel]

First challenge I've ever done, thought it sounded like fun.

1st season done, had a poorish start, but picked it up after first 5 games or so, then great middle of the season, being up at 1st in the East after 60 games, but then slow last 22 games left me in 4th, lost 1-1-3 to Washington in Playoffs Semis.

Kreider best player overall, with 71 points Yandle was great as well, so I extended his contract early on, he was very reasonable and signed for 3.9mill, which is vastly undervalued from his point of view...

Am I right in thinking we can do trades for 2016 draft? I'd like to dump Miller and possibly Zatkoff if I can for some picks, I did better than I was expecting so the draft will be quite awkward I suspect, with only American players to choose from and ideally a 1st round pick would be handy, but doubt my ability to actually accomplish that.

[bruins72]

Welcome to the challenge and congrats on making the playoffs your first time out.

Yes, you are allowed to trade for the 2016 draft. Just make sure to follow the other draft guidelines and you'll be all set.

[Asher413]

To clarify, anyone we get has to be BORN in the U.S? So we cannot draft someone like Chychrun or Alex Nylander that have U.S as their 2nd nationality? Clayton Keller is born in the UK but is a full U.S National, can we draft him?

I think we should allow it. My guess is that his parents are Americans and he was born while abroad. That happens with military families quite a bit. If the player's primary nationality it U.S. then they should be classified as American.

Now I'm confused, sorry. So it has to be American as their first nationality and birthplace is irrelevant? Just making sure I understand.

[sjgoglin]

My assumption is that if you set the nationality to American in the filter page, all players should be eligible.

[bruins72]

Sorry for all the confusion. I guess when I was first planning this out I didn't think of all of the odd-ball situations with dual citizenship and such.

We're going to go with primary nationality.

[Peter_Doherty]

Thanks for clearing that up

Still can't believe how good this team is doing in the 1st season, i assume 1 goalie and 4 good puck moving d-men along with a good 1C is all you need in this game

Edit: Ouch, Braun just got a bad concussion, out 4 months. Immidiately brought up Potter (not sure why he didn't start in NHL but oh well, my bad) to take his role, he looks to be in the same mold so hopefully he's not that much of a down grade.

[braeden]

Guess I'll have to participate in my 1st since everyone else is!

[sjgoglin]

Can I trade 2 players for a draft pick?

[cecede123]

I wonder how your goalies doing so far ? In my game, Zatkoff is in way to steal the starter position !

Ryan Miller : 8-10-3, 2.57, .903
Jeff Zatkoff : 7-2-2, 2.40, ,906

Strange situation...

[Peter_Doherty]

I wonder how your goalies doing so far ? In my game, Zatkoff is in way to steal the starter position !

Ryan Miller : 8-10-3, 2.57, .903
Jeff Zatkoff : 7-2-2, 2.40, ,906

Strange situation...

Miller: 17-9-4 2.58 .909 7.43 Av R
Zatkoff: 6-3-1 2.48 .914 7.42 Av R

I am spoonfeeding Zatkoff the easier game in every back to back though, which probably weighs in a bit.

[Seraquel]

For my full season:


Miller: 71 GP 42-19-9 2.54 .917 7.73 Av R
Zatkoff: 17GP 5-5-2 2.63 .901 7.18 Av R

Miller and the rest of the team had a rubbish last 22 games, went from 1st in the conference to 4th, and let in 68 GA, splits for the other 3 milestones were 44, 42, 52.

I did trade Miller to Bruins after the season though, along with my 2nd pick to get SJ's 1st round pick from them (wouldn't budge on their own pick, and couldnt find any other deals, but not for want of trying!, oddly enough only 2 teams interested were Devils and Bruins, neither of which needed another 6m goalie...

[bruins72]

Can I trade 2 players for a draft pick?

Yes.

[Asher413]

I wonder how your goalies doing so far ? In my game, Zatkoff is in way to steal the starter position !

Ryan Miller : 8-10-3, 2.57, .903
Jeff Zatkoff : 7-2-2, 2.40, ,906

Strange situation...

For me:

Miller: 7-17-4, 2.88, .900, 7.21 AvR
Zatkoff (always doing 2nd of back to backs): 1-7-0, 3.10, .890, 7.25 AvR

[braeden]

Anyone else keep getting fined by the NHL??..

[Kopi]

hmmm got some time off now and that means can play some EHM...got my updates and so on done and im up for a challenge. Should be fun plus easy rules.

[Vadim10]

Hmm ... after failing badly with Philly and the Canucks I really should give it another try. I'm in

[MWE]

Just downloaded just started playing. Disappointed there's no Sestito

[Peter_Doherty]

Anyone else keep getting fined by the NHL??..

Yes, don't mind it

[MWE]

Didn't do too badly in pre season games lost only 2 that was to Pittsburgh in a shootout and lost 2-1 to Montreal rest of the games were won in regulation.

[m0fownz0r]

With the 1st season in the books I;m now torn between getting some depth or getting some draft picks
BTW, camn we move picks from other draft yearS?