How's it going in EHM2007? What team Are You?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:19 am

I just finished the 2010-2011 season, finally winning the cup.

My lines look like this

Ovechkin Thornton Hossa
Kovalchuk Little Ryan
Pandolfo Betts Asham
Dingman Malhotra Ortmeyer

Staal Rafalski
Witt Kukkonen
Jokela Whitney

Lehtonen
Johnson

My defense is still pretty weak, and I plan on hopefully changing it up with free agency coming around. But thats easier said than done, since the board is constantly limiting me when it comes to the budget.

Post by **Shadd666** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:02 pm

Joe: Why do you care about your defense? When you can allow yourself to put Kovalchuk on a second line, you clearly don't need defense! Just outscore the opposition and win it all

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:32 pm

Well I like to switch kovalchuk and Ovechkin every other season. Like last season, Ovechkin was on the 2nd line, he only put up like 85 points, but this season he lead the league in goals and points on the first line while kovalchuk put up 82 points. I do win quite a few games by 3 or 4 goals, but I still think my team could be better with the right defense, after all, it took me about 3 season with this current team to even make it past the 2nd round. Then again, this is a pretty young team.

Post by **Shadd666** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:13 am

What? 3 seasons to pass the 2nd round??? darn, give me this team and i think i'll win the Cup every season! You may need to tweak your tactics a bit, because this is a highly talented roster... Sure, they're are young, sure your defense isn't as strong as your offense, but you clearly have enough to overscore any team. I mean, even if your defense allows 3-4 goals a game, you should have no difficulty to score 5-6 goals per game...

sjsharkz · Post by **sjsharkz** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:11 pm

Woah, kovalchuk and ovechkin....i can hardly get one of them, let alone 2...how it took you that long to win a cup i dont know, that is pure offense right there.

Coyote of the Sea · Post by **Coyote of the Sea** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:32 pm

In the 2009-2010 season as the Coyotes and its been going well, have yet to miss the playoffs, and haven't finished a season ranked lower then 4th so far. Ended up having to get rid of Lecavalier in the off-season, but got Getzlaf so its all good, fairly young team though (outside of the Defense) and projected to be 2nd worse this year(which is such bull****)

Mikhail Grabovsky-Ryan Getzlaf-Enver Lisin
Stanislav Chistov-Matthew Lombardi-Bobby Ryan
Jordin Tootoo-Mike Richards-Marek Svatos
Martin Hanzal-Patrick Fischer-Landon Wilson

Richard Matvichuk-Derek Morris
Tuomas Eskelinen-Alexei Semenov
Shaone Morrisonn-Eric Cairns

Niittymaki in Goal, Auld as the Backup

The average age of my starting Forwards is 26.2, For Defense men its 31.2 and goalies are 28.5 with the team total being around 27.

Also, any way to being in good young defense men? i haven't been able to land a good D prospect so far its about the only part of my team thats going to need to be replaced in a few years.

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:58 pm

My first season with the Rangers. Traded a lot first week of the season to get exactly the team I wanted. Also picked up Forsberg as a free agent signing, and I got to say he have been a diamond so far. Only in Feb and have after a slow start (gel period) climbed up to move between #1 and #4 in the league. Score lots of goals, lets in few and almost a fight or two every night. Also ice a team who deliver a lot of big hits.

Zetterberg - Forsberg - Jagr
Prucha - Sutherby - Shanahan
Hollweg - Avery - Neil
Pettinger - Betts - Orr

Morrison - Pronger
Mara - Beauchemin
Burns - Cairns

Lundqvist
Montoya

As you see, traded A LOT of players away (use 3.04 with newest roster update)

CrockerNHL · Post by **CrockerNHL** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:36 pm

johnny_rudeboy wrote:My first season with the Rangers. Traded a lot first week of the season to get exactly the team I wanted.
Zetterberg - Forsberg - Jagr
Prucha - Sutherby - Shanahan
Hollweg - Avery - Neil
Pettinger - Betts - Orr

Morrison - Pronger
Mara - Beauchemin
Burns - Cairns

Lundqvist
Montoya

I did the same with Rangers. Since you have two good defensive lines, I'd consider to give Sutherby a more defensive role and try to trade for an offensive-minded 2nd line center to play with Prucha and Shanny or use Zetterberg instead. BTW, how about F.Tyutin and M.Staal?
IMHO, your roster may look better as follows:
1st line LW- Forsberg - Jagr (offensive line)
Prucha - Zetterberg - Shanahan (offensive line)
Pettinger -Sutherby- Neil (checking line)
Avery - Betts - Hollweg (agitating line)

you might want to put Shanny up to the 1st unit:
Shanahan - Forsberg - Jagr (explosive line)
Prucha - Zetterberg - Neil (to bring more balance)
Pettinger -Sutherby- ??? (checking line)
Avery - Betts - Hollweg (agitating line)

I hope it helps.

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:03 pm

It is my first season on the current save, but probably my 100th season over all

Zetterberg, Forsberg and Jagr all reached 100+ points.
Hollweg, Avery and Neil ended the season with a +- of -3 - -5
Prucha and Shanahan scored 20+ goals
I had 4 players in the top 20 of penalty minutes
3 players in the top 6 of points
4 players in the top 4 of +- ranking
And Lundqvist manage to save .93% of the shots.
Sutherby is my #1 penalty killer and also ass. captain, he might not be the playmaker Prucha and Shanny would need to reach 30-40 goals playing on the second line and second PP unit but I just love the job he does. He crash the net, hits, take hits, block shots and put his nose in.

I have my team playing just like I want them to. Now I just need to draft well so that the holes Shanny, Jagr, Forsberg will leave behind them when they retire in a few years can be filled with my own projects. Not so easy when you win the league but I will manage it some how.

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:59 pm

Won the cup, 4-3 against Flames.

Zetterberg scored in overtime in game 7 assisted by Jagr and Forsberg (and now Z and Jaggs wont talk about a new contract...

), atleast Forsberg is signed for 3 more years.
Moore replaced Orr for the playoffs, had a stellar time on the 4th line scoring a couple of big goals and get around a 7 in rating over all. So he will stay up for the regulare season. Manged to steal Richards from Philly since they went over the cap and he refused to negotiate with them, I offered him an offersheet and he accepted, Flyers could not get rid of salary and I now have a great #2 center.

Drafted well and have also managed to trade for some good prospects. Ryan O´Marra from Oilers, I gave up Morris (got him from a dead line trade with Coyotes) and M. Sauer (good d prospect), and also managed to trade for J. Neal (Dallas), I gave up Malik, also at the trade dead line. I dont know what to make of Neal, my scouts rate him from being a 4th line to a 1st liner, and they keep changing their rating up and down on him every second month or so. Well, now he will get to play with O´Mara for Hartford, lets see what he can do. Oh, and Carey Price was released by Habs and guess who signed him.

Zetterberg - Forsberg - Jagr
Prucha - Richards - Shanahan
Pettinger - Sutherby - Neil
Hollweg - Avery - Moore

Morrison - Pronger
Burns - Beauchemin
Ranger - Baranka

Lundqvist
Montoya

This is the team that I will dress for this season. I hope Moore can replace Shanny after this season, Avery can be dealt with so that O´Mara can take the 4th center spot, Pettinger will probably leave after this season. Will then move Hollweg up again and let Neal take the 4th LW spot, if he is ready for it. I am a little weak on D, plenty of potential but Pronger have a huge work load being #1 and on first PP and PK units. Might do a D trade to get a veteran if Ranger, Baranka and Burns need some offloading. Staal and some other kids in Hartford could easy play games already this season but I will let them tear it up in the AHL for one season unless I am hit with the injury bug.

Well, I am at work right now but I guess you can tell my mind is already at home playing the game...

Post by **joehelmer** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:35 pm

I'm in my first season with Nashville Predators. A team that needed better players on several positions, I got two free agents signed Curtis Joseph, who's still a great goalie, and Peter Forsberg, a great first line center. Now I got two good centers in Arnott and Forsberg, I might let one go for more talented players closer to deadline. And I got P.J. Axelsson in a trade with the Bruins. And I got Martin Skoula in a trade with Minnesota.

Here's my lines:

Sullivan-Forsberg-Dumont
Gelinas-Arnott-Erat
Axelsson-Bonk-Ellison/Ortmeyer
Fiddler/Nichol-Legwand-Ortmeyer/Ellison

de Vries-Zidlicky
Suter-Skoula
Yonkman-Weber

Joseph
Mason

With this team I've been doing far more than my expectations. I'm 4th in the conference with 41 points in 31 games, the same points as Detroit in the same division.
My first and second lines is doing very well, my first line has done 102 all together and my second line has got 77 points.
Team leader is Forsberg with 36 points in 31 games.

Coyote of the Sea · Post by **Coyote of the Sea** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:43 pm

well my 2009-2010 Season finished with the greatest moment......We won the Cup!!! it took over almost 30 years, but Phoenix/Winnipeg has finally won a Stanley Cup!! took it over the Hurricanes in 6

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:18 am

I once again lost a little interest in the game since the other GM´s behave so strange. I tried to make a deal with Anaheim for B Ryan. They ofcourse would not deal him even do they where over the cap with a few millions. I make a new, much improved offer (good prospect and 2 first), the hang up the phone and one day later send Bobby through waiver then Coyotes pick him up. I restarted the game in anger since I had made a save right before I tried to make the deal. I offered them (Ducks) an even better deal on the same day as I knew they would send him through waivers, same story once again, the didnt like my offer since Ryan was a future franchise player for them, then they sent him through waivers the same day and this time Atlanta picked him up (and no, they didnt wanna deal him to me either...). I once again restarted from the last save and added another GM with control over Blue Jackets, made a deal with Ducks for players they didnt need so they went under the cap, Blue Jackets gave up little to nothing for it and their season was a failure anyway. Then I resigned from the Jackets and Bobby stayed with the Duck.

Ok, so I managed to save some of the fun with the game.

Next season I once again tried to make a deal for Ryan, offering Ducks exactly what they asked for in term of players along with 2 first round picks. The didnt wanna make the deal. One day later they trade him away anyway for a rubbish prospect and a 2nd round pick to conference rival!?!? In anger I turned of the computer, restarted from my last save, tried do make a deal once again, same thing happened over again, I added another GM with control over the team he was traded to (I cant honestly remember if it was Kings, Preds or Sharks) then traded him to Rangers for the original deal I offered for him - the first round picks (2nd round this time around

)

Well, I feel like I have cheated and lost the joy of playing the game. And it was goings so well...

Post by **Shadd666** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:36 pm

What team are you? Maybe there's some rivalry between you and the Ducks...

Or maybe they didn't want to hear any offer from a 'big team' that they might face on their way to success...

So even if the AI is not perfect (it's an artificial intelligence... not a real one!), those decisions might be logical for some reason. And the fact that the AI doesn't do exactly what you want doesn't mean it's broken

Then take real life Ducks: did they make any deal to get rid of Bryzgalov? Or did they lost him on waivers?

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:02 am

I am the Rangers in that game. I did do a good trade with them early on when I managed to get Pronger who was a key player in Rangers winning the cup. And I started the latest season by getting Getzlaf signed via an offer sheet. Cost me a 1st and a 3rd, well worth it.

But now my team is so stocked with young talent and high end caliber players that it isnt fun to play for that reason.

Might as well start a new campaign, any ideas of a fun team to play with?

Post by **Shadd666** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:53 pm

All depends on what you consider as a fun team to play with

If you mean a struggling team to rebuild patiently, i think that the Preds are a good choice, with the updated rosters DB.

At least, they would be my choice...

Then, to avoid being overloaded with top talent everywhere, just play it realistically

For example, do you really think that the Ducks would deal away a guy like Pronger or Getzlaf? No way. It's possible in EHM though... And you end with a team which is no longer fun to play with (i also experienced this in the past

).

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:05 pm

I might start a new game to night. I am up for a challenge but there isnt really anything sexy with the preds. Last year I had a long campaign with the Hawks that was very fun. I managed to draft some real gems, didnt do much trading but developed the ones that was in the system and reached the conference final in year 3 after missing out on the post season the first couple of seasons. Might play with them again, classic club with some fun prospects.

Post by **B. Stinson** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:32 pm

Personally, I found Europe to be far more fun to manage in than any NA league. Especially if you wait for a team to get promoted to the lowest league in a particular country, and then apply for that job.

You get a chance to build that team entirely, and you usually get a team who has no real history. So it essentially becomes your team since you'll be the manager who writes their in-game history.

I'm doing that right now, and I ended up at Orebro HK. Very fun career so-far, and I doubt I'll leave anytime soon.

Post by **Tasku** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:02 pm

Plus, in Europe there's no trading or waivers and human player's advantage over the AI is not as evident as in the NHL.

Post by **Shadd666** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:48 pm

johnny_rudeboy wrote:I am up for a challenge but there isnt really anything sexy with the preds.

That's the point!

A weak fanbase, no goalie, very few talent, no top-prospect (unless i missed some... don't remember...), and you to drive the ship from naff to glory without exploiting the AI. Heh, it should be a nice team for challenge 10!

gibson41 · Post by **gibson41** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:06 pm

B. Stinson wrote:Personally, I found Europe to be far more fun to manage in than any NA league. Especially if you wait for a team to get promoted to the lowest league in a particular country, and then apply for that job.

You get a chance to build that team entirely, and you usually get a team who has no real history. So it essentially becomes your team since you'll be the manager who writes their in-game history.

I'm doing that right now, and I ended up at Orebro HK. Very fun career so-far, and I doubt I'll leave anytime soon.

Yeah, I guess I should try that too, but what holds me off is that I don't know any of the players so it would be like jumping into very cold water. And which countries have more than one playable league? Finland and Sweden ?

johnny_rudeboy · Post by **johnny_rudeboy** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:24 pm

Shadd666 wrote:
johnny_rudeboy wrote:I am up for a challenge but there isnt really anything sexy with the preds.
That's the point!

A weak fanbase, no goalie, very few talent, no top-prospect (unless i missed some... don't remember...), and you to drive the ship from naff to glory without exploiting the AI. Heh, it should be a nice team for challenge 10!

I started a save with Wild last night, missed out on Forsberg as a free agent, I actually felt good about it. Didnt get all the scouts and assistent coaches I wanted to and normally gets when I manage the Leafs or the Rangers so I am already up for a new experience. I will try to draft well and develop the guys that I already have and work hard to sign up the already good players I have on long term deals. If I cant find the fun in this, Nashville first then I might give Europe a shot...

Post by **B. Stinson** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:14 pm

gibson41 wrote:
B. Stinson wrote:Personally, I found Europe to be far more fun to manage in than any NA league. Especially if you wait for a team to get promoted to the lowest league in a particular country, and then apply for that job.

You get a chance to build that team entirely, and you usually get a team who has no real history. So it essentially becomes your team since you'll be the manager who writes their in-game history.

I'm doing that right now, and I ended up at Orebro HK. Very fun career so-far, and I doubt I'll leave anytime soon.
Yeah, I guess I should try that too, but what holds me off is that I don't know any of the players so it would be like jumping into very cold water. And which countries have more than one playable league? Finland and Sweden ?

I'm at work right now so I'm going off the top of my head, but I believe EHM Europe looks like this:

FIN: 3
UK: 2
SWE: 2
DEN: 1
RUS: 1
CZE: 1
SVK: 1
SLO: 1
GER: 1
AUT: 1
NOR: 1?
SUI: 1?

As for not knowing the players, that's one of my own favourite parts. I feel like a true rookie foreign manager.

Also gives me a good reason to skip attending my own team's games here and there while I pretend to be on vacation at the various Euro. tournaments... getting my own scouting done like many real GMs do.

gibson41 · Post by **gibson41** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:50 pm

Yeah I see, I had already started a new game with random Finnish team from third divison - Cowboys, hell, it so much fun already, exploring a new territory, when in NHL you are limited to a few players because of the quality of the league, but this is like infinitive options, and building the team from scratch is one of most challenging things...just lost 4-3 exhibition...was trailing 3-0, then i got back in game with three goals, but they just scored another...bad luck

Coyote of the Sea · Post by **Coyote of the Sea** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:01 pm

you sure you were going off the top of head? because every one of those is correct! (how the hell do you remember all that? lol)