Challenge 14: Winnipeg Jets (Discussion Thread)

Post by **Asher413** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:10 am

Gotten the ball rollin, but man, the D-men aren't exactly high caliber. As a result, pretty much everyone that can either be sent to the AHL or Juniors that didn't make the top two lines was sent there. I even sent a bunch of guys to Dayton, to help them feel good and have success. So far (11 games in) Selanne is a BEAST... and this team can sure score. We'll probably make the playoffs, but when Matador would need to be on the ice in the Stanley Cup Playoffs... well, it won't last long. Maybe then all of the kids in juniors will come back just in time to give Parker and Mair a nice warm spot in the press box...

Post by **Lidas** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:06 pm

Just what my naff defense needed... Montador out for 4 months

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:18 pm

He's no big loss! You'll probably get better performance out of Smid or Stralman if you call one of them up.

gibson41 · Post by **gibson41** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:32 pm

Lidas wrote:Just what my naff defense needed... Montador out for 4 months

He's not even part of my line up. He has played just a few games and has a avg rating under 6.00.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:17 pm

bruins72 wrote:Ugggh! So close!

I thought I was going to get Selanne to have a 50/50 season. 50 goals in 50 games. He scored his 50th goal in game 52. So close but yet so far.

And now Tkachuk nets his 50th (actually his 48th, 49th, and 50th... it was a hat trick) goal in his 56th game.

Doan is sitting at 37 goals in 56 games. There's still hope for him to get 50 too.

alexob18 · Post by **alexob18** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:44 am

I feel so lazy... I finished season one like a week ago and I haven't started season two yet.

Post by **CatchUp** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:47 am

I wouldn't worry about it - I'm a freakin Mod and I haven't finish training camp!!

thunderbug · Post by **thunderbug** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:34 am

My season isn't at all realistic. My proof is the sharks are in the Western Conference Finals.

mustardstew · Post by **mustardstew** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:44 am

thunderbug wrote:My season isn't at all realistic. My proof is the sharks are in the Western Conference Finals.

well played, sir, well played

bruins72 wrote:He's no big loss! You'll probably get better performance out of Smid or Stralman if you call one of them up.

Just goes to show you - Montador is a +6 in our first two games... guess my season isn't realistic, either

Post by **McQwak** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:10 pm

Teppo Numminen retired the same day IRL as in my game. Maybe I can play woodoo with my players

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:37 pm

thunderbug wrote:My season isn't at all realistic. My proof is the sharks are in the Western Conference Finals.

Classic!

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:38 pm

mustardstew wrote:
bruins72 wrote:He's no big loss! You'll probably get better performance out of Smid or Stralman if you call one of them up.
Just goes to show you - Montador is a +6 in our first two games... guess my season isn't realistic, either

There's another case of how this game varies from person to person. One person's tactics and lines might get one result and another person's will get another. Good job at getting results out of him! I haven't been able to do anything with him.

mustardstew · Post by **mustardstew** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:24 pm

Well, Kieth and Numminen have more than made up for his success

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:27 pm

Both of those guys are doing okay for me. LOL!

Post by **Asher413** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:12 pm

Has anyone else had to work hard to stay above the salary floor? I may have to get Bobby Ryan playing just to keep me above it.

Post by **CatchUp** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:18 am

Well, I was rated 20th in the season preview, with Ganger being the 'Key New Face'. Too bad he's probably going back to play Jr.

mustardstew · Post by **mustardstew** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:28 am

Asher413 wrote:Has anyone else had to work hard to stay above the salary floor? I may have to get Bobby Ryan playing just to keep me above it.

Yes, I am way below it ($3+ million?) - guess we have a lot of salary on the farm and in juniors...

Not thrilled with calling Ryan, etc. up at season's end... need them for SA's Calder run...

How does this work (in game, and Challenge, I suppose) - if I have to call players up, are they stuck there? It's letting me play right now... when will it stop?

Post by **Lidas** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:25 am

First season over, and the Jets are Stanley Cup champions.

Had a great draft, picked up loads of promising players.

1. Jacob Josefson
2. Zach Budish
3. Toni Rajala
4. Tim Erixon
5. Igor Revenko
6. Daniil Sobchenko
7. Philip Samuelsson

Went tier 2 for my UFA signings. Since my PK was really bad, I decided to pick up two defensive defensemen.
1. Rhett Warrener
2. Hal Gill

I have already set my goals for trading once trading is allowed. I need a 1st line center and a 1st line RD. Dont know if that will be possible, guess I'll just have to wait and see.

gibson41 · Post by **gibson41** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:17 am

Lidas wrote:First season over, and the Jets are Stanley Cup champions.

Had a great draft, picked up loads of promising players.

1. Jacob Josefson
2. Zach Budish
3. Toni Rajala
4. Tim Erixon
5. Igor Revenko
6. Daniil Sobchenko
7. Philip Samuelsson

Went tier 2 for my UFA signings. Since my PK was really bad, I decided to pick up two defensive defensemen.
1. Rhett Warrener
2. Hal Gill

I have already set my goals for trading once trading is allowed. I need a 1st line center and a 1st line RD. Dont know if that will be possible, guess I'll just have to wait and see.

I like your signings Lidas, I was also thinking about improving my defense through Tier 2, but I am still just midway in Season 1 so I have to wait a while

Post by **McQwak** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:35 pm

I decided to strengthen defense, too. I send my offers to wide range of players and finally snapped Derek Morris (RD) for 3 years, 4M p/y

The runner ups were Rhett Warrener, Niclas Havelid and Jaroslav Spacek.
I mostly preffered RD to LD because I think left defense is OK and doesn't need such big improving (Pitkanen, Keith, Smid).

gibson41 · Post by **gibson41** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:58 pm

My season is a real rollercoaster so far. Going from a decent 11-6-3 segment to 6-11-3 in next 20 games and then climbing up again with 11-4-5 in games 40-60. My defense has really improved, now only if I could score more goals, and win more shootouts

, seriously, how to win shootouts? I am 1-9 when it comes down to them. They cost me fair amount of points!

Post by **McQwak** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:27 pm

gibson41 wrote:My season is a real rollercoaster so far. Going from a decent 11-6-3 segment to 6-11-3 in next 20 games and then climbing up again with 11-4-5 in games 40-60. My defense has really improved, now only if I could score more goals, and win more shootouts , seriously, how to win shootouts? I am 1-9 when it comes down to them. They cost me fair amount of points!

EXACTLY as my first season was. Fortunatelly, the rollercoaster was rising when the playoffs time came so I won the cup from 8th seed in west.
About the shootouts: I didn't won a single. Selanne failed in all his attempts throughout the whole season! So did Tkuchuk and Toews. So I started to send there players like Pitkanen, Latendresse or Steen but with no success. Maybe my whole team was too tired - I don't know. I really lost every shootout (11 total)

grits207 · Post by **grits207** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:31 pm

Just finished my first offseason. My main goal going into the summer was to improve my PK, look for a top pairing RD and get more physical.

I think I had a decent draft. I picked:

Carter Ashton
Brandon Kozun
Ben Chariot
Taylor Doherty
Hubert Genest
Brian Dumoulin
Kenny Ryan

When the trading window opened I made a trade with Toronto to get Jason Blake and Phil Oreskovic. Blake had a bad year in season 1 but he has pretty good attributes and he should be useful on the PK.

In free agency I originally wanted Derek Morris but he wanted more than 4 mil so I decided to go with tier 2 and try to sign PJ Axelsson and Rhett Warrener. Unfortunetly both guys rejected my offers so I had to change my plan yet again. I ended up going with tier 3 and signing Jed Ortmeyer, Nolan Yonkman and Mitch Fritz. I'm sure I could have gotten players just as good through waivers but I didn't want to take the risk.

All in all I don't think my offseason was too bad. I managed to bring in some more toughness and maybe make the team a bit better in our own end. I didn't get the #1 RD I was looking for but maybe I will be able to get one when I am allowed to trade again.

Laker2415 · Post by **Laker2415** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:36 pm

My first year was downright horrible. It seemed every week I was losing a player to injury, especially Toews and Selanne. I think for a week or two I was missing those two Numminen and Tkachuk at the same time. I ended up with the #2 pick overall and took Matt Duchene with the pick, although I should've taken Victor Hedman (who fell all the way to 8th!). I'm looking at a pair of defensemen as my UFA pickups, anything to help my porous D, but I may also pull off a trade or 2 to help me out.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:27 am

mustardstew wrote:
Asher413 wrote:Has anyone else had to work hard to stay above the salary floor? I may have to get Bobby Ryan playing just to keep me above it.
Yes, I am way below it ($3+ million?) - guess we have a lot of salary on the farm and in juniors...

Not thrilled with calling Ryan, etc. up at season's end... need them for SA's Calder run...

How does this work (in game, and Challenge, I suppose) - if I have to call players up, are they stuck there? It's letting me play right now... when will it stop?

I don't think I'm below the salary floor, so I can't say for sure how it will work. As for the challenge, there aren't any rules pertaining to this. It's just the normal bit that doesn't allow for trades or UFA signings yet. If the game lets you play without reaching the salary floor, it's okay for the challenge too.