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

[timmy_t]

When you sign those players, try to add another month or two to their contract.

[Woody19]

Finally gave up playing with my Washington Capitals, after winning the Cup 5 seasons in a row and 7 times in total (I'm in 2019).

Started a new game with the Vancouver Canucks, but using the fantasydraft option. This is how my new team looks like:

Kotalik - Crosby - Cheechoo
Kunitz - J. Carter - Hunter
McCauley - Halpern - Kobasew
Bell - Immonen - C. Clark

Bouwmeester - Regehr
Van Ryn - Väänänen
Commodore - Mezei

Lundqvist - Bryzgalov

Scratches: Kloucek, Dupuis, Weinhandl

Also, just acquired Bobby Ryan for Luke Richardson and McCormick - quite happy with this "steal"!

[Alex the Tall]

I got hired in the ECHL with the Gladiators and i have a funny season... I am loosing all my game with a high number of goals against me when they predicted me to be in the top 10...

I either win a game 10 -1 or i lose 8-0... What the Dickens is that?

[Systemfel]

Just finished the 2007 off-season with the Colorado Avalanche. Last season I was the 4th seed heading into Round 1 with Anaheim but my guys choked and the Ducks won in 6.

06-07 roster
Andrew Brunette - Joe Sakic - Milan Hejduk
Wojtek Wolski - Paul Stastny - Marek Svatos
Martin Gelinas - Samuel Påhlsson - Ian Laperriere
Brad Richardson - Mark Smith - Jed Ortmeyer
(Jerred Smithson)

J.M. Liles - Jordan Leopold
Ossi Väänänen - Barret Jackman
Karlis Skrastins - Brett Clark

Peter Budaj
Jose Theodore

About Theodore. I traded him to LA for a 3rd rounder at the start of the game, but then the Kings bought him out and a signed him as a UFA for $600,000. Good steal.

My bottom lines were way too weak in 06-07, so I made it a priority to strengthen my checking lines in the off-season. I signed UFA forwards Sean Avery and Arron Asham to three-year deals and picked up Ville Nieminen as well.

I also needed a good, mean, shutdown defenseman. I turned to Scotty Hannan and offered him a 5-year worth $22.5M. Then I sent a three-year, $10.5M contract offer to Greg de Vries. Even though I was confident I would get de Vries, I offered Cory Sarich $6M over three years.

However, none of these defensive defensemen wanted to come to Denver and every single one of them signed worse deals with other teams.

I made Anton Volchenkov of the Sens a target, but the price was too steep. Islanders vet Brendan Witt had a three-star trade value, and I after some negotiation I got him for a 2nd rounder and the rights to two three-star prospects.

Roster heading into 07-08
Brunette - Sakic - Hejduk
Wolski - Stastny - Svatos
Avery - Påhlsson - Laperriere
Nieminen - Richardson - Asham
(Smith, Ortmeyer)

Liles - Witt
Jackman - Leopold
Skrastins - Clark
(trying to trade Väänänen)

Budaj
Theodore

[Kekkonen]

Just getting ready to guide my Wild to their second consecutive Stanley Cup finals appearance in 2011. Hopes for a repeat are high, as I dispatched the Sharks in the Western finals in 5 games.

In the East, the finals went to the distance. First, the President's Trophy winners, the Maple Leafs (!) took a commanding 3-0 lead against the Canadiens, but then lost game #4 in OT. They still had a 3-1 lead going back to Montreal, but there the Habs got another tight win. In game 6 in Montreal, the Leafs were never in it and lost 2-8, and then the Habs finished the comeback with a 4-2 win in Toronto.

Could you guys imagine the madness in Montreal if this happened for real? And would the city of Toronto ever recover?

[sleevie]

Started as the Sheffield Scimitars of the BNL, but quickly jumped to the SEL with BIF.
You know you are in trouble when all board asks for is to avoid relegation.
No prospects, no talent, just a bunch of slackers and aged veterans, reminds me of the leafs, HA HA HA!!!

sleevie

[jackknife77]

started with brandon whaet kings
then Pensacola Ice Pilots
then Houston Aeros
And now just got hired by the boston Bruins in 2011.. will be a challenge to manage a team I dislike

[holydogg]

started with brandon whaet kings
then Pensacola Ice Pilots
then Houston Aeros
And now just got hired by the boston Bruins in 2011.. will be a challenge to manage a team I dislike

Just get a legacy by doing poor trades and very poor draft They'll be in the pit for longer

[CrockerNHL]

[quote="Systemfel"]Just finished the 2007 off-season with the Colorado Avalanche. Last season I was the 4th seed heading into Round 1 with Anaheim but my guys choked and the Ducks won in 6.

[b]06-07 roster[/b]
[size=10]Andrew Brunette - Joe Sakic - Milan Hejduk
Wojtek Wolski - Paul Stastny - Marek Svatos
Martin Gelinas - Samuel Påhlsson - Ian Laperriere
Brad Richardson - Mark Smith - Jed Ortmeyer
(Jerred Smithson)

J.M. Liles - Jordan Leopold
Ossi Väänänen - Barret Jackman
Karlis Skrastins - Brett Clark

Peter Budaj


Jose Theodore[/size]

About Theodore. I traded him to LA for a 3rd rounder at the start of the game, but then the Kings bought him out and a signed him as a UFA for $600,000. Good steal.

My bottom lines were way too weak in 06-07, so I made it a priority to strengthen my checking lines in the off-season. I signed UFA forwards Sean Avery and Arron Asham to three-year deals and picked up Ville Nieminen as well.

I also needed a good, mean, shutdown defenseman. I turned to Scotty Hannan and offered him a 5-year worth $22.5M. Then I sent a three-year, $10.5M contract offer to Greg de Vries. Even though I was confident I would get de Vries, I offered Cory Sarich $6M over three years.

However, none of these defensive defensemen wanted to come to Denver and every single one of them signed worse deals with other teams.

I made Anton Volchenkov of the Sens a target, but the price was too steep. Islanders vet Brendan Witt had a three-star trade value, and I after some negotiation I got him for a 2nd rounder and the rights to two three-star prospects.

[b]Roster heading into 07-08[/b]
[size=10]Brunette - Sakic - Hejduk
Wolski - Stastny - Svatos
Avery - Påhlsson - Laperriere
Nieminen - Richardson - Asham
(Smith, Ortmeyer)

Liles - Witt
Jackman - Leopold
Skrastins - Clark
(trying to trade Väänänen)

I would suggest you to hold on with Ossi, he's a good dman. In my game (2010/2011 season), he was rated a core player for a couple of years, but now listed as a key def. dman on my team (Jiri Fisher's regen). He makes only $1.3M X 3yrs. Ossi has 17 in all physical attributes and 18-19 in key def. attributes, like positioning, checking etc. And my Head Scout has 20 in Player Potential+Player Ability attributes, so I definitely can trust him.
Moreover, he's rated as a no.1-2 potential, being on a team that loaded with J.Bouwmeester, J.Pitkanen and F.Tyutin, all of whom are rated as a key [b]Franchise dmen[/b]!!!
Also I would recommend you to take a look on M.Commodore, R.Martinek, E.Cairns, S.Morrisson, N.Pratt, E.Messier, that are strong 5-6th dmen and would come relatively cheap.

Budaj
Theodore[/size][/quote]

[Danny]

Beware of long boring report

I'm at the beginning of the 2007-2008 with the Bruins after winning the Cup in 2007 rather surprsingly.
I was on the verge of elimination in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs, but more on that subject later on

Lets start with an overview of my trades last season.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5244 ... d01ux7.jpg

I ended up with the following line combinations

Kessel - Savard - Hejduk
Huselius - Bergeron - Shannon
Axelsson - Brown - Asham
Pettinger/Paille - Pelletier/Ricci - Bradley

Tallinder - Chara
Stuart - Jurcina/Visnovski
Campoli - Visnovski/Sarich

Nittymaaki - Toivonen


Anyway, to my season, I realized soon that I have a good shot at the Cup so I did some trades to bolster my roster with some veterans.
I got Mike Ricci as a rental, he was supposed to replace Pelletier on the 4th line since that line had a horrific +/-, he's a great faceoff guy with good leadership, defensive attributes and some scoring touch, I used him on my 2nd PK as well. I lost both Savard and Bergeron in one game mid February in a loss against the Leafs. While Savard's absence was just supposed to be 2-3 weeks Bergeron was scheduled to be fit by the end of April. I moved Ricci to the 2nd scoring unit and to the PP since puck possession is one of the key factors there and he's good on draws.
Turned out to be a very good move, the production of this line dropped just slightly, Ricci is not Bergeron as far as playmaking goes after all.
The second veteran I traded for was Cory Sarich. Fantastic shut down defenceman with good skating ability, would complement Campoli way better than Visnovski I thought, who's a very similar type of player to Campoli. He was an 2007 UFA but I was hoping to re-sign him if he didn't demand more than 4.5m for 2 years, which I was able to do in the end.

I won the Presidents trophy with both of my special teams being amongst the top 3 in the league despite dropping a bit late in the season so I approached the playoffs with a very positive attitude, considering I expected Bergeron back for game 4 in the first round.

To the playoffs, I faced the Rangers in the first round, it was actually one of the very few teams in the East I didn't beat
in the regular season series, 2 wins each.
We split the first two games of the series in Boston with Visnovski getting a huge OT winner in the second game. I lost
game 3 due to a late 2nd OT winner from Nylander.
I was leading game 4 (Bergeron wasn't fit in time unfortunately) 4-1 when Jagr scored late in the 2nd period to cut my lead down to 2. I kept this lead till the 56 minute mark when the Rangers struck 3 times and Tyutin got the regulation winner with 15 seconds left to play.
I was down 1-3 when we returned to Boston.
Bergeron's comeback, Shannon on the PP and Chara gave me the lead early in the first, Bergeron had 2 assists in the
second to make it 4-0. Rangers cut the lead in half in the 3rd but I forced a game 6.
Hejduk scored twice, Bergeron had 2 assists, Nitty recorded his first playoff shutout, 5-0 to the Bruins.
Game 7 was equally as easy, Axelsson and Kessel twice made it 3-0, Jagr scored late in the game, 3-1 win. I had turned the series around thanks to Bergeron's comeback.

Faced the Devils in the second, won the regular season series 3-1.
Again a split with Brodeur shutting me out in the second game. Devils won game 3 thanks to Pandolfo's OT winner, I won the next. 2-2 after 4.
Devils won game 5 in Boston due to a completely sloppy 2nd period performance by the Bruins 3-1.
Game 6 in New Jersey, no goals in the first 2 periods, Savard gave me the lead after 45 minutes, Gionta forced overtime with a PP goal with the goalie pulled in the last minute of the game. I killed off an early powerplay in OT and Bergeron grabbed the winner from Chara and Huselius.
Game 7 again
4-4 after regulation with me leading 3 times and Devils always tying it. OT in game 7 . And again, late in the first OT Bergeron winner from Huselius and Chara

Conference Finals against the Panthers, they won games 1 and 3 in OT, were 2-1 up but had very little to say from that moment on, I won 3 straight including a 5-1 win in game 6 in Florida. All in all not as exciting as my first 2 series.

The same can be said about the Finals against the Stars, I was again not able to win both home games to start the series but won the Cup fairly easy with a score of 4-1 in the end.

Savard, after a rather disappointing regular season got hot at the right time of the year going on an 8 game goal scoring streak in the Conference and Cup finals. Kessel finished the season with 120 points and +47, Hejduk scored 18 goals in the Playoffs, Nitty had a 2.30 GAA and 0.93 SV% and Henrik Tallinder was on a whopping +15 in the Playoffs.

As for the new season, I didn't do much, 3 scouts left because they were demanding silly money I couldn't afford to pay even if I wanted, furthermore one scout retired due to his age but I got 4 new scouts who overall aren't worse so that's no big deal. Toivonen was an RFA but I couldn't sign him for some reason, I thought there was a minimum and if I wanted to sign him for another year I just had to offer him this minimum, didn't work, he became an unsigned prospect so I traded him to the Isles for a high draft pick and Shawn Bates and got Sauve as the backup from as a free agent. I plan to give Nitty a Luongo/Brodeur type of workload anyway since I know he can handle it so I won't
need Sauve for more than 6-7 games.
Shawn Bates seems "slightly" overrated in the game but he will do well for me on a third line I think. With Bobby Ryan coming from Juniors I intend to move him to the Huselius/Bergeron line, move Shannon down to third, move Pettinger to the newly created Bates/Shannon line and roll 3 solid scoring lines.
Pettinger - Bates - Shannon should have enough talent to be considered a third scoring unit.
I've got Kulyash for the next season and Wilson is already mine for this season, with Visnovski being an UFA at the end of the season I might have to replace him, Huselius is an UFA as well and I've got only 2m left in the salary cap.
But I have already signed Nittymaaki, Bergeron and Stuart to long term contracts, I left 7-8m in the salary cap in the first season for exactly that purpose so I should be ok from a financial point of view overall for years to come.

[bruins72]

Beware of long boring report

I'm at the beginning of the 2007-2008 with the Bruins after winning the Cup in 2007 rather surprsingly.
I was on the verge of elimination in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs, but more on that subject later on

Lets start with an overview of my trades last season.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5244 ... d01ux7.jpg

Very interesting deals! I always find it fun to see what other people do with the same team I might play. I like a lot of what you've done there.

You should play the next challenge TBL runs. I think you'll find it very interesting.

[Danny]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely join the next challenge, been waiting for months

[bruins72]

I've been playing a game with the Chicago Blackhawks lately. I've finished the regular season and I'm in the playoffs right now. Like I said in the prospects thread, I left Bilodeau down on the farm and he's been developing nicely there. I've made some deals to get the team that I wanted and I've kept the same core team for a good part of the season. I only made a few deal once the season started. Anyhow, this is what my lineup looks like right now...

Havlat - Hadzus - Vrbata
Michalek - M. Richards - Weinhandl
Roy - Sharp - Eaves
Gaustad - Laich - Asham

Campbell - Aucoin
Hannan - Seabrook
Morrisonn - Warrener

Khabibulin - Boucher


They did really well in the regular season, winning the President's Trophy. What really surprised me is how well they're doing in the playoffs! I'm winning by scores of 7-2, 9-2, 6-3, 5-2! I swept the first round and I'm looking like I'm going to sweep the second round. The thing that really surprises me is my 4th line. These guys are all averaging almost a point a game (5 or 6 points in 7 games). Plus, they're still hitting and getting into fights! These guys are my favorite "grit" line I've ever had and they really perform once the playoffs start. I'm really loving this!

[CrockerNHL]

Prepare for a long story.
I'm in 2010/2011 offseason, just before my training camp. Truth to be said, I had not mastered every aspect of trading in the game, but I was trading like a mad (more than 350 players went both way). Unfortunately, in order to make room for youngsters and due to financial reasons, I was forced to trade a number of players that were more than useful for me (3 Cups). Notable players that were shipped out:
goalies: Nytti(!), T.Rask, H,Toivonen, M.Wiikman
dmen: S.Eminger,S.Morrisonn, A.Emelin, D.Morris, R.Regehr(!), N.Welch, B.Seabrook, J.Leopold
forwards:C.Drury, S.Hartnell ,T.Hunter, P.Mackie, M.Michalek, D.Heatley, J.Cheechoo, P.Marleau(!), M.St.Louis(!), E.Cole, P.Prucha, T.Connolly, T.Vanek, J.Halpern, J.Tambellini, S.Weiss, M.Fisher, M.Hanzal, A.Asham.
youngsters/drafted: Perttu Lindgren, Olow Lindgren, James Livingston, Phil McRae, Dale Hunt, Anton Lander(!)
All of these guns were sacrificed to build up THE TEAM!.
As I have learned recently, that's near impossible mainly due to financial demands of my core and key players.
I've won the Cup (easily beating Canucks 4:1) with this roster, playing all lines equally:

M.Richards - J.Carter - M.St.Louis (won Hart+Art Ross)
A.Picard - A.Kopitar (won Calder) - A.Stewart
N.Hagman - B.Sutherby - J.Ortmeyer
G.Latendresse - N.Horton - M.Michalek

J.Bouwmeester - J.Pitkanen (won Norris)
O.Vaananen - F.Tyutin
M.Staal - S.Eminger

H.Lundqvist (won Vesina)
A.Montoya

Scratches: S.Morrisonn, R.Hollweg, C.Dingman, R.Schremp (IR-7 months from November)
AHL players: E.Messier, J.Pandolfo, B.J.Crombeen, D.Bolland, K.Lyamin, V.Buravchikov and g.S.Varlamov
In the system (some of them are AHLers already): J.Tavares, T.Vincour, C.Doyle, J.Hayes, B.Leffler, A.Rooney,H.Pulkkinen, B.Denis; dmen and goalies: A.Dubinin, A.Grant, V.Hedman, T.Back, N.Petrecki, g.D.Roubik
Playing in Europe: D.Kulyash, Ilya Nikulin, I.Grigorenko, M.Grabovsky, M.Jokela, g.V.Koshechkin
Salary Cup: $43.7 M

June - August 2010.
My first line LW and most experienced penalty killer M.Richards wants $5.5M p/y. I don't have it. He was automatically moved to my prospect pool without a contract (I guess he's a restricted). Don't know what to do with him. He was trained well. I can get for him "not worth a whoop" draft picks of 2nd, 4th, 4th rounds (Bruins and Preds are very kind to me). I think I'll leave him there for a while until I sign him for less or get a true value. I can afford it and you'll see why.
The whole group of my core/key players wants a significant rise of salary. That was addressed by making extra funds available (poor $6M man M.St.Louis, he's a 'buffaloid' now). Few words about the latest: true warrior, a winner, pure goalscorer (easily 50-60 goals p/y), savior (produces when the heat is on), very consistent and durable. It was a tough decision for me, just like with P.Marleau last year. But...The Show Must Go On!

Eventually, traded for G.Brule (always wanted him) and signed him for $1.6M for 3 years. Bluejackets were reluctant to trade Gilbert, but I came with a tempting offer they couldn't reject. I've paid a hefty price to lure him away from Ohio, but why not, if I can afford it... I've lost S.Morrisonn, S.Pokulok, M.Michalek, D.Hunt, P.MacKie, A.Emelin, my previous 1st rounders Anton Lander and Olow Lindgren, two 2nd and three 3rd round picks.
Really half the kingdom was given up to land Andrew Ladd from Carolina and both clubs could be happy with a deal that suited all parties.
Schremp is healthy at last. It seem like I'll go with plenty of new faces in the lineup. But how about the CHEMISTRY? OK, a lot of exhibition games, probably will help to develop the latest (every 2-3 day, so be it).

I'll experiment with the mix, probably starting with:

A.Ladd - J.Carter - N.Horton
A.Picard - R.Schremp - A.Stewart
N.Hagman - B.Sutherby - J.Ortmeyer
G.Latendresse - C.Doyle - A.Kopitar

J.Bouwmeester - J.Pitkanen
F.Tyutin - M.Staal
O.Vaananen - K.Lyamin

H.Lundqvist
A.Montoya

Scratches: B.J.Crombeen, R.Hollweg, C.Dingman
In the system: veteran E.Messier, youngsters J.Tavares, T.Vincour, J.Hayes, B.Leffler, A.Rooney,H.Pulkkinen, Y.Nikulin, B.Denis and, of course Mike Richards (still considering...)
dmen and goalies: A.Dubinin, A.Grant, V.Hedman, T.Back, N.Petrecki, V.Buravchikov, g.S.Varlamov, g.D.Roubik
Playing in Europe: D.Kulyash, Ilya Nikulin, I.Grigorenko, M.Grabovsky, M.Jokela, g.V.Koshechkin
Salary Cup: $43.4 M

Let's see if I can lift my 5th Cup next year.

BTW, any ideas about a franchise forward Mike Richards?

[batdad]

Neat team. Quite the combination. For this type of story you should try the blog system. Easy to keep it going..no interruptions from us.

Second you say you traded for Brule? Then where is he in your roster? Curious.

[CrockerNHL]

Yeah! Training camps ...uhh Of, course Brule! I'm trying him as RW on a line with Schremp a Stewart and as a center on a line with Latendresse and Kopitar. I think to keep one more year in AHL either Crombeer(24 yrs old) or C.Doyle.

[bruins72]

I'm in the pre-season of the 07-08 season with my Blackhawks team. I just had the craziest exhibition game with the Washington Capitals. I won 22-0. I had only 4 players (including the two goaltenders... more on that later) that didn't have a 10 rating for the game. Two defensemen had hat tricks (both also had two assists). I had one player with a 7 point night and three with 6 point nights. To top it all off, there was a huge brawl that included everyone on the ice, even the goaltenders (they both got tossed, that's why both of my goalies played). Other than the goaltenders, the only players without points were two of my defensive defensemen. I know it's only pre-season but this one really entertained me!

My current lineup...

Havlat - Handzus - Fehr
Michalek - Richards - Bilodeau
Roy - Sharp - Ryan
Gaustad - Laich - Asham/Ortmeyer

Bouwmeester - Aucoin
Hannan - Seabrook
Morrisonn - Warrener

Khabibulin - Harding


I actually traded away several members of my Stanley Cup winning team. I didn't like how Patrick Eaves was developing and I want to open a spot for Ryan, so I shipped Eaves out for a second round pick. I also shipped out Weinhandl for a second round pick so I could bring up Bilodeau. Right after the draft everyone was interested in Ryan Wilson, so I got the Panthers to cough up Bouwmeester for him, straight up. Maybe they wanted to go cheaper? Interest was hot for Brian Campbell after he won the Norris, so I was able to get Buffalo to trade me Dylan Hunter and their 1st rounder in the next draft to get him back after trading him to me only a year before. I really didn't need him after getting Bouwmeester. I was able to upgrade my backup goaltending while waiting for Carey Price to develop. I sent out Crawford, Tesliuk, and a couple nothing prospect for Josh Harding. The thing is, Harding may turn out better than Price. This allowed me to ship out Boucher for a 2nd rounder in the next draft. Finally, I decided to reduce some payroll and get even younger on the RW. I sent out Vrbata and the rights to Caria (a prospect I just picked up in the 4th round of the last draft) for Eric Fehr.

This is going to be Bobby Ryan's rookie season, so I don't want to overload him. He'll play on the third line but he'll also be on the 1st PP line. Fehr will get the 1st line duties but no PP time. Of course this could all change at any moment. Bilodeau is looking ready to hold the 2nd line RW spot on both even strength and PP. The funny thing is, my 3rd and 4th line guys could play 1st or 2nd line duty on many teams. Derek Roy has come along very nicely. Patrick Sharp could easily challenge Mike Richards for the 2nd line center job. Most likely, I'll flip them back and forth depending on who is playing better at the time. Both are excellent two-way forwards. Even Brooks Laich is developing better than I had hoped. I had originally just picked him up to fill the roster. He's a wiz on face-offs and he's not terrible on offense. Even Asham and Gaustad can chip in points! Gaustad is especially nice. He's the kind of guy that won't score much during the regular season but he's a madman in the playoffs.

I can't wait to see where this season takes me!

[Danny]

I have Bobby Ryan too, he spent the first season in junior although I wanted to call him up but wasn't able to do so. He came to the NHL in 07-08, scored 7 goals and recorded 13 points in his first 9 games with an average rating of 8.6 and then got injured and was out for 3 months. Actually 3 months have already passed by but he's still not ready listed as day to day

I drafted Caria as well but I decided to keep him, I think I even got him in the 5th round with someone elses pick and he seems to be rocking in junior.

Unfortunately I lost Brad Stuart with a torn cartilage for 4 months but he might come back for the start of the playoffs. He's scheduled to be ready to go mid-April but then again Ryan was supposed to be out for only 3 months as well and it's been 3 1/2 so far.

I lost Toivonen, for some reason I couldn't extend his contract despite matching his minimum (he's an RFA), I got Sauve as backup but then the Avs made Budaj available so I got him. Of course he had to injure himself in his very first game with the Bruins and is done for the season

As far as player development is concerned, Campoli is having a poor season so far, only slightly above 7 rating and a -7 with only 10 points so far after being +5 and a 0.5 point per game man last season. I might replace him with Kulyash for the next season unless he steps up big time in the playoffs. I also can't seem to improve his positioning, he's training def. skill and tactics on intensive and has improved up to 12 but now dropped to 11 again.
Got the same problem with Bobby Ryan as far as acceleration is concerned, though there might be a "natural" limitation considering he's quite a big and heavy guy.

A pleasant surprise is Ville Laino's development in Providence though, I got him from Finland, young center, undrafted so you can sign him right away. 20 goals, 44 points in 29 games. I'm actually thinking about bringing him to Boston for next season, he's big and strong but is a great skater, he's good at faceoffs, very good defensively but has also a lot of offensive potential, creative, good passing and excellent stickhandling. Should develop into a great NHL 2 way center rather sooner than later. Scored in his debut for the Bruins after being called up due to Savard's injury as well

[CatchUp]

Yowza! you're having a rough time with injuries there! Who are your trainers/Physios?

[Danny]

Yowza! you're having a rough time with injuries there! Who are your trainers/Physios?

I don't recall the names but I've got the maximum and all of them have attributes between 18-20 in physiotherapy.
I didn't really change much in the staff from last season apart from 3 scouts, I've got the best assistants in the league and my training schedules aren't too hard either, usually all of my players have 100% condition before each game, sometimes a few have 96-98, so I assume it's not my fault, just bad luck.
I was quite lucky in my first season when Bergeron being out for 2 months was pretty much my only serious long term injury.

Wilson stepped in nicely for Stuart, Budaj was only supposed to be my backup and I use Nittymaaki for 90% of the games anyway, I've got some decent wingers in Providence to replace Bobby Ryan so all in all it certainly affects my team's quality a bit but it's not the end of the world. I just hope to get Stuart back for the playoffs, at least for the start of the second round.

[batdad]

You should easily be able to get guys with all 20s for trainers. I started a Nuckleheads season, where I am not making any changes..save for picking up a couple of under 23 year old prospects..just to see what happens.

So far: Sabourin out for 4 months (2 games), H. Sedin out once for a month, and now for 3 weeks, Mitchell out for 2 months, Linden out for 3 weeks, Fitzpatrick out for 1 month, and Brandon Reid out for 2 months.

So my callups: Edler, Tremblay, Hansen and Flaherty...sound familiar? I managed to sign Cory Schneder's fake and he is doing well in AHL, as is Mayson Raymond's fake. The shocker was Edler who is averaging 8.5 in AHL. Bourdon made the team and is average rating of 7.23 or something.

Oh yeah I have Kirill Koltsov signed too...playing rookie year as Canuck and is averaging 7.2.

I have to trade Krapicek...cause he sucks. Will be for a prospect. Trying to pry Fleicshman out of Washington.

[bruins72]

I lost Toivonen, for some reason I couldn't extend his contract despite matching his minimum (he's an RFA), I got Sauve as backup but then the Avs made Budaj available so I got him. Of course he had to injure himself in his very first game with the Bruins and is done for the season

You know you didn't really "lose" Toivonen. You can still sign him. He's a RFA. That means you still own his rights. If anyone else wants to sign him, you have the right to match that offer (because you gave him a qualifying offer and retained his rights). Plus, you're still allowed to sign him yourself. He's just moved from your roster to the "unsigned prospects" screen because you don't have him under contract right now. He's still yours though!

[Danny]

Yes, but

1. I was under the impression an RFA couldn't reject if I offered the required minimum. That's what I did when I first approached him around March but he still refused to sign. Maybe I fluffed up and offered him the minimum for 2 years while this only applies for a 1-year extension, I can't remember anymore.

2. Ever since then he simply wouldn't even negotiate with me. Even when his contract expired and he became an unsigned prospect all I was getting was "Hannu Toivonen doesn't want to negotiate a new deal"
Time wasn't exactly on my side since I needed a backup goalie and all the useful backups on the free agent market had already a ton of offers. So I eventually traded Hannu's rights to the Isles for Shawn Bates and a 2nd rounder.

[bruins72]

Yes, but

1. I was under the impression an RFA couldn't reject if I offered the required minimum. That's what I did when I first approached him around March but he still refused to sign. Maybe I f*** up and offered him the minimum for 2 years while this only applies for a 1-year extension, I can't remember anymore.

2. Ever since then he simply wouldn't even negotiate with me. Even when his contract expired and he became an unsigned prospect all I was getting was "Hannu Toivonen doesn't want to negotiate a new deal"
Time wasn't exactly on my side since I needed a backup goalie and all the useful backups on the free agent market had already a ton of offers. So I eventually traded Hannu's rights to the Isles for Shawn Bates and a 2nd rounder.

Nope, they don't have to accept your offer. They can pass on it. They can pass on any offer they want. The only case where I could see that happening is if another team signed him to an offer sheet and you matched it. Then he would have to play for you.

I'm guessing the reason he didn't want to negotiate with you was because you insulted him with the low-ball offer and kept after him, nagging him to sign a bad deal. He probably got sick of you. I bet if you waited a week or two and offered him a decent deal, he would've signed.

[Danny]

I'm guessing the reason he didn't want to negotiate with you was because you insulted him with the low-ball offer and kept after him, nagging him to sign a bad deal. He probably got sick of you. I bet if you waited a week or two and offered him a decent deal, he would've signed.

Yup suppose that's what happened. Hey, I'm a Bruins GM after all, it would be just unrealistic if I didn't piddle some people off

A great 2 way center and a high 2nd round pick isn't that bad a return for a backup goalie though so I won't complain