EHM The Blue Line

Hi all,

Curtis Bowen


I got this guy to coach my farm team in the 3rd season of my CBJ franchise. As you can see he is young, but his attributes are amazing. The best part is he lists his favorite team as Belfast Giants!

I then proceeded to win the cup with CBJ for 2008-09 with Robbie Ftorek as my coach. Finally, I could not stand that the guys attributes were not changing that much and in June I fired Ftorek, and promoted Mr. Bowen.

Well, now in October of my 2009-10 season the attributes are jumping for my young guys (Picard and Brule in particular)....but they are losing as much as 5% of condition on PRACTICE ONLY DAYS! I have Bowen running Conditioning, skating and shooting. Anyone in these categories is getting exhausted. (This is the default skating drill). However, others such as Nash are dying in his drills even when not doing all 3. My question is, is this a good thing or a bad thing in the long term?

I think I'd stick with this guy. Maybe you just need to adjust your tactics? Is he your head coach now? If he is, I know I usually put my head coach on all training sections unless he's particularly weak in an area.

Are you using the default database? If so, I've got to find this guy!

I just loaded a new game and see him as a 32 year old player. Looks like you got lucky with the random coaching abilities that generated when he retired. Oh well! I'd love to find a coach like that, even if he tired my players out.

Yeah me thinks he was a player ... probably with Belfast!! He is only 35 so I figured it was a lucky one. Yeah..he is my head coach. I may put him in a couple of more slots..but I doubt I will use him in all of them.

The only things I would even consider keeping him off of would be goaltending and offense. Everything else seems top notch.

In testing it was Cliff Ronning and someone else I've forgotten that became the Super Staff memebers upon retiring This is why you should keep checking your staff search pages

As for him tiring out your team, what do you have your individual categories set as far as intensity?

In each main drill I have 3 med, 3 intense, just as I had done with Ftorek as coach. It seems the intense on the drills the new coach is involved in, is much more intense than it was under lack of motivation/discipline sweater boy.

Yeah I think that given his style his medium is probably levels above some people's 'intensive'.