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[Smiley90]

This game is realistic, west is much better than east -hrhr-

 

[Red_Man]

If we play in the conference finals, we'll be looking at:

Detroit: Great offense and great goaltending (would have been great D except for injuries)

Dallas: Great defense, great goaltending, amazing offense if Getzlaf and Doan return.

My offense is still pretty good, I just need my PP going, and if Cammy and Briere turn it up in the playoffs shit will get real.

 

[Marvie_3]

- My D now looks like this:

S. Gonchar - D. Orlov
A. Scrub - B. Scrub
C. Scrub - D. Scrub

How did you manage to get a better defense in this game than the real Red Wings have?

 

[CrazedArabMan]

How did you manage to get a better defense in this game than the real Red Wings have?

HAHAHAHAHA..... It's true

Don't worry, when the players win the CBA agreements and we have no cap space, Ilitch and Holland will start throwing money to all of the available free agents in 2 years when the season is back.

 

[Socreges]

Someone mind telling me what my record is and how close the next NW team is to me in points?

 

[Smiley90]

Someone mind telling me what my record is and how close the next NW team is to me in points?

You have 95 points, next is Colorado with 87. You have 78 GP, Colorado 76.

 

[Socreges]

Thanks.

Looks like another NW title for the Canucks. Once again thanks to a poor division. IIRC all NW teams are competitive, though.

 

[Smiley90]

Thanks.

Looks like another NW title for the Canucks. Once again thanks to a poor division. IIRC all NW teams are competitive, though.

It's not as bad as real life... Colorado 6th, Min 8th, Calgary 10th (so realistic!) and Edmonton 11th in the West.

Playoff-bubbles are pretty much down to:

West:

Col, LA, Min, CBJ, Cal (all separated by 3 points)

East has no real tension, with 6 points separating Buffalo in 8th from the Caps in 9th... And Buffalo even has one less game played.

 

[Cake Boss]

Woooo .500. I wish you could check the stats of each game instead of just the box score, want to see if we won the games with Eager out and if we lost them when the AI put him back in the lineup.

My team is like a revolving door of injuries, one comes back and one goes out. Vanek comes back Gionta goes out.

This games AI is beyond retarded, instead of calling someone from the AHL to replace the injured forward or use the scratched prospect forward no they used a defensive damn on the 3rd line.

 

[Smiley90]

Woooo .500. I wish you could check the stats of each game instead of just the box score, want to see if we won the games with Eager out and if we lost them when the AI put him back in the lineup.

My team is like a revolving door of injuries, one comes back and one goes out. Vanek comes back Gionta goes out.

This games AI is beyond retarded, instead of calling someone from the AHL to replace the injured forward or use the scratched prospect forward no they used a defensive damn on the 3rd line.

Easy Solution: now with waivers out, send everyone who's not playing down. Or keep enough players scratched to fill any position.

 

[Socreges]

As usual my sim started out with easy victories. Then tight victories. Then losses. Thanks for nothing, CPU.

Brouwer out for the playoffs. Damn.

 

[Marvie_3]

Thanks.

Looks like another NW title for the Canucks. Once again thanks to a poor division. IIRC all NW teams are competitive, though.

I was competitive for the first half of the season and then injuries started piling up. Always next season I guess.


Speaking of next season, if anyone has any ideas on changes to improve things, let me know. Might as well start discussing them now instead of during the season.

 

[Socreges]

I can see now why I lost all of my last three games.

Just looked at my forward lines. Couldn't see Boedker, but he wasn't scratched. "Boedker, where the fuck are you"... RT... He's on my third D pairing. Amazing. I had two dmen injured and instead of calling up Poti (79)...Boedker. Rookie dman Spurgeon is also on my top pairing instead of three guys that are better than him. Outstanding.

 

[Socreges]

I was competitive for the first half of the season and then injuries started piling up. Always next season I guess.


Speaking of next season, if anyone has any ideas on changes to improve things, let me know. Might as well start discussing them now instead of during the season.

Would be interesting to see who had the most man games lost to injury. I've gotta be up there, but had good depth for the most part (glad I didn't trade away guys like Ericsson and Larose for prospects).

Easy Solution: now with waivers out, send everyone who's not playing down. Or keep enough players scratched to fill any position.

I did this, but apparently you can't trust the AI to bring them back up when they're needed.

 

[Marvie_3]

Would be interesting to see who had the most man games lost to injury. I've gotta be up there, but had good depth for the most part (glad I didn't trade away guys like Ericsson and Larose for prospects).

Depth is the big thing I need to work on this offseason. Once my top guys started going down it was all over.

 

[Smiley90]

Depth is the big thing I need to work on this offseason. Once my top guys started going down it was all over.

Offseason will definitely be interesting. In normal GM mode you don't really have issues with depth since you usually get who you want and don't have "bad" contracts/players on your team, but now with everyone looking at free agents, it'll be interesting.

 

[Coldnoodle]

Look what I did D:

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/137420018

 

[Smiley90]

Mhm what I just realized. If one of us won't login/resign anyone, that team will lose all their UFA's and RFA's and free agency will have some crazy good players. And those teams will be screwed for the next few years. I hope everyone's active... :/

 

[Socreges]

Not to volunteer Marvie, but what if we send PMs to everyone to make sure they log in this weekend?

Also I just noticed that most of Dallas' players have huge salary cuts. Are most teams like that? My guys are all getting paid the real totals and even more in some cases.

Look what I did D:

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/137420018

dat MAF glove hand

 

[Marvie_3]

Not to volunteer Marvie, but what if we send PMs to everyone to make sure they log in this weekend?

I can send out PMs tomorrow.

 

[Smiley90]

Not to volunteer Marvie, but what if we send PMs to everyone to make sure they log in this weekend?

Also I just noticed that most of Dallas' players have huge salary cuts. Are most teams like that? My guys are all getting paid the real totals and even more in some cases.

dat MAF glove hand

You can't really compare "EA NHL salaries" and "real world salaries", the values are often all over the place. Say if you re-sign someone for 9 mio, we really can't say "OMFG OVERPAYMENT" because they got less in real life, but have to compare it to what other players are getting ingame.

As for salaries, no idea how some of mine compare to real life, but Karlsson is signed for 9.3 mio :lol

 

[Coldnoodle]

I wish there was a lockout feature.

 

[Marvie_3]

You can't really compare "EA NHL salaries" and "real world salaries", the values are often all over the place. Say if you re-sign someone for 9 mio, we really can't say "OMFG OVERPAYMENT" because they got less in real life, but have to compare it to what other players are getting ingame.

As for salaries, no idea how some of mine compare to real life, but Karlsson is signed for 9.3 mio :lol

Toews was asking for $12M+ in my offline GM mode.

Spoiler

I happily gave him the $12M <3

 

[Socreges]

You can't really compare "EA NHL salaries" and "real world salaries", the values are often all over the place. Say if you re-sign someone for 9 mio, we really can't say "OMFG OVERPAYMENT" because they got less in real life, but have to compare it to what other players are getting ingame.

As for salaries, no idea how some of mine compare to real life, but Karlsson is signed for 9.3 mio :lol

Yeah. But look at what I'm saying. Dallas players are virtually all at huge discounts. Even the younger guys. Meanwhile Stastny is making over $9m. There doesn't seem to be a a very good internal comparison, never mind to real life. I'm wondering if on most teams the salaries are lower or if many are higher.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Toews was asking for $12M+ in my offline GM mode.

Spoiler

I happily gave him the $12M <3

Dang it, they said they had fixed that with players asking for ridiculous amounts of money.

Oh EA :/

 

[Smiley90]

Dang it, they said they had fixed that with players asking for ridiculous amounts of money.

Oh EA :/

It's still EA also, D-men always ask for more money, for some reason. Also, that's exactly why I'm happy with more rounds, because if you give everyone what they ask for you'll be cap-screwed

 

[Marvie_3]

Dang it, they said they had fixed that with players asking for ridiculous amounts of money.

Oh EA :/

It's not ridiculous if he's worth every penny.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

It's not ridiculous if he's worth every penny.

Toews is not worth 12 million unless the cap hit is 80+

 

[Marvie_3]

Toews is not worth 12 million unless the cap hit is 80+

Cap is around $77M. He's worth it even if the cap is at $12M.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Cap is around $77M. He's worth it even if the cap is at $12M.

Marvie = best GM ever!!

Truthfully, he would probably do a better job in net than Crawford if he was your whole team for a 12M cap hit.

 

[Smiley90]

Will we see which AHL teams made the playoffs too once the season is over? So we know if it's worth it to send players down?

I don't even know who Columbus' farmteam is...

 

[wsoxfan1214]

Will we see which AHL teams made the playoffs too once the season is over? So we know if it's worth it to send players down?

I don't even know who Columbus' farmteam is...

Columbus isn't a farm team already?

 

[Smiley90]

Columbus isn't a farm team already?

You're confusing them with Philly.

 

[yodathesoda]

Just checking my contracts and my (LA's) prospects are dog shit. Lot of work to do.

 

[BigJonsson]

Gahhhhhhh

I went to the Jays game and they were playing NHL 13 music =/

 

[6for8]

Final sim before the playoffs. Detroit is out of reach so maybe its time to scratch some players to keep them healthy. Or maybe its time to post that I intend to scratch my players so Detroit scratches all their players and has a 0-5 week. Impossible but no other reason to keep my few 'stars' in the lineup. Looks like it will be Chicago in the 1st round and not sure if its worth losing my goalie trying to get an extra game at home.

If I scratch Perry, he won't have a chance to join the exclusive 30 in 82 club so I should keep him in the lineup.

Checking out my schedule and I have a game against Columbus who is shooting for the 8th spot. It would be poor form not to field a full team so its all hands on deck and we will bask in all the karma the team receives.

 

[Socreges]

Final sim before the playoffs. Detroit is out of reach so maybe its time to scratch some players to keep them healthy.

That'd be ballsy for four games.

Then again my remaining games are against Phoenix x2, Edmonton and some other team.

 

[Smiley90]

Just realized my last game of the season is... Against Minnesotta. Deciding game of who makes the playoffs is last game of the season, pretty much who wins it makes it. Awesome.

 

[Marvie_3]

Just realized my last game of the season is... Against Minnesotta. Deciding game of who makes the playoffs is last game of the season, pretty much who wins it makes it. Awesome.

Too bad there isn't a spectator mode. :lol

Gonna sim in a couple minutes.

 

[Smiley90]

Too bad there isn't a spectator mode. :lol

Gonna sim in a couple minutes.

I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for it. Gonna be interesting. 4 of my games are against playoff teams though :/

 

[Smiley90]

Oh also: since teams only have 1 week to respond to offer sheets, but sim periods are 2 weeks... Have you tested if that gives us a chance to respond?

 

[Smiley90]

DAMNIT MARVIE. Minnesotta beat my by 1 point. And I even won the season finale 3-0 but that wasn't enough. DAMNIT.

 

[Marvie_3]

Snuck into the playoffs by 1 point even though I lost to Smiley on the final day. Now I get Detroit in the 1st round. :/

 

[Milly79]

Rinne is out 1-2 weeks. Welp, time to throw in the hat.

 

[MacAttack]

Took the Northeast thanks to Montreal shitting the bed with a 2-6-2 record in the last 10 games.

Ill probably get bounced in round one since my top three right wingers (Selanne, Grabner, Stalberg) are injured. They could all be back for the Conference finals if I make it that far.

Hopefully we keep getting the whistles in our favor. Bruins lead the league in power play opportunities by 100 minutes and have the second least amount of short handed time.

 

[Red_Man]

Getzlaf out for the entire first round of the playoffs :| and Doan out for the majority of the playoffs if I make a deep run...

 

[BigJonsson]

I guess Pascal Dupuis was the one holding my Habs together!

The Hurricanes are going to get beat in 6

 

[Red_Man]

My 1st line is. Briere - Cammalleri - St. Louis

If this were real life, that line would win me the cup alone.

 

[Marvie_3]

My 1st line is. Briere - Cammalleri - St. Louis

If this were real life, that line would win me the cup alone.

Maybe in peewee hockey. If you stacked those 3 guys on top of each other they'd be about 9 feet tall.

 

[Socreges]

And I feel like the 2013 versions of those guys wouldn't be quite as potent.

4-0 to end the season. Very nice. Some highlights for my team..

NW division title
5th in GF, 3rd in GA, 2nd PP, 4th PK
Kulikov with 50 assists (5 G)
Great secondary scoring

Now to get bounced in 5 by LA.

[edit] ah fuck kulikov is injured too