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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:With the belated last picks, the Barons select Eddie Giacomin as our backup goalie. Giacomin was the most popular player in Rangers history up to Messier/Leetch/Hank, and a really good goalie that took them to a Cup finals. Was a Hall of Famer, Vezina winner, and his adjusted stats look really good. I picked Mohns with the 487th pick
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Kilza posted:Thank you to Boxc for making his final picks. Let's consensus these teams. I'll start by making a pick for Fits. Vladimir Krutov 1981-1985. He was fat, he was glorious, he definitely is one of the greatest hockey players of all-time. 
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JawKnee posted:I picked Mohns with the 487th pick gently caress. i'll take Jimmy Roberts instead: https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/r/roberji01.html similar guy to Mohns, was a really good defensive forward who played D a bunch too game to game and year to year
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T-Bone posted:Let's consensus these teams. kalensc suggests Serge Bernier for Technetium's scratch and that seems fine with me. He was one of the best in the WHA from 74-79.
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T-Bone posted:kalensc suggests Serge Bernier for Technetium's scratch and that seems fine with me. He was one of the best in the WHA from 74-79. let's also get Jamwad a d-man. How about Joe Watson 1973-1977, when he was one of the best d-men on the Broad Street Bullies. quote:In the infamous 1976 game against the Soviet Red Army team, Watson, a defenceman and not a big scorer, scored a shorthanded goal against the great Vladislav Tretiak, causing Flyers coach Fred Shero to joke that Watson had "set Russian hockey back 25 years". We'll also give him Anton Stralman 2012-2017, who we all know plenty about.
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Oh and because he quit he gets a Canadiens coach. Jacques Demers who couldn't read but sure could coach. That's it for me for tonight. If anyone else wants to jump in feel free. quote:Remaining picks: T-Bone fucked around with this message at 08:11 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 08:06
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Dunno who needs 'em but: Ulf Nilsson Pelle Lindberg Sergei Mozyakin Vadim Shipachev (lol) Kirill Kaprizov
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Maybe it got missed but Bob Bourne and Paul Holmgren were excellent players who have not been picked, also Pete Peeters had some great seasons as a G
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Bob Froese had some fantastic years with the Flyers in the 80's as well if someone needs another goalie. If Sami Kapanen is available he's worth a look too.
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May 6, 2020 22:05
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Also Boris and Dmitri Mironov were good defensemen
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May 6, 2020 23:54
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As punishment for leaving, somebody should be burdened with Brendan Leipsic
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Alright, incorporating your posts here: Jamwad Hilder: Ulf Nilsson, Sami Kapanen, Boris Mironov fits: Bob Bourne, Brian Engblom Tech: Ed Van Impe T-Bone fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 7, 2020 |
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Moving forward, like I said I'm going to explore how hard this would be to simulate in EHM. I'd still like to post my thoughts on each team, but I'm going to work on that first. If it's doable I'll probably make a new thread.
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Alright, now that the final picks are in, it's thoughts time on my team (which I had written up for over a week but w/e), which had no gimmick and was purely "pick the best team possible": Bucyk - McDavid - St. Louis Tanguay - Savard - Paiement Smyth - Toews - Backes Neal - Cirelli - Smyl Schultz, Sullivan Pronger - Subban Sydor - Klingberg Smith - McAvoy Korab Sawchuk Vasilevskiy Coach: Jon Cooper First, the forwards. Man, while I do like a bunch of my forwards individually, collectively it doesn't feel like I've given them a good enough identity and they don't feel as cohesive as I would like. I put a bit too much emphasis on their individual performances, rather than how they might work in a given role within a team. I do kinda wish I had made a couple of forward picks differently to focus more on the cohesive/team aspect of things, but oh well. When you've got McDavid, who will end up being one of the top 5 players to ever play in the NHL, and supplement him with other offensive talent, and also add in some really solid defensive forwards to your bottom 6, and include Dave Schultz as a deterrent for the meaner opponents (possibly playing shotgun with McDavid like Semenko and McSorley did with Gretzky), you will be able to take anybody on. The defense. It owns. They're all able to move the puck and put up points and also play very well defensively. The left-hand side especially is more nasty and in your face (well, maybe not Sydor as much as Pronger/Smith/Korab, but that's okay). I feel like any of the offenses picked in this draft would have a hard time trying to get through them. Pronger especially, who is the lynchpin to my whole D. Definitely one of the best D in the entire draft. The goaltending. Love it. Sawchuk is unquestionably the best pre-67 goalie, and arguably still one of the top 5 goalies ever to play the game. While goaltending has obviously changed since he played, there's no real worry of him not being able to perform with the best of them in my mind. As for Vasy, really solid back-up. One of the best goalies in today's game and easily able to steal games on his own. I honestly think they're the best tandem that was drafted. Lastly, the coach. Cooper loving owns. Obviously this has been my first season watching all of Tampa's games (rather than just the games being broadcast nationally here and there), so I have seen first hand how he's adjusted things and managed to get the Bolts players to buy in to a more team-focused, tougher, playoff style mentality, rather than having them just run-and-gun all their opponents. I've given him the tools he needs to help this team achieve greatness. Overall, idk. I'd give it a solid A/A-. Defense and goaltending are both A+, coach is an A, forwards are more in the B+ range and drag things down. But I definitely feel like they could win the Cup.
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Can we arbitrarily name members of the hockey ops and coaching staff even though they'll have no impact on the simulation? POHOP: John Davidson.  I don't know where the real CBJ would be today without him. I don't want to (shudders violently). JD was hired at the suggestion of then-GM Scott Howson when the team was at rock bottom and JD, with his track record of turning the Blues into a contender, instantly gave hope of turning things around (his predecessor was Mike Priest, who had lots of business experience but was apparently clueless at hockey development). JD, in an ironic twist, did what nobody else had the stones to and fired Howson, bringing in a GM who promptly did what nobody else had the stones to and jettisoned Steve Mason. JD fulfilled the hopes the fanbase had for him and, even though he bailed last offseason for the one job for which he had an out clause in his contract, the rise out of the basement since 2012 for the CBJ was his doing. Assistant Coaches Peter Laviolette (forwards)  You have the winningest American head coach in NHL history, so why not bring in the guy who was nipping at his heels until he was fired because  Preds as a wingman? He's taken three teams to the SCF, winning with the Canes and losing with Philly and Nashville and is fairly consistently good at getting teams somewhat deep into the playoffs and that's good enough for me. I was surprised to find he didn't have a Jack Adams (he lost by 1 vote in 2006 to Lindy Ruff). Lavi has experience with Ray Whitney, Justin Williams, and Mark Recchi. He also has fire, aimed at both players and officials, and we like that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHn3ciJxiY&t=27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfO6lY9ngM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBsTrPO0p0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2h1kcJ8PA Brad Shaw (defensemen)  Brad Shaw had been on Torts' wish list dating clear back to his days with the Lightning and, after he was dumped by the Blues, the two finally joined forces. Shaw has a track record of taking his defensive pairs out to nice dinners before the season to learn more about them both as players and people, which makes him seem like a solid dude and the team's performance with him in town speaks for itself. Dave Tippett (special teams)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6BB5sjPtk Remember those fun years when the Coyotes were dangerous in the West and would've gotten to a SCF if not for the fuckin' Kings? Dave Tippett was running the show then and, along with Hitch and Lavi, were on my short list for head coaches if I didn't get Torts, because we like dudes who win trophies based upon one outstanding season on top of a career of lots of other pretty good ones. We also like dudes who will chirp at officials for their ineptitude, and photographic evidence exists of him doing this. Can Dave run a PP and PK? We're about to find out!
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Guess I'll toss my two cents in on my team as well. Let's start with the forwards:quote:Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron Personally, I think this is a fantastic forward group. The Crosby line was amazing at the World Cup of Hockey and I have no doubt they'd be able to carry that over into the NHL. Those three have proven chemistry with Crosby and Bergeron having played together in the World Juniors + World Cup. Crosby and Marchand also train together in the summer. All three of these guys think the game the same way and love to do little give-and-gos and creative plays and all work hard on both sides of the puck. The Malkin line is amusing. I do worry that these three might go over the edge emotionally more often than I'd like but the combination of skill and meanness is undeniable. This line is arguably more talented than my first line. Lindsay had tons of skill to go along with his competiveness. Tkachuk is already proving himself one of the top scorers in the world and is a huge piece of poo poo to go along with that. Malkin is everything you'd want in a center. Big, skilled, mean. This line would piss off the NHL to no end and would also be a joy to watch. The Jordan Staal line is a good combination of two-way play and offense. I think this line would be a reliable checking line. All three of these guys can play on both sides of the puck. My team also has so many shitheads that Milan Lucic is a much needed regular in the lineup to go beat the gently caress out of anyone that fights back. When people think of Lucic they probably think of recent Lucic who has declined heavily but in his prime he was a force who could play physically, score, and drop the gloves. My fourth line has three guys who can kill penalties and also provide offense. All three of them also possess the skill to move up the lineup if injuries happen. For my scratches, Hertl provides instant offense and two-way play anywhere I plug him in, and Laraques is there if Lucic needs backup. quote:Wilson-Desjardins Defensively, I went for a mix of skill and grit (sensing a theme with my team yet?). Wilson and Desjardins are all minute guys who provide valuable puck moving to get the puck up to my skilled forwards. Hatcher and Kasatanov are more defensive, and will help kill penalties and handle tough forward matchups. Dahlin and Stackhouse is an offensively oriented third pair and I would most likely deploy them primarily in offensive situations to get offense when needed. Both can help man the second PP as well. Dumoulin is an excellent minute eater and defensive guy that I can plug in if any of my guys are struggling or injured. quote:Gibson Gibson is one of the best goalies in the world currently and gets less attention than he deserves because he plays for a garbage team. Andy Moog flashed a lot of talent throughout his career and is capable of starting a lot of games if I ever need him to. quote:Coach Sullivan Sully is the perfect coach for my team. My team can skate and would love to play the type of north/south hockey that Sully loves. Sullivan is also an excellent guy at disciplining his teams and keeping them focused. I have a LOT of shitheads and pesky players on my team. They would need a strong presence to not have this team go off the rails and lose focus on and off the ice. Crosby commands a lot of respect in the locker room and would be able to help with that, and Sully is the perfect guy behind the bench to further keep my team focused. Overall I'm pretty happy with how my team ended up. I maybe would have liked to have gotten a stronger defense than I did, but I made some sacrifices there in order to get the amazing top six I have.
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Kilza posted:Overall, idk. I'd give it a solid A/A-. Defense and goaltending are both A+, coach is an A, forwards are more in the B+ range and drag things down. But I definitely feel like they could win the Cup. I'd agree with your assessment. I like you forward group a lot individually but I'm not sure what type of cohesiveness there would be there. But maybe it would work on sheer talent? Your defense owns. Pronger-Subban would be devastating to play against. And you have the goaltending to backup that d.
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 bow before my infinite power T-Bone fucked around with this message at 06:21 on May 9, 2020 |
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Dude yes, more
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I'm doing it big, custom logos, portraits, names, arenas gonna take a while but it will look loving sick props to Ergo for walking me through stuff
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Nice work. Looking forward to it.
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We honour you, king
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Here are what the divisions ended up being. I can't edit the names (I don't think anyway) without loving up some poo poo in the database, so we'll stick with the modern nomenclatures. Atlantic Boston Bruins Toronto Hockey Club Quebec Bulldogs Ottawa Hockey Club Montreal Canadiens Montreal Maroons Hartford Whalers Quebec Nordiques Metropolitan Philadelphia Flyers New Jersey Devils Atlanta Thrashers Pittsburgh Penguins New York Rangers Florida Panthers Tampa Bay Lightning Buffalo Sabres Central Minnesota North Stars Detroit Cougars Colorado Avalanche St. Louis Blues Kansas City Scouts Cleveland Barons Columbus Blue Jackets Chicago Blackhawks Pacific Seattle Metropolitans Edmonton Oilers Los Angeles Kings Vancouver Millionaires Calgary Flames Anaheim Mighty Ducks California Golden Seals Colorado Rockies We were kind of short a Pacific team so I moved one of the Colorado teams to the Pacific. A few more teams (the players are just random generated dudes, I'm focusing on creating the custom teams and structure right now):      
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May 11, 2020 05:40
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pito zombo
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also if you fucks want to post your Captains and Assistant Captains when I get to the players I'll try to make that happen
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Captain: Lidstrom Alternates: Ratelle, Armstrong Shore doesn't get an official leadership role so he won't feel any pressure to keep those elbows down.
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Captain: Vic Hedman Alternate: Peter Stastny, Sergei Gonchar
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C: Bobby Clarke A: Red Kelly, Carl Brewer I like having D with letters. Kelly is an obvious choice, Brewer not as much. I picked him because he's older than most of my team and has a different perspective on hockey. Plus guys I would have otherwise chosen like Gainey, Carbonneau, and ROR will get respect from the team and refs regardless of the letter.
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Captain: Bobby fuckin Orr AC: Scott fuckin Stevens and Brian fuckin Leetch Hakan Loob (69) - Kent Nilsson (69) - Anders Hedburg (69) Terry O’Reilly (69) - Ryan Getzlaf (69) - Dale Hunter (69) Brian Bellows (69) - Guy Chouinard (69) - Ron Duguay (69) Petr Klima (69) - Dave Poulin (69) - Petri Skriko (69) Johan Franzen (00) / Tim Hunter (01) Bobby Orr (420) - Scott Stevens (69) Brian Leetch (69) - Darius Kasparitus (69) Gary Suter (69) - Bill Quackenbush (69) Jimmy Watson (70) Miikka Kiprusoff (69) Bill Ranford (69) mennoknight fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 11, 2020 |
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May 11, 2020 14:26
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C: Fuckin Mess A: Mikita, Langway
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T-Bone posted:also if you fucks want to post your Captains and Assistant Captains when I get to the players I'll try to make that happen Captain: Maurice Richard A: Henri richard, yvan cournoyer
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I’m super tempted to make John Scott my captain. St Louis Blues Captain: Wickenheiser A: Poulin and Oshie
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C: Yzerman  A: Gionta  , Ohlund  e: lines & numbers Moore(#12) - Yzerman(#19) - Makarov(#42) Unger(#15) - Oates(#77) - Leach(#7) Amonte(#10) - MacKinnon(#29) - Gionta(#21) Thomas(#32) - Mondou(#6) - Simmonds(#17) EX: Ehlers(#27)/Avery(#16) Ozolinsh(#24) - Ekblad (#5) Ekholm(#14) - Shattenkirk (#22) Ohlund(#2) - Trouba(#8) EX: Fogolin(#20) Vokoun(#92) Osgood(#30) e2: special teams PP1: Thomas-Yzerman-Makarov-Ozolinsh-MacKinnon PP2: Moore-Oates-Leach-Unger-Shattenkirk PK1: Mondou-MacKinnon-Ohlund-Ekblad PK2: Yzerman-Gionta-Ekholm-Trouba Teemu Pokemon fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 11, 2020 |
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C: Harvey A: Robinson, Geoffrion Just wanted an all-Canadiens captaincy.
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C: McDavid A: Pronger, Toews You know I had to. Homerism shall prevail.
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T-Bone posted:also if you fucks want to post your Captains and Assistant Captains when I get to the players I'll try to make that happen Is it the traditional 1 C/2 A or can you designate more than that? To start, gimme: C: Vinny Prospal A: Sergei Fedorov A: Duncan Keith This is on my tab in the Google Doc, but 53 Gaudreau-34 Matthews-91 Fedorov (A) 22 Prospal (C)-4 Lecavalier-8 Recchi 14 Whitney-19 Tavares-11 Williams 27 Hornqvist- 92 Kuznetsov-13 Atkinson 17 Dubinsky, 24 Gerbe 2 Keith (A)-7 Seabrook 15 Kaberle-74 Carlson 55 Kronwall-94 Barrie 3 Bieksa 30 Brodeur 1 Bobrovsky HC: Tortorella AC: Laviolette, Shaw, Tippett You are a god among Goons. If the players get pissy about not getting "their" number, let me know and I'll come up with another. I'm torn between 1 and 72 for Bob and 22 and 20 for Vinny.
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Anatoli Firsov (#11) - Jean Ratelle (#19) - Bernie Nicholls (#9) Pierre Turgeon (#77) - Jack Eichel (#15) - Jeremy Roenick (#27) Steve Vickers (#8) - Alexei Zhamnov (#13) - Sebastien Aho (#20) Dick Duff (#7) - Darcy Tucker (#16) - George Armstrong (#10) Gino Odjick (#29) - Michael Nylander (#92) Nicklas Lidstrom (#5) - Fredrik Olausson (#3) Kevin Lowe (#4) - Eddie Shore (#2) Zach Werenski (#8) - Bob Murray (#6) Harold Snepsts (#27) Johnny Bower (#1) Arturs Irbe (#32)
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Some more teams as you go about your dreadful hockeyless days:     CBJSprague24 posted:Is it the traditional 1 C/2 A or can you designate more than that? To start, gimme: If people get hurt you can designate more I think? 3 should be enough though. and just some fun other stuff I've done:    
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Captain: Olli Jokinen, obviously Assistants: Jay Bouwmeester (most prevalent Olli teammate), Butch Goring (because a coach is kinda like an assistant captain)
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T-Bone posted:If people get hurt you can designate more I think? 3 should be enough though. Sweet. What happens if there are more injuries than extra players? Do we get to add a free agent?
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