Apparently I'm 2 million over the budget. My budget is 26 million, or 5 good free agents LOL. I'll have to use the EHM Assistant to sort this out.
Not surprised. It's not like Colombus had a lot of money at the start. It will go up eventually, especially if you start winning a bit.
In that database you can have the very good players at 2-3 millions, so start bargain binning
It actually sounds interesting, I think I'll try one of the expansion teams.
EDIT: I'll take the Jets as they are the worst team by far in my new game. In 2003-2004, they finished .
Nas 95pts 43-30-9 Best season 95 pts
Min 88 pts 39-33-10 Best season 88 pts
CBJ 61 pts 25-46-11 Best season 66 points
Jets 46 pts 19-55- 8 Best season 55 points
EDIT 2: Looks like the disease was too much for Lemieux in that game, he retired at game start. My budget is 19.39M. I'm at 11.25M for a 20-man roster. Will look for waiver claim as the pickings are very slim in FA after I signed everyone I could. Rafalski, Vishnovsky, Thomas and Vyborny coming next year.
EDIT 3: NYI pulled a weird move sending Tommy Salo to the Wild for 2 4th... Leaving them with a Coery Hirsch/Wade Flaherty duo.