JumboThornton92
Registered User
Looking for everyone to post whats works for them. I'll start off. Some of this might be common knowledge and if anyone has better ways of doing the things I mentioned let me know!
GM Upgrades. I usually try to get Assistant Coach up the fastest and balance the other 3.
Trade for the prospects and young guns I want in year 1 while they're trade value is still low.
In free agency. If you see a couple RFA's you like, look at the Cap Space of their teams and see which one has the lowest = Least Likely to match.
I make sure my AHL teams are good enough to make the playoffs/win calder cup so that my prospects get their experience and don't lose potential. If I have an early NHL playoff exit I send my lower guys down.
Coaching strategys do matter, and I want to score a lot of goals. My offence usually goes something like Full Attack, Overload, Overload, Crash The Bench, Crash The Bench and for PP Overload. Defence I can't remember off the top of my head but my good teams let in less than 190 goals per year sometimes in the 170s.
If you see those weiners that you didn't sign but take up spot on your AHL team, instead of signing them and trading (then free agents won't want to sign with you). See if you can sign then to a 1 Way deal and bring them up to the NHL team to drop them to see if they get claimed (Might not work for every player but works for some).
Obvious one is that players will take less money and sign for more years then what they are looking for.
Sign Granlund (Not sure why Minnesota lets him go every year, wish I could fix this actually for more realism but it is just a video game)
GM Upgrades. I usually try to get Assistant Coach up the fastest and balance the other 3.
Trade for the prospects and young guns I want in year 1 while they're trade value is still low.
In free agency. If you see a couple RFA's you like, look at the Cap Space of their teams and see which one has the lowest = Least Likely to match.
I make sure my AHL teams are good enough to make the playoffs/win calder cup so that my prospects get their experience and don't lose potential. If I have an early NHL playoff exit I send my lower guys down.
Coaching strategys do matter, and I want to score a lot of goals. My offence usually goes something like Full Attack, Overload, Overload, Crash The Bench, Crash The Bench and for PP Overload. Defence I can't remember off the top of my head but my good teams let in less than 190 goals per year sometimes in the 170s.
If you see those weiners that you didn't sign but take up spot on your AHL team, instead of signing them and trading (then free agents won't want to sign with you). See if you can sign then to a 1 Way deal and bring them up to the NHL team to drop them to see if they get claimed (Might not work for every player but works for some).
Obvious one is that players will take less money and sign for more years then what they are looking for.
Sign Granlund (Not sure why Minnesota lets him go every year, wish I could fix this actually for more realism but it is just a video game)