NHL 13 Dynasty Thread (Part 4)

[OttawaOilers]

God is this sim engine f***ing s**t. How the h*ell do I go from Stanley Cup Finals to starting out the first 20 games, below 500. I just keep telling myself Stanley Cup Hangover(Even though we didn't win it) but this is a game. FFS...

 

[OttawaOilers]

Crosby with 41 points in 49 games. This game is astonishing and atrocious............

 

[OttawaOilers]

Ok, what in the Hell kinda Schedule is this:

LOLOL...... I mean I've seen 3-4 in a row and I've heard of a 6 game Home Stand but this tops them all, LOL.

 

[jnk96]

Glad to help Out of curiosity, which prospects did you make?

As yet only myself (who is the default create a player guy) to try it out. After the update I'll start creating a few 2015 prospects (especially Nick Merkley) and probably also Sean Day whose draft year will also be 2015 then.

 

[The Reaper]

Ok, what in the Hell kinda Schedule is this:

LOLOL...... I mean I've seen 3-4 in a row and I've heard of a 6 game Home Stand but this tops them all, LOL.

Greatest Schedule ever

 

[The Reaper]

Got a question

In my GM mode, I'm currently scouting Defenseman Charles Gardiner, is he any good as Jake?

 

[FlyingSkate]

Ottawa Senators - 54

SENATORS SCORING BY COMMITTEE
December 1, 2015

Logan Couture flourishes as the Sharks #1 guy, and second-time Sharks captain Patrick Marleau is reaping the benefits

Opening Night Recap (Ottawa vs Montreal)
Jared Cowen tripped Quebec-native Antoine Vermette late in the period, leaving the Sens a man down. It made no difference for Mika Zibanejad, who shot the puck over Carey Price's shoulder.

But Montreal replied with the man advantage. After losing his helmet to a hit by Marc Staal, Swede Sebastian Collberg gathered the puck off a rebound. He then snapped it past a recovering Robin Lehner, with 7.9s left in the 1st.
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In the second, rookie Canadien Anthony DeAngelo sprung offseason signing Drew Stafford, who was tripped up by hometown defenceman Cody Ceci. However, the former Sabre was stopped by Lehner's outstretched pads.
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The third period was an exciting one, and it started as soon as the puck dropped.

On the opening faceoff, Jason Spezza tied up Tomas Plekanec, leaving the puck for Phil Kessel. The sniper beat 3 Hab skaters, as well as Price. He deked with the forehand-backhand, sneaking the puck just inside the post.

Less than 4 minutes later, Kyle Turris held a clinic on puck possession, maintaining control in the offensive zone for well over a minute, evading yet another 3 skaters. A wrister in the high slot beat a screened Price on the glove side.

Coach Paul MacLean invested a lot of trust in his fourth line, sending out Daugavins-Smith-Stone with 2 minutes left, and they were able to keep the puck in the Montreal zone.

After the Canadiens iced the puck, faceoff specialist Frederik Gauthier won it back to Cowen, who was knocked down by Stafford. Gauthier scrambled from the front of the net to beat Stafford to the puck, and quickly put the puck on goal, this time over Price's blocker to secure the win with 25.4 seconds left.

Therrien pulled Price, and when the Canadiens lost the puck behind Ottawa's net, Karlsson dished it to an open Kessel, who made no mistake.

Box Score

Period | Time | Goal | Assist | Assist
1st|18:55|(SH) M Zibanejad|-|-
|19:53|(PP) S Collberg|T Plekanec|P Subban
2nd|--:--|-|-|-
3rd|0:29|P Kessel|-|-
|4:22|K Turris|N Filatov|M Staal
|16:01|B Gionta|S Collberg|D Murray
|19:35|F Gauthier|J Cowen|-
|19:48|P Kessel|E Karlsson|-

Three Stars
First: Phil Kessel - 2G, 0A, 2P, 3H, 5S, +2
Second: Kyle Turris - 1G, 0A, 1P, 1H, 3S, Even
Third: Frederik Gauthier - 1G, 0A, 1P, 1H, 2S, +2

NOTABLE EVENTS
-Ottawa opened the season with an 8-game homestand, going 5 and 3
-they later had 7 games in a span of 9 days, winning just 4 of them


STAT LINE

Category | Ottawa | League
Record|22-16-3 (47 pts)|PHI 26-10-2 (54 pts)
Division|1st|ATL 1st
Conference|3rd|EAS 1st
League|9th|NHL 1st
Goals|Kyle Turris (13)|Jonathan Huberdeau (26)
Assists|Phil Kessel (21)|Logan Couture (37)
Points|Phil Kessel (33)|Logan Couture (54)
PIMs|Marc Staal (66)|Keegan Lowe (110)
+/-|J Iginla & F Gauthier (+10)|Ryan McDonagh (+26)
Shots|Phil Kessel (142)|Daniel Sedin (175)
Hits|Marc Staal (140)|R Suter & D Girardi (168)

Ottawa Goaltending Statistics

Player | GP | W-L-OTL-SOL | GAA | SV% | Saves | SO | Minutes | Assists
Robin Lehner|26|12-11-2-1|2.39|91.65%|648|1|1,480|0
Josh Harding|10|7-2-0-0|2.08|93.08%|269|0|577|1
Craig Anderson|7|3-3-0-0|3.09|91.10%|215|0|408|0

Rumours
-Ottawa is expected to move one of their goalies, and it looks to be Craig Anderson, who's back-up job was stolen by former Wild goalie Josh Harding
-the Sens are reportedly packaging one or more forward prospects, most likely from the AHL, with the Anderson trade
-possible buyers include the Anaheim Ducks (starter: J Gibson), Calgary Flames (L Irving), New Jersey Devils (J Hudacek), or Anderson's hometown Chicago Blackhawks (C Crawford)
-Senators fans are frustrated with MacLean's seemingly concrete line-ups, as Milan Michalek's (1st line) scoring has plummeted this year, being outproduced by Jarome Iginla (3rd line) and rookie Mark Stone (4th line)

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Up Next: All-Star Game Recap
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[FlyingSkate]

Ok, what in the Hell kinda Schedule is this:

LOLOL...... I mean I've seen 3-4 in a row and I've heard of a 6 game Home Stand but this tops them all, LOL.

Wow, no game on Sunday? Bunch of slackers

Got a question

In my GM mode, I'm currently scouting Defenseman Charles Gardiner, is he any good as Jake?

If he's a generated (not real) player, nobody else knows because the gens are random for everyone. If you're really interested, keep track of his projected round, amount & colour of potential stars, and keep scouting him to get more accurate individual player ratings.

 

[The Reaper]

Ah thanks will do

Springfield makes some more moves

Free Agency
Jared Knight - 2 Years
David Drewiske - 3 Years
Eric Gryba - 2 Years

Waivers
Claimed Craig Rivet from Nashville

Trade
To Nashville - Shawn Thornton

To Springfield - Jake Allen

Needed some more depth for goalies and thought Jake Allen can back up Lehner with the Wolves

Gabriel Bourque called up, will play with Brent and Gaustad on 4th line

 

[McDavidsLulaInMyBund]

In my third offseason The Sedin twins left Vancouver to join Kovalchuk in NJ. I'm the Oilers BTW

 

[Tak7]

Got a question

In my GM mode, I'm currently scouting Defenseman Charles Gardiner, is he any good as Jake?

What draft year are you ?

Outside of the first few years, everyone's drafts will be different.

Keep in mind that outside of the first two or three drafts, all the names that come up in the draft are regenerated players who have names that the game's database just rolls over from already used names.

Ie. Matt Crosby, Taylor Ovechkin, Aleksei Stamkos.

I don't recall a Gardiner ever coming good in the first few drafts, but if you are a few years into your GM, and he's a regenerated player, who knows.

 

[Tak7]

In my third offseason The Sedin twins left Vancouver to join Kovalchuk in NJ. I'm the Oilers BTW

It's some sort of glitch with Vancouver.

They have tons of cap space heading into that summer, but NEVER re-sign them. They never even attempt to sign one of them.

In one of my save-games, I actually signed both of them as free agents, and then traded them back to Vancouver as green "skaters matching trade block", so who knows what the deal is.

But they almost always leave Vancouver. I don't think I've played a single GM mode where they both sign in Vancouver. 99% of the time they are both left to free agency

 

[Tak7]

God is this sim engine f***ing s**t. How the h*ell do I go from Stanley Cup Finals to starting out the first 20 games, below 500. I just keep telling myself Stanley Cup Hangover(Even though we didn't win it) but this is a game. FFS...

How are you losing games?

It's not that hard at all to figure out what your team lacks or is struggling with.

 

[Tak7]

Has anyone drafted Seth Jones?

He's a 4.5 green star prospect that I drafted 1st overall.

But, he's 23 years old, and is only 68 overall despite playing top minutes on my AHL team for the past 4 seasons.

At this rate, he won't reach mid to high 70 overall until he's 25, which is bonkers for a 1st overall, 4.5 green star potential player.

 

[OttawaOilers]

How are you losing games?

It's not that hard at all to figure out what your team lacks or is struggling with.

I wasn't lacking anything, lol. My Offence was 5 stars and I know what my team was, the sim was just garbage.

Has anyone drafted Seth Jones?

He's a 4.5 green star prospect that I drafted 1st overall.

But, he's 23 years old, and is only 68 overall despite playing top minutes on my AHL team for the past 4 seasons.

At this rate, he won't reach mid to high 70 overall until he's 25, which is bonkers for a 1st overall, 4.5 green star potential player.

I did in my old Pittsburgh GM. I remember him jumping up to 84 Overall in year 3 I think.

 

[Giggling Goose]

Started a new Calgary "what salary cap?!" Flames dynasty while ago. Firesale broke lose and M. Backlund was the best player not traded away.

It's the beginning of the 2020-2021 season and the lines are nothing short of superstacked.

H. Shinkaruk (87) - J. Drouin (86) - S. Grucincev (86)
A. Mantha (86) - A. Galchenyuk (88) - A. Moser (83)
S. Baertchi (86) - J. Voracek (85) - J. Armia (84)
M. Wahl (81) - Z. Girgesons (83) -O. Howden (83)

M. Bowey (84) - S. Jones (94)
P. Sieloff (83) - R. Pulock (84)
J. Brodin (81) - A. Ekblad (81)

M. Niederberger (88)
J. Da Silva (82)

Most of my prospects developed very slowly. For example it took Seth Jones six seasons or so to hit 80+ overall and next year he jumped to 94. Now those top prospects are 24-26 years old and they've barely cracked 80+ overall despite having 4*/4,5* yellow stars potential. Oh well, it's not like they'd fit in the NHL team any time soon.

Notable prospects

M. Klimchuk (80)
A. Duclair (79)
P. Johansen (79) 2020 draft 3rd pick
J. Ho-Sang (80)
K. Rychel (79)
O. Maatta (80)
G. Reinhart (76)

 

[The Reaper]

What draft year are you ?

Outside of the first few years, everyone's drafts will be different.

Keep in mind that outside of the first two or three drafts, all the names that come up in the draft are regenerated players who have names that the game's database just rolls over from already used names.

Ie. Matt Crosby, Taylor Ovechkin, Aleksei Stamkos.

I don't recall a Gardiner ever coming good in the first few drafts, but if you are a few years into your GM, and he's a regenerated player, who knows.

I'm in the 2012/2013 season

 

[Deku]

I wasn't lacking anything, lol. My Offence was 5 stars and I know what my team was, the sim was just garbage.

Strategies can help a lot. Try changing them. For example if your powerplay is struggling, and you have good players on it, try a different powerplay strategy. Once I realized that my team was getting scored on a lot, so I checked the strategies for my defensive pairings. All of them were set to 50% or higher pinching, so I lowered it and we let in less goals.

 

[SatanwasaSlovak]

Buffalo Sabres
Season 2012/13

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The moment i saw Buffalo beginning their firesale i wanted the Roster Update, now it's here and it's rebuilding time!

No real restrictions as i want to do what i want to do, i'll start out slow though to see what happens with ze team.

Here is the lineup of the 2012/13:

Thomas Vanek (SNP 84, C)|Cody Hodgson (PLY 78)|Drew Stafford (TWF 83)
Ville Leino (TWF 81)|Tyler Ennis (SNP 77)|Steve Ott (GRN 80, VC)
Marcus Foligno (PWF 73)|Luke Adam (TWF 76)|Nathan Gerbe (PLY 76)
Jochen Hecht (TWF 77)|Kevin Porter (TWF 76)|Patrick Kaleta (GRN 72)
Reserves:|John Scott (Goon? 65)|Brian Flynn (PLY 69)

Christian Erhoff (OFD 83)|Tyler Myers (TWD 87)
Andrej Sekera (DFD 82)|Mike Weber (DFD 76, VC)
Alexander Sulzer (TWD 75)|Brayden McNabb (TWD 75)
Reserve:|Adam Pardy (DFD 73)

Ryan Miller (HYB 92)
Matt Hackett (HYB 71)

I will keep the updates to a minimun aka a summary of the season and then a introduction of the next season. Trades will be included there and i think there will be some this year as i haven't got the draft-picks the Sabres is supposed to have.

One change: Montreal wanted Jhonas Enroth and i gave him up for Calgarys second round pick 2013 and Montreal's third round pick 2013. Hackett promoted to back-up NHL-goalkeeper.

 

[Tak7]

I wasn't lacking anything, lol. My Offence was 5 stars and I know what my team was, the sim was just garbage.

That's not what I meant. I mean, how are you losing games?

Not scoring enough?

Not keeping the puck out?

Special teams sucks?

Not getting good enough goaltending?

There's always a reason why your team is losing games - find out what it is, address it, and your team will start winning games. Simple. The sim isn't garbage; you just need to be able to look a bit deeper into the game and figure out what the issue is.

 

[Tak7]

I'm in the 2012/2013 season

Chances are he doesn't develop into anything special, although the game may sneak a few re-gens into the early draft as well.

Do your due diligence with scouting, and see where he ranks. My guess is he doesn't turn into anything special. I don't remember any Gardiner other than Jake being prominent, and I've done about 8 or 9 different GMs several decades deep in NHL 13.

 

[Tak7]

I did in my old Pittsburgh GM. I remember him jumping up to 84 Overall in year 3 I think.

How did you use him in the early years?

Did he play on your NHL team?

I have him in the AHL and am heading into year 4; he's played top minutes at that level, and truth be told that's the only level he should be playing - a 60 something overall Dman isn't good enough to be on my NHL team.

 

[SatanwasaSlovak]

Sabres have a firesale​

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After a horrible start of the season with several losses and few wins, the Sabres decided to turn things around and start ahead in getting some first-round picks.

There were many rumors around the league but it finally came down to three major trades.

First of Vancouver offered Kevin Porter for winger David Booth. But we wanted high-round picks and that Vancouver didn't agree with so we had to throw in Nathan Gerbe as Vancouver let Maxim Lapierre go the other way because of Cap and roster-space. We got Vancouver's first 2013 and 2014 as they got Calgary's 2-round pick and Montreal's 3-round pick which we had before.

Then St.Louis wanted to deal with us. It was underachiever Drew Stafford who was the target. Together with unsigned prospects Colin Jacobs and Logan Nelson we got ourselves Jamie Langenbrunner because of cap and roster-space aswell as St.Louis first round picks in 2013 & 2014.

Finally the Devils called for Ville Leino. Together with veteran Jochen Hecht and unsigned prospect Steven Shipley they were exchanged for the talented veteran Patrik Elias, powerforward Steve Bernier and 2014 first round pick.

So the ideal team without injuries will look like this:

Thomas Vanek (SNP 84, C)|Cody Hodgson (PLY 78)|David Booth (PWF 84)
Patrik Elias (SNP 82)|Tyler Ennis (SNP 77)|Steve Ott (GRN 80, VC)
Marcus Foligno (PWF 73)|Luke Adam (TWF 76)|Jamie Langenbrunner (TWF 79)
Steve Bernier (PWF 74)|Maxim Lapierre (GRN 78)|Patrick Kaleta (GRN 72)
Reserves:|John Scott (Goon? 65)|Brian Flynn (PLY 69)

Christian Erhoff (OFD 83)|Tyler Myers (TWD 87)
Andrej Sekera (DFD 82)|Mike Weber (DFD 76, VC)
Alexander Sulzer (TWD 75)|Brayden McNabb (TWD 75)
Reserve:|Adam Pardy (DFD 73)

Ryan Miller (HYB 92)
Matt Hackett (HYB 71)

We have no real playoff-chances with this team but we have been able to stack up some picks in the coming drafts and we'll probably let some of the new aquirements go after this season.

 

[molsonmuscle360]

Has anyone drafted Seth Jones?

He's a 4.5 green star prospect that I drafted 1st overall.

But, he's 23 years old, and is only 68 overall despite playing top minutes on my AHL team for the past 4 seasons.

At this rate, he won't reach mid to high 70 overall until he's 25, which is bonkers for a 1st overall, 4.5 green star potential player.

Just landed him cuz some teams went crazy with offers to me during the trade deadline in my first season. Had Tampa offer me their first for Omark and Peckham and a 2nd also had New Jersey offer me their first for Whitney. They ended up being the worst two teams in the league at the end of the year. So I got both Mackinnon and Jones. I'm going to play them in the NHL right away to get their stats going.

 

[n00bxQb]

BLUE JACKETS CLINCH PLAYOFF BERTH WITH OT LOSS VS. DEVILS
April 2, 2017

Despite the recent struggles, the Blue Jackets clinched their second consecutive playoff appearance with an overtime loss against New Jersey last night. As expected, it was a goaltending duel between sensational rookie netminder Nikolai Goncharov and Columbus' Sergei Bobrovsky, each making in excess of 30 saves that resulted in a final score of 2-1.

Columbus opened the scoring with a powerplay goal from Jonathan Audy-Marchessault, who sniped his 21st of the year with a shot under the blocker of Goncharov. The Devils would tie the game up mid-way through the second period with a garbage goal from David Clarkson, banging home a loose puck in the crease for his 12th of the season. The third period was filled with scoring chances, but both goaltenders showed why they're considered amongst the best in the league, denying all shots on goal.

In overtime, Columbus gave up a 2-on-1 with Kovalchuk streaking down the right side. With the Columbus defender taking away the pass, Kovalchuk placed a hard wrister off Bobrovsky's far pad, which rebounded right onto Gustav Nyquist's stick for an easy game-winning goal.

Columbus is now 2-2-6 over their last 10 and 13-13-9 since the halfway point of the season, which is cause for concern heading into the playoffs. Despite the mediocre play, Columbus is still likely to win their division and likely to have a top 2 seed in the Western Conference when the playoffs start in a couple of weeks.

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