Tried a couple simmed seasons and put rookies in big spots (chose edmonton)
I traded for Malcolm Subban,Ryan Strome and Nathan Mckinnon.
I'm in year 4 now and the break down goes like this:
Taylor Hall 88
Jordan Eberle 87
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 88
Justin Schultz 90
Magnus Paajarvi 86
Jeff Petry 88
Yakupov 86
Alex Plante (started gm mode he was 74) He's not 85 haha
Olivier Roy 81 (perennial back up)
Malcolm Subban 89 (stared as 52, played him his whole rookie season he jumped to 65 then I played him about half the games splitting time with Dubnyk and he jumped to 79. just finished the sim and he came into camp fourth year as 89
Ryan Strome 84 (limited 3rd line offensive minutes) went 62-68-77-84
Jamie Benn 88
My lines have ended up stacked and this year it will all fall apart. the whole process was to see played development though haha.
Hall88 Hopkins89 Eberle87
Paajarvi86 Benn88 Yakupov86
Stalberg83 Strome84 Hemsky84
Hartekainen80 Lander81 Jones80
Schultz 90 Petry88
Bogosian87 Plante 85
Jo.Benn 81 Irwin 81
Subban 89
Roy 81
Team is going to be impossible to keep together but as I said before I was just simming to see how high a lot of players would get. On a sad note, Seth Jones never cracked the roster. I probably didn't give him enough time but he was still 72 after his elc ran out.