Currently watching the Winnipeg game. Results up when finished, in the mean time, after about 50 failed attempts, I got Columbus to agree to this. Their GM did *NOT* want to part with Dubinsky haha.
C - Brandon Dubinsky
D - James Wisniewski
C - Tuomo Ruutu
D - Joni Pitkänen
2014 CAR 1st
They're at the contract limit so I couldn't add extra players without taking back and that particular pick was the only one we have they were interested in. Haven't accepted it yet until I get feed back from ya'll. Lemme know if we should do this.
Projected lines if we do do it.
Semin//Eric//Iginla
Jokinen//Jordan//Skinner
Callahan//Dubinsky//LaRose (greatest line in history of NHL?)
Bowman//Brent//Dwyer
Green//Gleason
Wisniewski//Faulk
Harrison//The Anton
I'll post every teams trading block when I do the WPG//CAR post game. Define "valuable" tho, or you want every teams entire block?
-Prospects that look to have a good future (based on the game, not real life...because it's completely different)
-Players who would be upgrades at any position based on where they project to slot into our lineup (without costing too much to trade for). Obviously, you won't trade for a 2nd liner to play on the 4th line and all that.
-Prospects that look to have a good future (based on the game, not real life...because it's completely different)
-Players who would be upgrades at any position based on where they project to slot into our lineup (without costing too much to trade for). Obviously, you won't trade for a 2nd liner to play on the 4th line and all that.
Okay, gimme 10 min and I'll go do that, in the mean time, we triumphed (barley) over our most heated rival
PP Goal - 3:13 - CAR - Jordan Staal [6] (Eric Staal, Alexander Semin) - scramble in front of net lead to chip in
ES Goal - 18:24 - WPG - Nikolai Antropov [7] (Eric Fehr) - Fehr slap shot rebounded to Antropov in the slot, then wristed in
Penalty - 19:53 - CAR - Tuomo Ruutu - 2:00 for roughing
2nd
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Nada
3rd
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Penalty - 8:02 - CAR - Pat Dwyer - 2:00 for high sticking
PP Goal - 8:06 - WPG - Evander Kane [6] (Zach Bogosian, Bryan Little) Bogosian slap shot from point went in off Kane's glove, initially waived off but counted after review
Penalty - 12:17 - WPG - Antti Miettinen - 2:00 for high sticking
PP Goal - 13:08 - CAR - Jeff Skinner [6] (Joni Pitkänen, Tuomo Ruutu) - wrist shot from sideboards went through Pavelec's 5 hole
ES Goal - 18:23 - CAR - Jussi Jokinen [6] (Chad LaRose, Tim Gleason) - Tim started a 2 on 1 to Chad who passed to Jokinen whose wrist shot from the left faceoff circle hit both posts and *BARLEY* crossed the line
Three Stars
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* - Jussi Jokinen - GWG
** - Cam Ward - 26/28 saves made
*** - Jordan Staal - 1G, 10 hits
PP - CAR - 2/2, WPG - 1/2
PK - CAR - 1/2, WPG - 0/2
Winning Goalie - Cam Ward
Losing Goalie - Ondrej Pavelec
To keep things simple, I went through everyones trading blocks and wrote down only players we'd have a legitimate interest in (ie NHL ready players or prospects that actually have a future)
Pretty much everyone had C grade prospects and picks on their blocks, but here's the players that we may want for our inevitable Cup Championship
ANA
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Jason Blake
CBJ
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Vinny Prospal
Adrian Aucoin
DAL
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Radek Dvorak
EDM
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Ryan Smith
Andy Sutton
Nikolai Khabibulin
FLA
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John Madden
Ed Jovanovski
Filip Kuba
NSH
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Hal Gill
Chris Mason
NJD
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Dainius Zubrus
Patrik Elias
Anton Volchenkov
NYI
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Jay Pandolfo
Marty Reasoner
Steve Staios
NYR
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Chris Kreider
OTT
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Daniel Alfredsson
Sergei Gonchar
PHX
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Daymond Langkow
Steve Sullivan
PIT
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Brent Johnson
STL
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Jason Arnott
Jamie Langenbrunner
Andy McDonald
TBL
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Martin St. Louis
WSH
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Jeff Halpern
Mike Knuble
Roman Hamrlik
A lot of 35+ guys but some of them are still very serviceable.
To keep things simple, I went through everyones trading blocks and wrote down only players we'd have a legitimate interest in (ie NHL ready players or prospects that actually have a future)
Pretty much everyone had C grade prospects and picks on their blocks, but here's the players that we may want for our inevitable Cup Championship
Patrik Elias
Anton Volchenkov
Chris Kreider
Andy McDonald
These are the guys that would be worth looking at (IMO) off that list.
I grabbed McDonald as an FA after the 2012-2013 season in my Be a GM, and he was a fantastic pickup for two years before downgrading severely and being untradeable.
Both of McDonald and Elias are FAs according to Capgeek after this season, so there's really no harm done if they don't work out.
What hypothetical trades would be out there for those guys, assuming that Ruutu is still one of our players to trade away?
ES Goal - 11:49 - OTT - Nikita Filitov [4] (Taffe) - sick deke through defence then backhand top glove side
3rd
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ES Goal - 8:17 - CAR - Eric Staal [12] (Gleason) - Gleason carried the puck down low before passing back to the point and Eric stepped into one that Anderson probably never saw
OT
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ES Goal - 0:32 - CAR - Eric Staal [13] (Pitkänen, Babchuk) - D to D pass to eric cutting into the slot who shot a wrist shot that went in off the cross bar
Three Stars
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* - Eric Staal - 2G, +1
** - Cam Ward - 24/25 saves made
*** - Craig Anderson - 24/26 saves made
Winning Goalie - Cam Ward
Losing Goalie - Craig Anderson
I'm going out for lunch now, but when I get back this afternoon, I'll post updates for league standings and stats leaders as well.
Oh, and Semin didn't score against Columbus, so you're wrong. Ruutu scored the lone goal in the 10th round in that one, according to what you posted.
I missed one then sorry, he has 2 then
Also, FWIW, we still have Raitis Ivanans sitting in the press box every game? Should we hang on to him in case we ever need a goon? I'm pretty sure he's guaranteed to get claimed if we waive him. The fourth line has been playing pretty well (especially Bowman) so dunno if we wanna send a 2-way down.
Glad you asked, the lure of the 2019 BCS Championship between Nebraska and Alabama (ie I was playing NCAA 13 not NHL 13 this afternoon) was drawing me away from my duties here
Anyway...
Team and League stats, accurate as of today [30/11/2012].
Team Stats & League Leaders
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Team (I find it endlessly amusing that our only short handed goal was scored by Jeff Skinner )
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Forwards - G / A / Pts / PIM / +/- / PPG / SHG / GWG
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Eric Staal 14/7/21/0/+4/4/0/4
Alexander Semin 11/8/19/2/+6/4/0/2
Jussi Jokinen 6/8/14/4/+4/1/0/3
Chad LaRose 5/8/13/2/+6/0/0/1
Mike Green 0/13/13/10/-5/0/0/0
Jeff Skinner 6/6/12/0/+5/3/1/0
Jarome Iginla 6/6/12/0/E/0/0/0
Joni Pitkänen 1/10/11/4/+2/0/0/0
Jordan Staal 6/5/11/6/E/2/0/2
Anton Babchuk 1/9/10/7/+4/0/0/1
Ryan Callahan 4/5/9/42/-4/1/0/2
Tuomo Ruutu 4/5/9/6/-2/1/0/1
Tim Gleason 0/8/8/4/+5//0/0/0
Justin Faulk 4/3/7/7/E/1/0/1
Drayson Bowman 3/2/5/0/-1/0/0/0
Patty Dwyer 3/2/5/2/-3/0/0/0
Tim Brent 0/2/2/2/-1/0/0/0
Jay Harrison 0/2/2/4/+5/0/0/0
Goalies - W / L / OTL / SOL / GAA / S% / SO
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Cam Ward 17/2/0/0/1.93/0.935/1 (Ward also has 1 assist)
Justin Peters 2/3/0/0/2.57/0.911/1
League Leaders
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Goals
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1 - Alexander Ovechkin - 19
2 - Sidney Crosby - 18
3 - Joffrey Lupul - 15 4 - Eric Staal - 14
5 - Evgeni Malkin - 11
6 - Simon Gange - 11 7 - Alexander Semin - 11
8 - Dany Heatley - 11
Assists
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1 - Zach Parise - 17
2 - Mike Ribeiro - 16
3 - Nicklas Bäckström - 15
4 - Marian Hossa - 15
5 - Claude Giroux - 14
6 - Alex Pietrangelo - 14
7 - Evgeni Malkin - 14
8 - James Neal - 14
ES Goal - 7:32 - WSH - Mike Ribeiro [4] (unassisted) - Ward had a puck covered but then for some reason tried to play it to Pitkänen who was also in the crease. Ribeiro stole it and poked it in
2nd
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ES Goal - 0:46 - CAR - Mike Green [1] (Alexander Semin) - Semin picked up the puck off a faceoff pile up and passed it back to the point. Green slapshot top corner glove side.
ES Goal - 8:51 - WSH - Anthony Stewart [2] (John Carlson, Mike Knuble) - skated into the zone along the side boards and posted up for a slap shot at the circle Ward's glove was just not quite fast enough to get.
3rd
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Nada
Three Stars
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* - Michal Neuvirth - 25/26 saves made
** - Anthony Stewart - GWG, +2
*** - Cam Ward - 29/31 saves made
Winning Goalie - Michal Neuvirth
Losing Goalie - Cam Ward
Thinking of giving HumpyDawg the start today against the Devils.
Pitkänen saved a sure goal in the 3rd by stealing the puck from Ovi just in front of the net while Ward was out of position so that makes up for whatever the ******* happened in the 1st lol
The problem here is we have turned the corner from rebuilding team to veteran team very quickly. Muller isn't suited to this environment.
What we need is a coach who likes working with veteran players, and who will hold our young guys strictly accountable for earning any ice time in the top 9. Someone like that should be hired immediately.
Gary Bettman
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