Asunto: US National Team

Well I didn't expect that...

I didn't realize we were hosting Div II this year, was trying to figure out why my arena was on the site list. That's pretty cool.

So who's running this season?

I'm in again, so far only a few others have put their name in.

not it

Disappointing loss to B&H. Can't win if the other team scores three PP goals.

On another note, glad they are separating the players' energies when with the national team. Makes it easier for us managers to use our star players in regular matches.

B&H is a reason why I don't like that. They are using 3 lines, with a 45-45-10 or maybe it's 40-40-20. They will be able to get away with that and not bite them next season since they will have 100/100

As it is, I think they are wearing out, Italy beat them today, now hopefully Ireland pulls one out.

I saw you asked this question elsewhere, but it seems appropriate to respond here. For the soccer NTs, the energy use is double the normal rate (for friendlies and competitive games). It's at the very bottom of the full guide.

Thanks, i'll bet they are going to apply something similar then.

Just concerned because while I know some were frustrated with the energy thing, I can see a lot of teams now going 3 lines, max ice time to their top players, very hard every game and being able to last the whole tournament with them.

I like that you're sticking to 4 lines and played some games on High, instead of Very High. I think we won't wear out our players that way.

And looks like my player, Waldo Gould has been quite impressive for the NT so far. I'm really happy.

Since energy used in the hockey game is based on 15 minutes of ice time (for non-goalies) and the very high setting costs 3 energy for soccer NTs (for 90 minutes), it'd be realistic to see a hockey NT playing its top line 40% of the time (24 minutes) and on very high to burn 4.8 energy per game next season. That would use up a line's energy pretty quickly if used in multiple games. Although, some of the deeper teams could probably still get away with doing that and rotating lines. Of course, this would only apply to competitive games.

We are doing OK on energy, even though we've had to ramp up the intensity a little, only one player below 70, half the team is 80s or higher.

Result! I pulled out all the stops the last game, as in case of a tie we needed to build up our goal differential. But, looks like we don't have to worry, we are in!

Congrats, good luck in Division I.