Asunto: III.5

Nice win over Printemps today, well done!

Gracias! Pretty excited to steal that game from them!

Oh man... If I'd had any idea that my game against Posse was gonna be that close, I would've pushed my team to play at a higher importance.

Pretty easy schedule for me for the rest of the season Only one team ranked higher than me and two in the top 8

Sounds good. I know I've got three or four more losses coming my way, but I should be able to win the rest with my squad. If everything falls just right, I have a decent shot at 11th.
It's not much, but moving up 3 positions in one year isn't a bad start.

It is definitely an accomplishment This is becoming quite a competitive division!

It's getting there. I've seen a couple of the lower ranked teams improve their team statistics, and they are now almost equal to mine.
There's still a bit of a divide between the top teams and everyone else though. But it will be interesting to see how things change over the next season or two.

I will be pruning a few guys this season to make room for some of my younger guys. Keep an eye out for some added depth!

I usually am. Still have a few gaps in my starting lineup for better players. Then I'll have to figure out just how I want to manage the next round of arena and facility upgrades as well as finding players that'll let me compete with teams like yours.

I just put up a guy for sale that can be a hole filler while you develop some D

Okay. Maybe I'll take a look and see if I have a place for him.

Home stretch is approaching. Scarborough Chaotics (11) @ 39 points, Surrey Jesters (4) @ 77 points, Cliffstone Bears (1) & 87 points. With 7 games left and I only having LesCinGLER on the schedule that is a threat, I should take 1st since Printemps (2) and LesCinGLER (3) both have 81 points.

Will be interesting to see whether Scarborough Hockey Club hangs onto 16th only up by 2 points on the bots. Not sure relegation is in their best interests.

I am continuing to drop useless players and acquire good somewhat cheap talent. Got my training facility heading to level 12 in 71 days, my stadium getting another triple floor section in 17 days.

Only issue I currently have (despite tier 2 being ridiculously tough so not sure about promotion) is that I only have 2 guys at CL (career longevity) of 5/6. Everyone else is below that (no zeros at the moment but 3 at level 1 and quite a few at 2). Gonna have to recycle quite a few players over the next little bit...

Wow. Six games left. At best I'm looking at a 3-3 split to end the season. But I've got a bunch of modest milestones for my team that I might hit, which exceed my own expectations heading into this season.

I've got a chance to crack 50 points and I've already matched my expected 42.

I could have 17 wins, which is three more than I expected.

Could finish in 11th, where I expected 13th at best.

And most notably to me, I have a chance to end with a positive goal differential. I never expected my team to be only -14 at this point, when last year it ended at -278.

It's a long way from being truly competitive at this level, but I definitely see it as an optimistic first step going forward.

So next season climb into the top half of the division, CS? I'm also cleaning out my older guys, Falcon. I've been developing my own guys with a level 12 training facility and MANY are over 1000 as 20-24 year Olds. And they've only benefited from the level.12 for part of their development. Check out Tory Bedard. Developed him with level 12 training facility from the beginning. Not NT worthy but not a player to shake your head at either.

http://hockey.powerplaymanager.com/en/player.html?data=18880278-tory-bedard

30 days into next season I will have level 13. Hoping to move to Division I I in the next 2 or 3 seasons.

Yeah. Pretty much my next step is to aim for 9th, top out the mid range. But I'll make a run for the top 8 if I can assemble some more talent while I develop my arena and facilities.