Aihe: II.1

I lead the league in attendance

I'm averaging 5741 tickets sold out of a total of 6700 seats. Sure, most of them are corporate deals bought when we were a promising I.1 team and remain empty on game days, but that's still excellent news for the future. I'm going to need very good attendance and Media deals to make this rebuild work. So far so good

I have a chance to win today!

It probably won't happen though. The DEAD TEAM has 10 more OTS than I do

LMAO

You can do it, we believe in you! I was just happy to beat Crash Test Dummies Monday. If it weren't for having to put his backup goalie in, I know I would've lost that game. Sorry DA, you'll get me next time.

Did you notice the other team from Grand Rapids? How weird is that? I guess I haven't looked past the Condors before today Do you know him?

Nice ice painting, too.

I haven't met him personally but we have been playing friendlies before this season. There are also the Grand Rapids Grizzlies in another Division II league, though I forget which offhand.

Thanks on the ice.

Ok, today's game was absolute crap. There was absolutely no reason for me to be blown out that badly by a team I'm very close to in strength and who I outshot. Oh wait, I took 10 freaking penalties for some stupid reason. Normally I just sit back and accept it, but wtf? I feel like the coding in this game is set up to just laugh at me this season.

In some funny news, the center I had who was an RFA just a week ago went for $5.25 million when he received no offers as an RFA.

A WIN! I am the greatest manager of all time! 19th place is mine! Huzzah!

Poor backup goalie has about half the AI of my starter. No biggie.

I finally got a dman. It seems like I've been trying to buy one forever. I actually wanted two, but I don't know if I can handle the market anymore. It seems like every time I find a good one, the price goes up to 30-40-50-60M and I rarely have over 30M. It's so damn annoying.

So I'm really happy to finally land one- Adam Oružinský . 16.8M and he has 215OR Qs are supposed to be 92/99/90/82. I'll know tonight if this was a lie. *crosses fingers*

Here's the other guys I've added this season:
Ermīns Strēlis - Center 84/93/95/93 for 21M
Branislav Čajko - Center 99/99/85/88 for 32M
Filip Rekić - Center 93/96/99/74 for 11.5M

I wasn't even looking for a center when I bought Rekic. He was pulled as a dman, so he showed up in my search. I just couldn't pass up those Qs for only 11.5M.

And now I just need one more dman. Preferably a Lefty, but I'll be happy to find anything that I can afford.

Xivam Poprad is converting 43.3% of their PPs!?!

The Miami Blackbeards should be embarrassed. His PP is worse than mine

Midnight Dragons are the only team without a SH goal. Bob Jones and Grand Rapids Griffons are the only teams not to allow a SH goal against.

The Wranglers, currently in first, have been penalized the most this season- 108 times.

Meh, the [hockey_team=25580] are still better than [hockey_team=25628]. They beat me 7-3 while playing defensive, and Xivam Poprad could only manager to beat me by a meager score of 4-2. I think that says it all. :p

In other news, are you looking forward to facing the team you have the best chance of beating besides the Condors on Monday, Tujague? I was thinking of putting Sebastián Baráček in against you over Janez Kavčič , but considering my goalie seems to play like Chris Osgood in league games and Patrick Roy in friendlies, I think I have to stick with my number one. Yes, that was a dig at Osgood.

I don't think you have to worry about anything A good game for me is losing 1-4 instead of 0-8. You'll be okay.

Mihály Marton has quietly crossed 500 OR. He's the first of my real rebuild to do so. Željan Jurišić , probably my best player, will reach it in ~3 weeks. He's my best dman and he's leading the team with 3 goals Ooh. Even my goalie Jozef Randula is starting to look respectable with 453OR. III.2 isn't going to know what him 'em.

Oh my god. III.1 is stacked at the top. Four teams with at least 79 OTS. Damn. It might take me two seasons to get out of there. Yuck.

My hockey Academy has been terrible, but last night I thought I did pretty good. I pulled all 4 players. They were all 3.5 stars for at least one position. Surely one of them will be decent, right? Fired em all this morning. Out of the four, only 3 of the 12 primaries were showing over 67. The best was 71. I couldn't be bothered with that nonsense. So they're all gone. C'est la vie.

I seriously cannot figure out how this game works. There's no reason for my team to play above 1 intensity since I only lose worse when I do. I can't wait to scrap my team and rebuild like you, tujague. At least then I'll know why they're losing...