Paul T

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  1. I'm on record for loving when this happens. It adds strategy for dealing out long term contracts and penalizes players for being too cheap while you're doing it If it's a good player that I plan on keeping for a long time, I make sure to pay the man. Sometimes giving them 100% of their asking or more.
  2. I can currently cancel any one of my player's extensions.
  3. I think this is a fantastic idea. I'm not sure how it could be organized in a way that Anders could handle hundreds of questions coming his way at once, but this would be great from a community perspective.
  4. Has anyone decided to try and decipher how certain attributes on player scouting reports impact a player's performance or what they mean? Here's the ones that I am currently curious about: Focus, Persistence & Resilience. My best guesses: - Focus - the ability of players to not be impacted by the other team trying to agitate or play tough - and/or a player's determination. - Persistence - I could be getting this mixed up with my guess on Focus above - or it could be how well a player can endure all game situations and late in games. - Resilience - I could also be getting this one mixed up with my guess on Focus - or it could be how well a player can break out of slumps over a period of games. I've run through quite a few scouting reports and many of my players differ in these areas, so I can only assume that they impact the game differently. Thoughts from other managers - and insight from the admins - are both welcome and appreciated. Also, if there are other attributes that should be discussed, post 'em up. I feel like the rest of them are self explanatory and can mostly be explained by looking at a player's ratings, size and traits.
  5. Is that really a bug? A player with a one way GHL contract for next season shouldn't be able to be traded to SHL as the game would consider the SHL to be in the SHL the following season, even if they are in a position to promote or not. The simple fix is to just terminate the contract extension and redo the trade.
  6. You will do no such thing. Cage needs you! I can't imagine competing in a bouncer-less world.
  7. Agree. And my dilemma is that during the regular season, there is no other goalie I would want on my team. But during clutch moments, he's collapsed too many times for me to feel confident in him. I also agree that many of the goals were not mostly his fault. But in the end, you want a goalie that can elevate their game in the biggest moments and steal games for you. That's what makes greatness... in any sport. And that is not what I see from Rask. In those moments, I'd rather have a goalie with a 3M salary and 4M spent elsewhere. Just to go back to the Thomas Cup Finals for a second. He may have cost Boston 1 game in that series, but look at the entire body of work. In a 7-game series, he let in 8 goals. From games 1-7 it went: 1-3-1-0-1-2-0. That is simply insane! And if you go back 1 game further, he got the shutout in game 7 of the ECF vs. Tampa. So Thomas finished those playoffs by only allowing 8 goals in his last 8 games. Absurd numbers. Compared to Rask's 18 goals allowed in the 7-game series vs. St. Louis. Choke job. To me Thomas will always be the better Boston goalie. If Rask eventually wins a Cup it will make it closer, but even still. Thomas: 4x All Star, 2x Vezina, Conn Smythe Rask: 3x All Star, 1 Vezina
  8. I'm weary of the save percentage argument. If you look at the Top 20 all time, 16 of them are current players and most are in no way shape or form some of the all time greats. I think they just play in the right era.
  9. I agree with most of this. Just some things to point out that are kind of stuck in my mind. "Thomas wasn't perfect". I agree. But he was when he HAD to be. Two shutouts in Game 7s of the ECF and Cup Finals. He made the timely saves when it mattered. People always point to the Rask stats and I don't really have a great response for it. he's a really good goalie with a really good defense in front of him, my problem is he never seems to elevate his game when it matters most. Maybe it's true, maybe it's unfair, but it's just how I feel. I do disagree about beating Toronto. The Bs take them down because their goalie is 10x more horrible than Rask... and not just in clutch moments... all the time. I'm not a big Freddy supporter. Again, I somewhat agree with most everything you said, but in my mind great goalies find a way to make stops in big moments (Philly, Chicago, St Louis) and he didn't. And last year it's not like the Bs played the most offensively talented teams. Toronto was, but again, their goalie and defense are junk. Then Columbus and Carolina. I'd expect Rask's save percentage to be high against those teams. Thomas went through Montreal (who Rask struggles against), Philly (who kicked Rask's butt the year before), Tampa and Vancouver (offensive powerhouse).
  10. No I meant for me. It was Steve's comment that sparked my response.
  11. Haha! My friends all say the same thing. My criticism of him is unfair... I am totally aware. The Tim Thomas comment brought this up again. I know if you look at the total stats Rask is unreal. It's just when it gets to those clutch moments he doesn't seem to finish it off. Those clutch moments for me for Thomas were vs. Tampa in Game 7 of the ECF... 1-0 shutout! Then another shutout in game 7 of the Cup Finals vs. Vancouver (an offensive powerhouse at the time). And even if you want to go back to the Montreal series, Thomas made some absolutely unreal saves late in that game and in OT. Throw in the Philly sweep. Here's my memories of Rask in big moments. - collapsing to Philly in 2010 up 3-0 in Game 7 and losing 4-3. - collapsing to Chicago in 2013 up 2-1 with just over a minute to go in game 6 and losing 3-2. - letting in 2 goals on 4 shots in game 7 of the Cup Finals against the Blues last year. Honest to God, I hope he wins us a Cup so I can finally accept him and shut my mouth about it. Until then, I will continue to watch youtube highlights of Tim Thomas saves from the 2011 playoffs. He was also out there throwing slashes and mixing it up. Gives me goosebumps.
  12. Totally agree. He's a bad ass in the regular season.
  13. His performance in 2011 also factors into my unfair criticism of Rask. Specifically in big games. I don't pin Boston's losses on Rask (or maybe I do... who knows), but he can't elevate his game to win them. Thomas did.
  14. I’m hoping Tuukka Rask has a huge development in his Reflexes attribute between now and playoffs. 75 Reflexes 99 Positioning 90 Athletic 22 Spirit
  15. Well, it all goes back to it being chance based. Those types of games make you want to jam your keyboard through your monitor, but they just happen. Last month the Red Wings beat the Bruins 3-1. Bruins have 98 points to lead the East, while the Red Wings have 37 and are in last place by a mile. They are actually 1st and last in the entire league for that matter. The goal differential for the two teams is +53 and -120. The Bruins out-shot them 40-19 in that game.
  16. LOL! I played my 83 OVR backup who hadn’t lost in regulation all season. Now 9-1-3. And he (computer) countered with his 78 OVR affiliate goalie. Another point of note - they tied the game on a SHG and the GWG was scored by a 78 OVR player with no offensive skills. It was a tough one for sure.
  17. LOL. what gave it away... the solid penalty killing?
  18. If you had to bet your life on which team won this game...
  19. This doesn't qualify as a great single game performance, but sometimes it's the little things. Today the St. Thomas Stray Cats led the Big Delta Stealheads 1-0 early in the 3rd period. At the 4-minute mark, Stealhead defenseman Aarno Reijonen dropped the gloves with Stray Cat (and former Stealhead) Zinedine Argouin. Reijonen got his @ss kicked... bad... but that's besides the point. The fight lit a fire under Big Delta and over the next 8.5 minutes, they out-shot the Stray Cats 11-1, scoring on 2 of those 11 shots and eventually holding on for the 2-1 win. Aarno Reijonen took one for the team and that sh!+ doesn't go unnoticed. His stat line: no goals, no assists, no hits, no shots, no blocks, no giveaways, no takeaways, 1 fight, 74 performance.
  20. This is mostly a copy and past from something I wrote in another post. It relates to both goalies and skaters. Endurance impacts the game in two ways - Performance and Injuries. Or a better way to look at it is, Endurance impacts a player's Health... and a player's Health "could" impact Performance and Injuries. 1. Players with a low Endurance rating get tired faster (assuming training intensity and ice time are equal). Players who are tired/exhausted, in theory, will perform less than their attributes indicate. How much less, I have no idea. If a player has 99 skating and if they are fatigued they perform as if they are a 95 skating, then that's still pretty good. I don't think it's known how much ratings actually drop for tired/exhausted players. 2. Endurance is one of the many factors that impact a players Health - and low Health (tired/exhausted) can have an impact on injuries. There are other factors that impact health such as training intensity and ice time... and other factors that impact injuries such as how the other team plays (hard/dirty), being hit and a players own injury proneness. So the injury thing is not as simple as saying a player with 60 Endurance should get injured more than a player with 90 Endurance since there are so many other factors. A great example is the GHL Cage Stray Cats goalie Wright. Great player with horrible endurance. 96 OVR, 63 END. In season 1 he started 60+ games + all 16 playoff games and dominated. The Stray Cats won the GHL Cup. I remember him being exhausted towards the end, but it didn't matter. Maybe because he's just too good for the performance drop to have that big of an impact. In Season 2, he ended up getting injured for 30+ games... and in Season 3, his performance took a rapid drop and they had to play a playoff series to avoid relegation. In all 3 seasons, he was a workhorse when healthy... but you can see the extreme examples. So I guess the best way to look at it is, low Endurance has a higher chance of negatively impacting a player's performance and risk of injury, but that doesn't mean it will happen. It's all chance based.
  21. How about this stat line?
  22. Priceless!! That last stat line is very similar to my game against the #12 Rome Trojans earlier this season (who scored more in that game than their next 3 combined). At least we can commiserate!
  23. Wait...wait. Wait. You get 3-4 games before a collapse? I would never criticize the sim. Only the player. I'd much prefer 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2 GA than 0, 1, 4, 5, 1, 4, 1. This is 100% on Amick and he's aware he's about to go on the trade block. Big Delta... more like Little Beta.
  24. He keeps my season interesting. I can't wait to run some scouting reports on him. Just have a few more important players to get to first.