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Congrats to Pingu and looking forward to exciting PO in GHL

True and it is hard to say without any other information about the player. But for example Max Lang (the one I know from GHL) - he is Swiss nationality and I would say that with high probability he would be very typical guy from German speaking part of Switzerland with no Asian ancestor. But anyway, it is nice list and you did great job. I would like to see some Asian leagues and more nationalities in GPHM. And I want the national teams.

Wow, nice effort! But how can you tell Lang is Asian descent? I know many central European (also UK and USA) people named Lang and for most fo them I'm 100 % sure they have no Asian origin. Simply because lang means long in German. And it is quite typical to have surnames from adjectives in Germany, Austria, Czech R. etc. The same goes for Jung, very typical German surname.

I have similar report about CAREER HIGHLIGHTS. I noticed recently, that some history is missing - signings, trades, completely or partially. For example: Season 8, GHL, Traded from Rome Trojans to West Chicago Protons forThe player I traded him for is still in the game, in the same league (GHL), so I wonder why this information si missing (I understand if the player retired or is non-playable league), but this is not the case. Some players have detailed history from S1-S6 (roughly), but miss almost all the details (signings, trades) from S6-S10 and after that it is again ok. As a suggestion it would be nice to have CAREER HIGHLIGHTS tab only for individual/team accomplishments (best scorer, promotion, cup won) and add separate TAB for trade and signings (also draft perhaps) history with more detailed information (full trade with clickable players, maybe even pick transferred to what player has been picked... etc.). That would be awesome.

Update (I traded few players and I noticed Andrushchenko is 2W contract this season ): BORYS Andrushchenko - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=15741 88 OVR 29yo forward, sniper or powerforward that always performed very well in every role he played in my team, over 76 avg performance in GHL, 81 this season so far! 2W contract (so he is interesting for SHL as well - can be great sniper for 1st line there). Pick or young player forward/center in return. LORIK Oneal - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=5550 83 OVR 24yo goalie, under very cheap, but 1W, contract. Can give him "for free" if you need backup goalie in case of injury. He was my 1st round GHL pick, but it was a mistake to sign him under 1W contract (I did that shortly before affiliates were introduced... lol).

Hi canucks, nice to see you here

Some before league penalization for goalies?

I guess he is not training hard? I only checked mine team and Minutemen and all goalies including affiliates were blue in health bar.

All my goalies have decreased fit (in health) right now... even if they haven't played a single game so far (not since end of regular season 12). I guess that's true for all the teams. Why is that?

It would be nice to see who is who in here... I know most GHL managers, but I'm not sure for lower leagues... think I switched off the signatures a while back, because the were a mess. Are they working again?

That is something I would expect naturally. Unless you have really over-aged team and you don't change it for younger players, you should be improving by such rate - with training, signing, getting nice players from draft (and there were already very high OVR players in top10 postilions in previous drafts). Obviously there is a block when you hit salary cap, but I think that happened only to me (I'm not saying others are not close to salary cap, but I already had to let go very nice players because of my cap situation) - I'm still holding thanks to trades and training, but I can't improve by 1 point anymore.

I updated my tradeblock list above. Right now I'm looking to move some defenders and goalies from my affiliate - I have now 6 Ds and 3 Gs (with one prospect I want to sign) in AAHL and that is to much I think. So I would like to swap some of them for similar Cs or Fs (for my AAHL) or for picks. Let me know, of you are interested.

I would like to trade following players: BORYS Andrushchenko - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=15741 88 OVR 29yo forward, sniper or powerforward that always performed very well in every role he played in my team, over 76 avg performance in GHL, 81 this season so far! 2W contract (so he is interesting for SHL as well - can be great sniper for 1st line there). Pick or young player forward/center in return. LORIK Oneal - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=5550 83 OVR 24yo goalie, under very cheap, but 1W, contract. Can give him "for free" if you need backup goalie in case of injury. He was my 1st round GHL pick, but it was a mistake to sign him under 1W contract (I did that shortly before affiliates were introduced... lol).

I would like to trade following players: SEDAT Berhorst - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=40203 86 OVR 20yo talented forward, had great season in AAHL and I think he is ready for GHL, but he does not fit my team. 2W contract. KEVIN Fontaine-Bienvenue - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3486 87 OVR 31yo experienced forward, this universal veteran player can bring ton of experience for bottom 6 in GHL or top 6 in SHL, he has great traits. 2W contract. BORYS Andrushchenko - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=157412 88 OVR 28yo forward, sniper or powerforward that always performed very well in every role he played, over 76 avg performance in GHL. 1W contract. VIKTOR Mamonov - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=32707 82 OVR 26yo offensive defender under very reasonable contract, can be great addition to SHL team. Right handed. 2W contract. ELIE Daggett - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=9445 83 OVR 19yo goalie, young and talentd goalie that can play in AAHL or take an SHL backup spot and improve soon. Entry level contract. ANDRAI Hentges - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3537 LORIK Oneal - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=5550 Let me know if you are interested and we can talk about the trade until it will be possible to make it.

Well, it is about strategy... mostly GHL issue, but if somebody in lower leagues want to win or inherited team with bad signings, he can run into cap troubles. Since I know that in case of empty spot after injury, player from AAHL will be called automatically, I can afford to use the whole cap. Only the emergency automatic call is not working properly... Being Worldclass in GHL Biscuit is the reason why I have cap issues - my players want more and more money each season (they do generally after being longer time with you and I have a feeling some Cups won increase that demands even more...) and I don't want to let them go to FA and trading is not easy. Since this game is trying to simulate real NHL with AAHL, draft etc., I think IR is reasonable demand. Each manager plays differently... one decides to use whole cap to have the best team, one can keep 5% cap free for injuries or for signings/trades. Look at Chicago, Dallas that are mostly using all the cap... or SJS or Columbus as example of teams that keep some space under cap.

And fault of managers of half of NHL teams... right. Wait for S20 GHL... most teams will have issues with cap. I think 5 or 6 days as a minimum for IR slot is fair point. Anyway, the emergency automatic call was done, not the payer I wanted (not the best one, not the second best...) and he was not in the lineup. Quite upsetting. It looks funny:

I'm sure this was suggested before, but I would really like and need some kind of IR. I have only couple of thousands below cap space so in case of injury of 1w player, I cannot make any calls from AAHL and I have to wait for auto call which is not convenient in case of top line player injury.

That would be great... sort of World Cup, right?

I would like to trade away: Andrushchenko - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=15741 Hentges - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3537 Oneal - http://www.gameplanhockey.com/goalie?gpid=5550 I'm looking for young D, different F (3rd/4th liner, cheaper than Andrushchenko, left-handed preferably), prospect or pick.

Daugherty and Andrushchenko are still available. Plus Hentges and Oneal. Apart from young D and 4th line checking player, I might be interested in backup goalie as well.

Well, this will happen in every world after some time - GHL will became very even with many 90+ OVR players. For Biscuit, it is already visible since let's say S10 and I believe after S15 the rosters will be limited by cap space (not like you cannot make one offer to superstar in FA you really want, but as you have to let one or even more superstars go as you don't have enough cap space to keep them for next season) and thus even more equal league. Who will manage to hold most of low greed players will benefit, but the dominance, like me and Vandals had in many previous season, will simply disappear. It is a good thing, it simulates real hockey, when you have many Stanley cup aspirants and still you can have very surprising teams in the final after all. On the other hand, randomness in the game will have much bigger effect and it may be a problem for very competitive managers as in online games like this, you usually can built a superior team by being more clever, having more knowledge, planning better system (like not starting from top, but hoarding good picks first), having more time to make better deals etc. Or by playing long enough, but that is different story But here with tight cap space, this works only first 10-15 seasons and then you will be simply one of many good teams and you can still win, but your chance for that will decrease.

Well, the team traits are calculated mostly from players traits, so it is exactly the point koekefix meant. The fact the all 3 teams Portland beat in the playoffs have better confidence and winner instinct (especially the winner instinct by quite some margin) and same or similar team work. Also skill-wise Portland was no better and the last 5 games with bad faceoff skills they were overshooted by a lot and spend more time defending themselves. But that is hockey and they deserved it. They just played really well and it worked, perhaps also good tactics was the reason. I wish them the cup. I agree with rainsilent that Kaila's confidence played role. I also noticed that after trades, the team performance is decreasing. And not only if you trade key position player who cause this with the confidence reset. For example after I traded fro Council who I used only as 3rd line center, my scoring decreased significantly and in 12 games I suffered same number of losses as in the first 48 games. And Council was one of the best players with (almost) point per game production. Of course this is small sample and it might not mean anything, but I noticed something similar before. My guess would be that small decrease of team work and team confidence might hurt the performance, so you would have lower scoring and in my case once the winning streak was over, the team was playing worse then before (during the streak before the trade). And with many GHL teams being very close to each other in quality, that can easily make 2-1 games into 1-2. Most of the seasons before, I did minimum trades and the few were mostly in the beginning of the season. This season I made 4 trades in last 20 games of regular season and the team results got much worse.

I understand your point, jusatin. I also thought about the NTs being completely independent with no effect on player and that might be easier to implement. On the other hand the NT games might be played only in silly/pre-season, where no team games are played and thus the player will not miss any time in your team and experience/confidence boost might over-weight the injury chance.

IneffableLeafs: I'm not sure manager's reputation should be the only decision for NT manager (as the top reputated managers could manage any NT forever). I would simply introduce user elections. You have now 77 managers in Biscuit right now. Let's say there will be rule you have to play at least 2-3 months to be eligible for NT manager, so we are 60-70 managers. If you really have 16 NTs (to me it is too many for such a small world), you have ~4 managers eligible per team. I guess not all would be interested, so there would be NTs usually with 1-4 managers interested in. For this, you can make a simply voting - each 77 managers can vote for all NTs in form of a poll. This can repeat each season (maybe better each 2 seasons). IIHF World Championships format sounds fine. But 30 seasons games is a bit too many. Note that this should be played during playoffs or silly-/pre-season, not during regular season (and If, I would rather see 1 game per week, so not too many). This also depends on format - if you get experience, injuries from NT or not. In that case it is not so many more games and the server should take it easily - among 16 NTs, you play 8 games. If this is outside regular season (when 40 games are played each day), it should be just fine and even during regular season, 40/48 is not so big difference.

I'm liking this more and more. Can we somehow convince Anders to include this into the game? NTs would be playing some games independently, 1 per week, or only before/after regular season as some World Cup/Championship. It would be interesting to have this also with injury risk and experience added to players. Each NT should have manager, elected from the managers in the world, I guess. And the manager will make the selection.