Csizi96

So, continuing with S11 teams. I won't upload Italy again, as only a few changes: 2-3 old guys retired, but no young superstar or anything else came across. So let's go forward with Team Ukraine( Yellow and Blue). In real life they are the worst in the world rankings of the nationalities in the game. 
But they have 5 defenders playing in GHL, and their D line is in very good age. In offense they have the legendary Kyrylo Voloshin, 800+ GHL regular season and almost 100 playoff match, close to point/match in both categories. Then there's Pavlo Savaryn, who looks like gonna continue Kyrylo's fame, and his best years are still to come. Their offense is quite old tho, but they have good talents on the way. Their only problem could be the goalie depth, if Fedorenko is injured, they will be in massive trouble. But with this brutal firepower on their best day they can be a huge challenge for the big teams too.
 

Next up are the Eagles. 
If you look at them, their core team looks like a good, stable average one, with no real stars but reliable guys all around. The D has plenty of talent with the already grown youngsters. They have even younger forwards who are not elite level, but could be good depth players in the future (didn't look at ratings..:D ). Key players will be Sandro Koch from the Black Devils who looks very good at the age of 23, the same could be said about Foresters' D-man Angelo Braun, and Razorbacks experienced  goalie Yannik Meyer. They look like a good mix in every aspects of personality traits also. (By the way, if anyone knows how to represent Belarus flag in excel, heeelp. that white-red stripe on the left is killing me, l tried, but looks lame..  )

Next team is Risi (meanin Lynx).
At first they look like a good middle tier team, who are very nice off the ice, but kinda tough to meet them at the game. It looks like they have 2 quite good lines, and then quality drops a bit, but for a small nation like them, I guess it's normal. Their top attackers are Jan Kosir (Golden Flyers) and Dominik Oresnik (Razorbacks) who can pull this team in their prime years. On the D side, by far the top pair is Davor Novak (Hawks) and Alexander Pirjevec (Outlaws), who are stilly very young, so the future looks bright. In goal 3 kinda similar players: Uros Horvat looks the best, and he is quite Heroic, but here form can be a big factor when picking the starter
 

Next team is Risi (meanin Lynx).
At first they look like a good middle tier team, who are very nice off the ice, but kinda tough to meet them at the game. It looks like they have 2 quite good lines, and then quality drops a bit, but for a small nation like them, I guess it's normal. Their top attackers are Jan Kosir (Golden Flyers) and Dominik Oresnik (Razorbacks) who can pull this team in their prime years. On the D side, by far the top pair is Davor Novak (Hawks) and Alexander Pirjevec (Outlaws), who are stilly very young, so the future looks bright. In goal 3 kinda similar players: Uros Horvat looks the best, and he is quite Heroic, but here form can be a big factor when picking the starter
 

Next up are the Eagles. 
If you look at them, their core team looks like a good, stable average one, with no real stars but reliable guys all around. The D has plenty of talent with the already grown youngsters. They have even younger forwards who are not elite level, but could be good depth players in the future (didn't look at ratings..:D ). Key players will be Sandro Koch from the Black Devils who looks very good at the age of 23, the same could be said about Foresters' D-man Angelo Braun, and Razorbacks experienced  goalie Yannik Meyer. They look like a good mix in every aspects of personality traits also. (By the way, if anyone knows how to represent Belarus flag in excel, heeelp. that white-red stripe on the left is killing me, l tried, but looks lame..  )

Next up are the Eagles. 
If you look at them, their core team looks like a good, stable average one, with no real stars but reliable guys all around. The D has plenty of talent with the already grown youngsters. They have even younger forwards who are not elite level, but could be good depth players in the future (didn't look at ratings..:D ). Key players will be Sandro Koch from the Black Devils who looks very good at the age of 23, the same could be said about Foresters' D-man Angelo Braun, and Razorbacks experienced  goalie Yannik Meyer. They look like a good mix in every aspects of personality traits also. (By the way, if anyone knows how to represent Belarus flag in excel, heeelp. that white-red stripe on the left is killing me, l tried, but looks lame..  )

I swear my boy Petro Kovalchuk has changed nationality twice since I drafted him

So, continuing with S11 teams. I won't upload Italy again, as only a few changes: 2-3 old guys retired, but no young superstar or anything else came across. So let's go forward with Team Ukraine( Yellow and Blue). In real life they are the worst in the world rankings of the nationalities in the game. 
But they have 5 defenders playing in GHL, and their D line is in very good age. In offense they have the legendary Kyrylo Voloshin, 800+ GHL regular season and almost 100 playoff match, close to point/match in both categories. Then there's Pavlo Savaryn, who looks like gonna continue Kyrylo's fame, and his best years are still to come. Their offense is quite old tho, but they have good talents on the way. Their only problem could be the goalie depth, if Fedorenko is injured, they will be in massive trouble. But with this brutal firepower on their best day they can be a huge challenge for the big teams too.
 

Yes sure. I did 4 or 5 back then. If l find the files, and refresh, l can post them. Hopefully during the weekend l can do that

Buzzed by Paul's idea in Cage, I started to put together some small nations' national team squads. I did in 14 F, 8 D, 3 G format, tried to split the 14 into 5 C + 9 F, but where centers were clearly better than the last few forwards there I went with them. Just to be clear, I only looked at overall (what I try to avoid when building my team tho), so it's rather the best team than the right one  Any questions, requests, advice and comments are welcome as well  I also used a bit more colors in the player traits, according to the order of traits in the help files
Let's start with the Gli Azzurri roster here too:
Interesting to see they have a lot of free agents, almost no depth in wingers, and their best goalie is down in the Czech league. 
Ones to watch: Pablo Zambrotta, the 87 ovr center and Samuele Perico, the 84 ovr defender, both with plenty of GHL experience, and Cristian Diego Alves, the recent BHL draftee who can grow into an important player for this team.
As you can see, their D-line is getting old, but they try to compensate it with size and toughness

Buzzed by Paul's idea in Cage, I started to put together some small nations' national team squads. I did in 14 F, 8 D, 3 G format, tried to split the 14 into 5 C + 9 F, but where centers were clearly better than the last few forwards there I went with them. Just to be clear, I only looked at overall (what I try to avoid when building my team tho), so it's rather the best team than the right one  Any questions, requests, advice and comments are welcome as well  I also used a bit more colors in the player traits, according to the order of traits in the help files
Let's start with the Gli Azzurri roster here too:
Interesting to see they have a lot of free agents, almost no depth in wingers, and their best goalie is down in the Czech league. 
Ones to watch: Pablo Zambrotta, the 87 ovr center and Samuele Perico, the 84 ovr defender, both with plenty of GHL experience, and Cristian Diego Alves, the recent BHL draftee who can grow into an important player for this team.
As you can see, their D-line is getting old, but they try to compensate it with size and toughness

Buzzed by Paul's idea in Cage, I started to put together some small nations' national team squads. I did in 14 F, 8 D, 3 G format, tried to split the 14 into 5 C + 9 F, but where centers were clearly better than the last few forwards there I went with them. Just to be clear, I only looked at overall (what I try to avoid when building my team tho), so it's rather the best team than the right one  Any questions, requests, advice and comments are welcome as well  I also used a bit more colors in the player traits, according to the order of traits in the help files
Let's start with the Gli Azzurri roster here too:
Interesting to see they have a lot of free agents, almost no depth in wingers, and their best goalie is down in the Czech league. 
Ones to watch: Pablo Zambrotta, the 87 ovr center and Samuele Perico, the 84 ovr defender, both with plenty of GHL experience, and Cristian Diego Alves, the recent BHL draftee who can grow into an important player for this team.
As you can see, their D-line is getting old, but they try to compensate it with size and toughness

Buzzed by Paul's idea in Cage, I started to put together some small nations' national team squads. I did in 14 F, 8 D, 3 G format, tried to split the 14 into 5 C + 9 F, but where centers were clearly better than the last few forwards there I went with them. Just to be clear, I only looked at overall (what I try to avoid when building my team tho), so it's rather the best team than the right one  Any questions, requests, advice and comments are welcome as well  I also used a bit more colors in the player traits, according to the order of traits in the help files
Let's start with the Gli Azzurri roster here too:
Interesting to see they have a lot of free agents, almost no depth in wingers, and their best goalie is down in the Czech league. 
Ones to watch: Pablo Zambrotta, the 87 ovr center and Samuele Perico, the 84 ovr defender, both with plenty of GHL experience, and Cristian Diego Alves, the recent BHL draftee who can grow into an important player for this team.
As you can see, their D-line is getting old, but they try to compensate it with size and toughness

Hello!
 
As i saw several GHL power rankings, I felt that why not see what's going on a league below, this feeling combined with how I love power rankings made me to create this ranking. I calculated using erzac's method (http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/7614-ghl-s10-power-rankings/?do=findComment&comment=27461), after day 5, so right before the season starts. So here is the ranking of Howitzer SHL
 
1. Stockton Thunderbolts (GM: Emille Hamilton)
      OFF: 86 DEF: 86 SG: 82 OVR: 84.2
Previous Finish: Relegated from GHL
(They had only 7 Attackers, 4 Defenders and 1 Goalie) 
 
2. Walkerton Blue Knights (GM: Charlie Burnaby)
      OFF: 71 DEF: 84 SG: 90 OVR: 83,7
Previous Finish: Relegated from GHL
 
3. Parkville Kingsmen (Computer)
      OFF: 79 DEF: 82 SG: 86 OVR: 82,8
Previous Finish: 13th 
 
4. Coquitlam Seahawks (GM: Dean Turner)
      OFF: 81 DEF: 84 SG: 83 OVR: 82,8
Previous Finish: 3th, Eliminated second round
 
5. Green Lane Citizens (Computer)
      OFF: 82 DEF: 81 SG: 83 OVR: 82,0
Previous Finish: 2nd, Eliminated first round 
 
6. Buckingham Breakers (Computer)
      OFF: 82 DEF: 84 SG: 80 OVR: 81,9
Previous Finish: 6th, Eliminated first round
 They have only 10 Attackers
 
7. Bakersville Bears (GM: Brett McLellan)
      OFF: 81 DEF: 80 SG: 84 OVR: 81,8
Previous Finish: 4th,  eliminated second round 
 
8. Batchawana Speedy Cats (GM: Máté Csizmadia)
      OFF: 81 DEF: 81 SG: 83 OVR: 81,7
Previous Finish: 9th
 
9. Walleyview Pharaos (Computer)
      OFF: 80 DEF: 80 SG: 84 OVR: 81,4
Previous Finish: 7th
 
10. Deadwood Desperados (GM: Mario Lemieux)
      OFF: 80 DEF: 80 SG: 83 OVR: 81,2
Previous Finish: 8th
 
11. North Atlanta Bearcats (GM: John LeClair)
      OFF: 80 DEF: 80 SG: 83 OVR: 81,1
Previous Finish: Promoted from BHL
 
12. West Rushville Oilers (Computer)
      OFF: 81 DEF: 80 SG: 82 OVR: 80,8
Previous Finish: 12th
 
13. Copper Mountain Bandits (GM: M. Holmes)
      OFF: 78 DEF: 78 SG: 84 OVR: 80,4
Previous Finish: Promoted from BHL
 
14. Tway Twisters (Computer)
      OFF: 78 DEF: 80 SG: 81 OVR: 80,0
Previous Finish: 11th
 
15. Arkadelphia All Stars (GM: Kirk Regan)
      OFF: 78 DEF: 78 SG: 81 OVR: 79,0
Previous Finish: Promoted from BHL
 
16. Miami Phantoms (Computer)
      OFF: 81 DEF: 77 SG: 76 OVR: 77,6
Previous Finish: 10th
 
As you can see, the teams relegated here have some roster problems, for the Thunderbolts I'm sure it's affecting the strenhth, but that's their team at the moment. I will be eager to see how can they cope with the lack of depth, and who can they sign so late. For me the biggest question is that can the Blue Knights' defense and star goalie win matches instead of their weakly looking offense ( or as they say Defense wins championships- can it happen in hockey also?) 
 
Good luck to everyone, it looks like a close season, maybe only the Phantoms look a bit weaker than the others, everyone else looks to have a chance. If you want some updates, tell me, I don't know how much time will I have, but I will do my best!

Thumbs up, Csizi!  I love reading these power rankings for the leagues, especially to see if the season plays out according to them.

Hi! I'm Máté frm Hungary, manager of the Mountain Lakes Fighting Camels, trying to help this little team from the sand to the top Played in prototype too, then started here in the BHL then got to the GHL in 2 seasons, now fighting for staying in the top league and carry on my job. Good luck everyone