How's Your GM Mode going?

[DaRK]

This thread was really popular for NHL 13, so I decided that I might as well make a new one for NHL 14. The thread title explains itself, tell us about your GM Mode!

I started with the Devs. I scrapped a rebuild idea because there was good center depth and Brodeur + Schneider is great. Jagr, Clowe, Salvador, Zidlicky, and a few others were moved because their contracts are dumb/salary cap is tight. Ian White joined from free agency and St. Louis was traded for. Year 1 we missed the playoffs with a 44-30-8 record, which I was pretty happy about to be honest.

Cap is still pretty tight in year 2, but we added Daniel Sedin, which should help the offense and boost Zajac's productivity (he had 30 goals and 66 points last year, so he wasn't bad to begin with). St. Louis retired so we're struggling on RW depth but I think we'll be fine. My lineup:

Sedin|Zajac|Palmieri
Elias|Henrique|Ryder
Latendresse|Antropov|Ponikarovsky
Paille|Josefson|Machacek

Larsson|White
Green|Volchenkov
Redden|Fayne

Schneider
Brodeur

Palmieri and Ryder will probably alternate, but I think we're definitely some sort of playoff contenders. Larsson and Henrique need to progress more, too.

[weaponz248]

Sweet!!! Ill get my stuff up later but Im going with m Beloved BlackHawks!! Looking for a repeat.


Quick question, how many games do you play and how many do you sim?

[indcolts18288]

10-2-1 with the Champs Toews already has 28 points. Playing on all-star might have to bump it it up. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting good games with the CPU and others I feel like I dominate too much. I personally love the game. Yeah there's a few things EA could have done better but there's things EA can always do better. Going through a cold spell with Patrick Sharp though. Been tryin to feed him the puck but he's slumping. And sorry but I gotta promote my Patrick Kane spin-o-rama lol
http://youtu.be/qB_zcm1Vi44

Probably gonna have to pick up a center eventually in my franchise. Other than Toews'er and Handzus I'm struggling with face offs. But I see the Hawks in real life have the SaadFather playing some center in camp. Might try that out. Oh and I don't sim any games.

[indcolts18288]

Make that 10-3-1 lost to jets. Backup goalie.

[RockHabsFan]

Probably gonna start one as my Habs ... WHEN I AM ABLE TO GET THE GAME ! Can't wait to buy it ... whatever, I'll finish the last gm I did for NHL 13.

[weaponz248]

Kicking off the 2013 season with the Defending champs! Here is the line up I will be going with. Hossa and Kane might switch lines depending on performace.

2013 Chicago Blackhawks Depth Chart - 2013
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LW	P.Sharp	B.Saad	B.Bickell	J.Morin
C	J.Toews	M.Kruger	M.Handzus	B.Pirri
RW	M.Hossa	P.Kane	A.Shaw	J.Hayes
D #1	D.Keith	N.Hjalmarsson	N.Leddy
D #2	B.Seabrook	M.Rozsival	J.Oduya
G	C.Crawford	N.Khabibulin

For scouting I will be focusing mainly on Goalies and Centers.

My plan is to play a game a week and sim the rest. So up next for the BlackHawks:

VS CAPITALS
AT BLUES
VS MAPLE LEAFS
VS WILD
VS SENATORS

[KomicJ]

I got a rough start with my Habs, 4-5-1 after the first 10 games, but made some changes and won 7 straight. Line-up right now is...

M.Pacioretty - J.Huberdeau - E.Kane
R.Bourque - T.Plekanec - B.Gionta
S.Baertchi - A.Galchenyuk - B.Gallagher
T.Moen - R.White - B.Prust

A.Markov - P.Subban
K.Ballard - T.Brodie
D.Murray - F.Bouillon

C.Price
P.Budaj

Evander Kane right now is the leading scorer on the team, with 9 goals, 9 assists for 18 points, although the majority of it was with Winnipeg. Amazed that I could get players like him and Huberdeau, even with Trading Difficulty at Hard, without having to sacrifice much in return (Gorges is the best asset I had to give, along with 4 stars prospect Bozon). Still have Leblanc in the minors, still have Fucale. Still have both Tinordi and Beaulieu. Still have all my first round picks...the future looks bright in Montreal.

[weaponz248]

So October is over and the Blackhawks are 8-4-1. Started out rough as we lost our season opener 6-2 to the Capitals. We ended October on a 3 game win streak beating the Wild twice and the Senators once.

I made a couple of line up changes. I switched Hossa and Kane and Kruger and Handzus. This seems to have worked out well. Since the switch we are 5-1!

Currently the Blackhawks are second in Div B with 17 points(1 point out of 1st)

Sharp is our leading goal scorer with 6 and Hossa is our assist leader with 11. Seabrook has 26 PIMS and Sharp is a plus 11. Crawford has 6 wins.

UP next is November. The key games are:

AT Jets
AT Stars
AT Predators
AT Avalanche
AT Stars