360: NHL 07 Blues Mini-Dynasty

[MizzouRah]

This is an EaglesFan27 inspired dynasty. It will be low down and dirty. :)

Xbox 360 - NHL 07

I have both games and since EA's dynasty mode is a bit less envolving, I've decided it would be easier to do a mini-dynasty with their offering instead of 2k's.

Settings: All-Star - 10 min periods - manual shooting - the rest defaults

[MizzouRah]

Lines

Offense
Tkachuk - Weight - Guerin
McAmmond - Cajanek - Drake
Johnson - Hinote - Orszagh
Stempniak - McClement - Mayers

Defense
Jackman - Brewer
Backman - Salvador
McKee - Wideman

Goalies
Sanford
Bacashihua

[MizzouRah]

We start the 2006-07 season with 3 road games.

A 3-2 loss as San Jose wins their home opener.
A 4-3 loss to the LA Kings.
Backup goalie Jason Bacashihua makes his first start of the season and we lose in the shootout to Anaheim, but salvage a point 5-4.

Next up: Boston takes their 1-2 to St. Louis for our home opener.

I send Jay McClement down to the minors and bring up Peter Sejna to see if I can get our 4th line going with more than just checking.

[MizzouRah]

Boston (1-2-0) vs St. Louis (0-2-0)

Lines

Offense
Tkachuk - Weight - Guerin
McAmmond - Cajanek - Drake
Johnson - Hinote - Orszagh
Stempniak - Sejna - Mayers

Defense
Jackman - Brewer
Backman - Salvador
McKee - Wideman

Goalie
Sanford

[Poli]

Remind me to punch you when I get back to the States.

[MizzouRah]

Word.

[MizzouRah]

1st Period

0:22 Glenn Murray - BOS (una) 1-0 BOS
0:35 Marc Savard - BOS (B. Leetch) 2-0 BOS
3:59 Per-Johan Axelsson (SH) - BOS (M. Sturm) 3-0 BOS

At this point, I pull out G Sanford and bring in G Bacashihua.

7:57 Shean Donovan (PP) - BOS (A. Zhamnov) 4-0 BOS
17:47 Peter Sejna - STL (una) 4-1 BOS

Penalties

3:28 Paul Mara - BOS (elbowing)
6:07 Dan Hinote - STL (elbowing)
10:19 Dallas Drake - STL (elbowing)

End of 1st Period: BOS 4 - STL 1

Boston comes out like madmen and we get smoked for 3 early goals.

2nd Period

0:40 Glenn Murray - BOS (P. Bergeron) 5-1 BOS
10:34 Marco Sturm (PP) - BOS (M. Savard, S. Donovan) 6-1 BOS

Penalties

9:12 Jason Bacashihua - STL (delay of game)
10:57 Andrew Alberts - BOS (tripping)

End of 2nd Period: BOS 6 - STL 1

We are getting outplayed badly and Boston seems like they are way ahead of us talent wise.

3rd Period

6:43 Wayne Primeau - BOS (una) 7-1 BOS
10:13 Bill Guerin - STL (D. Weight, K. Tkachuk) 7-2 BOS
11:14 Per-Johan Axelsson - BOS (una) 8-2 BOS
12:56 Patrice Bergeron - BOS (B. Leetch, M. Savard) 9-2 BOS

Penalties

3:02 Dallas Drake - STL (elbowing)
7:07 Brad Stuart - BOS (tripping)
16:02 Dan Hinote - STL (elbowing)
16:38 Jay McKee - STL (fighting)
16:38 Zdeno Chara - BOS (fighting)
16:38 Zdeno Chara - BOS (fight instigating)

Final Score: BOS 9 - STL 2

What a total butt whoopin courtesy of the Bruins. Not much of a home opener there.

3 Stars

*** Christian Backman (STL)
** Marc Savard (BOS) 1 G, 2 A
* Tim Thomas (BOS) 36 saves



Next Game: vs Chicago Blackhawks (2-0-0-1)

[Eaglesfan27]

Ouch - that was a rough loss. Glad I inspired a down low and dirty dynasty :)

[MizzouRah]

Ouch - that was a rough loss. Glad I inspired a down low and dirty dynasty :)

Yeah, the one thing the framerate in NHL 07 bugs me is playing defense. If it had 2k7's framerate, this game would be almost perfect... well that and the dynamic camera. :)

I need a W badly. :(

[Poli]

Still punching you.

[MizzouRah]

Chicago starts backup and former Blues goalie Patrick LaLime.

1st Period

9:30: Bill Guerin (D.Weight, B. Jackman) 1-0 STL
9:42: Bryan Smolinski (D. Keith) 1-1

End of 1st Period: CHI 1 - STL 1

We're playing much better defense in front of Sanford.

2nd Period

12:41: Rene Bourque (una) 2-1 CHI
14:46: Adrian Aucon (T. Ruutu) 3-1 CHI

End of 2nd Period: CHI 3 - STL 3

3rd Period

1:35: Martin Lapointe (una) 4-1 CHI
9:05: Lee Stempniak (PP) (P. Sejna) 4-2 CHI
11:58: Jamal Mayers (L. Stempniak, D. Hinote) 4-3 CHI
Mayers sent the bottle flying off the net with this wrister.
14:45: Doug Weight (D. McAmmond) 4-4
Weight shot this one so hard it stuck in the back of the net. The Blues come back and score 3 unanswered goals to tie the game!

End of 3rd Period: CHI 4 - STL 4

OT

0:25: Bill Guerin (PP) (B. Jackman) 5-4 STL
Guerin scores his 2nd goal of the game on a beautiful feed from Barrett Jackman on the powerplay and the Blues come back and win their first game of the season!!!

Final Score: CHI 4 - STL 5


Next Game: Phoenix (4-1-0-0) at St. Louis (1-3-0-1)

[Poli]

Quit playing hockey. Get back to college football. Send me email. This, I demand.

[MizzouRah]

1st Period

10:41 PP Bill Guerin (K. Tkachuk) 1-0 STL
18:28 PP Shane Doan (E. Jovanowski, M. Comrie) 1-1

2nd Period

1:19 Doug Weight (K. Tkachuk) 2-1 STL

3rd Period

14:32 Peter Cajanek (D. McAmmond, D. Drake) 3-1 STL
19:53 EN Bill Guerin (K. Tkachuk, J. McKee) 4-1 STL


Final Score: CHI - 1 STL - 4

Three Stars

*** Keith Tkachuk - 0G, 3A
** Bill Guerin - 2G, 0A
* Curtis Sanford - 34 Saves

Next Up: Vancouver (3-1-0-3) at St. Louis (2-3-0-1)

Notes: Guerin leads the team with 5 goals, Weight has 4 goals, 2 assists.

[jbmagic]

What the over/under that Todd quits this dynasty? :)

I say 30 games.

[CraigSca]

What do you have against Todd, jb? You've be hounding him like you have a crush on him.

[jbmagic]

What do you have against Todd, jb? You've be hounding him like you have a crush on him.

Its all good. I am just kidding around with him.

Don't be jealous. :)

[MizzouRah]

quit sending me pm's asking me if I'm married..

[MizzouRah]

1st Period

2:49 Keith Tkachuk 1-0 STL
15:22 Jay McKee (R. Johnson) 2-0 STL

2nd Period

9:43 Marc Chouinard (J. Green, W. Mitchell) 2-1 STL
18:41 Keith Tkachuk (D. Weight, R. Johnson) 3-1 STL

3rd Period

1:54 Dallas Drake 4-1 STL
16:28 Matt Cook (J. King) 4-2 STL
17:23 Bill Guerin (K. Tkachuk, D. Weight) 5-2 STL

Final Score: VAN - 2 STL - 5

Three Stars

*** Doug Weight - 0G, 2A
** Curtis Sanford - 32 Saves
* Keith Tkachuk - 2G, 1A


Next Up: St. Louis (3-3-0-1) at Chicago (4-1-0-2)

Notes: RW Vladimir Orszagh is out until Nov 5th with a fractured right elbow. We sign McEachern to a 1 year deal and he will step onto the 3rd line with Johnson and Hinote.

[MizzouRah]

Chicago goes up early 1-0 on a goal by Pavel Vorobiev.

Our leading goal scorer, Bill Guerin gets hurt and we'll find out later the extent of it.

Dallas Drake ties the game at 1 with a nice rebound goal.

With a minute to go, Bryan Smolinski scores a shorthanded goal to put Chicago up 2-1 at the end of the first period.

Doug weight scores in the first minute of the second period and the score is tied 2-2.

Chicago goes on the powerplay and Duncan Keith gives them a 3-2 lead.

Peter Sejna puts a beautiful wrister by LaLime and once again we tie the game 3-3.

That tie is short lived as Martin Havlat scores on a breakaway to put Chicago up 4-3. That's where it will stand at the end of 2.

Tumo Ruutu gives Chicago a 5-3 lead and then goes in to defensive mode to win the game.

* We get word that Bill Guerin has a broken leg and will be out until at least December. Great...


Next up: St. Louis (3-4-0-1) at Detroit (5-4-0-1)

[jbmagic]

Did this dynasty died after just 8 games?

[Neuqua]

jb <3 Todd

[MizzouRah]

Actually it did died! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I've been playing NHL 2k7 again and well, TCY has been getting most of my free time.

C'mon it's not like it's anything new for my console game dynasties. :)