2024/25 Preseason
Rookie Draft
Re-loading until Anchorage got a later draft pick didn't work out so well, so Anchorage had the 5th pick. I accidentally overwrote my backups and couldn't rerun the lottery. At least I didn't get 1st pick. There was not enough time to scout anybody so the draft was almost all guided by the mock draft.
So Henry Mews, Emil Hemming, Chris Thibodeua and a four other guys who'll probably never be mentioned were welcomed to the Anchorage Huskies. They were our first, and at that point only, players. All over 6 foot, all around 200lbs, big lads. I dont think any of them will make the NHL this year, but it's a start.
Free Agency
My cunning plan for free agency was to snap up all the youngish players who were currently borderline NHL-ers in the hope they'd improve with playing time, then once I had most of the roster stacked with prospects I'd fill in the gaps with cheap experienced free agents on short deals. Unfortunately with expansion just past every team had gaps to fill so it was a sellers market and my targets kept getting snapped up elsewhere. My cunning plan soon became "just get enough players for a team, anybody will do".
I also discovered that sometimes when your scout says "boss! boss! I've found us a good player who's a great bargain!!", you're scout might be totally wrong and when the player turns up he'll be dire. The goaltenders are a good example of that.
So long story short, the Anchorage Huskies blow. Maybe record-breaking-ly bad.
| Name | pos | Age | Nationality | Current | Potential | Years | Salary |
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| Goalies | | | | | | | |
| Zach Fucale | G | 29 | CAN | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 1,150 |
| Brayden Peters | G | 22 | CAN | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 750 |
| Hunter Shepard | G | 28 | USA | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 1,290 |
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| Defensemen | | | | | | | |
| Jakob Dion | LD | 22 | CAN | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2 | 750 |
| Jacob Bryson | LD | 26 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3 | 1,570 |
| Brenden Dillon | LD | 33 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.0 | 3 | 2,502 |
| Niko Mikkola | LD | 28 | FIN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 969 |
| Oscar Plandowski | RD | 21 | CAN | 1.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 883 |
| Michael Stone | RD | 34 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 750 |
| Darren Radysh | RD | 28 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 750 |
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| Forwards | | | | | | | |
| Tommy Cormier | C | 20 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3 | 750 |
| Odeen Tufto | C | 27 | USA | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 750 |
| Jakov Novak | C | 25 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 750 |
| Sam Carrick | C | 32 | CAN | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 750 |
| Anthony Richard | C | 27 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 1,051 |
| Tyler Savard | LW | 21 | CAN | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3 | 852 |
| Liam Gilmartin | LW | 21 | USA | 1.5 | 3.0 | 3 | 750 |
| Yauheni Aksiantsiuk | LW | 23 | BLR | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 878 |
| Carl Grundstrom | LW | 26 | SWE | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 750 |
| Jiri Sekac | LW | 32 | CZE | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 1,051 |
| Alex Galchenyuk | LW | 30 | USA | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 953 |
| Justin Danforth | RW | 31 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 1,843 |
| Jesper Fast | RW | 32 | SWE | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 1,092 |
| Warren Foegele | RW | 28 | CAB | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 1,559 |
| Anatoli Golyshev | RW | 29 | RUS | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 1,260 |
A selection of bottom 6 and depth players, not many of them with room for improvement. At least they're cheap, they're about 30mil below the salary floor so plenty of room to snag anybody on waivers.
Post after the next post will take us to the All-Star break. Not much chance of avoiding last place is my guess.