2036/37 Regular Season
An uppy-downy, sometimes win lots in a row, sometimes lose lots in a row kind of season. Lots of injuries, some of them major, lots of players having to play out of position (Lucas Karmiris went from left wing to playing center half the season) but in the end Anchorage ended up with a record number of points (for Anchorage). 82 games played, 54 wins, 24 defeats, 3 loser points for a total of 111 points, previous best was 109. It wasn't enough to win the division though, Seattle Kraken got 118 points, but safely into the playoffs in 2nd place.
The most major of the major injuries was Oskar Vuollet, he broke his kneecap after 12 games and missed almost all the season. He was out 5 months and only just back. Plenty of other injuries too, Jordan Gavin, Henry Mews (who seems to get a lot of niggling short injuries in his old age), Enzo Landrey, a few others. Luckily not G Lucas Wall though because the new backup we signed is really really crap. He got a bit better after a disastrous start but he still ended up with a save percentage of .862 and his goals saved/60 mins meant he was worth almost 1.5 goals to the opponents every game. His name is Neil Pintaric, don't bother remembering it he'll be gone soon.
A lot of young players stepped up and got better, a lot of old players started getting worse (or injured), so this is one last run with the old guys. We're going youth movement next season. A final hurrah for Henry Mews, Lukas Karmiris, Urho Mattila and Kaden Pitre, they're not getting their big pay raise this summer, we made the retirement payday mistake with Podkolzin, not happening with this bunch.
I haven't posted the excel of the Anchorage roster for a while so here it is to pad out an otherwise short Regular Season post:
| Name | pos | Age | Nationality | Current | Potential | Years | Salary |
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| Goalies | | | | | | | |
| Lucas Wall | G | 25 | CAN | 5.0 | 5.0 | 2 | 1,560 |
| Neil Pintaric | G | 28 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 1,148 |
| Chwalislaw Janiszewski | G | 20 | POL | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 750 |
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| Defensemen | | | | | | | |
| Robin Hansson | LD | 27 | SWE | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 750 |
| Johan Dahlberg | LD | 24 | SWE | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3 | 1,580 |
| Matt Leader | LD | 22 | USA | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 750 |
| John Fireman | LD | 25 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 955 |
| Karl Schunemann | LD | 23 | GER | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 750 |
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| Henry Mews | RD | 31 | CAN | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1 | 8,510 |
| Alexander Filippov | RD | 30 | RUS | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 2,610 |
| Mark Dollack | RD | 23 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 821 |
| Joni-Jukka Timonen | RD | 22 | FIN | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2 | 750 |
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| Forwards | | | | | | | |
| Jordan Gavin | C | 30 | CAN | 5.0 | 5.0 | 2 | 12,410 |
| Oskar Vuollet | C | 31 | SWE | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 7,970 |
| Enzo Landrey | C | 21 | CAN | 3.5 | 4.0 | 1 | 834 |
| Kaden Pitre | C | 31 | CAN | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 6,330 |
| Spencer Ecclestone | C | 21 | CAN | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 834 |
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| David Prudek | LW | 25 | CZE | 3.5 | 3.5 | 5 | 3,673 |
| Urho Mattila | LW | 29 | FIN | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1 | 3,671 |
| Jeff Martin | LW | 25 | CAN | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4 | 5,223 |
| Jonas Lambert | LW | 27 | CAN | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 1,470 |
| Magnus Larsen | LW | 21 | DEN | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2 | 834 |
| Lucas Karmiris | LW | 30 | CAN | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 7,350 |
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| Borje Svensson | RW | 22 | SWE | 4.0 | 4.0 | 1 | 834 |
| August Pettersson | RW | 24 | SWE | 3.5 | 4.0 | 5 | 4,773 |
| Emil Kjelberg | RW | 27 | SWE | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2 | 1,140 |
| Peter Hrovatin | RW | 25 | SLV | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3 | 1,609 |
| Anssi Ridanpaa | RW | 18 | FIN | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3 | 750 |
| Juraj Hajdin | RW | 23 | SLV | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2 | 750 |
Edit - note that Peter Hrovatin is Slovenian and Juraj Hajdin is Slovakian but I've controversially gone for SLV as the three letter code for both countries.