2037-38 Regular Season
Just the regular old regular season this year, nothing out of the ordinary.
There were injuries, injuries as far as the eye could see, the game really likes you to have lots of depth. The worst injury happened early too, the third game of the season LD Johan Dahlberg took a shot to the noggin and has been out with a fractured skull since then, he wont be back til next season. At one point four of the top six defensemen were injured or suspended (great timing from John Fireman there), so we were deep into the AHL backups. Nineteen year old rookie Aaron Moody and his 1.0 current 1.5 potential ratings played 14 games. That didn't really work, he was well out of his depth. A couple of forwards tried their hand at defense too, that was even less successful. But we limped through the year, picked up a new defenseman from waivers for depth (welcome former Arizona, Calgary, Anaheim defenseman Reece Gault), and strolled to a playoff place again.
Despite all the injuries and shuffling, playoffs were pretty much locked in early. Vancouver Canucks ran away with the division, but it was Anchorage and Calgary fighting for second. By New Year we were already 12 points clear of the no-playoff teams. Never really in doubt.
So season end Vancouver won the Pacific with 122 points, Calgary second with 113, Anchorage in third with 109 (52 wins, 25 loses, 5 OT loses), Seattle 4th with 106 and Vegas in 5th with 102 points. Fifth in the Pacific got a mention because they won the second wild card, five teams into the playoffs from the Pacific Division. In fact 5th place Vegas got more points than everybody in the Central division, Nashville won the Central with 93, Minnesota on 93, St Louis on 92 and Chicago miss out on a wild card spot with 92 too.
Presidents Trophy winner was reigning Stanley Cup Champion Totonto Maple Leafs (that sounds weird) with 130 points, it's Toronto, Nova Scotia, Tampa Bay, Ottawa, NY Rangers, Columbus, Washington and Hartford in the playoffs in the East.
I've been messing about with the games CSV export options, so here are some badly formatted stats from your Anchorage Huskies:
| Pos | Name | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | Hits |
|---|
| D | Henry Mews | 78 | 12 | 41 | 53 | 30 | 38 | 126 |
| D | Mark Dollack | 62 | 3 | 34 | 37 | 19 | 16 | 77 |
| D | Reece Gault | 15 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| D | Alexander Filippov | 77 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 34 | 47 | 112 |
| D | John Fireman | 71 | 5 | 24 | 29 | 23 | 36 | 99 |
| D | Matt Leader | 66 | 6 | 21 | 27 | 21 | 21 | 81 |
| D | Axel Sandin Pellikka | 53 | 4 | 20 | 24 | 14 | 24 | 53 |
| D | Joni-Jukka Timonen | 52 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 50 |
| D | Aaron Moody | 14 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 2 | 11 |
| D | Johan Dahlberg | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| F | Jordan Gavin | 71 | 37 | 26 | 63 | 6 | 10 | 78 |
| F | Enzo Landrey | 76 | 26 | 30 | 56 | 37 | 25 | 58 |
| F | Börje Svensson | 79 | 17 | 37 | 54 | -5 | 25 | 144 |
| F | August Pettersson | 80 | 21 | 32 | 53 | 29 | 19 | 118 |
| F | Jonas Lambert | 76 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 26 | 12 | 94 |
| F | David Prudek | 74 | 17 | 26 | 43 | 17 | 58 | 191 |
| F | Magnus Larsen | 82 | 12 | 29 | 41 | 25 | 22 | 183 |
| F | Peter Hrovatin | 79 | 16 | 21 | 37 | 11 | 24 | 89 |
| F | Jeff Martin | 50 | 13 | 23 | 36 | 10 | 18 | 149 |
| F | Oskar Vuollet | 73 | 13 | 14 | 27 | -3 | 28 | 43 |
| F | Emil Kjellberg | 49 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 12 | 16 | 38 |
| F | Spencer Ecclestone | 49 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 20 | 4 | 34 |
| F | Anssi Ridanpää | 41 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 51 |
| F | Alexander Broda | 44 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 62 |
| F | Lucas Karmiris | 43 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -3 | 13 | 74 |
Main takeaway is Lucas Karmiris became an overpaid dud ahead of schedule, he'd lost his place by the end of the season, and hopeful prospect C Aleksandr Unichenko spent about a month in Anchorage complaining about being in a new team in a new country with no friends so he was loaned back to his Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslav for the year and doesnt show up on the list.
For the Free Agent follow up on the guys who left Anchorage last year, none of them had a team by opening day. Urho Mattila sat out the first two months of the season then signed for LA Kings on big money, Kaden Pitre sat out 4 months then signed for the Bruins on a one year minimum salary deal, played 4 games and got demoted to the AHL, and Robin Hansson sat out two months, signed for Columbus on a one year deal but is now out long term injured. So at least nobody sat out the year.
Onto the playoffs, Calgary Flames again. I think there's an option where you can turn off Divisional seeding in the playoffs, I'll be checking that out for a bit of variety.