How's Your GM Mode Going?

[TheKid40]

Re: How's Your GM Mode Going?

I started a new BeaGM with the 11/7 rosters. Lost our opener 3-2 to the Rangers, Paajarvi had both goals for us. We had many chances though but Lundqvist was stellar in goal for the Rangers. Next up is Calgary at home.

Are many players edited with the 11/7 rosters? Or is there not much of a change. I'm a couple games into my BAGM and would hate to restart.

[MizzouRah]

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Are many players edited with the 11/7 rosters? Or is there not much of a change. I'm a couple games into my BAGM and would hate to restart.

Not much change from what I can tell... at least for the Blues.

We beat Calgary 4-1 for our first win of the season! Backes had two goals and Elliott stopped 27 out of 28 shots. Next up we hit the road and head to LA to take on the Stanley Cup Champion LA Kings.

[lpmuston]

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Played lots of games tonight. The Senators sit at 32-20-6 last 10 games 5-3-2. Bobby Ryan has lost his scoring mojo... Indeed the whole first line Michalek-Turris-Ryan is ice cold right now. For luck 2nd and 3rd lines have scored well.

Did some trades:
Colin Greening and a first round pick went to Florida for kopecky and bergenheim. Chris Neill went to buffalo For meszaros and Stewart. Not star kaliber moves but had been useful. Especially bergenheim and kopecky have played well. I might trade meszaros and something else for some decent scoring defenseman... Any ideas?

Last game I lost to the road match against the Ducks after penalties, next one is a tough match in Los angeles against the local club...

[MizzouRah]

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LA tops us 4-2 (one was an EN) but it was a hard fought game. Next up is Arizona, Jake Allen will get his first start in goal for the Blues.

[ASUBoy93]

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Started a new GM Mode with Phoenix and did a couple trades.

Traded Vermette and a 3rd to St Louis for their 2016 1st.

Traded Shane Doan, Sam Gagner, Michael Stone, 2015 2nd, 2016 1st and got Victor Hedman,Vladimir Namestnikov, Eric Brewer and Anton Stralman.

How DARE you trade The Doaner. Yotes fans would see you strung up on the streets by your ankles, no matter the return.

I kid, but seriously though, you can't trade Doan, he's a Yote for life.

[Nomah5]

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As a season ticket holder to the yotes ( hockey fan but major canucks fan) I cant stand doan. He and mike smith are the biggest whiny babies ever. Haha.

[TheKid40]

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Played lots of games tonight. The Senators sit at 32-20-6 last 10 games 5-3-2. Bobby Ryan has lost his scoring mojo... Indeed the whole first line Michalek-Turris-Ryan is ice cold right now. For luck 2nd and 3rd lines have scored well.

Did some trades:
Colin Greening and a first round pick went to Florida for kopecky and bergenheim. Chris Neill went to buffalo For meszaros and Stewart. Not star kaliber moves but had been useful. Especially bergenheim and kopecky have played well. I might trade meszaros and something else for some decent scoring defenseman... Any ideas?

Last game I lost to the road match against the Ducks after penalties, next one is a tough match in Los angeles against the local club...

Chris Neil netted you both Meszaros and Stewart?! That was a steal!

[lpmuston]

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Ahh, one phrase missing. Neil, first round pick and one hot prospect for mez and stew.

Played two games tonight. Won L.A. 4-1 Ryan scored a hat trick. Lost away to San jose 1-0. Now back home to meet Minnesota. It will be a tough match.

33-21-6

[MizzouRah]

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We fall to 1-3-0 after Arizona kills us, 5-0. Paul Stastny gets injured and will be out for at least 10 days. We call up Ty Rattie, maybe he'll ignite a spark on this team. We head to Anaheim to take on the Ducks who are also 1-3-0 and without Ryan Getzlaf.

Would be nice to finish this road trip with a win!

[TheKid40]

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Ahh, one phrase missing. Neil, first round pick and one hot prospect for mez and stew.

Played two games tonight. Won L.A. 4-1 Ryan scored a hat trick. Lost away to San jose 1-0. Now back home to meet Minnesota. It will be a tough match.

33-21-6

Picking up Stewart and bolstering your defense with Meszaros was a really smart move for the Sens, great moves. I'm assuming you're looking for the playoff push? What's your updated record? Good luck in the coming games.

[Deekeyd]

How's Your GM Mode Going?

Idk how long its been since I last posted, but here I go.

Started a GM Mode with Nashville. Way too many centers on the team, so I made a couple of trades.

To Detroit:
C Derek Roy
C Mike Ribiero
To Nashville:
LW Gustav Nyquist
2015 6th round pick

To Boston:
C Matt Cullen
2015 3rd round pick
To Nashville:
RW Reilly Smith

I thought the Boston trade was a great deal for me. I signed RW Colby Armstrong and LW Ryan Jones. I thought my defense was good, so I didn't touch it.

Going 9-5-1 with the Preds (simming games) so I think my team is gonna do alright this year.

Do you think those trades were good? Let me know.

[MizzouRah]

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Anaheim beats us 4-3 and we go win less on the road trip.

Even this early in the season, I feel like we need a shake up. We have a ton of centers and I would like another left winger, preferably a veteran with playoff experience. After looking at the team trade blocks, I give the New Jersey GM a call and we spend hours working on a deal for LW Patrik Elias. After several hours and a night to sleep on it, I give him another call and we finally ink this deal:

To Blues:

LW Patrik Elias
D Adam Larsson

To New Jersey:

C Steve Ott
D Carl Gunnarsson

Ott was a do it all player for us, killing penalties and bringing a toughness to the 4th line. I tried to deal Jackman, but they wanted Gunnarsson. I think Larsson will learn a lot from Shattenkirk and even though Elias is 38 and has a decent sized contract, he'll bring his two Stanley Cup Championships experience with him to St. Louis. He still has one more year on this contract too, which might make our cap compliance a bit more complicated next year.

[MizzouRah]

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We insert Elias and Larsson into the starting lineup and introduce them to the sell out crowd at Scottrade.

Elias gets two assists as we play our best game of the season and crush goaltender Ryan Miller and the Vancouver Canucks 7-2!

We get a day off and then the Central Division leading Chicago Blackhawks come to town.

[moose141]

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Going to be starting up a Penguins video career mode!

Episode 1 is here and in the books:

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[lpmuston]

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Picking up Stewart and bolstering your defense with Meszaros was a really smart move for the Sens, great moves. I'm assuming you're looking for the playoff push? What's your updated record? Good luck in the coming games.

Thanks man, I really look forward making an impact this years playoffs. Traded players are not too young, but hard working experienced warriors. Bergenheim seems to be a great trade also: 5 goals already...

And then what has happened:
Won Minnesota 3-1. It was a tough match as predicted. Eventually scored 3 times in the third.

Next up was Winnipeg. Bitter loss 3-2. That one was the last of our road trip games. Minnesota was also a road match. Referring to my earlier post I thought it was already a home game but no.

Finally when we got back home, we met the Sabres. Won 4-2 with Karlsson returning to roster from injury. Bad luck though, I lost Ryan for 10 days. Ceci is also out.

Next match is against Calgary(32-27-6) at home.

We are second in the division with the record 35-22-6. Looking good considering the playoffs... But those road games give me gray hair. So much less energy in those than playing at home. It will kill me in the playoffs if we make it there.

Lots of things in my mind about this game. I don't give a **** about those whiners who do think this game is a disaster etc. Good, competitive versatile matches throughout with own custom sliders. I don't even bother writing everything down here, but I find this hell a lot of a fun!!