Boston Bruins - NHL 2K3 (PS2)

[Malignant]

I created some nice slider settings for NHL 2K3 so I decided to sim a few seasons with the Boston Bruins and continue from there.

The first season saw us finish 8th in the Eastern Conference, where we lost the Quarter-Final series 4-2 to Washington. As I initially made the franchise mode difficult (by notching the franchise difficulty slider to full) it meant my budget was going to be tight if I had a poor season.

The next two seasons saw me finish with the 6th overall pick in the draft, followed by the 3rd overall pick. It meant I could pick up some good young players but due to the lower budget I had to say good bye to a lot of free-agents. It also didn't help that I decided to keep Joe Thornton with a 6-year $42m contract.

The goaltending position was interesting after the second season, as I decided to let go of Steve Shields. It meant I had three goaltenders with a 71 overall rating. John Grahame, Andrew Raycroft and a young Latvian named Bakis Ivanov (who I drafted in the 3rd round after the first season). I decided to give Ivanov another season in the minors, which left both Raycroft and Grahame to fight it out. Raycroft ended the season with the better numbers, so before I started season four I promoted Ivanov to see if he could un-seat Raycroft.

We finished the fourth season in 8th position and earned ourselves a quarter-final series with the New Jersey Devils. Ivanov had the better goaltending numbers so I decided to ride with him for Game One...

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Gomez scores in OT to hand Game One to the Devils

2-3



1st Period
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0:47 J.Thornton (S.Samsonov, S.O'Donnell)
4:51 M.McInnis

2nd Period
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0:29 J.Langenbrunner (SH)
18:45 P.Elias (J.Langenbrunner)

3rd Period
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None

OT Period
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8:43 S.Gomez (PP) (B.Gionta, B.Rafalski)

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Elias scores in OT to give Devils two game advantage

1-2



1st Period
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None

2nd Period
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5:04 A.Wetterstrom

3rd Period
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6:36 J.Madden (C.Berglund, A.Salomonsson)

OT Period
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7:59 P.Elias (O.Tverdovsky)

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Goal blitz in 2nd period brings Boston back into series

2-4



1st Period
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3:03 C.Berglund (J.Madden, A.Salomonsson)
5:34 R.Zamuner
10:35 S.Gomez (J.Bicek)

2nd Period
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3:28 L.Dougherty
14:50 C.Trinetta (S.O'Donnell, A.Hilbert)
15:30 B.Rolston (S.O'Donnell, M.McInnis)

3rd Period
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None

[kessthemess]

Go Bruins!!

Keep it up, and nice win!

[Madman55]

Looking good. Always nice to see some older game dynasties.

[GoldenJet]

Very nice man, good job and keep it up.

[kessthemess]

BTW, how are you taking those pictures?