NHL 11 GM summit

[BlueLineBomber]

Hey again guys, This is a remake of the old thread, since I still dont have enough time to put up a nice colum. I will be positing transactions that i make and league stats etc. I would like to make this an active thread so please dont hesitate to contribute your own gm moves, leave comments and whatever!

I am playing superstar diff 10 min periods authentic draft salary cap on GM difficulty on hard. No slider adjustments yet.

here are my moves to date

2010-2011 season

Trade:
D Jeff Finger (DFD) 2010 5th (NJ) 2010 (PHI)
TO NYR for:
C Erik Christensen (PLY) and G Chad Johnson (BUT)
Stats:
Finger: 79 OVR 2years @ 3.5m remaining c/c/c POT
Christensen: 79 OVR 2 years @ 925K remaining c/c/c POT 26 years old
Johnson: 74 OVR 1 year @ 850K remaining B-/B-/B- POT 24 years old
Comments:
I hate Jeff finger and they could have offered me a 7th round pick i would have traded him for it, just to get his cap hit off my books.

Sign:
D Garnet Exelby - 2 years @ 800K per season
Stats:
80 OVR (DFD) C/C/C POT 28 years old
Comments:
80 ovr defender thats got grit for cheap. Not much else to say

Sign:
C Christian Hanson - 3 years @ 900K per season
Stats:
75 OVR (TWF) B-/C/C POT 24 years old
Comments:
Pure depth chart signing, will spend the bulk of his time on the marlies.

Trade:
D Thomas Kaberle (TWD) D Mike Komisarek
TO Tampa bay for
D Victor Hedman 2011 2nd (TB)
Stats:
Kaberle 83 OVR 1 year @ 4.25 remaining C/C/C POT
Komisarek 84 OVR 4 years @ 4.5M remaining C/C/C POT
Hedman 82 OVR 2 years @ 1.32M remaining A-/A-/A- POT 19 years old
Comments:
This deal acomplished a couple of my season goals. 1) shed bloated salaries on players I dont feel justify them (komo) 2) I had no intention of re signing kaberle 3) I position lock LD since I hate controlling the entire team, and I wanted a big body offensivly minded D to play, trust me Hedman is a beast in this game!

Sign:
RW Austin Watson - 3 years @ 500K per season
Stats:
67 OVR (TWF) B/B/B POT 18 years old
Comments:
Restocking the barn, my farm club is desolate of talent.

Sign:
C Jeff Skinner - 3 years @ 500K per season
Stats:
68 OVR (SNP) B/B/B POY 18 years old
Comments:
Restocking the barn, my farm club is desolate of talent.

Sign:
LW Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson - 3 years @ 900K per season
Stats:
68 OVR (SNP) B/B/B POT 19 years old
Comments:
Restocking the barn, my farm club is desolate of talent. I swear this guy is on edmonton IRL, but hey ill take him with no complaint :P

Sign:
RW Robert Nilsson - 5 years @ 1.23M per season
Stats:
80 OVR (PLY) C/C/C POT 25 years old
Comments:
Long term, cheap price, and a good center. I need players to build with long term at hopefully good prices, so I can bring in high end talent. Guys with this will solidify that for me.

Sign:
RW Bill Guerin - 1 year @ 790K per season
Stats:
82 OVR (PWF) D/D/D POT 39 years old
Comments:
I am lacking forward talent and if Geurin scores even 10 goals and 20 points ill be extreamly happy. And hey in the spirit of hockey, I have a young team and need some vets for leadership.

Sign
RW Paul Kariya - 1 year @ 1.8M per season
Stats:
82 OVR (SNP) C/C-/C- POT 25 years old
Comments:
I expect more out of Paul then I do guerin, I would like to see 30 points out of him.

Trade:
D Dion Phaneuf 2011 7th (TOR)
TO WSH for
C Nicklas Backstrom
Stats:
Phaneuf (TWD) 84 OVR 4 years @ 6.5M C/C/C POT 25 years old
Backstrom (PLY) 89 OVR 11 years @ 6.56M C/B-/C POT 20 years old
Comments:
Again I am shedding bloated contracts, Bringing in a Peice I will build my team around, I expect the world of Backstrom and especially the next couple of season he will have to be my go to guy or the team will flounder.

Season expectations:
Honestly, not much. If I can maintain a 500 win percentage I will be happy.

Trading block and future moves:
I would like to move Beauchemin Grabovski and Giguere
I would like to bring in a second pairing OFD and 3 top 6 forwards, my bottem 6 are decent.
I would like to bring in an entire new set of goal tenders.

[BlueLineBomber]

Opening line up

Line 1
LW (SNP) P. Kariya 82 C (PLY) N. Backstrom 89 RW (SNP) P. Kessel 84
LD (TWD) V. Hedman 82 RD (DFD) F. Beauchemin 82

Line 2
LW (TWF) K. Versteeg 81 C (PLY) M. Grabovski 82 RW (PWF) B. Guerin 82
LD (DFD) G. Exelby 80 RD (DFD) L. Schenn 81

Line 3
LW (SNP) N. Kulemin 80 C (PLY) R. Nilsson RW 80 (GRN) C. Armstrong 81
LD (DFD) M. Jones 74 RD (DFD) B. Lebda 77

Line 4
LW (GRN) F. Sjostrom 78 C (PLY) E. Christensen 79 RW (TWF) J. Mitchell 79

Goalie
(BUT) J. Giguere 84
(BUT) J. Gustavsson 80

Captains
C - B. Guerin
A- N. Backstrom
A - L. Schenn

[BlueLineBomber]

Heh so in game two kariya gets slammed into the boards and blows a hip, he will be out for two weeks. I will be shifting current LW forwards up a line and calling up LW (SNP) Luca Caputi 74. He will hold down the fourth line untill Kariya has fully recovered, I wont play him injured at this point.

[BlueLineBomber]

The game I get Kariya back for Grabovski gets put out for two weeks.
I called up C (PLY) Tyler Bozak 79 He will get time on the third line untill grabovski returns

[HeroWorship]

Woah, what a way to clear space and get better. I thought the Finger trade was funny. No team would give up a potentially starting goalie and a third-line center for him.

Getting Hedman was a good move (and getting rid of Komsarek and his $4.5 million salary), but you did lose good depth, and seeing Matt Jones and Brett Ledba as a pairing must be a dekers dream.

And the Nilsson signing seems meh. For 5 years is absurd. Maybe a 2-3 year deal, but eh. Oh, and Guerin as your captain is beast.

Good luck with this. Sucks that you lost Kariya, then when he comes back, you lose Grabovski.

[BlueLineBomber]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeroWorship

Woah, what a way to clear space and get better. I thought the Finger trade was funny. No team would give up a potentially starting goalie and a third-line center for him. Getting Hedman was a good move (and getting rid of Komsarek and his $4.5 million salary), but you did lose good depth, and seeing Matt Jones and Brett Ledba as a pairing must be a dekers dream. And the Nilsson signing seems meh. For 5 years is absurd. Maybe a 2-3 year deal, but eh. Oh, and Guerin as your captain is beast. Good luck with this. Sucks that you lost Kariya, then when he comes back, you lose Grabovski.

yeah i was very happy when they approached me with the finger trade.
The thing with Nilsson is I get him for cheap for 5 years so i can bring in some top end expensive talent by saving money on him and others.

It was funny in a way that kariya went down with another hip injury

[AustSaint]

I like the way you have started, I am planning on doing a similar thing with my team, young and cheap with a couple of veterans to give them someone to talk to about being a professional hockey player.

[mikko1995]

Nice trades, the Leafs look solid now. If you could get a 75-77 ovr. OFD to play with Lebda, it would look absolutely great.