Tazer19's Blackhawks Dynasty

[Tazer19]

Quote: Originally Posted by bpete07

Tazer, are you playing with CPU trades on or off? I know last year guys said there would be ridiculous trades which would never happen in real life and would only turn trades on 2 weeks before the deadline. What are you seeing?

CPU trades on all year, have not seen crazy stupid trades either, maybe I'm lucky?

[Tazer19]

Quote: Originally Posted by bpete07

Great move, how is Morin doing this year?

Playing really well, very excited about it, currently playing on the second line LW with Giroux and Okposo. Dynamic line for sure, currently an 80 overall... His entry level deal is up after this year, hope he doesn't want too much! Good to see you on here again Bpete, thanks for following.

[bpete07]

Had to do some catching up, too bad about last years playoffs, hopefully you get the cup this year. Any changes to the sliders? Still on CPU '6' difficulty?

[Tazer19]

Quote: Originally Posted by bpete07

Had to do some catching up, too bad about last years playoffs, hopefully you get the cup this year. Any changes to the sliders? Still on CPU '6' difficulty?

Haven't touched them and I'm still getting pretty solid games, it's fun playing when you know you actually have to beat the CPU team you are playing against. Instead of always having an advantage.

Team is coming together nicely now, have another good change to make a run at the cup this year.

[Tazer19]

Rockford IceHogs Monthly Report

January 2014

Home - January 3, 2014
WIN (1-0) (OT) - Niemi

Home - January 4, 2014
LOSS (3-2) - Myrvold

Away - January 5, 2014
LOSS (3-2) (SO) - Niemi

Away - January 10, 2014
LOSS (4-0) - Niemi

Home - January 11, 2014
LOSS (1-0) - Myrvold

Home - January 12, 2014
WIN (4-1) - Niemi

Away - January 15, 2014
LOSS (8-4) - Niemi

Away - January 16, 2014
WIN (3-1) - Niemi

Away- January 19, 2014
LOSS (3-2) (SO) - Myrvold

Away - January 21, 2014
WIN (4-2) - Niemi

Home - January 24, 2014
LOSS (4-1) - Niemi

Away - January 25, 2014
WIN (4-1) - Myrvold

Home - January 31, 2014
WIN (4-1) - Niemi

This Months Record (6 - 5 - 2) - 14 Points
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Season Record (24 - 15 - 3) - 51 Points
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Inside the Numbers (AHL RANK)
Goals For Per Game: 2.88 (13th)
Goals Against Per Game: 2.74 (12th)
Power Play %: 21.4% (9th)
Penalty Kill %: 82.8% (7th)

Top Performers
Brandon Saad (10 - 34 - 44pts)
JK Grenier (15 - 24 - 39pts)
Chris DiDimenico (15 - 22 - 37pts)
G - Timo Niemi (19-9 / 2.65 GAA / .906 SV%)

Comments:

There are going to be up and downs with young players, but Coach Cotino has been impressed as I have with this team over the past few months. This team is growing as a unit, and the best part about this seems to be the defense and goalies are rounding into form. The scoring is up and down which is to be expected, but from what I've seen there is more good than bad. This was a busy month and it could have been rough, but the boys fought hard to salvage some points that might have been lost. It's just going to get harder the deeper we go into the season, but the Hogs look to be on track for their first playoff birth in two years.

[Tazer19]

Chicago Blackhawks Monthly Report

January, 2014

Home - January 5, 2014
WIN (3-2) - Crawford

Home - January 7, 2014
WIN (5-4) (SO) - Crawford

Home - January 11, 2014
WIN (4-3) - Crawford

Away - January 13, 2014
LOSS (5-2) - Crawford

Away - January 15, 2014
LOSS (3-1) - Crawford

Home - January 17, 2014
WIN (3-2) - Salak

Home - January 19, 2014
LOSS (4-2) - Salak

Away - January 22, 2014
WIN (2-1) - Crawford

Away - January 24, 2014
LOSS (4-0) - Crawford

Away - January 26, 2014
WIN (7-3) - Crawford

This Months Record (6 - 4 - 0) - 12 Points
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Season Record (32 - 12 - 4) - 68 Points
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Inside the Numbers (NHL RANK)
Goals For Per Game: 3.13 (5th)
Goals Against Per Game: 2.54 (5th)
Power Play %: 21.1% (6th)
Penalty Kill %: 82.9% (9th)

Top Performers
Jonathan Toews (13 - 36 - 49pts)
Claude Giroux (20 - 24 - 44pts)
Patrick Kane (23 - 20 - 43pts)
G - Corey Crawford (23 - 10 / 2.38 GAA / .912 SV%)

Comments:

When a team is going good, especially good, there isn't much to write about for the beat writers, but they might be on to something. Is Corey Crawford good enough to take the Hawks to the Stanley Cup, and win it? He has proven to be a stellar goaltender in the regular season and in the playoffs, it's the little stretches that don't seem like much in the regular season, but could mean the end of the season in the playoffs. The jury is still out, and the Hawks don't have any immediate plans to move the stellar goalie, but one has to think that this is stirring or at least half way on the back burner in Bowman's head. A decent month for the boys, after the first two months all the Hawks need to do is just play their game the rest of the way to secure home ice, hopefully throughout the playoffs, and by no means is that a gimmie as a few teams continue to play at a high level. Deadline is lurking, and the Hawks are positioning themselves with a move as scouts have been seen all over the NHL and AHL, as well as the European leagues, obviously that's nothing new given the time of year, but something is up and that comes from a FEW sources close to this team.

[Tazer19]

January had only 10 games...

ready for this..

February, 28 days, 15 games.... Hope we got enough rest last month, Salak will play a bigger role this month, obviously.

10 - Crawford
5 - Salak

Based on my preliminary schedule breakdown, could change depending on a number of variables.

[Tazer19]

Rockford IceHogs Monthly Report

February 2014

Away - February 2, 2014
WIN (4-2) - Niemi

Away - February 4, 2014
LOSS (4-3) - Myrvold

Away - February 5, 2014
LOSS (5-4) (OT) - Niemi

Home - February 7, 2014
WIN (5-1) - Niemi

Home - February 9, 2014
WIN (4-2) - Niemi

Home - February 11, 2014
WIN (3-1) - Niemi

Away - February 14, 2014
LOSS (3-1) - Myrvold

Away - February 15, 2014
WIN (6-2) - Niemi

Home - February 21, 2014
WIN (4-3) (OT) - Niemi

Away - February 22, 2014
WIN (4-1) - Myrvold

Home - February 23, 2014
WIN (5-3) - Niemi

Home - February 25, 2014
LOSS (5-3) - Niemi

Home - February 27, 2014
WIN (5-3) - Myrvold

Home - February 28, 2014
WIN (3-2) (OT) - Niemi



This Months Record (10 - 3 - 1) - 21 Points
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Season Record (34 - 18 - 4) - 72 Points
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Inside the Numbers (AHL RANK)
Goals For Per Game: 3.13 (7th)
Goals Against Per Game: 2.73 (9th)
Power Play %: 21.6% (6th)
Penalty Kill %: 83.7% (5th)

Top Performers
Brandon Saad (21 - 42 - 63pts)
JK Grenier (19 - 33 - 52pts)
Chris DiDimenico (19 - 33 - 52pts)
G - Timo Niemi (27 - 9 / 2.62 GAA / .907 SV%)

Comments:
It's amazing when a team comes together. Still some ups and downs, but the team is playing very well right now, and I'm pumped with Brandon Saad. Saad put up 19 points this month, including 11 goals. Another bright spot was the continued success of Niemi, the numbers seem to be staying the same, but the Wins keep going up so that is great to see. Certain guys have the ability to win games, make big saves when they need to, and maybe Niemi is becoming that guy.