NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007

[ScottHallLeg-end]

Is this game any good? I dwnloaded it but haven't gotten round to playing it. I'd be more interested in playing it if there was more recent rosters than 2007.

[Guest mr. potato head]

There must be more recent (this year even) rosters given the names bandied about in the last couple pages about junior teams.

[ScottHallLeg-end]

Thats a fair point, I never considered trying to download recent roster updates like on FM12

[Ruki]

Yeah, the latest roster was released last month.

[Meacon Keaton]

Where does one find these updated rosters?

[Ruki]

Last night, I just bought a bunch of 2nd/3rd round picks...probably close to a million dollars. In the next draft I have eleven 2nd round picks. ELEVEN.

A job opened up with the Jets, but I decided to play at least another season with Sarnia. The first overall kid who I bought? He's pretty awesome. His first game back from injury (he played two games, got two goals and went down for a month or two) he got a goal and six assists. And the first overall pick in the up coming draft will be even better. I hope I can buy him.

I still miss Nail Yakupov

[Ruki]

I have every single second round pick. I have TWENTY picks!

[Toe]

Thats pretty funny!

[Meacon Keaton]

Ruki, you cheetah!

[Ruki]

I don't cheat, I just take advantage of other owners who are willing to part with picks for cash.

The only 'cheat' I use is trading for Niittymaki in the default database.

[Meacon Keaton]

And what cheat is that exactly?

[Ruki]

I don't cheat, I just take advantage of other owners who are willing to part with picks for cash.

The only 'cheat' I use is trading for Niittymaki in the default database.

That's the cheat.

In the original database he is godly, for some reason. And if you trade for him before the season starts, the asking price isn't that high.

[Ruki]

First game into the OHL playoffs and my starting goalie goes down for 3 weeks. Fuck me.

Let's see how this goes

Edit: So, we ended up sweeping Saginaw 4-0. My back up sucked compared to the goalie I had in the minors, so a 16 year old came up and played in 3 playoff games and won them all....only because we scored a lot more goals. And a team just released their 20 year old starting goalie, so I am gonna sign that guy

Edit 2: ....they released him because he had a 3 week injury too

Edit 3: And Kitchener kicks us out in game 6. Fuckballs. Of all the times for my goalie to go down. Oh well, I have 20 second round picks to keep me happy. And the top 3 players look nice (high teamwork/work rate).

Edit 4: I think I got some awesome players with my 20 picks.

[Ruki]

....those draft picks might not have been a good idea. The reserve list is 50....I have 68. I gotta cut 18 players/prospects.

[JasonM]

....those draft picks might not have been a good idea. The reserve list is 50....I have 68. I gotta cut 18 players/prospects.

LOL tradespam.

When I played this game a while ago I never thought of trading all my older players for draft picks, it's quite crafty if not super cheaty cheaty. But hey if the other team want to have players who will most likely not play for them then that's on them

[Ruki]

Now I just bought 5-6 players who were drafted in the first round who I want.....I spend almost two-million dollars. I am gonna have an amazing young team.

[Ruki]

First few games of the season, not so good. Went 2-2-2, then went on a little winning streak. But...awesomely, my second line LW (4 months) and second line center (7 months) have gone down with injury. Not a great start for their OHL career

[JasonM]

Well I decided to start a new game after a long time not playing and to give myself a challenge I decided to take the talented but lacking New York Islanders...

82 games later I win the Atlantic Division, becoming the number 2 seed in the east and yeah... getting the Islanders to their first playoffs in 5-6 years.

As you can see I finished 4th in the whole NHL, which all in on itself is absolutely crazy and the complete opposite what I myself expected to do.

Also going to show you the best scorers of the league underneath.

As you can see Tavares is an absolute beast who completely dominated most of the Eastern Conference this season, And Okposo was legendary himself too becoming the 3rd best scorer behind Semin and Zetterberg.

Also the reason Ovechkin is so low is because he broke his leg and had to sit out 20 something games, that kills your chances for the Rocket for sure. Semin was a beast though.

And here are the stats for my own team, Pretty much anyone on that minus the guys who played less than 5 where part of my main team

As you can see I have Voracek, Pronger and Meszaros. I managed to snag them from the Flyers who had to cut a lot of costs before the start of the season. So I got an ace scorer in Voracek and two beastly defenders in Prongszaros. Eminger got injured after his first game for the team and he got claimed off the waivers when I wanted to return him to the main roster at the end of the season (Torn ACL stole 8 months of his career).

And I am also a bit pissed because Kotalik and Knuble got traded because they didn't want to resign, Knuble wasn't that bad but Kotalik was a big part of my team. And I will also most likely lose Nielsen because he also does not want to resign with me.

At least I am keeping hold of my stars in Tavares, Okposo, Voracek, Grabner etc.

Also Di Pietro ended up sitting the pine for most of the season when Al Montoya impressed a lot in training camp and just stole his spot and he never looked like losing that spot. After the playoffs I decided to trade away RDP and a buttload of picks for the first overall (which I used on Grigorenko)

Enfin, time to talk about the playoffs, because that's where my mind literally exploded into a thousand of bits...

QF East:

(1) Sabres b. (8) Capitals 4-1

(3) Hurricanes b. (6) Bruins 4-1

(5) Penguins b. (4) Devils 4-0

QF West:

(8) Ducks b. (1) Kings 4-1

(2) Flames b. (7) Blackhawks 4-0

(6) Sharks b. (3) Blues 4-2

(4) Canucks b. (5) Red Wings 4-2

My Quarter Finals: (2) Islanders Vs. (7) Canadiens

Game 1: 0-2 Islanders

Game 2: 4-5 Islanders

Game 3: 5-2 Islanders

Game 4: 2-3 Canadiens

Game 5: 4-6 Islanders

So yeah, I won the first round and never really looked like losing it. The Canadiens managed to take one game but we immediately fought back with a 4-6 win.

Time for the Semi Finals, it's the Hurricanes!

SF East:

(1) Sabres b. (5) Penguins 4-1

SF West:

(2) Flames b. (8) Ducks 4-1

(4) Canucks b. (6) Sharks 4-2

My Semi Finals: (2) Islanders Vs. (3) Hurricanes

Game 1: 3-5 Islanders

Game 2: 3-4 Islanders

Game 3: 6-3 Islanders

Game 4: 3-1 Islanders!

And against all odds I manage to sweep the Hurricanes. So yeah against all odds I manage to get into the playoffs, win the quarterfinals and then sweep the Hurricanes in the Semis... Now it's time for an even bigger chore, the number one seeded Sabres look like they want to take my young team down like... 15 pegs.

Conference Finals West:

(2) Flames b. (4) Canucks 4-2

My Conference Finals East: (2) Islanders Vs. (1) Sabres

Game 1: 2-4 Sabres

Game 2: 3-1 Islanders

Game 3: 2-4 Islanders

Game 4: 5-3 Sabres

Game 5: 3-2 Islanders

Game 6: 4-3 Sabres

Game 7: 5-0 Islanders!!!

And once again I manage to beat all the odds by taking out the Sabres in a 7 game thriller, it wasn't pretty in the least and I can't count how much minor injuries both teams suffered. But one thing I never saw coming is a 5-0 shutout against the number one seed in the decisive Game 7... I really had to look twice really, I never expected to get into the playoffs but right now I was standing in the middle of the freaking NHL Finals. One hurdle away from the gold and in front of me stood the Western Champions the Calgary Flames, who wanted to take the gold back to Canada.

NHL Finals: (2e) Islanders Vs. (2w) Flames

Game 1: 3-5 Flames

Game 2: 5-1 Islanders

Game 3: 1-4 Islanders

Game 4: 4-2 Flames

Game 5: 3-1 Islanders

Game 6: 0-4 New York Islanders!

Trust me, I ran a lap through my house and I think my housemates thought I had suffered stroke or something. In my first season I have gone from being the projected worst team to the very best one in the NHL and I did so with a team which you can't call Finals material. Tavares and Okposo really dragged my team to the finals and beyond with their brilliant scoring and Voracek also had a big Finals when he showed up ready to go as he, Nielsen and Grabner helped the team lift their first trophy in 20 years. And the way we finished it off with a 0-4 blowout at home just made it all the more sweeter.

So yeah I was the NHL Champion and Tavares went home with the deserved MVP trophy as he played like a god every single game, he was on fire all off season long and even though Voracek had one more point... Tavares was the catalyst for my team...

Below I am going to post the playoff stats of all players and also my own team, just to show you how amazing my extremely young attack was.

Playoff Stats:

NYI Playoff Stats:

As you can see Rick Di Pietro played almost the whole playoffs, that was because Montoya suffered a bad tigh injury leaving him out of contention, but RDP never fucked up and I am glad he was on my bench for that playoffs.

Voracek was decent in the regular season but in both finals he stepped up his game big time as he suddenly started to score points like there was no tomorrow and he certainly was the star in the Conference finals, but of course John Tavares was the true star of the show with his awesome passing game setting up even the worst of players.

The playoffs weren't a showcase of great defensive action due to me just instructing the young players to go out there and shoot a buttload of shots at the goalies and it clearly worked as we overloaded their defenses with Tavares and Nielsen being the set up men and the likes of Okposo, Voracek, Kotalik, Grabner banging them in.

(Zherdev and Emeleev came over from Russia when their contracts ended in April and I signed them, and they where also eligible so I put them on the fourth line not to eff with chemistry.)

So yeah, that is pretty much my first season with the Islanders, I expected to be among the bottom teams and with a bit of luck getting 8th seed or something... But I never expected to get to the playoffs and then win it all. Every round I was going ''they are going to kill me'', but that never happened. Can't complain with the result, I can't wait for next season... The team is only getting better.

If you guys got any question or want to see some other stats feel free to ask and I will try to deliver. If you want to see player attributes or a statline or whatever, ask and I will post some pictures.

Also questions about the game, tactics, Practice etc. is also a-ok, ask away.