My Proud year 3 Be A GM lineup

[sabres32]

I wanted to post this because I feel like I set up a really good team. What I have done is I played each and every game of my first season and then I simulated the second season. I lost in the first round in the first season and then in the second season my team got to the conference finals but lost in game 6. As I begin my 3rd season this is how my lineup looks with my Buffalo Sabres:

1st line Thomas Vanek/Patrice Bergeron/Milan Lucic

2nd line Tyler Ennis/ Cody Hodgson/ Ryan Callahan

3rd line Marcus Foligno/ Sean Couturier/ Beau Bennett

4th line Brandon Prust/ Maxime Talbot/ Fredrick Gauthier (drafted player)

defense 1 Tyler Myers/ Christian Ehroff

defense 2 Ryan Pulock (drafted player)/ Brendan Smith

defense 3 Andrej Sekera/ Brayden McNabb

Goalies Ryan Miller/ Jhonas Enroth

Here is how I got some of these players:

Patrice Bergeron was traded to Philly at the deadline of year 2 so I then went after him and traded away Mikhail Grigorenko/a prospect and a 2nd round pick.

In the offseason I got Milan Lucic in a trade. I had Simon Gagne on my team from my first seasons trade deadline so in my recent offseason I traded Gagne/Kaleta/1st and 2nd round pick for Lucic.

I simply signed Callahan in free agency.

In my first season I traded Nathan Gerbe and Mike Weber for Couturier.

Also in my 1st year I traded Kevin Porter and a 3rd round pick for Beau Bennett.

Jochen Hecht and Nick Crawford for Maxime Talbot.

In 3 seasons Ive made 9 trades and Ive had 2 solid drafts.

[fillydilly]

Sounds like one of those GM Modes where everything goes your way. If I'm lucky I might have 1 in 20 GM Mode playthroughs. Most of the time I'm struggling with dodgy simulation, no trade offers whatsoever and slow progress of my prospects. Good luck and have fun with your playthrough!

[geoffstanek]

Quote: Originally Posted by sabres32

I wanted to post this because I feel like I set up a really good team. What I have done is I played each and every game of my first season and then I simulated the second season. I lost in the first round in the first season and then in the second season my team got to the conference finals but lost in game 6. As I begin my 3rd season this is how my lineup looks with my Buffalo Sabres: 1st line Thomas Vanek/Patrice Bergeron/Milan Lucic 2nd line Tyler Ennis/ Cody Hodgson/ Ryan Callahan 3rd line Marcus Foligno/ Sean Couturier/ Beau Bennett 4th line Brandon Prust/ Maxime Talbot/ Fredrick Gauthier (drafted player) defense 1 Tyler Myers/ Christian Ehroff defense 2 Ryan Pulock (drafted player)/ Brendan Smith defense 3 Andrej Sekera/ Brayden McNabb Goalies Ryan Miller/ Jhonas Enroth Here is how I got some of these players: Patrice Bergeron was traded to Philly at the deadline of year 2 so I then went after him and traded away Mikhail Grigorenko/a prospect and a 2nd round pick. In the offseason I got Milan Lucic in a trade. I had Simon Gagne on my team from my first seasons trade deadline so in my recent offseason I traded Gagne/Kaleta/1st and 2nd round pick for Lucic. I simply signed Callahan in free agency. In my first season I traded Nathan Gerbe and Mike Weber for Couturier. Also in my 1st year I traded Kevin Porter and a 3rd round pick for Beau Bennett. Jochen Hecht and Nick Crawford for Maxime Talbot. In 3 seasons Ive made 9 trades and Ive had 2 solid drafts.

Looks AWESOME.. Even though the Bruins would NEVER EVER trade Bergy. Lucic maybe but thats why its a game.

[sabres32]

as a die hard Sabres fan this is hard for me to say but i like nearly every player on the Bruins. some of these trades i made i couldnt belive they were accepted but im happy they were. i also do wish the prospects would progress faster but i put them in my lineup anyways and do pay attention to their overall rating. for example I have Darnell Nurse in my lineup and hes a 59 overall and my other first round pick in whos only a 61. it makes the game so much more fun playing with your own drafted players.

[RagingTrav]

Quote: Originally Posted by sabres32

as a die hard Sabres fan this is hard for me to say but i like nearly every player on the Bruins. some of these trades i made i couldnt belive they were accepted but im happy they were. i also do wish the prospects would progress faster but i put them in my lineup anyways and do pay attention to their overall rating. for example I have Darnell Nurse in my lineup and hes a 59 overall and my other first round pick in whos only a 61. it makes the game so much more fun playing with your own drafted players.

I like to go about it the same myself

[DaRK]

Honestly it doesn't seem that special to me... but okay.

[Mutilated]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaRK

Honestly it doesn't seem that special to me... but okay.

I agree. Nothing special at all. I've had teams that had much better players.

[8mileroad]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mutilated

I agree. Nothing special at all. I've had teams that had much better players.

I like that it's at least realistic. Right now my first line forwards in year 3 are C. Giroux (90 ovr) / R. Nugent-Hopkins (90 ovr) / Phil Kessel (88 ovr) and my D is C. Fowler (89 ovr) / K. Yandle (86? ovr) and it's barely even fun. You really can exploit the CPU quite easily, only players I've tried to trade for and couldn't were Ovie, and Grabner.