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What are you talking about? The playoff series? 'Cause Giroux had 14 points in that.

I've been pretty decent on face-offs lately. I flick the stick back as quickly as I can. I think it helps. I'm simming my first GM season for the Flyers and I'm in the Conference Finals against the Penguins. A little nervous about this match-up. I started off HORRIBLE in the season but left everyone together and just barely made 8th place. Beat NJ and NYI in Game 7s so far. Here are my lines that I've run for the season and playoffs: Voracek - Giroux - Couturier Simmonds - Schenn - Read Wellwood - Briere - Hartnell Fedotenko - Talbot - Rinadlo Schenn has been amazing in the playoffs thus far. Rinaldo had two big goals and scored the Game 7 OT winner against the Islanders. Wellwood also had two big goals in the first round. Getting scoring from everyone, and Bryz has been a wall for the most part. Still nervous about the next match-up. If I do win, I'll face either the Blues or the Ducks in the Finals.

I agree. If it was just 50 players and whoever got the most votes out of one session wins, then polaris' argument would be stronger, but since it was like a playoff tree, Giroux would get more votes from other fans as their players got eliminated.

And no die-hard NHL/video game hockey fans were influenced by that series? It may not have been the absolute main reason Giroux won but when it comes down to only 4 players left in the voting, the fans of other teams are still going to vote for who they prefer. I'm sure it wasn't only Flyers fans voting for Giroux. There are plenty of factors but I doubt that the market share one is the absolute most important one.

I think a lot of people jumped on the Flyers' side during the playoffs series between us. Mainly after Game 3. They also got to see their first glimpses of Giroux as a star in that series. Reading the HF Boards, a lot of people started hating on the Penguins in that series and then after it was over went back to hating the Flyers. I can take the market size argument but I think that playoff series really helped propel Giroux into the top. I'm surprised I haven't seen Crosby on the cover yet, though I'll probably have to get a custom cover that year if he or any Penguin (chances are it would be Malkin or Letang, both of whom I hate) ends up being on it.

4 star guys should get to 85-87 if utilized correctly. I'll probably play Voracek with Couturier and Giroux on the first line, and Schenn with Simmonds and Read on the second line to let them develop. I know Danny will drop off in rating on the third line but I gotta think about the future. I'll probably put Laughton on the first line in the AHL for the first year or something. Maybe even trade Briere (though I love him) for a first or a prospect.

Damn, that's a lot to give up for Ryan. I like seeing how the draft picks turn out after you pick them up.

Sounds sweet. I was thinking about rebuilding some team. It's really fun watching Johnny Superbman on YouTube (he's the 2BC channel) do his GM mode for Calgary. I tend to actually play games in my GM mode though. You guys have some good stuff going there. Sucks Laughton didn't amount to much though, and Couturier and Schenn seem a little low. Probably needed more top line minutes to develop them correctly in the game to maximize their potential.

Woah I've been to that exact Best Buy. It was back when I had a hockey tournament up there about 5 or 6 years ago. I played Guitar Hero for the first time in there. Lol. Glad to see the Pens' fans are still upset but I'm sure the same would happen in Philly if a Penguin was on the cover.

I'd love to try out GM Connected but I don't have a definite Xbox Live source in my dorm right now (I need to buy a router so I don't have to use my ethernet cable that I plug into my laptop), but I'm not sure it's a great idea since I need to focus on my grades as well. Haha. If this was high school it'd be a different story, but I slacked last year so I can't do too much online. Yet... This might be my NHL season too, considering the lockout.

Just wondering if anyone has picked up the new game yet. I've been playing it a good deal the last couple of days after a really busy week. Anyways, I'm playing in Be a Pro right now I just noticed two transactions that the Flyers pulled off (I'm playing on the Spitfires as a created player), and they traded a 1st round pick to NYI for Nabokov and then traded Wellwood and Laughton to TB for St. Louis. I was unaware that Bob Clarke was back in office as GM. Seriously though, imagine the explosion on this board if those trades happened in real life.

I'm going to have to stop you after your first point. The ONLY person that should replace Gary Bettman as the NHL's all-powerful commissioner is Jon Sim.

Why am I not surprised Pauli can't spell anybody's name? It's not like they get shown on TV or the Internet all the time. Courtier....really?

Though GMs have reputations to uphold, I was under the impression that WE were the ones trying to win the Cup for ourselves, not give up valuable assets because we feel bad for making a huge signing for our team.

I really don't want to lose Voracek AND Read. Both are so young and had extremely promising years last season. On top of losing Jagr and JvR (have to imagine he puts up 20+ in a healthy season on this team), that would be a lot of offense gone, even though Doan would be added. I just feel that we would be getting rather thin up front, though that always seems to be our concern. Adding Weber would be amazing but we'll have nobody to really play on the wing with skill.

Who is Bobby Clark?

As much as I'd dislike that, scoring isn't what the Penguins need. If we can still run up the score on them then it isn't concerning. Now if they were to also add Suter...

Parise, Suter, Nash to the Miami Heat (e5)

Lots of talk that Parise has reached a verbal agreement with the Penguins.

Sadly, yes. Whenever the Flyers would post something that had to do with goaltending or a goal against, a decent group of fans flocked to post about bringing back Leighton and how good he was until the injury. It's like they forgot how horrible he was against a team with a good offense in those Blackhawks. He looked borderline great at points in the season and playoffs but was disgustingly bad in the Finals. Not who I want in net.

But he and Coburn could bond by building nests with their hawk beaks!

There is no way in hell I trade Schenn or Couturier. I think Nash is one of the top 20 players in the league but Schenn and Couturier have the potential to both be top 20/30 players at some point. Not that they both will but if that was just their rookie season last year, no way I would trade them. I also don't like Nash's cap hit on our team. I'd much rather take that hit for a big time defenseman, if not this year, then next.

This might be a disaster for us. If Bryz plays like **** then the fans are gonna be calling for Leighton because of what he did during our SCF run. You'd be surprised how many people on Facebook still love Leighton. Ugh...

Apparently Ryan would like to be traded to the Flyers. http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120622/SPORTS04/120622008/Ryan-hopes-traded-Flyers?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Flyers