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I've actually averaged over 5 goals per game lately (surely won't last), but the number of wasted chances is just driving me bonkers

I switch them up at C. Juneau is great at C when he's on Boston, but he's not doing much on my team for some reason :/

Every game. I make one-timer passes. You guys do moronic things to screw it up. Last season, I led the league in one-timer attempts, with 6.36 attempts per game, and was 5th in one-timer goals, with 1.5 per game. This season, I am struggling to do 4 one-timers per game and am only scoring 1 one-timer goal per game (which is miraculous, actually, considering). Let me count the ways you screw it up, Reichel, Juneau, and Dineen. Where is everyone? Seriously guys. You will NOT score goals from the boards along the goal line. I am looking at you, Dineen. Quit hanging out over there! Yes, I see you occasionally over there by the post... but there is a guy practically sitting on you at those times. Get open (and not by the boards!) "Gimme the pass! ... Nevermind, I don't actually want it!." Juneau, if you're actually going to go for the net for once, how about making an attempt to get the pass as it goes through you skates? "Holy #$^@, a puck!" YES, it's a PUCK, Reichel, and I hired you to shoot it!! Shoot it, don't just stare at it like you've never touched one before! Slap it with your stick! You won't hurt it! GAWD, MAN! You can not score a one-timer from the behind the net, Juneau. Please do not skate past the net on a one-timer pass. This is the one case where I don't mind if you don't shoot the puck, but you always do shoot it, sending it rattling around the boards, giving the opponent a breakaway. Nice work. The bouncer. Good work there, Stonehands McReichel. Do you remember that scene in the Mighty Ducks movie where they pass eggs across the ice? These guys have gone through a lot of eggs in practice, but to no avail. Who the hell were you passing to? Dineen, there was a guy actually in one-timer position, but you passed it to Patrick Roy. I know he's our best player, but he's the GOALiE! "I can skate faster than the puck!" Yes, apparently you can, Dineen. It's true, I hired you for your speed (certainly not your brains), but you are supposed to outskate your opponents, not the puck. I pass it to him, and Dineen (well, all of them do this with some frequency) gets the star under him, and instead of receiving the pass and shooting it, he starts skating in the direction I am trying to tell him to shoot in, (typically the same direction the puck is going), so he skates over to his favourite position over by the boards at the goal line. But, this attached video clip really just sums up your idiocy, dear team. On the plus side, Dineen made a decent pass. Juneau.. Reichel.. I just don't know what to do with you guys. (video is an AVI in a zip. You will need divx to play it. if you don't have divx, then the savestate file is in there, too). non_one_timer.zip

aw, and all this time I thought it was based on performance against opposing teams, like the ESPN relative power index: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/stats/rpi (formula is explained below the table)

Can i get Cthulhu playing for the Devils? Any number is good, but preferably all numbers at once.

I'd like to see the team leaders on the main Team page, too. When I'm looking at teams, I'm usually much more interested in their top scorers than their boxscores.

Yeah, I think they should ditch 2 teams to go down to 28, then have four 7-team divisions. 24 teams is probably the best, but they'll never drop that many teams. And bring back the historic names...

hehe, no, I think the motto was, "i couldn't score last year, so if i let in even fewer goals this year, i could possibly make the playoffs"

I like it. Good thinking! A batch of new games every Friday.

Yeah, I thought we sorted this out last season, when we started with quite a few games (10+?). I was all excited that the season had started, then there was noone to play with. No one else even uploaded a game tonight! I still like the gradual release of games over the season, but the start of the season is such a yawner if we only get 2 games.

I find the outline to be too dark, personally. It makes me feel like my guy is on a flying disc of some sort.

If they are using the gens+ emulator, they need to go into the options somewhere and disable savestate compression. The file size should be 137kb (or more if a screenshot is also being saved to the game -- another option that can be disabled)

LD - Schneider RD - Ellet LW - Dineen C - Reichel RW - Juneau EA - Baker G - Roy LD - Wilkenson RD - MacIver LW - Todd C - Baker RW - Volek EA - Reichel G - Knickle

Yes, DaDonch has been amazing. The draft, the rom, the website updates.. He truly deserves the 'Da' in his name, for he is no mere Donch.

I'm gonna ride Roy's hot glove all the way to first round elimination!

I'm gonna make it to the postseason, watch out

I think we have good coaches this season, too, which is why I was hoping for 68 But, 'til next season.

foiled again

afraid not.. : ( have you tried remapping the buttons? Options->Joypads... click the "Redefine keys" button next to player 1. follow the instructions that show up in the bottom-right of the window. On my gamepad, I find I need to press a button labeled "digital" to make a light turn on, otherwise i can't move in any direction.

I updated the ZIP, so maybe it works now. I made it with the built-in windows zip thing, so it should be ok. if not.. do a windows update or something because your comp is retarded! kidding, I don't know what the problem is..

either. classic stars are classic circle is pretty neat, too (though maybe tone down the weight of the lines/colours to make them more subtle)

The new one is cool (though the pale red colour has to go), but I'm voting old crease because the players are from 94.

OOHHH ok Since it was you posting, I thought it was a done deal. Thought it was the done deals thread.. I didn't know who had Janney PHEW

I'm voting for 68 (4/4/2/2). Since with 68 games you play everyone in your conference 4 times (instead of just everyone in your division), it minimizes division balance problems. Playoff spots are given based on conference standing, so..

What? That's ridiculous... Bure is worlds better than Janney, and burt is a marginally better hitter than johansson but worse in pretty much all other ways.