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It seems to be upset year. Big favorites everywhere are being upended. I wonder if that will apply to kgman as well.

I think the crowd gets pretty loud in the playoffs too. Anyone certain if it gets louder when you win the Stanley Cup at home?

Not if Carse and kgman get their series in and Carse somehow wins. Then you get to face Terrell Owens...er, kgboy.

You already played your series against Chicago? O_o

Router shouldn't mess with it unless you're direct connecting (and firewalls aren't hard to get around)

Aye, Buffalo were clear favorites, and because you beat them I'm calling NYI/NYR a close series.

Also, ten games means you probably play everyone in your conference once and maybe one team from the other conference. Make it fair - weighted round-robin. You play every team once then you play an extra game against each team in your division. For this season, it would have meant 22 games in GENS and 20 in SNES. 40 is more of a fair number though, because with the low amount of teams, the bottom teams can start bad but make a good run midseason. With less games, if you don't do well at the beginning of the season, a mid-season surge has less of a chance of helping you because with ten games, dropping your first four would hurt you badly. With 40 games, dropping your first four is nothing because you can still finish at the top. Less games means more people will tank the season if they start off bad, because they know that unless they basically get a miracle. Also, with 10-20 games, teams come into effect and parity drops. Mediocre players who get gifted with Boston and Chicago and Pittsburgh will be more likely to absolutely steamroll through the season, and while guys like kgman might bring up lower-rated teams a bit, the top teams will usually be the same: Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, et al. This is why I want relegation - ideally, the worst two teams move down a level and the best two teams (either the champion and the runner up or the champion and the winner of the Presidents' Trophy) move up a level. This means that you can't tank the season if you want to stay in A and try and strut your stuff, because if you tank the season you get relegated and to get back to A you have to be the champion or runner up. Plus, if a team draft is instated, then it would provide incentive for teams to, while tanking the season, try and stay out of the bottom two to four (depending on the amount of teams getting relegated that year) yet stay barely above it if you have a bad team, so that when next season comes up you get a high pick. So you can go and tank games but if you see that you're getting dangerously close to the guy in second-to-last, you have an incentive to start playing. At the same time, people in the bottom two will have an incentive to play even if they won't make the playoffs if they want to stay in the top league.

I sometimes play the AI for fun. Most of the time I kill it, but today I had a great game. I chose Chicago vs. Boston, as Chicago, and the AI showed up to play. I did coach them a bit and do powerplay line shifting, but they played. Moog made some mind-blowing saves and the defense got in my lanes, forcing me to abandon the crease-cut for one-timers which Moog turned aside. I got up 2-0 in the second, and it was very late third and I felt like I would see Ed Belfour atop the stars list. Then with 30 seconds to go, Belfour makes a save, a Boston player runs into him (in real life, it would be whistled IMMEDIATELY when this happens) and the game says the puck is in. I got pissed because I hate it when I'm doing good and then give up a goal that's absolute garbage, and I just hit reset out of fury. So do you guys hate it when you give up garbage goals like that? I know I do immensely.

That's it, I am commentating kgman vs. kgboy, and every time Lemieux is hit I'll yell "AND WHAT A BREATH BY <person who hit him>, BRINGING DOWN MARIO LEMIEUX!"

It was addisonbr. Chicago/Toronto Round 2 Gens B. Guess my memory screwed up on me x-x

Eh, I changed yours because I really didn't expect NYI to win it. I expected a close series, but if NYI won, it would have been in seven. Changed back though.

If I were a fake, I would have zero losses, not nine.

Chicago gets favored due to being a better team overall - outplayed in the first round yet won due to being, well, Chicago. Remember, ANYONE can win with Chicago. Look at addisonbr.

Mario "I fall over when breathed on" Lemieux?

In an emulator, increase the frameskip. How fast the game runs isn't dependent on the game, it's actually dependent on how fast the emulator runs it. The game itself was only meant to be run at 23fps, which is why the clock runs at slightly more than double speed in an emulator, as the emulator runs it a 60fps.

Damn, I had you in my mind as a favorite to win it all. This really opens up the playoffs now.

Sorry for the double post, but round two predictions are up except for Gens A Wales.

It could go either way. LA is a good team but Dallas' coach is comeback kid, he came from behind to win ALL THREE of his series, one of which he was a huge underdog in. As for Chicago/Calgary, it's two good coaches, so team might not matter. As for the East Final, really tough call. Both of the East Semifinal series are close, with Philadelphia looking to be the Edmonton Oilers of this league after downing heavily favored Boston in six, and Montreal/Pittsburgh being a high-octane offense in Pittsburgh going up against a stingy defense and one Patrick Roy of Montreal. I have Philadelphia and Montreal, both in seven.

^The thing is Slimeball seems to have left and the Edmonton player refused to be on when the Calgary player was on. So the consensus comes to the fact that in A Los Angeles gets a forfeit win over Edmonton, and Calgary played a consolation series with Winnipeg and win 4-3 so they advance.

While getting Deer's series wrong was kind of harsh, that opens up the SNES A playoffs. St. Louis, Hartford and Winnipeg winning also helped a lot.

I was wondering how NHL 94 would work ont he Wii if it's going to be one of the downloadable re-releases. Would we have to relearn how to use the controller, or would it just be the old buttons and pad we're used to?

I wish I knew how to edit gifs. I want to take the Ottawa away one and put "WE DON'T SUCK" overtop of it.

Maybe we coudl also throw in that the champion and the finals loser always pick last as well, like it is in the NFL - no matter how they did, the Super Bowl winner always picks last and the Super Bowl loser always picks second-to-last. New players would be tougher. Here's how I say it should go... -Two teams from B get the opportunity to move up to A at the end of the year. These would be the champion and the Presidents' Trophy winner. If those are the same, the second team becomes the finals loser. The order of priority would look like this: 1. Champion 2. Presidents' Trophy winner 3. Finals loser(runner-up) 4. Player defeated by champion in semifinal 5. Player defeated by runner-up in semifinal Then it would go on in order of defeats in the playoffs, with who lost to the champion, then to the runner up, then so on. If it went far enough back, it would go to the people who missed the playoffs, in the order of their overall standings finish. Of course, it's not like it will ever get that far. This would open up spots in B and lower leagues for new people. On the flip side, the two players that finished the worst in the season would be relegated to the next level lower if they returned. So the draft order would look like this: First priority: Reverse standings order for returning players. The top two spots in higher leagues where players are relegated go to new players, decided by a lottery. Second: Players that have advanced into this level Third: Players that have been relegated to this level Fourth: The remainder of the returning players in reverse standings order Fifth: The finals loser Sixth: The defending champion So for GENS A, it would look like this based on the standings: The advancing players from GENS B would be Evan and Jamonica, as currently the two qualifiers (addisonbr and hokkeefan) also played in GENS A, as did the first reserve Cash Money. 1. addisonbr 2. smozoma 3. sonicx5 4. kgboy66(though he would likely be given a lower spot on his own admission that he tanked the season) 5. Jamonica 6. Evan 7. Cash Money 8. Matt Hurray 9. Carse 10. Naeem 11. angryjay93 12. hokkeefan 13. thegr8199 14. tk11 15. Tickenest 16. kgman 17. backhandfloater 18. cr0ssbar or whatever he's called now 19. James (this would be the finals loser should they choose to return) 20. Marc (this would be the champion should they choose to return)

Was wondering if there was a way to make the puck leaving play not simply trigger a stoppage, but also a penalty against whoever shot the puck for delay of game.

Gar, upset mania! Drops my win percentage to .667 Ever since rattling off 7-0 to start I'm now 5-6.