2020 Preseason

Post by **SharksGM** » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:48 am

I advanced the file again. This time I removed all retiring tags and invited all prospects to camp. It seems like the game just signs them to 100k 1y contracts. I'm not sure if it does anything else special to send them back automatically but anyway if that doesn't happen I'll do it manually at the end of preseason. If you have an overwhelming number of prospects getting in the way of your line selections, feel free to send them to the farm since there are no preseason farm games.

The next file update will include adding the preseason schedule to the site (before the games start on Saturday). I may or may not sim every day or do batches of 2-3 days at once, since every team plays a regular schedule of one game every three days.

I have not entered pending staff requests but as far as I'm aware that's the only to-do item left. Let me know if there's anything else.

DetroitGM · Post by **DetroitGM** » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:08 am

The game automatically sends invited prospects back to junior, so you won't have to worry about that

TorontoGM · Post by **TorontoGM** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:13 pm

We can't call up every farm player for the pre season right? How many players need to be kept there to prevent a game crash?

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:48 pm

TorontoGM wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:13 pm We can't call up every farm player for the pre season right? How many players need to be kept there to prevent a game crash?

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Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:03 pm

Updated salary projections. Important to note that almost every team, if not every team, will actually have higher salaries than shown here.

Included:

Numbers from most recent file

Trades not yet entered

Qualifying offers
- Offer sheets not yet matched are included for the team making the offer sheet

Not included:

UFA offers not entered as of previous file

Columns:

Contracts: number of contracts for players aged 20 or older

Waiver eligible: number of waiver eligible contracts for players making more than 800k

Salaries: total salaries of waiver eligible players making over 800k

Minimum possible: fills out rosters with minimum salary players

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Team	Contracts	Waiver eligible	Salaries	Minimum possible
NYR	42		19		59662000	61462000
CHI	27		12		52450000	58450000
T.B	48		15		53362000	57562000
ARI	46		15		52750000	56950000
PHI	29		17		53940000	56940000
WSH	44		21		56160000	56760000
COL	48		20		55390000	56590000
NSH	41		18		54050000	56450000
S.J	47		18		53130000	55530000
PIT	46		19		53710000	55510000

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CBJ	47		21		54634000	55234000
BUF	47		19		51954000	53754000
NYI	41		15		49530000	53730000
DAL	38		15		49050000	53250000
CAR	47		16		49620000	53220000
MTL	40		14		48280000	53080000
OTT	39		12		46990000	52990000
DET	44		21		51860000	52460000
VAN	49		18		48786000	51186000
L.A	45		13		45260000	50660000

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FLA	50		17		47620000	50620000
BOS	39		17		47284000	50284000
EDM	46		11		42713000	49313000
N.J	46		17		45688000	48688000
TOR	42		16		44920000	48520000
ANA	43		15		42290000	46490000
WPG	43		16		42696000	46296000
MIN	40		11		38514000	45114000
CGY	45		14		35980000	40780000
STL	43		14		33262000	38062000

The Rangers need to cut some cap. How much depends on if they're matching the Yelshansky offer sheet or not.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:01 pm

How are there still teams with less than 30 contracts? That's crazy.

Morrissey was my one player still in the AHL so I'll have to send someone else down.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:23 pm

AvalancheGM wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:01 pmHow are there still teams with less than 30 contracts? That's crazy.

Bern's AHL team is mostly composed of fast-signs every year. Could say he's not exactly a details guy.
Philly's got 8 UFAs not included in the numbers so they're working their way up.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:04 pm

that is a patently absurd approach to development... then again, zero picks or prospects so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Edmonton Mike · Post by **Edmonton Mike** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:28 pm

AvalancheGM wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:04 pm that is a patently absurd approach to development... then again, zero picks or prospects so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Looks at Bern's track record
Yeaaaah he good

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:42 pm

Edmonton Mike wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:28 pmLooks at Bern's track record
Yeaaaah he good

For the new folks, Bern ran Pittsburgh back when they were a top team before taking a (brief) hiatus and coming back as Chicago.

Bernyhawks · Post by **Bernyhawks** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:43 am

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:17 pm

Could someone check EHM for me and see when my first regular season game is? I have a junior goalie turning 20 on Oct. 5.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:26 pm

AvalancheGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:17 pm Could someone check EHM for me and see when my first regular season game is? I have a junior goalie turning 20 on Oct. 5.

I haven't entered a real schedule yet and anyway it doesn't matter, anyone who hasn't turned 20 by Sept. 15 is junior aged.

DetroitGM · Post by **DetroitGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:30 pm

SharksGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:26 pm
I haven't entered a real schedule yet and anyway it doesn't matter, anyone who hasn't turned 20 by Sept. 15 is junior aged.

So, uh, if I have someone signed that turns 20 in October, can I not keep them in the NHL and then send them down in October, once they turn 20?

Bruins_GM · Post by **Bruins_GM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:58 pm

What date is the game currently on?

Post by **SharksGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:52 pm

DetroitGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:30 pm
SharksGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:26 pm
I haven't entered a real schedule yet and anyway it doesn't matter, anyone who hasn't turned 20 by Sept. 15 is junior aged.
So, uh, if I have someone signed that turns 20 in October, can I not keep them in the NHL and then send them down in October, once they turn 20?

No, for consistency there is only one rule for determining whether a player is junior aged. Anyone born after September 15 is a junior player. You can keep them on your pro roster but they need an exemption to play on the farm no matter if they've turned 20 by October or not.

The same was true in previous seasons when the birthdate cutoff was December 31 but I neglected to enforce it under the assumption that people wouldn't keep a 19-year-old on their roster for three months just to send them down on January 1. Vik may have noticed a case or two like this.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:12 pm

Ugh, there goes my plan for Ellis this season then. There are so many tight restrictions in this league that make it hard to maneuver, some of them make sense, but this one doesn't to me. Even with the rule, the date should be the season opener, not halfway through preseason.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:38 pm

AvalancheGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:12 pm Ugh, there goes my plan for Ellis this season then. There are so many tight restrictions in this league that make it hard to maneuver, some of them make sense, but this one doesn't to me. Even with the rule, the date should be the season opener, not halfway through preseason.

You can send them back to juniors at no penalty and their contracts will slide. There's basically no downside unless you really need them developed now.

Making the date the season opener would mean that the two weeks' worth of the oldest players in any given draft year would be AHL eligible one season sooner than the rest. It doesn't really make much sense and already made for weird arbitrage when it was 3.5 months worth of draftees in past seasons.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:19 am

Ok, I updated the file but forgot to advance a day. There were many transactions and as happy as I was to see ~20 sets of lines uploaded, I'm going to wait until tomorrow night before simming the first two days of preseason. Plus I have to do the thing to get the preseason schedule to show up.

Since the file is advanced, you'll have to use these links to see previous season stats:

Pro stats, farm stats, playoff stats

At some point I'll put a season selector on those pages, but don't hold your breath, unless you're underwater.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:15 am

Dustin Boyd and Justin Faulk were given contracts of 0 years. I'd argue that would be preferable to their actual contracts, but they should be for 1 year.

In the file, none of my changes seem to be entered, but it's all good in GMO. And I'm not seeing the new contracts on the site. That gonna be a problem?

Dallas Stars GM · Post by **Dallas Stars GM** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:38 am

Dustin Boyd and Justin Faulk were given contracts of 0 years. I'd argue that would be preferable to their actual contracts

Also, Kenneth Johnson is missing on my team as well.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:00 am

Vik (Habs) wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:15 am In the file, none of my changes seem to be entered, but it's all good in GMO. And I'm not seeing the new contracts on the site. That gonna be a problem?

Sigh. No idea what happened. I'm pretty sure I uploaded all of the files including players.ehm, but for whatever reason players.ehm seemed to get stuck on an older version. I suppose it's possible somebody opened GMO before I uploaded the changes and then overwrote them right afterwards. I probably need to figure out some way to disable GMO while I'm making file changes.

Unfortunately, this means that any changes to players.ehm entered from around 11:30 PM EST last night to ~2AM this morning are gone. Sorry. At least I actually advanced the file this time.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:26 pm

None of my training changes in GMO the other day got saved. Nor did a couple of demotions to avoid a runtime error.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:17 pm

The first two days are up on the schedule. I probably have to do something to get them to show up on the front page but until then, check the schedule.

IslandersGM · Post by **IslandersGM** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:52 pm

should RFA Bear be on the team now?

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:04 pm

IslandersGM wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:52 pm should RFA Bear be on the team now?

Not until the 15th.

Post by **SharksGM** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:18 pm

Day three is up on the schedule, so every team has played a game now. Taylor Beck is the preseason hero so far. A lot of teams with auto'd lines are going to look unusually good throughout September, as usual.

NYRNYRNYR · Post by **NYRNYRNYR** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:43 am

SharksGM wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:18 pm Taylor Beck is the preseason hero so far.

Thus begins the inevitable debate of Beck vs. Tarasenko for line 1 glory

Post by **SharksGM** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:40 am

I simmed more games last night. Robin Kovacs and Lucas Raymond did a number on the Bruins.

PittsburghGM · Post by **PittsburghGM** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:56 pm

SharksGM wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:40 am I simmed more games last night. Robin Kovacs and Lucas Raymond did a number on the Bruins.

Not only did we get into a pre-season line brawl, but a pre-season line brawl involving Cole Perfetti and Kevin Fiala.

Post by **SharksGM** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:06 am

PittsburghGM wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:56 pm
SharksGM wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:40 am I simmed more games last night. Robin Kovacs and Lucas Raymond did a number on the Bruins.
Not only did we get into a pre-season line brawl, but a pre-season line brawl involving Cole Perfetti and Kevin Fiala.

Is there fantasy hockey in the preseason? Mika Zibanejad is paying dividends with 2G+2A+25PIM in 2GP.

On today's schedule, you will find five new games, three of which were shutouts.

NYRNYRNYR · Post by **NYRNYRNYR** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:08 am

Pit traded a 5th for Zibanejad and now he's tops in the league. Is it too early to award the 2021 Best GM/Coach award to him?

Well, tops other than TAVARES, who is taking this opportunity to play against a bunch of teens and AHLers and dominate their faces off.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:33 am

lol, for me the ability to get dominated in the preseason is good, just means I have tons of kids to develop.

Post by **SharksGM** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:24 pm

Game two is done for all teams. Erik Portillo pitches a shutout for the Oilers and Daniel Sprong's 4 point night for the Stars gives him the preseason champion title for now.

Bruins_GM · Post by **Bruins_GM** » Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:17 am

How did Toronto and I end up with 4 out of our 8 preseason games against each other?

Post by **SharksGM** » Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:16 am

Bruins_GM wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:17 am How did Toronto and I end up with 4 out of our 8 preseason games against each other?

Two home-and-homes = ~rivalry~

Post by **SharksGM** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:19 am

More games. The Bruins complete an exciting third period comeback and the Isles' Dustin Brown scores in OT, but the most exciting result is the Penguins scoring an equalizer with the goalie pulled, only to give up the winning goal the next shift.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:53 am

Can we do three days (one game each) at a time, or is that too much at once with all the lines and such?

Post by **SharksGM** » Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:45 am

AvalancheGM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:53 am Can we do three days (one game each) at a time, or is that too much at once with all the lines and such?

I suppose I could, but why?

Anyway, more games are up. Nothing too exciting besides the bench-clearing brawl in which the Capitals go 3-1 in fight wins.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:55 am

Just so every team plays in each sim, but I was forgetting we're real time.

Dallas Stars GM · Post by **Dallas Stars GM** » Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:33 pm

Easy does it

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:32 am

Since it's September 15, all remaining RFAs have now accepted their qualifying offers. I'll have some more announcements later in the week.

NYRNYRNYR · Post by **NYRNYRNYR** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:23 pm

OTT and I are smoking the competition in most penalties. Watch out for our truculence and be ready to play a lot of hack-and-slash

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:52 pm

I wish the game tracked non-offsetting penalty minutes; it's such a pain trying to figure out how many goals an undisciplined player costs you by subtracting misconducts, fighting majors and offsetting roughing calls.

AvalancheGM · Post by **AvalancheGM** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:43 pm

Also kind of hilarious how the fifth player on each team in a line brawl ends up with just offsetting roughing minors.

Post by **SharksGM** » Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:23 am

Two shutouts tonight and a 6-5 OT thriller. Good times. Preseason's halfway done now. Some announcements to come tomorrow (or later today I suppose).

NYRNYRNYR · Post by **NYRNYRNYR** » Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:47 pm

Another goal for Sprong in DAL, a preseason stud. And Kakko looks scary good

Post by **SharksGM** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:22 am

No shutouts today, but the Bruins losing a game where they had a 5-1 lead with 6 minutes left to play is probably the most epic collapse I've ever seen.

Gritty · Post by **Gritty** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:39 am

Big line brawl from the Sabres and Flyers

Tondycek(BUF GM) · Post by **Tondycek(BUF GM)** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:01 am

Gritty wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:39 am Big line brawl from the Sabres and Flyers