An extended random quote

[hedgehog337 3,480]

Title.

 

- I have a strong feeling that the S69 draft won't as big as S66-68 ones. Two out of 5 TOP 5 players are GM players so it only leaves us with three players over 200 TPE so far. In before Bek comes in with his ''back in S50's and mid-tier to horrible drafts'' speech. There are a couple of upcoming first-gens that will be first round material by the time draft comes. So it still will be worth looking at the first round, but the draft itself won't be as deep as previous ones. Which is a shame, given how popular is the 69 number is;

- I also have a less strong, but a feeling nonetheless - the S70 draft will be a better one with more high profile recreates;

- Calgary finally found their game. I wish our team played them more when they were stuggling cause I doubts they're gonna bottle a lot of games now;

- The value of picks is tanking hard these days. I'm seeing teams extensively selling them right before the draft or even way before it. Looks like a lot of GM's are still not keen on having 9/6 roster to not make their key players unhappy due to lack of playing time. If your team isn't Moscow and NY of course. And the cap is still a thing here: especially if those players' cap hit is 5.5 or more M's. Curious to see how long this trend will continue;

- I'm probably late to the party, but here is another trend. Pass-first defencemans. This thing is real. Shooting defs will be a rarity soon, I swear. There are a couple of good scoring defencemans and two of them might be the favorites for the Labatte, but more and more younger members are preferring passing these days;

- Seems like a depth is playing a big part for NY and Prague. These both teams are pressing far better squads and don't suck hard. The Americans in particular, these guys were above Calgary of all teams in standings. And they're still having Toronto in shook. While I think they're eventually going to fall to their 5th spot in NA, their run is being one of surprising moments of the first half of the season;

- Speaking about Toronto - Valeri Morozov? Viktor Kozlov?! Kyson Blake?!?!?!!!? Ok, I get the signing of Morozov. He is still fairly young and there is a tiny chance that 'Cock might try to get his booty back once again. But what in the world is one of countless Moscow's let downs doing in the Legion? That was the really signing for the sake of signing and having a sixth D. Perhaps Symm and Elhandon don't even care at this point and Tzuyu's minutes weren't cut at all so nobody's unhappy. It's just a weird thing to see - signing an inactive guy who has no future whatsoever;

- Malmo's total shot difference is negative, yet they are third in standings. Gotta give a credit to Johnson for this one despite of ''just a decent'' .919 stat. But a team needs to put a weight up at offense cause their current passive style won't get them a championship;

 

That's it and I'm out.

 

6 TPE to Kallis

[Gustav 6,322]

5 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

- I'm probably late to the party, but here is another trend. Pass-first defencemans. This thing is real. Shooting defs will be a rarity soon, I swear. There are a couple of good scoring defencemans and two of them might be the favorites for the Labatte, but more and more younger members are preferring passing these days

Even when I created in S65, I read some articles where a few people (I think you were even one of them) complained about the fact that every defenseman is basically trying to be a forward. So I took pride in being very pass-first and defensive then. 

 

Now I'm not special anymore and I don't know how to feel about that.

[McWolf 3,114]

21 minutes ago, GustavMattias said:

Even when I created in S65, I read some articles where a few people (I think you were even one of them) complained about the fact that every defenseman is basically trying to be a forward. So I took pride in being very pass-first and defensive then. 

 

Now I'm not special anymore and I don't know how to feel about that.

You were never unique. I was doing it as well.

[hedgehog337 3,480]

28 minutes ago, GustavMattias said:

Even when I created in S65, I read some articles where a few people (I think you were even one of them) complained about the fact that every defenseman is basically trying to be a forward.

 

Perhaps it has to do with Valiq himself, he was a very successful player with a scoring first approach. So it probably made members to make a lot of shooters. My only defenceman was a 40/90 type of player as well.

 

But I wasn't there in S30's so maybe some older member can tell more about it.

[Beketov 8,938]

1 hour ago, hedgehog337 said:

Malmo's total shot difference is negative, yet they are third in standings. Gotta give a credit to Johnson for this one despite of ''just a decent'' .919 stat. But a team needs to put a weight up at offense cause their current passive style won't get them a championship;

What’s interesting about this is my shooting percentage must be pretty high (haven’t checked) because despite this I’m tied for the league lead in goals. Can’t tell if the differential stat means we’re just allowing a ridiculous amount of shots or we aren’t taking many. Perhaps both?

[hedgehog337 3,480]

26 minutes ago, Beketov said:

Can’t tell if the differential stat means we’re just allowing a ridiculous amount of shots or we aren’t taking many. Perhaps both?

 

The latter one. Malmo is currently the second worst team at shots for stat. Even Prague has more so far. 

 

Gotta be a Davos effect, they're playing tight in defence.

Edited September 28, 2019 by hedgehog337

[Gustav 6,322]

1 hour ago, McWolf said:

You were never unique. I was doing it as well.

Well, I know I wasn't unique, just that I wasn't doing what was perceived to be the "average defenseman build" way back in the days of 3 seasons ago.

[Beketov 8,938]

45 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

 

The latter one. Malmo is currently the second worst team at shots for stat. Even Prague has more so far. 

 

Gotta be a Davos effect, they're playing tight in defence.

This made me curious so I went and looked: currently I’m shooting 18%; not bad at all! By comparison when I tied for the Brooks in S66 I only shot 11%.