Second half of the season, and I messed up pretty badly towards the end, but that will have to wait.

My lone allstar was Joel Armia.

I picked up two players from waivers, D Matthew Berry-Lamontagna and C Jusso Ikonen. Both have 3.5 star potential and are 75 OVR, either they'll make the team or I'll explore trading them. At the trade deadline I made one move:

TO CHI
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LW Adam Brodziak

TO NYR
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RW Jimmy Hayes

Brodziak is young and has 3 star potential, so he's slightly above average, but I really needed LW depth and I needed to lose RW depth, so I guess this works both ways. It also freed up money for this offseason. I noticed my contract with Nick Leddy was going to be up after this season and with how he's regressed and how many of my defensive prospects have progressed I planned on moving him, but his value was near non existent, so I held on to him.

Now here's how I messed up: First some background, this was a hard fought year, I was teetering between playoffs and missing them back and forth. As such, I played Kent Simpson, my starting goalie most of the games, well I didn't want him to play all of the games (I usually switch on back to back games and when I feel it's been a while) but near the end of the season Hope had only played a handful of games. Before my last game I checked the standings and saw myself in a playoff spot by 3 points and I thought I'd give Hope the game both to let Simpson rest, and to play Hope another game. Well, stupid me forgot to factor in games remaining and with the expected loss, I dropped from 7th seed to 11th, where I finished at 36-32-14 (86 points).

Draft+ resign+ FA will be up later tonight.

Skater Stats:
Name/Pos/GP/G/A/Pts/PIMS/ +/-

Joel Armia/RW/82/18/43/61/20/14
Troy Bourke/LW/82/6/16/22/12/-3
Rocky Brewer/LW/79/12/8/20/12/2
Michael Frolik/RW/43/15/25/40/14/15
Vladimir Glebov/D/75/4/20/24/16/12
Mikhail Grigorenko/C/36/1/2/3/4/-8
Patrick Kane/C/71/33/26/59/12/7
Duncan Keith/D/82/5/23/28/21/-4
Nick Leddy/D/80/5/20/25/6/9
Alexis Loiseau/C/63/5/11/16/4/-5
Mark McNeill/C/67/20/22/42/17/9
Joseph Morrow/D/72/12/19/31/37/1
Jamie Oleksiak/D/40/1/5/6/55/2
TJ Oshie/RW/81/17/37/54/68/8
Adam Pelech/D/13/2/1/3/4/4
Duncan Siemens/D/67/3/1/4/75/14
Ryan Strome/C/43/5/6/11/4/-6
Jonathan Toews/C/82/19/59/78/70/0
Michal Vachovec/RW/81/12/24/36/12/8
David Walch/C/52/16/20/36/6/14
Evan Wardley/D/76/6/5/11/29/8

Goalie Stats
Name/GP/W/L/OTL/GAA/SV%/SO

Brandon Hope/8/3/2/1/2.42/.918/1
Kent Simpson/78/33/30/13/2.48/.917/8

Before I get to the summary can I talk about how ridiculous injuries are? Now I'm not saying that there shouldn't be injuries, I just think they should happen to injury prone guys. Last season (in the real NHL) the Blackhawks had only 2 players play all 82 games, Kane and Leddy. It seems to me that those two (along with Frolik) are the most injury prone players in this Be a GM. What the hell gives? Meanwhile a guy like Toews who has played 1 full year out of 5 almost never gets hurt, and when he is it is never severe? Is there an injury stat or am I just unlucky?

Summary:
- Picked up D Matthew Berry-Lamontagna from waivers.
- Picked up C Jusso Ikonen from waivers.
- Traded RW Jimmy Hayes to the New York Rangers for LW Adam Brodziak.