Time for waivers... woohoo!
We claim RW Bryan Rust, LW Sonny Milano, and LD Caleb Jones... We got all 3. We send down defenseman Chad Krys, RW John Hayden, and LW CJ Smith.
Let's start the season!
During October I got three trade offers. In all 3 I was offered a player from Finland (3 different teams, 3 different players offered). Weird. Obviously I couldn't accept even though I wanted to at least once. Same issue with waivers after the long waiver list at the start of the season... some worthy players on waivers, but none were Americans.
I think the biggest problem with this team and the hardest thing to try to overcome is the team is so average. We'll draft in the middle of the round forever, so we'll never get top end talent to put us over the top, unless we get some lower round picks to boom to great players... On the other side, the bottom half of our lineup is as good if not better than most other teams.
Near the end of the month we lose Trocheck for up to 2 months with a torn hamstring. We call up LW Ara Nazarian, as he won't have to go through waivers when we have to send someone back.
We end up 6-9-0 for October, tied for 13th out of 16 teams in the Conference. 6 back to backs, so 12 of 15 of our games were part of a back to back... I wish there was a way to create better scheduling. You NEVER see 6 back to backs in one month in the NHL. It's hard on teams.
