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Originally Posted by Mud Hen
I'd also be curious on how you perform your offseason assessment of roster turnover, approach to free agency and prospect review/signings.
I appreciate any insight.
Thanks!
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If you're interested/motivated to play long save, I would suggest these:
1) AI needs helping hand. So get spreadsheet and babysit/help them as much as you can endure.
2) Offseason is going to happen again and again so get into routine mode and build continuity.
Example: you can have extra quality Centers, so while you loan them or play them in AHL you can sign top players on that position. If they get injured, you season won't be derailed. And that's the biggest problems with 10+mil guys. In they are healthy and have good performance season, they will carry you to the top, but with extra prospects you can be ready for worst outcome and still get to playoffs, where anything can happen. After that you can just live happily with your star player for duration of his long contract and not feel his impact on cap. You can always trade developed prospects for younger ones and get picks to try and find another gem in draft. Just focus on one position/role(def/forward) and get those players in massive numbers on draft day. Sometimes it will require you to go with skill over talent, but scouts can be wrong and no talent guys can be awesome too (usually high skills, low physicals profiles). So pick defenders/forwards to carry your team and focus on drafting prospects to replace them. You can transition from one to another using good players too. I went from team with top defenders to team with top forwards over the course of years.
As for dates: 23rd is draft, if you're ready sign picks you need right away and be ready with what's left of CAP for free agency.
3) Try to get experience with roster filling right away. If you know you can draft guy who won't be good enough to just play, but can be perfect in PP, you can squeeze him in as 6th defender and ease his transition. So know your basic needs (PP units, PK units, player pairings). If you balance those well, you can get away with lots of stuff. I played forwards w/o pass and defenders w/o physicals and they still did well. Again, little practical experience&mistakes will help you to figure it out. And spreadsheets help too(or maybe it's just me
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