EHM and the 10/11 Islanders
by Mark D on Jan 19, 2011 5:31 PM EST
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PrintAfter my computer problems this summer I ended up getting a new laptop. One of my favorite games is Eastside Hockey Manager, it's been mentioned around here a few times as Mikb plays it too. Pretty much you take over as GM of any club and run it as you see fit. I happen to prefer the freeware version just because it runs quicker (EHM 07 allows you to sim just about the whole world on varying levels of detail). There are still adherents who release both an updated roster every year and yearly prospects based on real world prospects. So I loaded up the new Rosters and took over the Islanders.
First off, because this was released in August when the FA pool is usually settled, there's no Michael Grabner (AI Florida didn't waive him) or Doug Weight (he signed after this release). Weight and Dwayne Roloson (who is named Albert in the game) have both announced their attention to retire at the end of the year. One other major change, Ilya Kovalchuk ended up signing in Phoenix for 3 years for 4 million a year.
To say the Islanders are bad might be an understatement. I might be a bit off, but usually 80+ as an overall is a star with 85+ being superstars like Crosby and Ovechkin. The best player on the Islanders is Rick DiPietro at 79, followed by John Tavares and Kyle Okposo at 74, Trent Hunter and Mark Streit at 72, James Wisniewski, Blake Comeau and Rollie at 71, Josh Bailey, Bruno Gervais and Matt Moulson at 70. The Great Dane Frans Nielsen is rated a 69 and doesn't even have a high defense rating.
The Islander lines for most of the season have been the same, except for some short term injuries.
Moulson - Tavares - Okposo
Rob Schremp - Bailey - Hunter
Comeau - Nielsen - Jon Sim
Matt Martin - Zenon Konopka - Jesse Joensuu
The Defensive Pairings have had some more injuries and currently Andrew MacDonald is covering for the hurting Radek Martinek.
Streit - Wiz
Mark Eaton - Bruno Gervais
MacDonald - Milan Jurcina
Rollie and DP have split the season right down the middle. So here's your Islanders scoring through 44 games:
| Pos | Name | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | PPG | SHG | Shots | SH% |
| L | Robbie Schremp | NYI | 44 | 14 | 21 | 35 | -13 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 132 | 10.6 |
| R | Kyle Okposo | NYI | 44 | 15 | 17 | 32 | -13 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 110 | 13.6 |
| C | John Tavares | NYI | 44 | 13 | 17 | 30 | -17 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 125 | 10.4 |
| R | Trent Hunter | NYI | 44 | 15 | 10 | 25 | -13 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 89 | 16.9 |
| C | Josh Bailey | NYI | 44 | 8 | 17 | 25 | -11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 101 | 7.9 |
| L | Matt Moulson | NYI | 44 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -16 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 8.1 |
| D | James Wisniewski | NYI | 44 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -14 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 54 | 5.6 |
| D | Mark Streit | NYI | 44 | 4 | 17 | 21 | -9 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 103 | 3.9 |
| R | Jon Sim | NYI | 44 | 7 | 12 | 19 | -1 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 12.3 |
| L | Blake Comeau | NYI | 44 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 72 | 12.5 |
| D | Bruno Gervais | NYI | 44 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 8.8 |
| C | Frans Nielsen | NYI | 44 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 13.6 |
| C | Zenon Konopka | NYI | 44 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 7.0 |
| R | *Jesse Joensuu | NYI | 44 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 3.3 |
| D | Radek Martinek | NYI | 41 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5.3 |
| D | Mark Eaton | NYI | 40 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3.8 |
| L | *Matt Martin | NYI | 41 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 10.0 |
| D | Milan Jurcina | NYI | 44 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 |
| D | Andrew MacDonald | NYI | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| L | Trevor Gillies | NYI | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Pos | Name | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | W | L | OTL | L | Pct | SO | GAA |
| G | Albert Roloson | NYI | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 90.0 | 1 | 2.86 |
| G | Rick DiPietro | NYI | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 87.1 | 1 | 3.44 |
The Islanders started the season strong for a week, went on a huge losing streak, then went on a huge winning streak to get up to 6th seed in the East. They've fallen back again getting blown out a few times now. They are now in 10th at 18-21-1-4 (the game doesn't have shootouts) with 41 points and 6 points back of the 8th seed Canes.
The rest of the league is pretty close to reality actually. Tampa, Philly and Boston are the top 3 seeds in the east, while the Devils are dead last. Not so much in the West as the top teams are Calgary, Phoenix and Chicago with St Louis in last. Hossa leads the league with 62 points, followed by Daniel Sedin at 57, Dustin Penner at 55 and Petr Sykora (with Chicago) at 55. Ovechkin is 10th in league scoring. Crosby is struggling with only 36 points, Jordan Staal is tied for the Penguins lead with him.
Other interesting Islander related notes:
Scott Gordon praised Adam Larsson, which is the games way of telling you the coach would really want you to draft this guy.
Matt Martin was named rookie of the month for January with 5 goals and 1 assist in 14 games. I don't think he's been off the 4th line, so this was a nice surprise.
Islanders named to the WJC:
Anders Nilsson (Sweden)
Anders Lee (USA)
Kirill Petrov (Russia)
Aaron Ness (USA)
Nino Niederreiter (SUI)
Calvin de Haan (Can)
Cody Rosen (Can) (He backed up Petr Delmas [who is a UFA]) played 2 games and allowed 2 goals on 38 shots with 1 win
Kirill Kabanov (Rus) (Now we know this isn't reality)
Corey Trivino (Can)
Bridgeport is 4th overall in the AHL at 25-13-1-5, led offensively by Hilbert (16G-15A-31P) Parenteau (9G-20A-29P) and Tim Kennedy (13G-14A-27P). Defensively Hillen (66 OV) Kohn (64 OV) and Hamonic (62 OV) are the best dmen, although MacDonald played most of the season on BP so far. Mikko/Poulin/Lawson have been rotating games and are posting similar stats.
The rest of our prospects are pretty weak, with Nino having a 64 OV and the next three guys at 58 OV, Kabanov, Kessel and Trivino.
You can go here for the complete Isles stats or here for the complete Bridgeport stats.
So from here, I was wondering if this interested anyone. I could update it, running a half season at a time every other week. I also thought to make it more interesting I could let you guys claim current Islanders (I think I can rename them) or any other players and see how your doing after a few years. I'll leave it up to everyone else, but I figured it was at least a bit interesting.
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Hockey sims
Since I used to run a simulated fantasy hockey league named after Al Arbour, and having been a member of other such leagues in the past, hockey sim software interests me.
However, I haven’t really gotten around to even downloading EHM yet. I’d be interested in finding out the best place to download the software.
I probably should have added that somewhere in there. The forums have the updated rosters and explanations on how to update.
I’ve been trying to get together a league for a while now, I could always start it if I get like 10 other people interested. Could always add people from there later.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
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I'd do it
Let me know.
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
by Keith Quinn on Jan 20, 2011 7:28 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
as Chris Berman would say, " That's why we play the game"
because what happens on paper or on a SIM game doesn’t happen in reality.
that is the type of record I thought we would have right now too
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
yea, it also helps that Okposo and Streit were never hurt
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
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What I've gleaned from this post...
Webby is independantly wealthy!
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If your life isn't pathetic enough already, follow me on twitter @JPinVA
my dreams.
Hopefully one day soon, or else I have to get back to work.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
Dude...This sounds awesome
I never heard of this….you have to pay???
Is thjere a demo to watch?
FB4Real
"Past performance Is Not A Guarantee For Future Results"
The freeware Eastside Hockey Manager still exists and can be downloaded from the site I linked to above. It’s a bit easier to jump into then EHM07. The forums on Fhockey also have the updated rosters and can help you through it a bit.
If your interested in doing an Online league, I’ll add you to the list.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
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Super-Terrific Hockey Dorkiness
I’ve played the EHM’07 version for a few years now. It is really a great dork-fest of fun and very layered: there is much more than just the NHL. Juniors, European leagues, scouting college and high schools. Hours of time-wasting fun.
Oh and, WebBard, I would be interested in doing an Online League. I’ve never done one using EHM before.
Also, while on the fantasy hockey on-line thought, there is also FHL Sim, which is a more bare-bones, customizable program to simulate fantasy hockey. That is more labor intensive, at least for a commish, but is endless it configurations. If anyone wants to know more I could talk your ears off about it.
Hockey Dorks, Unite!
I’ve told Webby and mikb that it would be the end of me if I started doing this. But if there were enough interested here for a league…
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i have the '07 version of EHM
Don’t know if they’re compatible…besides which, if I went online for a league, I’d never get to sleep again.
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they aren’t but EHM is freeware and downloadable from fhockey that I linked to above.
Dough Weight is so old, The LHH community made over 200 so old jokes
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Yea, I had FHL for a while.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
FHL
I ran a simulated league on FHL for about 7 years, after first running the league on HLS2 (Hockey League Simulator 2) for a year or so. A number of leagues at the time (this was 1997-98 or so) were switching to the FHL platform from the HLS2 program (which was being seen as antiquated by that point). I got burnt out from running the Al Arbour Hockey League on FHL around 2004, but I still putz around with the FHL sim from time to time.
Since then, I’ve run a fantasy hockey competition between friends on Yahoo! Sports.
well FHL is also just HLS2 at it’s base, I’m surprised the programmer has never gotten called out on it.
I actually sort of prefer HLS2, the 1-10 rating system instead of 1-100 seems to do better at not making every player perfectly well rounded.
Dough Weight is so old, The LHH community made over 200 so old jokes
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The level of hockey sim dorkiness talent at this site is awesome.
And I mean that sincerely.
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Holy Plus-Minus, Batman
How are they winning that many games with that goal differential?
Anyway, I love this — reminds me of the fake stats, simulations, and stat-tracked table hockey league I used to do with my dad.
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I simmed out a full season with NHLPA 93
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
I totally did this
And, yeah, I kept stats on NHLPA 93, too. Hell, that was more reliable than the first couple of years when it actually had a memory: I’d get into game 60 or so and then one day wake up with the entire season wiped.
Viva notebooks!
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They are only 19, but I guess when they get blown out it’s the top lines taking the +/ beating. The 3rd and 4th lines are doing alright with +/- except for Comeau. Their PK is also 26th in the league.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
Why would they ever make it that using a minus sign twice is a strikethrough.
"My son, who is 6, just asked if he had to keep watching the Islanders. I said it’s the Islanders or bed. He chose bed." Mulligan
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
who knows?
Must be the same reason why sticking something in between two exclamation points results in a box with an X in it:
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Takes the bait
!Okay I’m trying it now! I think I'm missing something.
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Has to be only text with no spaces between
I first discovered it when trying for the classic Internet joke of overexuberance: ! ! ! ! one ! 1 ! But do that without the spaces and it can (fail to) blow up on you.
The moment you put a space in (unlike the dash thing) it doesn’t work, probably useful considering the exuberance of many commenters.
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