It has been a very long time since I posted in this series, but I've wanted to finish this up for a long time. For those of you who don't remember or weren't around when this series was running, this is my Phildelphia Flyers GM Mode, back on NHL 15 on the last gen. This is Year 5 of the series, with Year 4 ending in a Stanley Cup Finals defeat to the Colorado Avalanche.
When I last posted in November 2015(link here), we had just reached the trade deadline, with a record of 34-21-5, good enough for fourth place in the Metropolitan Division. We had struggled during the season thanks to an injury to captain Claude Giroux, who recently returned. Looking at the lines and the stats, the two pieces I wanted at the deadline were a solid third line right winger, and a backup goaltender, as youngster Carl Schmidmeyer hadn't worked out. I couldn't find the goalie, but did find the winger, acquiring Ty Rattie from the St Louis Blues from 7th d-man Samuel Morin and some assorted prospects. We didn't give up much to get Rattie, who's still young at 26, has a manageable contract and has been playing well with the Blues. Here's a look at our updated lines:
Forwards
Burakovsky(85)-Giroux(90)-Voracek(90)
Duclair(83)-Horvat(85)-Forsberg(86)
Perlini(83)-Couturier(85)-Rattie(84)
Lemieux(80)-White(80)-Reaves(80)
Defensemen
Ekman-Larsson(86)-Jones(86)
Gostisbehere(85)-Hagg(85)
Pettersson(83)-Meloche(83)
Goalies
Campbell(89)
Schmidmeyer(82)
Also at the deadline, we saw Derick Brassard sent to Montreal, Vancouver trade Alexander Edler for James Reimer from Washington and Dimity Kulikov head to Edmonton for a first round pick.
We stayed mostly healthy throughout the remainder of the season, and that helped us stay on track. The addition of Ty Rattie didn't make a huge difference, and although our goalies and defense had some struggles, we did make the playoffs as the fourth seed in our division, finishing with a record of 46-30-6, adding up to 98 points. We tallied 260 goals, the most in the league, up from 225 last year. That's truly an impressive total, but we did allow 222 goals, only 14th in the NHL, 15 more than last year. We had ourselves a solid season, made more impressive when you consider that our best player was missing for almost half the season. Here are the end of season team leaders:
Goals: Jakub Voracek, 42
Assists: Filip Forsberg, 49
Plus/Minus: Robert Hagg, +17
PIMS: Ryan Reaves, 147
Wins: Jack Campbell, 39
And here are the overall end of season stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UiQ70CkqZ5GZYCkkl-hh-Hf-ynXPiymZbaDeXT5IUUI/edit#gid=0
I thank you for tuning in to the return of my Philly Flyers GM Mode, I hope you've enjoyed. Next time, we take on a familiar face in the Tampa Bay Lightning, who we eliminated last year in the Eastern Conference Finals. Can we do it again?
-Henry
When I last posted in November 2015(link here), we had just reached the trade deadline, with a record of 34-21-5, good enough for fourth place in the Metropolitan Division. We had struggled during the season thanks to an injury to captain Claude Giroux, who recently returned. Looking at the lines and the stats, the two pieces I wanted at the deadline were a solid third line right winger, and a backup goaltender, as youngster Carl Schmidmeyer hadn't worked out. I couldn't find the goalie, but did find the winger, acquiring Ty Rattie from the St Louis Blues from 7th d-man Samuel Morin and some assorted prospects. We didn't give up much to get Rattie, who's still young at 26, has a manageable contract and has been playing well with the Blues. Here's a look at our updated lines:
Forwards
Burakovsky(85)-Giroux(90)-Voracek(90)
Duclair(83)-Horvat(85)-Forsberg(86)
Perlini(83)-Couturier(85)-Rattie(84)
Lemieux(80)-White(80)-Reaves(80)
Defensemen
Ekman-Larsson(86)-Jones(86)
Gostisbehere(85)-Hagg(85)
Pettersson(83)-Meloche(83)
Goalies
Campbell(89)
Schmidmeyer(82)
Also at the deadline, we saw Derick Brassard sent to Montreal, Vancouver trade Alexander Edler for James Reimer from Washington and Dimity Kulikov head to Edmonton for a first round pick.
We stayed mostly healthy throughout the remainder of the season, and that helped us stay on track. The addition of Ty Rattie didn't make a huge difference, and although our goalies and defense had some struggles, we did make the playoffs as the fourth seed in our division, finishing with a record of 46-30-6, adding up to 98 points. We tallied 260 goals, the most in the league, up from 225 last year. That's truly an impressive total, but we did allow 222 goals, only 14th in the NHL, 15 more than last year. We had ourselves a solid season, made more impressive when you consider that our best player was missing for almost half the season. Here are the end of season team leaders:
Goals: Jakub Voracek, 42
Assists: Filip Forsberg, 49
Plus/Minus: Robert Hagg, +17
PIMS: Ryan Reaves, 147
Wins: Jack Campbell, 39
And here are the overall end of season stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UiQ70CkqZ5GZYCkkl-hh-Hf-ynXPiymZbaDeXT5IUUI/edit#gid=0
I thank you for tuning in to the return of my Philly Flyers GM Mode, I hope you've enjoyed. Next time, we take on a familiar face in the Tampa Bay Lightning, who we eliminated last year in the Eastern Conference Finals. Can we do it again?
-Henry
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