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ZootMurph · 08-20-2020, 08:25 PM

July 1... First thing to do is add the Missoula Mericans to the AHL, and they will be my AHL affiliate. Now I can build a proper roster!! I also took the US logo and copied it, then changed the name and pasted it (with FHM6 shut down, of course) to the proper folder... When I restarted, I had a new logo, but not the one I tried to use to overwrite the old logo. Oh, well, I tried...

While our goalie, Eric Comrie, played great (2.95 GAA with .914 save percentage in 64 games), I can't expect him to continue to play so well, so my first order of business is to try to upgrade at goalie in Free Agency. I also feel our top end talent isn't top end, and we also have a few overpaid players (RD Trouba making $8M a year for 6 years, C Hayes making $7.14M a year for 6 years are two of them) that we need to get rid of to make room for better highly paid talent. JVR is getting $7M a year at age 31, but he delivered last season and I'll keep him around.

Tory Krug is the best American free agent, asking for $6.6M a year at age 29. If I can trade Trouba and get Krug, it saves me about $1.4M a year and improves my team's strength, which is our defensemen. I'd rather work on goalie and some more offense, but there's nothing really out there that will improve my top end, so I have to find players to fit in the middle or improve my bottom part of the lineup. Unfortunately, I think a balanced lineup is one of our team's strengths, even if the overall is average...

The two guys I hope to add to the main lineup are winger Jimmy Vesey and goalie Garret Sparks. Neither will set the world on fire, just add some decent depth. I also try to sign some young fellas to create more of a prospect pool. Defenseman Alec Rauhauser, C Tanner Laczynski, and winger Ara Nazarian are 3 young guys who I hope can develop into something... All of these guys received contract offers July 1. I also throw an offer at young centers Tyler Sheehy and Patrick Harper.

At the end of the day, I tried to shop Trouba. I got a lot of offers of a 4th round pick, and a few offers for a decent, not good, young player. If I could negotiate, I'd try to get a defenseman in return that can play 2nd or 3rd pairing plus a prospect or draft pick, as I think that would be fair value... but I can't, by my own rules, try to negotiate. And I can't take a 4th rounder or a so-so prospect for him just to dump salary. He'll be an American for a while, until someone comes to me with more desire to get him. So, no offer to Tory Krug.

Krug signs with LA for $6.6M for 4 years. I would probably have gotten him at $6.75M. I also reject all national team job offers. I just frankly don't care about the National teams and the world cup, Olympics, etc. I'd turn them off if I was able...

All my initial offers were accepted. I send everyone down that is under 1.5 stars. I'll look for more and trim the roster a little more as the free agency continues on. My goal is to have 40 contracts going into the season.

08-20-2020, 08:25 PM	#24
ZootMurph Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 124	July 1... First thing to do is add the Missoula Mericans to the AHL, and they will be my AHL affiliate. Now I can build a proper roster!! I also took the US logo and copied it, then changed the name and pasted it (with FHM6 shut down, of course) to the proper folder... When I restarted, I had a new logo, but not the one I tried to use to overwrite the old logo. Oh, well, I tried... While our goalie, Eric Comrie, played great (2.95 GAA with .914 save percentage in 64 games), I can't expect him to continue to play so well, so my first order of business is to try to upgrade at goalie in Free Agency. I also feel our top end talent isn't top end, and we also have a few overpaid players (RD Trouba making $8M a year for 6 years, C Hayes making $7.14M a year for 6 years are two of them) that we need to get rid of to make room for better highly paid talent. JVR is getting $7M a year at age 31, but he delivered last season and I'll keep him around. Tory Krug is the best American free agent, asking for $6.6M a year at age 29. If I can trade Trouba and get Krug, it saves me about $1.4M a year and improves my team's strength, which is our defensemen. I'd rather work on goalie and some more offense, but there's nothing really out there that will improve my top end, so I have to find players to fit in the middle or improve my bottom part of the lineup. Unfortunately, I think a balanced lineup is one of our team's strengths, even if the overall is average... The two guys I hope to add to the main lineup are winger Jimmy Vesey and goalie Garret Sparks. Neither will set the world on fire, just add some decent depth. I also try to sign some young fellas to create more of a prospect pool. Defenseman Alec Rauhauser, C Tanner Laczynski, and winger Ara Nazarian are 3 young guys who I hope can develop into something... All of these guys received contract offers July 1. I also throw an offer at young centers Tyler Sheehy and Patrick Harper. At the end of the day, I tried to shop Trouba. I got a lot of offers of a 4th round pick, and a few offers for a decent, not good, young player. If I could negotiate, I'd try to get a defenseman in return that can play 2nd or 3rd pairing plus a prospect or draft pick, as I think that would be fair value... but I can't, by my own rules, try to negotiate. And I can't take a 4th rounder or a so-so prospect for him just to dump salary. He'll be an American for a while, until someone comes to me with more desire to get him. So, no offer to Tory Krug. Krug signs with LA for $6.6M for 4 years. I would probably have gotten him at $6.75M. I also reject all national team job offers. I just frankly don't care about the National teams and the world cup, Olympics, etc. I'd turn them off if I was able... All my initial offers were accepted. I send everyone down that is under 1.5 stars. I'll look for more and trim the roster a little more as the free agency continues on. My goal is to have 40 contracts going into the season.