The All-Time Hockey League

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Well I am trying something new to me, inspired by a post I read on these forums. I am creating a six-team league, set in modern day, where each team has as its theme a particular decade: the Toronto 60s, Seattle 70s, Los Angeles 80s, Ottawa 90s, New York 2000s (nicknamed the "Aughts"), and the London 10s (because why not involve the UK?). I have created the following loose "rules":

1. The teams will play a 60-game regular season against each other, meaning they play each other 12 times. I just didn't want career totals to seem too small. This is followed by a four-team playoff of two best-of-five series for the championship.

2. In order to be selected for a team, that player had to have played at least three seasons in a particular decade. This created some tough decisions (e.g., should Mario Lemieux play for the 80s or the 90s, where he can be with Jagr. And where should Jagr go?!).

3. The player could only be selected once, so no Gretzky on the 80s and the 90s.

4. Regardless of which decade the player was whatever age in, skaters were/are being imported at ages 20-22 (with notable exceptions: I want some like Gretzky to be around an extra year, so they're 19). Goalies are imported at ages 27, 24, and 19-20.

5. Each team is composed of 15 forwards, 8 defensemen, and 3 goalies. 23 active players are allowed, so 3 players must go to a six-team minor league.

6. I am running the Ottawa 90s. I am designing the uniforms and logos myself, so if these strike you as terrible, it's OK.

7. I am allowing the AI to setup organization once I contract the 26 players. So while I am responsible for selecting the initial contracted roster, I am not responsible for line construction or Gretzky inexplicably being a shadow. The exception to this is the 90s team, which I am selecting lines and pairings and all that jazz.

8. Trading has been reduced to 1. I have made it a fictional league, meaning that new players to the draft will be fictional. I do plan on importing some players that I just had to skip over (it's getting more agonizing as I go and am more familiar with the players).

Below I shall post screenshots of each team I have built so far (contract page, the player profile of the captain, and lines page). I don't move very quickly, so I'm not done yet.

PS-I know that with the new players and all, eventually players are going to be on teams they have no business being on. I can live with that. I just like the fun of this initial construction!

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As promised

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And again:

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Note I simply stole Kraken jerseys and logo

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Sorry, failed to note that a good portion of the contracts page was blocked...

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And now the lines:

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And introducing your Los Angeles 80s!

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Lines

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I haven't made the lines yet:

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Jersey (that's actually the logo first)

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OK for real the jersey

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Finally the lines:

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The Aughts:

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The Lines:

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Here they are!

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And the lines:

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I'm running the Ottawa 90s, and we've leapt out to a 4-0-0 start. 3 points is awarded for a win, 2 points for an OT/SO win, 1 point for OT/SO loss, and no points for reg loss. We're first in the league with 12 points. In the pre-season, the 80s and the 10s showed themselves capable of taking over games at any time. The 2000s are firmly in the middle, and the 60s and 70s round out the league. The 70s have had some bad luck with injuries, losing multiple players for around a week or so right off the bat. It'll be interesting to see how this 2020-21 season goes!

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Well the end of the first season has come. My team, the Ottawa 90s, boasted the ATHL's first-ever leading scorer (and rookie of the year), Mario Lemieux. Lemieux outscored the likes of Ovechkin, Crosby, and the Great One himself to capture the title with 35 goals and 47 assists for 82 points in 60 games. He led the league in both goals and assists.

The LA 80s dominated the regular season, with the 10s, the 60s, and our 90s rounding out the playoffs. We played out of our minds to upset the top-seeded 80s 3 games to 1, and met the mighty London 10s in the inaugural ATHL Cup. It was a hard-fought battle, but the 10s took it in five games for the initial championship.

The draft features fictional players, but I added in six more (when you add players in at 17, apparently they play two seasons before becoming draft eligible) historical players: John Vanbiesbrouck, Braden Holtby, Auston Matthews, Maurice Richard, Pierre Turgeon, and Aaron Ekblad.

The new crop of players to draft at the end of season 2 includes: Mike Richter, Theo Fleury, Ed Belfour, Nathan MacKinnon, Ron Hextall, and Keith Tkachuk. I signed my third overall pick, a fictional defenseman named Donnie Holland. He's currently competing with a 23-year-old Derian Hatcher for ice time. Holland is a full star better, but the game ratings suggest Hatcher still holds an edge.

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I made an away jersey for the Ottawa 90s, and here it is:

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Season 2 ended with the LA 80s, the regular-season winner, capturing the ATHL Cup for the first time as well in the playoffs. While the scoring race was a true neck-and-neck affair, Super Mario won it again over The Great One, 83 points to 81. Lemieux did it despite playing one less game than he did last season as well. Curiously, he neither led the league in goals nor assists (the latter being Gretzky and the former being Mike Bossy, setting a record with 38 goals scored in 60 games).