NHL11: BRB vs PIT

Series 2 of our 2010/2011 playoff season

Pittsburgh Penguins


OFFENSE
James Neal (83) / M. Koivu (87) / E. Artyukhin (81)
N. Hagman (82) / J. Pavelski (83) / G. Parros (81)
S. Regier (75) / M. Comrie (82) / P. Kaleta (79)
Z. Konopka (78) / M. Reasoner (78) / E. Lisin (78)

DEFENSE
R. Klesla (82) / B. Coburn (83)
K. Yandle (80) / A. Stralman (80)
V. Koistinen (77) / J. Ericsson (79)

GOALIE
H. Lundqvist (89)

Barrie Beavers

OFFENSE
S. Gagne (84) / H. Sedin (91) / D. Briere (85)
T. Hall (75) / R. Kesler (87) / M. Grabner (76)
M. Boedker (77) / M. Malhotra (81) / T. Bertuzzi (81)
J. Tlusty (77) / T. Seguin (74) / T. Lewis (74)

DEFENSE
Hall Gill (83) / D. Boyle (86)
A. Edler (81) / M. Greene (83)
A. Salmela (76) / A. Johnson (77)

GOALIE
Tim Thomas (85)
A. Salak (75)

NHL11: 10/11 playoffs - series #1

The first series of our playoff campaign is now over and the Beavers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning by 4-1

Tampa Bay 1 x 3 @Barrie
Tampa Bay 1 x 0 @Barrie
Barrie 2 x 0 @Tampa Bay
Barrie 3 x 0 @Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay 2 x 5 @Barrie


Our best players were:


Team Leaders
H. Sedin - 2 Goals
H. Gill - 3 Assists
J. Tlusty - 4 pts
J. Tlusty - 4 +/-

Playoff Leaders

T. Vanek - 5 goals
B. Wheeler - 3 goals
A. Frolov - 3 goals
M. Hossa - 3 goals
B. Gionta - 3 goals
K. Versteeg - 3 goals

T. Vanek - 7 pts
M. Hossa - 7 pts
S. Stamkos - 7 pts
W. Wolski - 6pts
A. Markov - 6 pts
J. Staal - 6 pts

A. Markov - 7 +/-
K. Letang - 7 +/-

T. Thomas - 94.6% SV
J. Quick - 94.6% SV
A. Niitymaki - 94.5% SV
S. Mason - 92.7% SV
N. Khabibulin - 92.7% SV

NHL11: BRB vs TB

So here are the lineups for this first exciting series between the Barrie Beavers and the Tampa Bay Lightning

- Tampa Bay -
OFFESE
M. Lucic (83) / P. Marleau (89) / J. Langenbrunner (85)
C. Kunitz (82) / M. Richards (88) / J. Voracek (82)
D. Hordichuk (80) / J. Arnott (83) / T. Kopecky (79)
J. Smithson (79) / J. Bailey (80) / N. D'Agostini (77)

DEFENSE
B. Salvador (81) / D. Morris (83)
K. Timonen (83) / S. Hannan (82)
M. Eaton (79) / D. Quint (81)

GOALIE
K. Lehtonen (85)

- Barrie Beavers -

OFFESE
S. Gagne (84) / H. Sedin (91) / D. Briere (85)
J. Tlusty (77) / R. Kesler (87) / M. Grabner (76)
M. Boedker (77) / M. Malhotra (81) / T. Hall (75)
T. Spencer (74) / T. Seguin (74) / T. Lewis (74)

DEFENSE
Hall Gill (83) / D. Boyle (86)
M. Greene (83) / A. Edler (81)
A. Johnson (77) / A. Salmela (76)


GOALIE
Tim Thomas (85)
A. Salak (75)

NHL11: 10/11 playoffs

This is what the playoff tree looks like for my first NHL11 fantasy season. The Barrie Beavers will start with Tampa Bay Lightning.

This season we faced them 6 times, winning 4 and only losing 2 games.
Away vs Home
BRB 0 x 3 TB
TB 1 x 5 BRB
BRB 5 x 1 TB
TB 2 x 4 BRB
TB 1 x 4 BRB
BRB 3 x 4 TB

Opponent Leaders
P. Marleau - 29 Goals
P. Marleau  - 50 Assists
J. Langenbrunner - +/- 15
M. Lucic - +/- 14

NHL11: end of season 10/11

Point leaders
S. Crosby (CGY) - 100
K. Okposo (PHX) - 96
D. Penner (PHX) - 94
E. Malkin (PHX) - 92
R. Malone (BOS) - 89
P. Kessel (SJ) - 62

Goals
M. Gaborik (OTT) - 46
K. Okposo (PHX) - 43
S. Crosby (CGY) - 41
M. Samuelsson (CGY) - 40
J. Iginla (NJ) - 38
M. Raymond (BUF) - 38

+/-
H. Sedin (BRB) - 43
S. Gagne (BRB) - 42
D. Briere (BRB) - 40
P. Elias (DET) - 35
K. Quincey (WAS) - 33
R. Malone (BOS) - 32

Shutouts
Tim Thomas (BRB) - 12
Cam Ward (FLA) - 8
Semyon Varlamov (NSH) - 7
M. Kiprusoff (CAR) - 7
R. Luongo (BOS) - 6

Save%
B. Bishop (PIT) - 93.3%
Ilya Bryzgalov (NYI) - 92.2%
R. Luongo (BOS) - 91.9%
M. Kiprusoff (CAR) - 91.8%
C. Ward (FLA) - 91.6%
R. Miller (PHI) - 91.6%
J. Halak (DET) - 91.4%

GAA
T. Thomas (BRB) - 1.89
I. Bryzgalov (NYI) - 2.37
S. Mason (MIN) - 2.41
R. Luongo (BOS) - 2.47

Team Leaders
H. Sedin - 28 Goals
M. Greene - 34 Assists
H. Sedin - 43 +/-

Points
H. Sedin - 58
S. Gagne - 53
D. Briere - 51

Faceoff %
M. Malhotra - 86.4% (484/560)
H. Sedin - 69.6% (469/674)
R. Kesler - 65.6% (278/424)
T. Seguin - 52.1% (113/217)

Minutes played
M. Greene - 2168
D. Boyle - 1937
H. Gill - 1867
A. Edler - 1634
H. Sedin - 1493
D. Briere - 1446
A. Salmela - 1348
R. Kesler - 1303

NHL11: end of season 10/11 (east)

Eastern Conference

Barrie 114

Philadelphia 93

Boston 92

Florida 101

Pittsburgh 91

Montreal 89

NY Rangers 89

Tampa Bay 89

Buffalo 89

New Jersey 88

NY Islanders 88

Ottawa 85

Toronto 85

Washington 83

Carolina 78

NHL11: end of season 10/11 (west)

Western Conference

 

Minnesota 101

Columbus 96

Dallas 93

Calgary 92

Phoenix 88

Anaheim 87

Edmonton 87

Colorado 86

San Jose 85

St. Louis 85

Vancouver 85

Detroit 83

Nashville 81

Chicago 79

Los Angeles 79

NHL11: Penguins - team profile (April 2011)

43-33-5
OFF 86 / DEF 85 / GOA 92

OFFENSE
James Neal (83) / M. Koivu (87) / E. Artyukhin (81)
N. Hagman (82) / J. Pavelski (83) / G. Parros (81)
S. Regier (75) / M. Comrie (81) / P. Kaleta (79)
Z. Konopka (78) / M. Reasoner (78) / E. Lisin (78)

DEFENSE
R. Klesla (82) / B. Coburn (83)
K. Yandle (80) / A. Stralman (80)
V. Koistinen (77) / J. Ericsson (79)

GOALIE
H. Lundqvist (89)

Leaders
Goals - J. Neal - 25
Assists - J. Neal - 55
+/- - J. Neal - 15

NHL11: Salo trade for Matt Greene

On an offer from Washington I decided to trade out Sami Salo (80) for Matt Greene (83). This wasn't an easy decision since I do like Sami Salo quite a bit, he was a great offensive oriented D-man.

However, I felt adding another solid defensive player to the team would be more beneficial to keep the team well rounded. So here are the stats for Matt Greene at this point:

NHL11: Winger trade with Minesota Wild

In order to keep the team under the salary cap I was feeling I needed to let go of one of our bigger salaries. For that I picked B. Gionta since he had only 24 points this season 10G/11A and was earning over 4 mil. I ended up trading him for Jiri Tlusty. This was obviously a downgrade for us but the 22 year old may offer some energy and potential for development. 

NHL11: Be a GM , January update

The Barrie Beavers have done fairly well in this first half. Here are some stats and standings:

	Western		Eastern
MIN	67	OTT	70
ANA	62	BRB	68
CBJ	57	PHI	67
DAL	61	MTL	64
COL	61	FLA	64
CGY	58	NYR	62
VAN	54	NJ	61
SJ	53	WSH	59
CHI	53	BOS	58
NSH	53	PIT	53
PHX	53	TOR	52
EDM	52	TB	51
LA	52	BUF	51
STL	51	NYI	48
DET	44	CAR	44

Point leaders

S. Crosby (CGY) - 69
D. Penner (PHX) - 68
K. Okposo (PHX) - 68
P. Kessel (SJ) - 62
E. Malkin (PHX) - 62

Wins
R. Miller (PHX) - 30
T. Tomas (BRB) - 28
P. Rinne (ANA) - 28
C. Anderson (NJ) - 27
C. Price (WSH) - 26

Team Leaders
D. Briere - 16 Goals
S. Salo - 22 Assists
S. Salo - +/- 23

Points
H. Sedin - 35
S. Gagne - 30
S. Salo - 30

Faceoff %
M. Malhotra - 84.8% (307/362)
H. Sedin - 67.6% (292/432)
R. Kesler - 56.7% (164/289)
T. Seguin - 42.9% (54/126)

New NHL11 "BaGM" game

I know NHL has nothing to do with FM simulations but I figured I would avoid having to open another blog just for my hockey "be a GM" games. I just started a career game with my custom team the Barrie Beavers. I didn't know about this, but NHL11 has a fantasy draft option for career games, which will work out great for this. It basically sets up a draft right at the beginning of the game where all players are free agents, so teams build their teams from scratch. PSN has been bad for a while now and I can't update my roster so I figured playing fantasy draft would make it so it doesn't matter. I also think a fantasy draft game makes for more interesting blogging.

So here is the team I picked out:


S. Gagne (Tampa Bay)  -  H. Sedin  (Vancouver)  -  D. Briere (Philadelphia)
M. Boedker  (Phoenix) -  R. Kesler  (Vancouver)  -  B. Gionta  (Montreal)
T. Hall  (Edmonton) - M. Malhotra  (Vancouver)  -  T. Bertuzzi  (Detroit)
J. Cheechoo  (Worcester)  - T. Seguin  (Boston)  -  M. Grabner  (New York)

H. Gill  (Montreal)  -  D. Boyle  (San Jose)
S. Salo  (Vancouver)  -  A. Edler  (Vancouver)
A. Salmela  (New Jersey)  -  A. Johnson  (Milwaukee)

T. Thomas  (Boston)
A. Salak  (Chicago)