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The Awkward Team: NHL 13 HUT

Posted on March 15, 2013 at 04:38 PM.

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Here is what happened so far

I got 85 Blake Wheeler in a gold pack so decided to go for a Jets line. I got Bryan Little & Andrew Ladd for less than 1000pts each then added Antropov & Burmistrov when they were cheap and with many games on their contracts... I am still hoping for a cheap Evander Kane but I probably will pay the 10-15000pts for him soon if I don't catch a deal... Anyways, I am ready to go to war with Ladd - Little - Wheeler. It might not be the most sexy line but I will be competitive against pretty much anybody with those guys on the ice.

Among my gold packs, I ended up with 3 "change team" cards, 1 LA Kings which I resold for 1850pts and 2 Calgary cards... I started checking what was out there for the Flames and got Mikael Backlund, Curtis Glencross & David Moss for cheap before adding Olli Jokinen for 600pts or so. Tomas Tatar is one of my favorite player so I put the captain tag on him and applied some coaching cards to him before switching him to the Flames now as an 84... all the while keeping an eagle eye for the big boy: Jarome Iginla. It took about a week but I finally managed to get him at 6000pts, a reasonable enough price for my 1st line winger. So now my first line is Tatar - Backlund/Jokinen - Iginla

My D was a bit unsettled until I got Oliver Ekman-Larsson in my last gold pack. He is only rated 84 but I used him in my franchise and he plays very well so I got Rotislav Klesla who is a huge physical presence to be my first pairing. My Panthers duo is next with Bieksa and either Keaton Ellerby or Jason Garrison. Finally, since I kept checking the Flames looking for Iginla, I got Scott Hannan, Anton Babchuk (another guy from my franchise who I play great with) and Alex Goligoski (cheaper than usual since he was switched to Calgary) for my 3rd pairing.

At this point, look out for either players on the same teams to raise chemistry or just players you like/want to play with. I ended up getting Ryan O'Reilly and Jakub Voracek. That got me to add some cheap options from the Avs (McGinn, Jones, Hejduk) & Philly (Read, Talbot, Schenn). I especially like McGinn: physical, some quickness, makes nice passes; another good find!

Competition is fierce right now when I play against NHL teams, it's really a coin toss who will win so now it's time to save for the big pieces: Giroux & JVR to take Voracek to the next level? Landeskog to make the Avs line #2 and the Jets line a strong #3? Getting whoever else is discounted and spend the money on a "change team" card? At some point, I will also need to save up for an elite goalie... and those aren't cheap! but you can't keep relying on 82-84s if you want to win.

As always, I keep checking auctions for reasonable contracts & training cards to keep my consumables pile full and ready.

So here is my team as of 03/11 with about 6000pts in bank

Tatar - Backlund - Iginla
Ladd - Little - Wheeler
McGinn - O'Reilly - Jones
XXX (still rotating a cast of cheap 80s here)

Ekman-Larsson - Klesla
Ellerby - Bieksa
Goligoski - Babchuk

LaBarbera - Poulin

... slowly crawling my way up the leaderboards and awaiting the time I can add my first allstar!