Avs BAGM (Cor99)

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The Story

After a not-so-good season, the Avalanche were looking for a New General Manager, and they approached me, so I took the job, they said they were expecting me to make an impact and wanted 41 wins this season.

The Draft

We head into the draft wanting 5 specific players;

LW Sean Jones (4th Round Pick)
LW Spencer Asuchak (4th/5th Round Pick)
D Matt Ashman (1st Round Pick)
LW Turner Elson (4th/5th Round Pick)
D Patrick Downie (1st/2nd Round Pick)

I decide to shop some veterans, Adam Foote, Milan Hejduk, and to see what interest is out there, Paul Stastny

So we have the 17th Pick and since it is a very weak draft, i won't waste my team moving up.

TOR calls and offers me Gunnarsson, Lashoff for Jay McClement and a 4th and 5th in this draft. (I Accept)

PHX offers me Ebbett and Maclean for Stastny, (I reject)

17th Overall Pick: Stefan Ulmer, TWD, Swiss

BOS offers me Dennis Seidenberg and a 5th this draft for Milan Hejduk, (I reject, Seidenberg is overpaid)

BUF offers me a 2011 1st for Kyle Quincey, (I accept)

47th Overall Pick: Michal Kempny DFD, Czech

CAR offers me Joe Corvo for Matt Hunwick and David Koci, (I counter wanting Tim Gleason, they accept)

BOS offers me the same deal, except the pick is in 2011 (I reject)

77th Overall Pick: Stephen Gaskin DFD Canadian

CBJ offers me Craig Rivet, and Jared Boll for Stastny, I ask for Brassared straight up (they say they didn't want the cap)

CAR offers me Patrick O'Sullivan and Derek Joslin for Adam Foote, Ryan O'Byrne and a 5th (I accept)

197th Overall Pick: Alex Aleardi PLY C USA

Season Later!

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Free Agency

So I have about 14 Million in Cap, and 4 roster spots remaining.

Needs; LW, 3rd Pairing D

I offer Paul Kariya (82/C-) a 1 year deal worth 1.8
I offer Ryan Donald (71/B-) a ELC
I offer Stefan Ulmer (67/B-) a ELC

All 3 Accept!

I Offer Boston Brian Elliot and a 2015 1st for Tim Thomas... Chirelli says they will cheer in the streets when they announce it (K)

Pre-Season:

Game #1: 3-2 OTL vs VAN... S.Belle 2A... Budaj 28 Saves
Game #2: 5-4 Win vs EDM... C.Gaunce 2A... Grahame 26 Saves
Game #3: 3-2 Win vs MIN... C.Gunnarsson 1G 1A... Bacashihja 26 Saves
Game #4: 5-3 Win vs CGY... Gunnarsson 1G 1A... Thomas 26 Saves

Regular Season Later

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So The Boss calls and tells me that he is expecting the playoffs...

The Season

Tomas Fleischmann - Matt Duchene - Milan Hejduk
Paul Kariya - Paul Stastny - Peter Mueller
Ryan O'Reilly - Patrick O'Sullivan - David Jones
Cody Mcleod - Daniel Winnik - T.J. Galiardi

Tim Gleason - Erik Johnson
Kyle Cumiskey - J.M. Liles
Ryan Wilson - Carl Gunnarsson

Tim Thomas
Petr Budaj

We open up the season with a 4-3 win over Chicago. After the month of October we are 7-4-0, good for 4th in the West. Status Quo for next month.

My Scout tells me he is excited for this years draft and that there are many top prospects out there.

At the end of November we are 13-9-2 and need to step up our game a bit. We currently sit 3rd in the West.

I trade a minor league d-man Joel Chouinard to Toronto for Mike Brown.

In December we begin to struggle, so I decide to make another trade. I send Erik Johnson and a 4th to Tampa Bay for Victor Hedman.

At the end of December we have a record of 18-17-3 and we need a major improvement, as we now sit 2 points back of a playoff spot in 9th.

At the All-Star Game, we have a record of 25-22-3, and remain in 9th but tied for a playoff spot with Dallas.

Tomas Fleischmann represents our team at the All-Star Game, he pots 1 goal in a 9-4 victory for the West.

After the All-Star break we lose 5 straight, and we lose Paul Stastny to injury.

I make a HUGE deal, acquiring Steve Downie, Simon Gagne and Steven Stamkos in exchange for Paul Stastny, Peter Mueller, Paul Kariya and a 1st (2012).

NYR offers me Evgeny Grachev, Chad Kolarik, and Jesper Fasth for Kyle Cumiskey and a 2nd.... I reject

I decide to shop Kyle Cumiskey and Simon Gagne at the Deadline and I head in with a 31-29-3 record, 10th in the west, and just 1 point out.

DAL offers me Sutherby, Skrastins and Lukowich for Hejduk and a minor leaguer, I reject.

CGY offers me Brett Carson, Tom Kostopoulos, Adam Pardy and Raitis Ivanans for Derek Joslin, Ben Walter and Greg Mauldin.... I decide to accept

STL offers me Tyson Strachan, Dean Arsene and Jay Harrison for Ryan Stoa and Ray Macias, I reject

PIT offers me a 2011 1st, Brent Johnson and Johannes Salmonsson for Ryan Wilson and Matt Lashoff... I accept (3 1sts this year)

I waive Budaj and he gets claimed.

STL offers me Cam Janssen, Chris Porter and Jay Harrsion for Mark Olver and Brandon Yip... I reject

TBL offers me Matt Smaby and Mathieu Roy for Patrick O'Sullivan (I counter and ask for Sean Bergenheim instead, they rejected.)

Line-up (Post-Deadline)

Matt Duchene - Steven Stamkos - Milan Hejduk
Simon Gagne - Tomas Fleichmann - Steve Downie
T.J. Galiardi - Patrick O'Sullivan - David Jones
Tom Kostopoulos - Ryan O'Reilly - Ratis Ivanans

Tim Gleason - Victor Hedman
Kyle Cumiskey - J.M. Liles
Adam Pardy - Brett Carson

Tim Thomas
Brent Johnson

*I claim Jack Skille off of waivers as well*

We head into the last 10 games with a 36-33-3 record, and sit 10th, 3 points out of a playoff spot

With 5 games left we have a record of 39-34-4, for 9th and tied for a playoff spot with Chicago and LA.

We finish with a record of 43-35-4 for 6th in the West and will play Detroit in the 1st Round of the Playoffs!

Steven Stamkos wins the Maurice Richard Trophy(51 Goals) and the Art Ross Trophy (102 Points) and has reached PPG in his career.

Playoffs

Round 1 vs Detroit

Game #1: 3-1 Loss
Game #2: 3-2 Win
Game #3: 3-0 Win
Game #4: 5-4 Loss
Game #5: 2-0 Loss
Game #6: 7-2 Win
Game #7: 2-1 Win

Round 2 vs Calgary

Game #1: 4-1 Loss
Game #2: 2-1 Loss
Game #3: 5-3 Win
Game #4: 7-4 Loss
Game #5: 4-2 Win
Game #6: 5-2 Win
Game #7: 4-1 Loss

Eliminated in 2nd Round of Playoffs!

Stanley Cup Champion: Calgary Flames
Calder Cup Champion: Manchester Monarchs

Steven Stamkos wins the Richard, Art Ross and Ted Linsey awards, while Hejduk won the Lady Byng.

OFF-SEASON LATER

[New Jersey Devils GM]

Shouldn't have rejected that NY offer, Grachev ends up being a stud in a few years.

Keep it up, though.

[New Jersey Devils GM]

You're getting me interested, I will do one of these soon.

[Deleted]

I'd definitley read if you do one... and yeah that deal was something I thought about, but Cumiskey was playing 2nd d unit so I needed him for my playoff run. anyway, i'm doing the draft now

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The Off-Season

Retirements:

Saku Koivu
Mike Modano
Doug Weight
Mark Recchi
Daniel Alfredsson
Alex Kovalev

So me and my scouts watch the Prospects game and we plan to target;

D David Musil
D Michael Moffat
D Anton Zupancic
G Mike Morrison
C Mirko Hofflin

I shop Simon Gagne, Kyle Cumiskey.

I have the 1st, 12th and 17th Overall Picks.

SJS offers me Douglas Murray for Jonas Holos... I reject.

NSH offers me Lindback and Boullion for Thomas... I reject.

1st Overall Pick: Adam Larsson, OFD, Swed
12th Overall Pick: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins,PLY, Canadian
17th Overall Pick: Ken Blunden, PLY, Poland

PHX offers Ray Whitney and 2nd Round Pick for Tim Thomas... I reject

I Trade my 5th and 6th Round Picks to PHX for PHI's 2nd.

47th Overall Pick: Petr Blatny, DFD, Czech
51st Overall Pick: Drew Owsley, HYB, Canadian

NSH offers me Lindback and a 3rd for Thomas.... God Damnit
PHX offers me Ray Whitney and a 3rd for Thomas.... Why make your offer worse?

77th Overall Pick: Cody Sylvester, PLY, Canadian
167th Overall Pick: Cole Reitz, PWF, Swiss

Re-Signing

I re-sign: Steven Stamkos, Milan Hejduk, Simon Gagne, Tomas Fleischmann, David Jones, T.J. Galiardi, Carl Gunnarsson, Kyle Cumiskey, Jack Skille, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Adam Larsson, Calvin Pickard, Sami Aittokallio and a bunch of minor leaguers.

I release: Patrick O'Sullivan, Philippe Dupuis, David Liffton, John Grahame, Jason Bacashihua, Tom Fritche and Harrsion Reed

I have 16 Million in Cap Space, with about 4 Roster Spots left.

Needs; LW, Forward Depth, D-Man.

Free Agency:

I offer Zach Parise a 8 Year Deal worth 6.1 Per
I offer Nicklas Lidstrom a 1 Year Deal worth 4.9 per
I offer Marcus Foligno an ELC
I offer Kenny Ryan an ELC

They all accept!

Drew Doughty leaves LA and signs with FLA for a 3 Year deal worth 7.1 per. (WOOWZERS)

and that ends the off-season.

More when I get back from my Hockey Tourny

[Detroit Red Wings GM]

This always makes me want to do another one.

[Deleted]

No complaints on the Stamkos deal which is good, I think I gave a fair deal...

[Detroit Red Wings GM]

I was going to say something about it but didn't.

[The Admin Account]

You trashed the Lightning in that deal and trashed the Bruins in the Thomas deal.

There, someone said it

[wayne]

yoh you can ship your 4th-7th picks to get any team's 1st rounder.

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The deal with Boston wasn't bad, A young backup and a 1st for an aging starter isn't THAT bad IMO. And yeah the Stamkos deal was a bit unfair, but Duchene feeding Stamkos and Parise(who I hoped at getting) was WAY too tempting

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Pre-Season

Boss Calls and says he wants 43 Wins this season, hopefully Stamkos and Duchene can lead us there...

Our Lineup:

Zach Parise - Steven Stamkos - Matt Duchene
Simon Gagne - Tomas Fleischmann - Milan Hejduk
T.J. Galiardi - Ryan O'Reilly - Steve Downie
Raitis Ivanans - Ryan Stoa - David Jones
Mike Brown, Tom Kostopoulous

Victor Hedman - Nicklas Lidstrom
J.M. Liles - Tim Gleason
Carl Gunnarsson - Kyle Cumiskey
Brett Carson

Tim Thomas - Brent Johnson

I have Skille, Yip, Winnik, Mcleod, Pardy all in the minors as well.

We finish the pre-season with a 2-1-1 record.

Season in about 15 mins

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Regular Season

So we win our season opener against CBJ 6 to 1, Simon Gagne getting a hat trick. Great start to the season.

My Scout tells me the draft will be weaker than normal, that sucks for the bottom feeders, not me though.

We end October wil a record of 9-3-0, good enough for 2nd in the West.

We have a bit of a tough month in November, slightly improving our record to 15-9-2 and now just 4th in the West.

(GM Rep Goes Up)

We have a good month and heading into the New Year we are now 23-13-2, but still remain 4th in the West.

Heading into the All-Star break we still sit 4th in the West despite improving our record to 32-16-2.

GM Representatives: Steven Stamkos (1G 2A), Tim Thomas(Back-up)

Heading into March we have a record of 40-18-3 and sit 1st in the West and the NHL (Tied with Van).

We go 2-1 before the Deadline.

Trade Deadline:

ATL Offers a 2013 2nd and a 2012 2nd for Drew Owsley and a 3rd 2013 (I accept, Owsley has no future with us with Pickard and Aittokallio)

VAN offers a 2013 2nd for Ray Macias, I counter with Adam Pardy for a 2012 2nd... They Accept)

STL offers a prospect and a 3rd for Cumiskey (I'm not rebuilding...)

NJD offers me Mark Fraser, Mark Fayne and two D prospects for Gunnarsson, Cumiskey and a 2nd... I reject

CAR offers me a deal for Lidstrom, I reject

MTL offers me a deal for Gagne, I reject

NJD offers me Dan Kelly for a 2012 2nd (ATL) (I accept as I have two more 2nd's)

MIN offers me Jared Spurgeon, Marco Scandella and a 2012 2nd for Jonas Holos and Luke Walker (I reject, I can't give up "The Force")

STL offers me another deal for Lidstrom, I reject

NJD offers me a deal that's not worth me typing.... I rejected it BTW

Heading into my last 10 games, we have a record of 45-24-3 and remain 1st in the West/NHL by 1 point over STL. We finish with a record of 52-26-4 clinching the Presidents Trophy.

We play CBJ in the 1st Round of the Playoffs.

Game #1: 3-2 Win
Game #2: 2-1 Loss
Game #3: 4-1 Win
Game #4: 5-1 Loss
Game #5: 3-2 Win
Game #6: 7-1 Win

Our AHL gets eliminated in the Playoffs, 4-1 against Hamilton. We play Minny next.

Game #1: 2-0 Win
Game #2: 3-0 Loss
Game #3: 5-2 Win
Game #4: 4-3 OTL
Game #5: 6-2 Win
Game #6: 4-2 Loss
Game #7: 5-3 Win

We play the Blues in the Conference Finals.

Game #1: 5-3 Win
Game #2: 4-1 Win
Game #3: 8-7 OTW
Game #4: 3-2 Loss
Game #5: 6-1 Win

We advance to the finals to face........ Buffalo Sabres!

Game #1: 2-1 OTW
Game #2: 6-2 Win
Game #3: 5-2 Win
Game #4: 4-3 Loss
Game #5: 3-1 Win

YAAAY we win the Cup!

Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche
Calder Cup: Manchester Monarches

Presidents Trophy: Colorado Avalanche

Art Ross: Taylor Hall
Hart Trophy: Tim Thomas
Norris Trophy: Nik Kronwall
Lady Byng: Taylor Hall
Calder Trophy: Devan Dubnyk
Conn Smythe: Tim Thomas
Vezina Trophy: Tim Thomas
William M. Jennings: Roberto Luongo
Masterton Trophy: Boris Valabik
Selke Trophy: Chris Neil..... LMAO
Ted Lindsay: Alex Ovechkin
Maurice Richard: Alex Ovechkin

Notable Retirements; Teemu Selanne, Tomas Holmstrom, Nicklas Lidstrom, Adam Foote