Capitals GM is caught between the reality that his team has not got the points it needs and the desire for the GM to keep pushing his roster to get sim wins. The best thing for the franchise might be to get a higher pick. However, in the long run learning to get wins in the sim is important to me and for the franchise. We are 5-4-1 and in our last 10.
Capitals got fed up of losing over the last month and brought in some new faces who are basically terrible OVs but have specific ratings that we believe that can help.
We have acquired Frederick Gauthier, Anthony Angello and Troy Stecher. The bigger news is all the signings that Bagopucks has been making - Eric Tangradi, Steven Lorentz, Jalen Chatfield, Nikolai Knyzhov and Nikita Nesterenko.
Currently, the roster is
Alex Iafallo - Nicklas Backstrom - Phil Kessel
Andreas Johnsson - Nic Dowd - Kyle Okposo
Zack Smith - Frederick Gauthier - Richard Panik
Eric Tangradi - Anthony Angello - Rocco Grimaldi
Spares: Steve Lorentz, Justin Bailey, Matt Martin
Brent Burns - Patrick Nemeth
Brent Seabrook - Kurtis Macdermid
Troy Stecher - Greg Pateryn
Spare:
Jared Tinordi, Danny Dekeyser, Jalen Chatfield
Craig Anderson
Ryan Miller
We have no issues bringing in some cheap veterans to continue playing spoiler and getting points. We sit 11 points out with 30 games remaining. It does seem like an impossible task but with a few teams ahead of us looking for lottery picks we might be closer to a playoff spot than the situation suggests. We are going to continue playing our veterans and hope we can inch our way to the playoffs.
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