Eastside Hockey Manager -- Scout

[Delthefunky]

I'm needing to add some prospects/young players with a lot of upside...

Can any of you suggest 1. Defenceman 2. Goalie

Who have real good potential? I'm particularly looking for sleepers, i.e. I picked up Ryan Malone for a few low draft picks and he is lighting it up with Kobasew on my second line.

Thanks!!

[CaramonLS]

Players, especially young ones, have variable ratings, which actually differ each game.

Your best bet is to scout a lot of times, especially during the draft and trade up. A good first round pick is likely to benefit you more than any of your low rounds by a good margin, especially the high ones.

There is 1-2 Superstars (always going very high) who can make an immediate and long term impact.

Mid season you can do trade draft picks with teams who will likely do ****ty at a reduced price, for fairly cheap. (usually my 1st and a 3rd for their 1st), which since you plan on winning the cup each season, will help you out a lot.

[Footscray]

I love that game but man does it crawl on my computer. Brand new machine with a couple gigs of ram and it takes me twice as long to play a season as champman when I only have two leagues running compared to 4 or 5 countries in champman (or football manager now i guess).

[Delthefunky]

Can you guys share some tactics?

[Footscray]

It depends on your team I think, I really cater my style to the top players on my roster.

I tend to build teams with two really good offensive forward lines and a top 4 or 5 goalie and just run and gun, I try to add Richards who is good bang for the buck early on and maybe a prospect to play the left wing with Iggy and him, Alexander Semin can get you 30-35 on that line and is dirt cheap for a first liner. I can't literally watch a big defense clobber other teams forwards with hits so I go for scoring. I play in the danish league with odense bulldogs currently and coach the denmark world junior team though, I am trying to earn my way to the NHL, plus I like signing the all Sutter jr. line and watching them destroy Denmark.