EA Sports predicts Flames finish Second............................la st

[MyFlamesFirst]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

In my first NHL '13 Be a Legend, I chose Jeremy Roenick. Naturally, they started me on the first line with Tanguay and Iginla since in NHL '13, Roenick is rated higher at 88 than any other player on the Flames roster. In my first five games, I scored about nineteen points, earning myself a first career goal in my first game, and a first career hat-trick in the third game. Multi-point games, awesome plus/minus, flawless positioning, and first star of every game I played in.


After the fifth game, as it was simming the calendar to game #6, I get a message from the coach that I'm being moved down to the second line and that I need to work harder and prove myself to be moved back to the first line. I'm the league leader in everything that matters, never mind team leader. It took nearly twenty games for the damn game to put me back on the first line. Oh, and I had about seventy points by then.

So hopefully that gives you some insight into how much stock I put into EA's simulations.

That literally took me 20 minutes to decode....

[1991 Canadian]

For what its worth (which is almost nothing), my roommate said the Flames won the presidents trophy in his first NHL 14 season GMing the Habs.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by troutman

I think the Jets are much worse than people realize. They were propped-up in a weak Eastern Conference last year. Now they will be exposed in the West.

That division is going to poop all over them. Colorado is the only team I see them matching up well to, and I could see Colorado having a much improved season this year compared to last. Winnipeg is in for a big let down.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by MyFlamesFirst

That literally took me 20 minutes to decode....

If you decode the message and send in three UPC codes from TorqueyLoops cereal, we'll send you a secret decoder ring so it will only take you 17 minutes next time.

[cannon7]

The Flames have no pressure this year. No one expects anything from them. A recipe for success?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by troutman

I think the Jets are much worse than people realize. They were propped-up in a weak Eastern Conference last year. Now they will be exposed in the West.

They were bad. However, the thing about a team like the Jets is they have young bonfide stars. You never know when these guys will break out. E. Kane, Bogosian, Little, Wheeler, etc.. all get better and better every year. If a couple emerge as true franchise talents the team can follow a Chicago like projectory and go from shlubs to contenders over night.

[Enoch Root]

The Jets have decent goaltending and a solid group of young defensemen. They aren't real deep up front, but they aren't a terrible team.

[Ashasx]

Trouba is also looking amazing and could easily become a top defenceman in the league in a few years.

Winnipeg probably won't make it this year, but their nucleus of young players is strong and getting better.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by gilligans_off

You do enough to post dribble

errrr, drivel..........

[Francis's Hairpiece]

Originally Posted by cannon7

The Flames have no pressure this year. No one expects anything from them. A recipe for success?

I'd prefer Ekblad.

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by troutman

I think the Jets are much worse than people realize. They were propped-up in a weak Eastern Conference last year. Now they will be exposed in the West.

Yep Byfuglien and Ladd almost cost the Hawks the SC and did not play a prominent role at all. 4 years later at age 28 and 27 they are shadows of what they were in 2010.

Wheeler is a 27 year old 6-5 who is a drastic under achiever who only put in 36 goals and 105 pts in his 128 games in a Jet uniform.

Evander kane as a 22 year old only has 80 NHL goals.... playing a similar style to Iginla. Crap at that age Iginla already had 62 NHL goals... No chance of Kane getting any better.

Their best player is Bogosian.... He missed 1/4 of last season ... should write him off as injury prone.

They have lost Wellwood and Antropov and only replaced them with Setogughi who averages 20 goals/game for his 6 NHL seasons and Frolick who was barely top 9 with the best team in the NHL last year.

They are not adding any good young guys.... well only a Baertschi level prospect (Schiefle) whose name is as equally hard to spell and Trouba who we hope that Sieloff or Ramage develops to be in the next year or two.


They are playing in the powerful division with the Avs, Stars, Wild and predators..... 2 lottery teams from last year and 4 teams that have made the playoffs a total of 4 times amongst them in the last 4 years .

Avs 6 playoff games
Wild 5 playoff games
Stars 0
Preds 22 playoff games

How is this a tougher division than the Jets are used to?

The Jets are exactly where I am hoping the Flames will be in 2-3 years.

[bc-chris]

ea sports predictions.... they just make me smile

Canucks to best Bruins, EA Sports simulation predicts

CTV.ca News Staff
Published Monday, May 30, 2011 8:29PM EDT


The Vancouver Canucks are going to bring the Stanley Cup home to Canada for the first time, the simulation engines behind EA Sports NHL 11 are predicting.


The entire series prediction from EA Sports:

• Game 1: Boston 1 @ Vancouver 2 (OT)
• Game 2: Boston 2 @ Vancouver 4
• Game 3: Vancouver 0 @ Boston 1
• Game 4: Vancouver 2 @ Boston 3
• Game 5: Boston 2 @ Vancouver 4
• Game 6: Vancouver 2 @ Boston 3 (OT)
• Game 7: Boston 1 @ Vancouver 3

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canucks-to-bes...dicts-1.650771

[troutman]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

Yep Byfuglien and Ladd almost cost the Hawks the SC and did not play a prominent role at all. 4 years later at age 28 and 27 they are shadows of what they were in 2010.

Wheeler is a 27 year old 6-5 who is a drastic under achiever who only put in 36 goals and 105 pts in his 128 games in a Jet uniform.

Evander kane as a 22 year old only has 80 NHL goals.... playing a similar style to Iginla. Crap at that age Iginla already had 62 NHL goals... No chance of Kane getting any better.

Their best player is Bogosian.... He missed 1/4 of last season ... should write him off as injury prone.

They have lost Wellwood and Antropov and only replaced them with Setogughi who averages 20 goals/game for his 6 NHL seasons and Frolick who was barely top 9 with the best team in the NHL last year.

They are not adding any good young guys.... well only a Baertschi level prospect (Schiefle) whose name is as equally hard to spell and Trouba who we hope that Sieloff or Ramage develops to be in the next year or two.


They are playing in the powerful division with the Avs, Stars, Wild and predators..... 2 lottery teams from last year and 4 teams that have made the playoffs a total of 4 times amongst them in the last 4 years .

Avs 6 playoff games
Wild 5 playoff games
Stars 0
Preds 22 playoff games

How is this a tougher division than the Jets are used to?

The Jets are exactly where I am hoping the Flames will be in 2-3 years.

Believe me yet that the Jets aren't very good?

http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm...d=nav-stn-conf

[Stay Golden]

EA has the final standings with Avs in 13th and the Oilers in 8th enough said.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

EA has the final standings with Avs in 13th and the Oilers in 8th enough said.

To be fair, there's something fishy about a team finishing dead last in a string draft only to be challenging for the president's cup the next year. Not too many people predicted that.

I thought the oilers would be better this year too, but my hockey iq is obviously quite low as my perennial mediocrity in hockey pools attest to

[Stay Golden]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

To be fair, there's something fishy about a team finishing dead last in a string draft only to be challenging for the president's cup the next year. Not too many people predicted that.

I thought the oilers would be better this year too, but my hockey iq is obviously quite low as my perennial mediocrity in hockey pools attest to

It just proves the season is played on the ice and not on paper. Its not about player ratings it is about chemistry and effort.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

It just proves the season is played on the ice and not on paper. Its not about player ratings it is about chemistry and effort.

Chemistry, luck and skill.

All sports are a series of random events that can be influenced, but not predictably. There is no "way" to win or lose, despite the pundits claims of certainty on players or teams

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan

Well they have the Oilers making the playoffs, so immediately they have no credibility.

[Komskies]

Is that Razor Ramone?

[Freeway]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Is that Razor Ramone?

That's notable WWF jobber Barry Horowitz.