Thanks a bunch for all the feedback! It really helps. I\'m probably going to stay calm until training camp, unless some insane offer comes along.

I\'m gunning for Jonathan Bernier with my next draft pick and then I\'m going after some forwards or Brent Seabrook.

I did actually plan on being like a hawk with the FA pool during the season, especially the goalies. There are some of them that aren\'t taken that people won\'t waste picks on, like Dan Cloutier. Yeah, he\'s worthless, but he can get me starts. But I\'m not really concerned with the starts. I can\'t expect to be higher than the bottom two anyway, so tanking isn\'t that bad a thing to happen, especially if Tavares ends up draft eligible next year.

You guys who\'ve done this for a while... does hindsight get even more annoying than it already is for me after one expansion draft?

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12 team H2H dynasty, most categories under the sun, incl. hits/blocks. Main team, farm

C: Kopitar Backstrom Stepan Cammalleri Little Bolland Laich Johnson
LW: Parise Lupul Erat McDonald Martin Silfverberg Nyquist Schwartz Morin Nieto Conacher
RW: PKane Doan Pominville Nash Clowe Lupul Rinaldo Stafford Rattie Stone Chiasson Ritchie
D: Green Suter Seabrook Dillon Beauchemin Schenn Letang Schultz Hamilton McNabb Rielly Harrison
G: Bryzgalov Pavelec Holtby Neuvirth Nihlstorp Lack CalPickard Andersen Stalock Sateri Eriksson
IR: Halak

No actually what happens is that your errors decrease and the number of times you look back over your shoulder also decreases and you tend to develop a philosophical stance that says - \"what is past is past, I can\'t control it, so move on\". Treat your goofs as learning opportunities, because I think that is all they are useful for. I would even go so far as to say that you become a better GM because you have made those errors and now see how things could have gone better. If you don\'t see the goofs then you tend to keep making them.

Just as you don\'t build a team instantly, you don\'t become the complete GM instantly - in that too have patience so you can focus on the right stuff.

Post edited by: Shoeless, at: 2007/08/20 23:15

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GS, W, L, SV, GAA, SV%, SO G, A, P, +/-, PIM, SOG, GWG, PPP, SHP, HITS, FOW

3C: H. Sedin,Stepan, Stastny, R. Johansen, Hanzal, Anisimov,
3LW: Burrows, Vanek, Ott, Lupul, Dubinsky
3RW: Doan, Pavelski, Brown, Okposo,
6D: Franson, Doughty, Voynov, Subban, Markov, Gonchar, Karlsson
1Util:
2G: Price, Emery


Farm: (< 100 games): S. Elliott, J. Bernier, Galchenyuk, Etem, Eakin, Atkinson

I think you also learn about yourself over time. Personally I used to have an inclination to make a deal just for the sake of making a deal. I still have that inclination but am able to resist because I am aware of it now. That wasn\'t the real problem though; I can only think of one trade I\'ve ever truly regretted. My main problem: a lot of guys I scouted young, picked up, then got impatient with and dropped just before they were ready to break out. Thankfully a habit I\'ve (mostly) outgrown.

You also learn more about managing your waiver priority, especially at the beginning of the season. Learning the tendencies of the other managers is key.

As for letting it go... yeah, Shoeless summed it up pretty well in theory. But do as he says here, not as I do... I at least kick myself pretty hard when I miss a waiver pickup or drop somebody too early. A couple of years ago I could have had Carle and ended up with my #1 waiver priority unused at the end of the season. Yarg!!!

Post edited by: Thieving Giraffe, at: 2007/08/21 01:21

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