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Volume #10, Issue #11 – April 21, 2024

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Current League Officers:

Commissioner: Mark McNeil
Email List Administrator: Mark McNeil

Email the whole league: mailto:RHL2000@googlegroups.com

League Web Site: http://www.blades99.com/RHL/RHL.htm

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMISSIONER 

And the regular season is now in the books with everyone having played 82 games and some playoff positioning came down to that final game for each team. Playoffs are up next, look for playoff files Monday night hopefully, and we will get that rolling. Everyone needs to stick with us for the next few weeks as I will have awards voting coming along with some ballot discussions if anyone has some ideas, look for that soon. For those 8 teams who didn’t make the playoffs, the next big thing for you is the lottery which will come before the playoffs are done. Congratulations to the 16 playoff teams, should be some great matchups and look for more info on that in the next newsletter which will come with the playoff files. Thanks to all for another great regular season, lets get on to the big games now!

In the Prince of Wales conference despite a slow start in blocks 1 and 2, the NY Rangers end up on top of the conference and have home ice throughout the conference finals. St. Louis pulls away in the Horton division with a big final home block to hold the #2 seed. Arizona finishes second in the Horton and will host Buffalo who is the #3 seed. Philadelphia looked to be the sure #1 wild card, but stumbled in block 10 and Anaheim locks up the top wild card and a round 1 matchup with St. Louis. Philadelphia gets the tough matchup with the NY Rangers in round 1, while Carolina pulled away from Detroit and locked up home ice in their first round series. NY Islanders locked up the top spot for the lottery by a point over Toronto and Washington, Jersey and Chicago are all in the back half of the lottery.

In the Campbell conference Florida takes the top spot in the conference and also wins the Commissioner’s Cup by 2 points over the Rangers for the best record in the league at 123 points. Dallas ends up on top in the Orr division and will face the top wild card finisher in Colorado. San Jose edges out Montreal for home ice in their first round matchup. Florida hosts the #2 wild card, Edmonton, in round 1 while Vancouver finished well ahead of Pittsburgh and has home ice in their series with the Pens in round 1. Toronto just missed out but is the #2 team in the lottery with Boston and LA in the #3 and #4 spots respectively while Calgary just misses the playoffs by 1 point and will be the #8 team in the lottery.

Final regular season files are are up.  Remember that all injuries this year are coaches decisions BUT all players are limited to the exact number of NHL games from last year, so plan accordingly.  If you are sending the same lineup for all 8 games then just a regular coach should work. If you want to set specific lineups for each game, then you need to use the Daily Lineups as it gives you a lot more flexibility. As soon as you have your coach set for your 5 road games, please send that out to the list (and list who the coach is for so it is easier for teams to keep the ones they need).  Also, I would ask you PLEASE include your 5 home strats as well both for your sake and mine as if I have to sim your home games for any reason I will just let the game set up your strat if none is defined and you will have to deal with any penalties later on.  I am going to continue using the strat file page and upload everyones coaches to the website like I did in the past so they are easy to find when needed.

**** IMPORTANT  - Action PC Game File Update dated 11/14/2023.

You need to send out game exports as well as boxscores for all 4 home games by the second Sunday of the block at 9 pm This is MANDATORY, both the exports AND boxscores please.   Game summaries are nice, even if it’s just one quick comment for all 4 games, just adds to the league and makes it easier for everyone to see what is going on.  If I do not receive game exports after sending updates on Saturday and Sunday, I will send one more request directly about an hour before the deadline on Sunday.  Unless I get a request for an extension of time, I will wait til the deadline and about 30 minutes later I will sim games so I can get new files out before I go to bed Sunday night.

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Schedule

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Standings – Block 10

Tim Horton     G  W  L OL  Pts  ROW   GF  GA Diff        Home           Road          Last 10

St. Louis     82 50 17 15  115   47  292 226   66    27 11  0  3    23  6  0 12     7  1  0  2

Arizona       82 48 26  8  104   46  306 267   39    30  9  0  2    18 17  0  6     4  5  0  1

Buffalo       82 43 31  8   94   37  277 267   10    23 15  0  3    20 16  0  5     7  3  0  0

Anaheim       82 38 32 12   88   31  256 267  -11    16 18  0  7    22 14  0  5     6  4  0  0

Philadelphia  82 39 36  7   85   36  258 263   -5    20 18  0  3    19 18  0  4     2  7  0  1

Washington    82 33 41  8   74   29  214 258  -44    23 16  0  2    10 25  0  6     4  4  0  2

 

Gordie Howe    G  W  L OL  Pts  ROW   GF  GA Diff        Home           Road          Last 10

New York R    82 58 19  5  121   56  313 241   72    31  8  0  2    27 11  0  3     8  2  0  0

Carolina      82 46 29  7   99   42  234 224   10    28 11  0  2    18 18  0  5     7  3  0  0

Detroit       82 39 33 10   88   35  273 282   -9    24 13  0  4    15 20  0  6     3  6  0  1

Chicago       82 35 40  7   77   31  248 274  -26    20 19  0  2    15 21  0  5     5  5  0  0

New Jersey    82 32 40 10   74   31  259 288  -29    17 22  0  2    15 18  0  8     2  7  0  1

New York I    82 22 50 10   54   22  204 294  -90     9 28  0  4    13 22  0  6     5  4  0  1

 

Bobby Orr      G  W  L OL  Pts  ROW   GF  GA Diff        Home           Road          Last 10

Dallas        82 54 18 10  118   50  257 195   62    29  7  0  5    25 11  0  5     7  2  0  1

San Jose      82 49 27  6  104   45  238 214   24    32  6  0  3    17 21  0  3     9  0  0  1

Montreal      82 46 26 10  102   45  283 239   44    26 10  0  5    20 16  0  5     6  2  0  2

Los Angeles   82 28 44 10   66   27  219 269  -50    15 22  0  4    13 22  0  6     2  6  0  2

Boston        82 29 47  6   64   25  224 278  -54    16 24  0  1    13 23  0  5     3  6  0  1

Toronto       82 25 52  5   55   20  216 301  -85    14 24  0  3    11 28  0  2     3  7  0  0

 

Mario Lemieux  G  W  L OL  Pts  ROW   GF  GA Diff        Home           Road          Last 10

Florida       82 58 17  7  123   50  271 213   58    32  5  0  4    26 12  0  3     8  2  0  0

Vancouver     82 55 24  3  113   52  305 241   64    30 10  0  1    25 14  0  2     7  3  0  0

Pittsburgh    82 41 27 14   96   40  224 217    7    23 10  0  8    18 17  0  6     5  4  0  1

Colorado      82 40 36  6   86   39  261 261    0    23 16  0  2    17 20  0  4     4  5  0  1

Edmonton      82 39 37  6   84   35  239 276  -37    25 15  0  1    14 22  0  5     1  9  0  0

Calgary       82 37 36  9   83   36  234 250  -16    25 13  0  3    12 23  0  6     5  3  0  2

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OVERUSAGE  (season)

Player                  Team  GP/Max

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RHL upcoming calendar (all 9 PM Eastern):


Round 1 Start  Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Round 1 Strats Wednesday, April 24th     
Round 1 End    Sunday, May 5th, 2024

Round 2 Start  Monday, May 6th, 2024
Round 2 Strats Wednesday, May 8th  
Round 2 End    Sunday, May 19th, 2024

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