Replay Hockey
League Newsletter
League
established October 1st, 1999
Volume #11, Issue #12 – April 27,
2025
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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 let’s move right on to the playoff so we
aren’t finishing after the NHL if we can help it :O) the playoff
brackets are set and here are the first round matchups:
Prince of
Wales
Detroit vs St.
Louis
Philadelphia vs Arizona
Anaheim vs NY Rangers
Carolina
vs NY Islanders
Campbell
Conference
Pittsburgh vs
San Jose
Montreal vs Boston
Edmonton vs Florida
Vancouver vs
Colorado
If regular
season means anything, the top 3 series in the Prince of Wales should
not be close with St. Louis, Arizona and NY Rangers all finishing at
least 15 points ahead of their opponent, so we will see if any of them
can pull the big upset and make it an interesting series. NY Islanders
and Carolina should be a very close one as they finish just 1 point
apart in the division and Carolina actually score more goals and gave
up less than the Isles, so not sure either team winning would really
be an upset. Let’s see what kind of magic the Isles can pull off to
avoid the lower seed Hurricanes moving on to round 2.
The Campbell
conference is very different as San Jose finished just 10 points ahead
of wild card Pittsburgh and who knows how this family battle might go,
likely will depend on whether the Pens goalies show up and help out at
all. Florida finished 32 points ahead of Edmonton, which sometimes can
mean nothing, we’ll see if the Oilers can at least make things
difficult for the Panthers. The other two matchups are very close and
no real way to make a call as Boston and Montreal finished in a dead
heat in the regular season and even were very close in goal
differential, just a matter of which goalie plays better as it often
is. Colorado and Vancouver is also a close one in the standings and on
the scoreboard and this one will be a matter of which offense can
solve the other teams netminder.
Here is a
quick reminder of the playoff usage limits as well as a list of
overused players and penalties for them during the playoffs.
Overused
Players
Arizona –
Chandler Stephenson – 3 games over, Must miss games 1-2 each series
Detroit –
Mikhail Sergachev – 4 games over, Must miss games 1-3 each series
Montreal –
Jared Anderson-Dolan – 4 games over, Must miss games 1-3 each series
NY Islanders -
Jacob Markstrom - 3 games over, Must miss games 1-2 each series
St. Louis -
Jesse Puljujarvi - 10 games over, Not eligible for playoffs
- Rasmus Ristolainen – 2 games over, Must miss game 1 each
series
- Gabriel Vilardi – 2 games over, Must miss game 1 each series
PLAYOFF USAGE LIMITS FOR SKATERS:
1) 60 or more NHL games can
play all playoff games (per series)
2) 55-59 NHL games 6 playoff games
3) 50-54 NHL games 5 playoff games
4) 40-49 NHL games 4 playoff games
5) 30-39 NHL games 3 playoff games
6) 20-29 NHL games 2 playoff games
7) 10-19 NHL games 1 playoff game
PLAYOFF USAGE LIMITS FOR GOALTENDERS
Goalies with 1-14 games may only dress as backups
Goalies with 15-19 games may only start 1 game per series (but may
dress as backups in all other games)
Goalies with 20-24 games may only start 2 games per series (but may
dress as backups in all other games)
Goalies with 25-29 games may only start 3 games per series (but may
dress as backups in all other games)
Goalies with 30+ games may start all playoff games in a series (or may
be dressed as a backup)
Injury backups may only play if the
computer pulls the starter due to an injury OR the team is down by 4
or more goals at any time in the game (a mercy rule basically). The
second part may be accomplished by a computer setting for road games
that is defined as a team being down by 4 or more goals OR by a home
coach making this decision when his team is down by 4 or more goals.
What a finish
to the regular season as the final playoff spot comes down to the last
game as Detroit pulls the upset on Carolina to sneak past Buffalo into
wild card #2 in the Prince of Wales. The Campbell conference had a
very similar finish as Toronto has a huge final block at home and
Boston has to come back and tie them in their final games to earn the
final wild card in that conference as well. Congratulations to St.
Louis, who also had to make a huge comeback to win the Commissioner’s
Cup after Arizona went 5-0 in their games, the Blues go 4-0-1 and just
get by the Coyotes for the top spot in the league. The NY Rangers once
again lead the league in goals, edging out St. Louis for that title
while San Jose wins the Gump Worsley Memorial trophy for best goals
against by almost 20 goals over St Louis as well. NY Rangers have the
best powerplay in the league at 27.4% while not surprisingly San Jose
has the best PK at 85.9%.
Leon Draisaitl
is your Gordie Howe Award winner with 111 points to beat out Kucherov
by a single point. Sam Reinhart of the Rangers wins the Phil Esposito
Trophy for most goals with 58 on the season, well ahead of Stamkos at
51. Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy goes to Connor Ingram in San Jose
with a 2.28 GAA and the Tiger Williams Award is Nikita Zadorov with
136 PIM.
Clarence
Campbell conference came down to the final day to figure out the wild
card and the top of the Orr division. Florida is the #1 seed in the
conference and will face off with Edmonton for the 4th
straight season while San Jose is the #1 seed in the Orr despite a 3
way tie at the top and will host Pittsburgh the wild card #2. Boston
edges Montreal for home ice in the Orr division matchup and Colorado
hosts Vancouver in the Lemieux.
Prince of
Wales conference St. Louis wins the Commissioner’s Cup and will host
the #2 wild card Detroit team. NY Rangers win the Howe and host
Anaheim in round 1 as the wild card #1. Arizona just misses out on the
top spot and has Philadlephia in round 1 in the Horton and then NY
Islanders host Carolina who they edge by a single point for home ice
in the Howe.
The draft
lottery order is set and we will run that sometime after round 2 of
the playoffs,
1.
Washington
2.
Los Angeles
3.
Calgary
4.
Dallas
5.
Toronto
6.
Chicago
7.
New Jersey
8.
Buffalo
Round 1 of the
playoffs is ready to go and the updated league file and Excel file is
on the website. 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 first 4 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 4 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 10/16/2024.
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
www.blades99.com/RHL/Schedule2425.htm
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Standings – Final Standings
Tim Horton
G W
L OL Pts
ROW GF
GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
St. Louis
82 58 20 4
120 54
282 207 75
31 7
0 3
27 13 0
1
7 2
0 1
Arizona
82 55 18 9
119 50
277 229 48
34 4
0 3
21 14 0
6
7 1
0 2
Philadelphia 82 45 33
4 94
44 267 255
12 25
14 0
2 20 19
0 2
4 6
0 0
Anaheim
82 39 36 7
85 35
238 258 -20
22 17 0
2 17 19
0 5
5 5
0 0
Buffalo
82 39 39 4
82 36
258 249
9 25 14
0 2
14 25 0
2
5 5
0 0
Washington 82
22 52 8
52 20
149 255 -106
12 24 0
5 10 28
0 3
2 7
0 1
Gordie Howe G
W L OL
Pts ROW
GF GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
New York R 82
52 19 11 115
49 286 217
69 29
8 0
4 23 11
0 7
9 0
0 1
New York I 82
44 35 3
91 40
246 251 -5
21 19 0
1 23 16
0 2
4 6
0 0
Carolina
82 42 34 6
90 39
263 230 33
24 14 0
3 18 20
0 3
6 2
0 2
Detroit
82 36 34 12
84 34
273 271
2 16 17
0 8
20 17 0
4
6 4
0 0
New Jersey 82
37 38 7
81 35
236 256 -20
25 11 0
5 12 27
0 2
3 6
0 1
Chicago
82 35 37 10
80 32
220 255 -35
20 16 0
5 15 21
0 5
2 4
0 4
Bobby Orr
G W
L OL Pts
ROW GF
GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
San Jose
82 48 27 7
103 48
215 188 27
31 5
0 5
17 22 0
2
5 4
0 1
Boston
82 49 28 5
103 47
274 229 45
31 8
0 2
18 20 0
3
7 2
0 1
Montreal
82 47 26 9
103 46
263 221 42
28 9
0 4
19 17 0
5
6 3
0 1
Toronto
82 32 37 13
77 27
236 276 -40
17 19 0
5 15 18
0 8
7 2
0 1
Dallas
82 27 47 8
62 24
186 268 -82
12 25 0
4 15 22
0 4
3 6
0 1
Los Angeles 82 26 50
6 58
24 199 273
-74 14
25 0
2 12 25
0 4
2 7
0 1
Mario Lemieux G
W L OL
Pts ROW
GF GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
Florida
82 51 24 7
109 47
275 233 42
30 8
0 3
21 16 0
4
6 4
0 0
Colorado
82 48 23 11 107
45 256 223
33 25
12 0
4 23 11
0 7
5 1
0 4
Vancouver
82 47 28 7
101 44
255 226 29
26 12 0
3 21 16
0 4
5 4
0 1
Pittsburgh 82
44 33 5
93 37
228 223
5 25 14
0 2
19 19 0
3
8 2
0 0
Edmonton
82 35 40 7
77 31
223 238 -15
21 14 0
6 14 26
0 1
2 6
0 2
Calgary
82 26 47 9
61 24
206 280 -74
15 22 0
4 11 25
0 5
4 4
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 28th, 2025
Round 1 Strats Wednesday, April 30th
Round 1 End
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Round 2 Start
Monday, May 12th, 2025
Round
2 Strats Wednesday, May 14th
Round 2 End
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
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