I decided to stick with the season as read off the WHL cards.
Final from Gund Arena:
Monthly Archives: October 2022
2022: IHL Reborn
When I first bought Hockey Blast in 2014, I also purchased the fictional World Hockey League 2013-14 set. I created 12 teams but never got around to organizing a schedule for them.
Until now.
1969-70: Seals Season, Game 1
It begins!
The one thing I discovered when playing out this first game is that overtime didn’t exist until the 1983-84 season. Prior to that, tied games after 3 periods ended in a tie.
Like this one.
Final from Civic Arena:
I’m keeping things simple, stat wise, with just the score and who scored the goals.
Next up: the Chicago Black Hawks.
Stay tuned!
Hockey Blast: Another Season
1921: Giants Replay, Game 59
1967: NHL
As if I didn’t have enough sports replays on my plate, I decided to expand the 1966-67 Toronto Maple Leafs replay into a full NHL season replay, which is about 210 games long.
My reacquaintance with PLAAY’s Hockey Blast has me wanting to play more hockey, but we’ll see if I can fit it in to my non-existent play schedule.
Perhaps I need to create one of those die-roll decider tables again.
I managed to play game one of the 1966-67 NHL season, but I may replay the game because I wasn’t happy with the way I was chronicling the game itself.
So though Detroit beat Boston 4-1 in that first game, I’m wiping the slate clean and will start the season over.
Stay tuned!
2022 World Cup Pre-Play
Using the Universal Instant Results Table for Soccer Blast, I came up the Round of 16, Quarter and Semi Finals, the latter of which I’ll try to play before the real World Cup begins.
Group winner in bold, runner up in bold italic.
Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
Group B: England, Iran, United States, Wales
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia
Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea
ROUND OF 16:
Winner in bold.
Netherlands vs. United States
Argentina vs. Denmark
France vs. Poland
England vs. Senegal
Germany vs. Belgium
Brazil vs. Portugal
Morocco vs. Japan
South Korea vs. Switzerland
Quarter Finals:
Winner in bold.
Netherlands vs. Argentina
Poland vs. England
Belgium vs. Portugal
Morocco vs. Switzerland
Semi Finals:
Netherlands vs. England
Portugal vs. Switzerland
Stay tuned!
1971: Giants Replay, Game 62
Stone Cold Hockey
I picked up Yet Another Game, Stone Cold Hockey from Stone Mountain Press.
The game engine is very much like Dice United, their soccer game, so it was fairly easy to learn and play a game.
I used a couple of the fictional teams that come with the core game.
The Indianapolis Lugnuts beat the Dayton Bombers 3-1.
I bought the 1964-65 season along with the game, so I’ll probably play a game with teams from the original 6 soon.
Stay tuned!