2015-16: Come On You Spurs! Match 5

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Chris S.

13 September 2015

Final from the Stadium of Light:

Next: Spurs v. Crystal Palace

Stay tuned!

APBA Hockey Playthrough #1

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Chris S.

I’m not sure what stats I’m going to track every game, so here’s just the final score:

Final from the Tank:

Flames 5
Sharks 6

Flames almost made a game of it in the 3rd period.

Five For Fighting

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Chris S.

As I’m getting though this first game of APBA Hockey, I don’t think I’m making *that* many mistakes, but halfway into the second period:

Sharks are up 6-2 on the Flames
I decided to pull Mike Vernon for Jeff Reese for the Flames
Link Gaetz got into a fight with Neil Sheehy, both got 5 minute penalties, and Sheehy got a game misconduct and was ejected

Mah boy.

Late Night Shopping

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Chris S.

Always a bad idea, but we’ll see when it comes in.

Here’s a hint:

Not even sure there’s a tabletop game that would even have any of their seasons available to play.

Stay tuned!

AHA! Moment 2?

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Chris S.

After playing one period of APBA Hockey, I felt oddly… calm, almost at peace with the universe.

One pass through the rule book and I seemed to have gotten most of it down, in addition to a few suggested hints on play along the way.

The result was a period of tabletop hockey that reminded me of and felt like actually being at a hockey game.

After I finish this game up (tonight, I hope) I’ll tackle Strat-O-Matic Hockey, and if I’m really adventurous, I may pull out In the Crease Hockey.

Stay tuned!

NHL: 1945-46

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Chris S.

There’s only 150 games played in the 1945-46 NHL season, so when I start that replay I’ll try to play out the entire season.

Stay tuned!

Arriving Soon

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Chris S.

I decided to start from semi-scratch and get a couple of replacement/updated core sets for hockey, so I should be getting these in the next few days:

APBA is arriving with the 1991-92 NHL season, Strat-O-Matic is arriving with the 1945-46 NHL season.

It’s been a few years since I got a full game from APBA (2014 Soccer) or Strat-O-Matic (2012 Baseball).

GameNerdz.com is where I got a “ding ‘n dent” (damaged) copy of the Start-O-Matic 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame set.

I remember the late 70s when my brother Robert got his first APBA games, there was no way of tracking deliveries back then, the oversized boxes just arrived one day.

Nowadays you can order these games from Amazon. But aside from the core sets, they don’t have as much variety of seasons available, if any, than the companies themselves offer on their respective sites.

In all recent cases, you can track the orders as they were shipped.

I hope to start these replays sooner rather than later, along continuing all the other ones currently in progress.

Stay tuned!

Seasons: NHL

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Chris S.

Replay plans for the various hockey games:

Inside the Crease: 1966-67 NHL, from my not-yet-abandoned goal to complete replays in all the major sports for the year I was born. Team: Toronto Maple Leafs
APBA Hockey: 1991-92 NHL, the season I became a hockey fans thanks to the newly formed San Jose Sharks. Team: San Jose Sharks
Hockey Blast: 2013-14 IHL (homebrew league), using the fictional season from PLAAY that year. Team: entire league
Stone Cold Hockey: 2022-23 Central Cities League, another fictional season. Team: TBD
Shootout Hockey: 1993-94 NHL), the greatest turnaround season ever for the Sharks. Team: San Jose Sharks
Strat-O-Matic Hockey: 1945-46 NHL, the season I believe is chronicled in the animated short, “The Sweater”. Team: Montreal Canadiens, perhaps the entire league