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Category Archives: APBA Hockey
The Before Time
I was watching Dave Garner’s latest video about how he picks his replays, and got stuck with the idea of choosing a season before my team existed.
So I figured, why not go with the last NHL season before the San Jose Sharks came into existence?
This may not be a full season replay, but one where I play a certain number of games featuring the players who would eventually be the inaugural 1991-92 San Jose Sharks.
Plus it’s the first year the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup, so that should be a pretty good Cup Final series to play, yeah?
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2024 Goals
On Deck: Week of September 4th
APBA Hockey Playthrough #1
Five For Fighting
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.
AHA! Moment 2?
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.
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Arriving Soon
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.
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Seasons: NHL
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
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