Category Archives: APBA Hockey

Changes

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I simply have no time to play complete seasons of teams/seasons that I’ve purchased over the years, and it’s about time I admit that to myself.

Except for racing, since those are relatively short seasons.

But as far as baseball, I will play out the 1921 and 1971 Giants season replays over time.

As for everything else, I’ll be playing shorter seasons/projects going forward.

I’m looking at doing no more than 40 games per any given team/season, which should give me plenty of play between a team and the rest of the league.

Football will be ‘as the spirit moves me’, as in I’ll play when time allows and with whatever team/season I feel like playing at the moment.  Though I’ll probably still try to play out Elway’s rookie season.

Hockey, soccer and basketball: same, when I feel like it.

Golf, tennis, wrestling, boxing: also the same.

So many games (sport and non-sport), so little time.

Stay tuned!

APBA Hockey

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I rarely, if ever, dabble in college sports replays or sets.  I think I have a fictional college set for Second Season football from PLAAY.

Today I ordered the 2023-24 college hockey set for APBA Hockey, because of two players:


Will Smith – Boston College


Macklin Celebrini – Boston University

Like I said elsewhere, I’m all in on the Sharks this season.

Stay tuned!

The Before Time

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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?

Stay tuned!

2024 Goals

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  • Complete at least one baseball replay (1921/1971)
  • Complete the SCRAM 2012 season
  • Complete a hockey/soccer/football replay
  • Complete the Scott Bullerwell Heavyweight Invitational
  • Start a basketball replay

Lofty goals to be sure, but I’ve been putting shit off long enough.

Stay tuned!

Five For Fighting

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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?

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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!

Arriving Soon

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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!