Tag Archives: Hockey

EXTREME HOCKEY?

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One of the latest offerings from PLAAY Games is their new XHL hockey league for Hockey Blast.

Described as “an alternate, summertime big-time professional hockey league”, the set comes with 20 teams, and as I have enough trouble trying to find time to play most sports games, I’ve decided to try this set with only 6 teams, representing the NHL’s Original Six.

The 6 teams are from Chicago, Cleveland, Hartford, New York, Quebec, and Toronto.

There were no teams from Boston or Detroit, so I picked the closest teams city-wise (Cleveland and Hartford)

The have a list of suggested team names, with a classic/heritage name and an alternate name.  My initial thoughts for names for this XHL 6 league (from the suggestions):

  • Chicago Bruisers
  • Cleveland Barons
  • Hartford Whalers (think I’d pick this city and not use their classic team name?)
  • New York Gladiators
  • Quebec Nordiques (same here)
  • Toronto Shamrocks

There are some alternate rules that can be added (2 point goals, option to pull the penalized team goalie during a major penalty) that I’ll probably end up trying.

They also included 32 actual NHL players to add to the teams as free agents, which I may or may not do.

I’ll try to get a game or two in soon, as soon as I work out a schedule for the league.

Stay tuned!

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!

Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…

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!

Return to SSX

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Second Season Express still takes a while to play a game.

Not as long as a regular Second Season game, but still longer than other Express games from PLAAY.

Still, I may try to power through and finally finish the 1967 Denver Broncos season replay this week.

The plan is to finish some of these season replays that have been sitting idle under the full PLAAY games using the Express version, specifically this 1967 Broncos replay, perhaps the 1966-67 NHL replay, and maybe the 1974 John D’Acquisto season replay.

I may start a 1974 fictional Lacrosse season replay once Lacrosse Blast Express arrives.

Stay tuned!