Jack Campbell could play in the AHL next year since he was drafted out of the US not major junior, but seeing as Bachman and Beskorowany are playing really well for their respected teams id imagine Campbell goes back to Windsor and its Bachman and Beskorowany in the AHL. As far as NHL the game goes, i don't understand why we can have players set to LW/C or LW/RW instead of players having to be stuck on one position. Ott and Benn are good examples of players that can play on any position but in the game they cant.

WhoahNow wrote:Jack Campbell could play in the AHL next year since he was drafted out of the US not major junior, but seeing as Bachman and Beskorowany are playing really well for their respected teams id imagine Campbell goes back to Windsor and its Bachman and Beskorowany in the AHL. As far as NHL the game goes, i don't understand why we can have players set to LW/C or LW/RW instead of players having to be stuck on one position. Ott and Benn are good examples of players that can play on any position but in the game they cant.

Exactly. It's not just the Stars that do this. Virtually every team juggles lines to some extent.

EA YOU MAKE ME, FIRST OFF BRANDON SEGAL IS NOT NUMBER 12 HE IS HE IS NUMBER 24, SECOND OFF BRAD RICHARDS IS THE ASSISTANT CAPTAIN NOT MIKE RIBEIRO, HOW ABOUT THIS EA YOU NEED TO DO BETTER RESEARCH THEN JUST PUTTING A ROSTER TOGETHER.

While we appreciate your enthusiasm, keep in mind at the time Brad was injured. Thus Crawford used Ribs as an Assistant Captain. Otherwise I hope Wandell, and Vincour see improvements next year, both with potiental should end up around 80's, possibly more from Vincour as a 2 way.

After the first day of FA I expect something along these lines

Morrow/Ribeiro/Ryder
Eriksson/Benn/Vincour
Ott/Fiddler/Burish
Petersen/Wandell/Dvorak

Grossman/Robidas/
Goligoski/Daley
Fistric/Pardy/Souray

Newy has hinted to using Ott in a top 6 role which should help with faceoffs, Benn and Ribs are pretty terrible, so Vincour could be shifted down, and Ott to LW 2nd line, and Eriksson to RW second line. Outside of Grossman and Robi who work very well together, its really anyones guess. This year should be easier to keep track of lines w/out Crawford.

Garbage

wy does steve ott have 65 faceoffs

he is a top 5 faceoff player

I'm really interested in seeing what rating they gave Benn for NHL 12.

HockeyGoalie101 wrote:wy does steve ott have 65 faceoffs

he is a top 5 faceoff player

Same reason why Zenon Konopka has a 60 faceoff rating despite being 4th in Faceoff % ... BTW, Ott was 10th in faceoff %, but either way, EA needs to fix it.

These are my Top 10:

Steckel - 93
Malhotra - 93
Gaustad - 90
Konopka - 87
Stoll - 86
Smithson - 86
Kesler - 86
Toews - 85
Bergeron - 85
Ott - 85

Average (50%) - 75
Worst (38.5%) - 58

<82 faceoffs last year (Center) - 65
<82 faceoffs last year (Winger) - 55
Defensemen - 45

Can we have Benn moved to C and Eriksson moved to RW already? It will be Benn's second year as C and Eriksson's fourth year being a RW. I hate having to change them every roster update.

Please fix Sheldon Souray's shot power. It should not be a 99 when the 2 guys with the hardest shot in NHL history are only 95 shot power.

Can someone tell me whether or not Jamie Oleksiak will be in a roster update? He's not even on Saginaw's roster in 12.

Isn't it weird that you see the Stars 3rd uniforms on the fans, but the players can't wear them. What gives?

Here are the lines before Steve Ott got hurt:

Morrow-Ribiero-Ryder
Benn-Ott-Erickson
Dvorak-Fiddler-Burish
Barch/Petersen-Nystrom-Dowell/Wandell

Goligoski-Robidas
Souray-Daley
Grossman-Fistric/Pardy

Lehtonen/Raycroft

With Ott out of the line up over the past week, the lines have looked like this:

Erickson-Benn-Ryder (Wow!)
Morrow-Ribiero/Burish (depending on what side face-off is on)
Dvorak-Nystrom-Fiddler
Petersen-Wandell-Barch/Dowell

Robidas-Souray
Goligoski-Fistric
Daly-Grossman/Pardy

Lehtonen/Raycroft

After all the injuries, here is what the Stars had heading into Thursday's game against Ottawa:

Eriksson-Benn-Ryder
Ott-Ribeiro-Vincour
Nystrom-Fiddler-Dvorak
Wandell-Petersen-Barch

Souray-Robidas
Pardy-Fistric
Grossman-Larsen

Raycroft-Bachman

I noticed that in the last update, when you get to the draft in BeAGM, that Brett Ritchie is available to be drafted. As far as I can tell he is the only 2nd rounder of last years draft to be available again this year for the draft. He might not have signed yet but he shouldn't be draftable