Patience, Patience, Patience

Just like last season, both the Leafs and Majors stumbled out of the gate, bringing back memories of last seasons brutal start. Unlike last season though, this Leaf team has no excuses. There will be no big trades, landing big named dmen. No adding top notch , cheap retiring veteran help. No bail outs from their ownership group. Its sink or swim with what you got. So with that in mind, their gm did what many other gms have a tough time doing when things arent going your way.............

DONT CHANGE ANYTHING!!.

What? You mean, in the face of a losing start to the season, we are advising other teams to not make changes? Yup. No trades. No line changes. NOTHING!.

So how has it worked so far? Well both farm and pro teams have had mirror opposite 5 game results. A poor first 5 followed by a great second 5. How did they manage to do that? By leaving their lines as is. Sure, there was a goalie change in there. Infact, their gm instructed the simmer to use HLS2 sim lines for the farm. And what it did do was establish something most gms overlook in this sim.

Chemistry.

Thats the unmeasurable word that gives teams huge boosts or huge slumps without any real explanation on paper to back it up. Trust me it works, but yet its the number 1 hardest thing for a gm to do, even a long time gm will tell you how hard it is to resist tinkering with lines, or making an early trade when panic starts to set in.

This reporter has seen it all over the years with this crazy sim, and the one thing ive learnt is sometimes its best to leave things as is. At least until you lose to the Blues...then you HAVE to make a change ;).

Katheryne Humphries
Leafs Talk