 Yo, what's going on Leafernation, it's Leafer back again and today we're doing a different type of video. We're doing a franchise mode video. So that is right, today we're doing a franchise mode GM mode, whatever you want to call it. Today we are testing out if a team of all London Knights alumni can win a Stanley Cup. So hop in into franchise mode, we're going to build a new one, we're going to substitute the team I created, the London Knights alumni into the NHL. So GM name that will be running them is none other than myself, Leafer, bang continue. And right now we're going to keep them in the Eastern Conference, so what I want to go do is check the NHL standings to see who the worst team in the Eastern Conference is and we will substitute that team for the London Knights alumni. So I will pop it up on the screen here, but it looks like the last place team in the East, Detroit has eight, Ottawa has five, so I guess we're substituting the Senators out of the Eastern Conference and the Atlantic Division. So here we go, we're going to substitute the team for my created team, the London Knights alumni. So we have a total team budget of 86.160 million dollars. Our arena is the year arena, we'd love that. And our top players are John Carlson, Patrick Kane and Mitchell Marner. Division realignment, we are in the Atlantic here, we are the lowest overall, oh no we are not. We are the second lowest overall team. No one could beat the Detroit Red Wings apparently, but I feel like we're going to have a tough time in this division, a lot of good teams and all the settings are set up. It doesn't really matter, we're not going to be making any trades or anything like that. We're just going to be simulating through a year to see if this team can win a Stanley Cup. So looking at the lines of this alumni team forward lines, our first line is looking good. Mitch Marner, John Tavares and Bobby Thomas, a plus one overall for the line, so it's not bad. All the lines have a plus one overall, which isn't bad, but our first line is pretty good, 91, 89 and an 82. Second line, we got Matthew Kutchuk, Beau Horvath and Patrick Kane, again all London alumnities. These are London Knight greats, you know, great second line. Our third line, Josh Anderson, Nasim Kadri and Domi. Pretty funny that Domi and Anderson are on the same line after that Columbus Montreal trade earlier this year. And then our fourth line is Corey Perry, Anthony Ceu and Patrick Maroun. So I want to say our forwards are pretty good. We have a solid two lines. We have some very good depth on our third and fourth. I'm not too worried about our forwards. Looking at our defense though, it's looking a little rough. You know, John Carlson obviously going to be carrying the Lodis playing when Nikita Zadorov. Decent first pairing or second pairing, Olimata and Adam Boquist. And then our third pairing being Evan Bouchard and Victor Mette, not the greatest on defense and I'm a little worried about that. And man, if you think I'm worried about defense, look at our goal-tenning. Michael Hutchinson has been the best thing to come out of London so far. And we got Tyler Parsons backing him up. Steve Mason was another London Knight alumni. Don't think he's an NHL 21. So our goal-tenning is a big issue. I don't think defensively we will do well. And I'm hoping our offense can really lead us to just scoring more goals than the other teams. And looking at who's scratched, we have Vlad Namestakov and Mark Mathoda. I'm sure I could have put more people in, but for now, we only have two. But let's get straight to the simulation, I guess. So in the preseason, we did pretty good. I mean, it's not hard to do bad in the. It's not hard to do good in the preseason, but let's go. We're going to simulate a month. Let's see how this London Knight team does. We win our first game. We lose in overtime back to back. We're in a three game losing skid. Make that four. No trades, please. We're two, one and three, not the greatest start to the month. Let's see what else we can do here. We have three more games left. And at the end of one month, we're seven, one and three, which is actually pretty good. Looking at the standings, we are at the top of the Atlantic Division with 17 points tied with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Are we at the top of the NHL? No, so the Blackhawks are one point above us in the NHL, which very interesting that the Blackhawks are doing well. Going to be simulating another month. Hopefully we can keep up the good work. These trades are getting super annoying. We're just going to keep declining them as they pop up. But yeah, I'm pretty surprised that the team is doing good, given the defense we have and the goal tending we have. It is super crazy. All right, Bo Horvat. I'm sorry for how I'm playing out there, Bo. Not a big deal, man. We're doing great. Bo Horvat, morale gain plus one. We like to see that and hopefully that'll help us in the long run here. Not that great of a month. Let me decline and edit this block because geez us with the trades. And at the end of two, we're 12, nine and five. We definitely dropped off that month. We started off the month with a two game winning streak against the Sabres. Lost a big one to the Lightning. Yeah, not a great month. Let's go look at the standings and where we're playing at right now. We are now in six. That is not good. We fell off that month. Not good at all. Mitch Marner leading the team with 36 points. Not surprised at all. We definitely have to have a better month here. Last month was absolutely horrible. We're having a conversational and awesome cadre now. Persuade him. You're fine, buddy. We're doing fine. We just got to continue here. And a plus five management morale. We love to see that. We're on the same page now. Seven to loss to the Sharks definitely does not help. We're on a little five game winning streak, it looks like there. Make that six. So pretty good start to the month here. We had a couple games left in the month of December. And we were 21, 14 to five. We definitely had a better month. We were on a one, two, three, four, four game win streak. Not too bad. Only four losses in that month, which is not too bad. Let's go look at the standings. We are now in fourth. So a big month. We are three points up on the Florida Panthers, but they have two games in hand. We're not too far off of the Sabres. John Carlson now leaving the team in points with 51. As a defenseman, that's actually insane. So looking at defense, John Carlson, 42 assists, nine goals, 51 points in 40 games. Marner is 50 points in 40 games. Tavars with 46 and 40. Kainer with 44 and 40. Bobby Thomas with 31 and 40. It's pretty good. I'm actually interested to see how our goalies are doing. Michael Hutchison, yeah, not great, man. An eight, seven, five, say percentage, three, seven, six. Goals against a 76 overall. 73 overall has a better say percentage than 80 overall. Michael Hutchison, that really says something about you, Hutch. So Simon threw another month. Hopefully we have another great month. We start off with a win. We love to see that. And we are on a three game winning streak. If I'm not mistaken, make that four, make that five. And we take an L. Kadri again wants to speak about ice time concerns. So that L, back to back L's there, not the greatest. We need to get a win. We're on a three, four game losing streak, five game losing streak. It's crazy how this team could do so well and then go on a skid like that. Looking at these standings, we are on fourth with 57 points, three behind the Sabres, which isn't too bad. We are tied with the Canadians, but we have a game in hand. John Carlson still leading the team with 67 points. Have there been any overall changes? It doesn't look like there has been. Kadri said he wants more ice time. We'll give him some more ice time here. He'll be playing Wilka Chuck and Patrick Cain for the time being. Defensively, Adam Bocas went up to an 81. That's nice to see. And Hotch is still an 80, not a shocker. So up to four months, we're 26, 19 and five. I honestly, I thought we would do a little bit better, but it is what it is. We need to have a good month here. Trade deadline, we're just going to skip over because we're not trading anyone. So there's no point. Anyways, let's have a good month here. We run back to back Ls. We broke it up with a win. We're getting points in most of these Ls. Kadri wants to talk again. Yeah, I'm happy that it could help you out, buddy. 6-3 out of the wings. We can't be losing 6-3 to the wings. No offense to the wings or anything, but not good. 3-0 to the flames, which isn't great. We're in a three game losing streak. Toronto trades away Timothy Lillagran of Florida. Okay, interesting stuff. And we're ending off with a 8-5 win against Oilers, which is nice. With 3-1, 26-7 after, I think, five months, looking at the standings. We're now in fifth. We're one point behind the Panthers, but they have a game in hand. John Carlson having himself one hell of a season. 75 points in 64 games is actually insane from our number one defense. Ben Marner has 71 in 64. Kana, 67 in 64. But he's a minus seven. That's an issue. And looking at our goalies, man. Hutch, I can't remember. I think his save percentage went up a little bit, but man, like I said, goaltending was going to be an issue. He's 24-22. That is absolutely horrible. But hey, we're fighting for a playoff spot. What more can I ask for? We just need to have another great month. I've been saying that throughout the video, but this month is one of the most important months here. And we need to do good. All right, continuing along here. We take a 3-0 to the Leafs, but we've gotten a couple of wins before. That 7-3-0 to Vancouver is definitely tough. We were on a skid. What is that losing streak? 4-game losing streak with a couple games left in the month. We are in eighth place. So doesn't look like we're making the playoffs here, boys. I guess Michael Hutchinson, when you have a goaltending that you have, it just does not bode well for you. 38, 35, and 9 is not good at all. So yeah, we did not make the playoffs. Kind of shocked because we had some great talent up front. But just recapping everything here. Victor Mete, or Victor Mete. John Carlson with 91 points in 82 games as a defenseman. Absolutely unreal. Patrick Kane with 90 points in 82 games. Marner with 87 points in 82 games. Torres with 78 in 82. Kachuk with 66 in 82. If you can see here, man, the plus-minus just says it all. Do we have Zdorov? We've only had a handful of players with a plus minus with a plus rating in. That is just absolutely horrible. And man, it came all down to our goaltending. Like, when you're starting goaltender, yeah, he won us the 31 games. He lost us 29 games. An 82 save percentage of 3.62 goals against average isn't going to get you done, isn't going to get it done, and isn't going to get you a playoff spot clearly. So not impressed with Michael Hutchinson at all. But we will sim to the draft. We will see who wins the cup and all the trophies. Maybe we had someone who won a trophy on our team. You never know. So the Edmonton Oilers have won the Stanley Cup. Oh my, Connor McDavid getting the trophy. So let's go look at the awards here. So obviously the Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup this year. President's Trophy went to the Toronto Maple Leafs. They couldn't get it done in the playoffs though. Clarence S. Campbell Trophy, or Bowl, is going to the Edmonton Oilers. The Prince of Wales Trophy going to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto coming home with two trophies. Edmonton coming home with two with what you would expect. Looking at the individual awards. Art Ross is going to Evgeny Melkin. Herb Memorial going to Evgeny Melkin. James Norris Memorial Trophy. So there it is. John Carlson wins the Norris Trophy this year. Again, 91 points out of a defenseman in 82 games. Absolutely insane. It was a no-brainer that he was going to win it. So hey, we won a trophy in a year's simulation. Didn't make the playoffs, but good for John Carlson. Connor McDavid wins the Lady Bing Memorial Trophy. Caller going to Kaepersov. No surprise there. He's probably going to win it in real life this year. Const Meith going to Conor McDavid. No shock there. Vesna going to Vasilevsky. Who else would you give it to? William N. Jennings going to Mackenzie Blackwood. Pretty cool to see, actually. Bill Masterson going to Derek Forbert. Okay. Jack Adams going to Goudreau. Good for the Devils. The Selkie going to Anze Copetar. All right. He's won it in 2017. No-brainer that he wins it in 2020, I guess. Ten Lidsy going to Evgeny Melkin. He's cleaning up with trophies this year. And then Marius Rashard goes to Austin Matthews. You absolutely love to see that. Matthews finishing with 100 points, 55 goals. Yeah. Makes sense. So that is a year simulation with the London Knights alumni team. It sucks that we didn't make the playoffs. We couldn't try to win the Stanley Cup. But John Carlson having himself won hell of a season. This game really proves that you need to have good defense, a good goal tending to do good in a simulation. So again, I think that's what we were lacking with this team. We did not have some great defensemen besides John Carlson and Adam Boakwitz and Zadorov. And our goal tending wasn't great. Michael Hutchison, 80 overall, was our starting netminder. Didn't even have a 908 percentage. So it really does explain why we didn't do as well. But this was a fun video to make to see how the London Knights team would do against current NHL teams. Let me know what other OHL team you want me to do for next video to see who we can win a cup with in a year. But guys, that's it for this video. If you guys did enjoy it, be sure to drop a like on it. If you guys are new around here, make sure to hit the subscribe button. We are close to 4,000 subscribers. And guys, a new GM mode will be starting up soon. I think we will be taking over none other than the Pittsburgh Penguins. But again, that's it for today's video. Thank you guys very much for watching. And I'll talk to you guys later. Peace!