 New NHL game means a brand new year of Monopoly Hut. Yo, what's going on Leaf Nation? It's Leaf for back again and welcome back to the channel today. We are starting off the Monopoly Hut series for the first time in NHL 23. We if you if you're new to the channel, you might not know what the series is. So let me quickly run through it for you. It's pretty simple. It's not too hard to to grasp. So looking here, we have the Monopoly Hut board like a regular Monopoly board just customized to NHL 23. So as you can see on the board, we got open one pack audience chess, which I need you guys to help me out with. If you guys have any rewards, challenges or punishments for me to do with my team in regards to the gameplay, let me know in the comment section down below. And then looking here, we got bankrupt by any card chance second chance. That's if we discard our best player. We have a second chance of bringing him back. We got missed a turn by any card bronze goalie pink slips, which I will explain if we ever land on it, roll again, more packs and more packs and and more packs. And then we have audience auction as well. If I land on that, you guys got a comment on the video. What player I should buy for next episode. So pretty self-explanatory pretty much before every game that I play in an episode. I got a roll of dice, whatever I land on, I got to do before the game or during the game, depending on what I land on. And that's about it. So like I said, pretty self-explanatory real quick before we roll a dice. I thought I'd show you my team and what X factor I got. So as you guys can see, I opened up the starter pack when starting my team this year. I'm having Monopoly Hut and my main account on one account this year instead of having a secondary account for Monopoly Hut. It's just all going to be combined into one. So this was our starter pack. The X factor we did get was Kyle Connor. We have him up to an 80 overall already was 500 coins to upgrade him this year. I'm just going to upgrade X factors as I please last year for forwards. If I scored a goal with him, they earned themselves an upgrade. And for defensemen, if they got an assist, I believe they earned an upgrade as well this year. Like I said, I'm just going to upgrade them when I want to upgrade them. So this is what the team's looking like. It's not great, man. We ended up pulling John Thavars in the starter pack, which is not bad. Again, Kyle Connor was our X factor, then a bunch of silvers. We got Kubel, we got Wayne Simmons. The defense is looking absolutely atrocious. And somehow Ben Bishop is still in the game. I don't know, but we got Ben Bishop in that. Goals are OP. So I'm interested to see how this is going to go with him. Six, seven, two, ten. We all know how Ben Bishop plays in game. I just don't know how he's going to play as a 74 overall. All right. So with that being said, it is time to roll a dice for the first time this episode for the year, actually. So let's see if we can get we're hoping for some good packs because the team looks like cheeks right now. Let's be honest with each other. So here we go. First roll of the year and we get a five. All right. So five is by any card with that being said, we technically have no coins I do have 12.8 K on the account. So I'm going to give myself a budget of one K for the video. We have 1000 coins spent on one card to help out this horrendous team. So Henry, Henry Borgstrom wouldn't be bad. He's a pretty speedy guy. Like there's not much I can get for one K coins right now, men. And right now I'm just looking at speed. Like we need people that can skate pretty much. So right now we're going to remember Henry Borgstrom. He's definitely the front runner to come onto the team. Maybe even this guy, Michael Corson, Corsone, he has worse face off. So I'd probably stick with Borgstrom right now. We got Noah Gregor in the leagues, better face off, better speed. Well, add him to the watch list just so I remember these cards. Jonas Don Skoe, I feel like I get him every year as well. But Jonas Don Skoe is a shout as well. 85 speed, 85 Excel would be pretty good to the right side. Another guy we're going to add to the watch list. Oh, OK, there's Trevor Moore, 86 speed, 86 Excel. He could skate, he has a good shot. Trevor Moore is definitely the front runner right now. Magician as well, which we are too often getting. So right now it's looking like Trevor Moore is the front runner. All right, Trevor Moore it is. Let's make sure we buy Trevor Moore and not there's your Lemieux here. So Trevor Moore, welcome to the team. First card we are purchasing of the year. So let's see how he does for us. It's only one player. I'm actually nervous to play with this team. All right, so we just slotted in Trevor Moore into the second line. It's looking better than it was before. We got Trevor Moore, David Lundquist and Kubell. And then the first line, I guess we can move Kubell and Simmons up one each. So really, the second line is Simmons, Lundquist, more first line being Kubell, Tavares, Connor. It's not a good team. Defense is looking super weak and our goal tending ain't looking great. I don't have high hopes for game one. So if we lose, like, don't be surprised. All right, so the one big change to hut this year is rivals is going to be different every week. So this week it's called hut rivals burst, which means it is a five five normal rival game mode, but it is two minutes in period length instead of four. So with that being said, I usually do two games in episode. But for this type of mode, I think we're going to go with three this time around. And next week we'll see how it is. But for this mode, we're going with three games in this episode. I'm pretty sure let's hop into the first one of the year. First game of the year, Victor Hedman, Steven Stamkos and an 86 show field. This is going to be interesting. Got a good team. He's got a good team. This shall be interesting here. I don't know how this is going to go, man. This guy's 27, 11 and three. Oh, my God, this guy's played a lot so far. Across bang, Kyle Conner opens up the scoring first goal of the year. We're up on nothing already. This is beautiful. Let's just try to keep it this way. I don't know how I'm going to pass over Trevor Moore in his debut. Oh, my God, nice try. Jordan Bennington was a big save on Wayne Sevens. Get the Trevor Moore. We had a little bit of an odd man rush. Oh, my God. No, no, Trevor Moore is hurt, bro. There's no shot. There's actually no shot. One of our better players is hurt already. This this is not good. This is not good, Chad. These were a man's short. Oh, that's a goal. Oh, my God, Ben Bishop. OK, bro. OK, at this rate, I'm not going to have a team to ice. And one, we were up on nothing. We're out. Time on attack in him. Shots are pretty even. He's winning by one. Trevor Moore is hurt. I'm sad. There you go, Johnny. Over across, Kyle Conner got robbed. Oh, my God. Over across. John Tavares make that a two to nothing hockey game. This first line is absolutely raking it in right now. We love it. End of two. It is to nothing. A goal, a period we will take shots or even, but we are a time out of attacking him. Time on attacking him like crazy out. Time on attacking him like crazy. English is just a great language. Can Simmons do a tow drag? He can. That could have been nice. Oh, out of front. There it is. What a save, dude. I don't know. I tried Manny Goaling. It's a good thing I didn't want to save. Guys, I think we just done it. We won our first game of the series two to nothing. Thought it was three to nothing. Ben Bishop with the shot out and we won a game with this team. I honestly cannot believe it. Getting close to bronze. So that's that's something there. We're in div three, got some hot champs points. That's good to know. Getting some coins for the series, which is nice. I will tally that to the total. Win rewards. We're four off of getting these rewards here to win two games in a row. Okay. And looking at the stats here, 11 shots. It was a 1143 time on attack to a 624. It was a deserved win to say the least. All right, our first game of the series was a W. We're right back to the board and we're hoping for some packs for the first time in the series. Let's roll the dice. All right, second roll of the episode. We landed on buying a card first time. So we're looking for some packs here. We get a one, which is open one gold pack. We got what we asked for. All right, so let's go open up one gold pack. First pack of the series. It's gonna be a premium pack because it was not a special pack. So honestly, all we're looking for here is some gold players to get rid of our silver players on our team, specifically defensemen, because I don't think we're winning another game with this team. Silver gold tender, not ideal. All right, so far, actually that's a gold. We will take that. That is good for our center core. Two centers, not too bad. Okay, can we get a rare gold maybe? That'd be nice. Something over a 75 would be nice. It's another center. We get three centermen's in this pack. Anything else? Nada, that one hurts a little bit. When we get three gold players that'll help the team out. I'll definitely take that. So after opening up that pack, the team's looking a little bit better. We got a pretty better center core, to be honest. Tavares, Dunn, Simpson, and Kluse. Those were the three players I pulled. I also pulled a 78 overall goalie. But after that performance Bishop just put on, he got a shot out. I'm gonna stick with him. We're gonna head into the second game of the episode just right off the bat. Team's not looking great. I don't think we're gonna win again, but let's see what happens. Okay, Jonathan Huberto, Hilary Knight, and Sarah Nurse. He's got a decent team. Definitely better than ours. So this should be another interesting one. We are caught. This isn't good. Cover pass. Oh no, we covered it and it went in off of us. Oh, that is so unfortunate. The first goal given up by Ben Bishop is an own goal. Off of our skate and in, we were covering that cross-seam pass and we're down 1-0. Just, you hate to see it. What a poke. Too bad we don't have fast players. What a move. Nah, he read that. I thought he was gonna try to come at me aggressively again. Simpson, a lot of save by Hellbuck, man. We are getting our chances. We are getting our chances. We're just running into a hot goal tender. End of one, we are down 1-0. We are getting outworked, that's for sure. This guy, I don't know. We're definitely feeling the effects of this team right now. Over cross. Oh my God. His AI was just in the right place at the right time. Kyle Conner, I shoulda took the shot. I shoulda took the shot. Shoot. All right, that was definitely a better period by us, man. We just can't score with a team like this right now. End of one, we brought it back that period. Look at the time in attack now. It's just, it's super hard to score with my team right now. It's unfortunate, but we're still in this game, which I like to see. Let's go, Kugel. Got a little bit of an all-matter rush here. Kyle Conner over to Tavaar is, we're not scoring this game. Conner Hellbuck is just on one. Let's go, Sons. Little twirly twirl. Another little twirl. Oh my God. Bro, that would have been actually nasty. Oh my God, how is he picking up these pucks over me? Unbelievable. I can't believe it. We're down to nothing. I feel like we should be up like two to one right now. It's so tough. Bro, that is two own goals this game. I can't believe the luck this kid has gotten. Unbelievable. Oh my goodness, dude. This game just wasn't meant to be one man at the end of the day. We ran into a hot goal tender. A couple of own goals. It is what it is, man. So really we made no progression on getting to bronze there. 150 points for that game. No goals, definitely hurt us. A couple extra coins into the bank so we have just under 1,000 coins I wanna say now. Probably no, yeah, about under 900. Looking at the stats here. It was a pretty even game. We just couldn't score on Connor Hellbook. It is what it is. We move on to the next game. All right, it is time to roll the dice for the last time this episode. We're one to one this episode. It'd be nice to end off with a win. But more importantly, let's get some more packs. All right, final roll of the episode. We're looking for more packs and we got a three. All right, so a three is open three gold packs. Yeah, all right, that's good for the team. We get three base packs to open or three premium packs to open. Last one we got what, four gold players. So we're hoping for the same out of this one here. What can we get? Michael Hutchinson. I really just wanna quick sell that card. I'm not even joking. I can't stand that guy. Michael Hutchinson, first card there. He won't make the team. We don't need gold tenders. Just a bunch of silvers. Jordan Gross, we finally get a good defenseman. It looks like he's somewhat speedy, 84 speed, 85 Excel. Not too bad. Ooh, Shay Weber, the newest Vegas Golden Knight. Sadly can't play hockey anymore, but that's another good defenseman. So two right-handed defensemen in this pack. Any other gold players left in here? No, but hey, we will take a Shay Weber and a Jordan Gross. So far, two defensemen, which we needed. Our defense is looking rough, so that's good. So more silvers that's definitely not gonna help us out. More silvers. We need some gold players here, yeah. All right, Ross Johnston, an enforcer. I mean, he'll crack the lineup because the team's obviously so bad. We'll take that. Michael Hutchinson again. I am legitimately getting trolled. This game, unbelievable. Okay, Jake Bean, that is a huge defenseman. Our first 80 plus overall in a pack. This card looks pretty good. He is a pretty good synergy and distributor. 86 speed, 86 XL, decent shot. Not too bad from Jake Bean, and that's about it. So Jake Bean and Johnston, not too bad. Not too bad. We're getting some good defensemen, so our decor is looking better. Two Michael Hutchinson, which is just a joke. It'd be funny if we pulled them again. We could pull William Trudeau, bunch of silvers once again. Anything going here. More silvers. 750 coins, which is good. Lump that onto our sum total. Victor Loden, another center. We can throw him onto the left wing because he's left-handed or in the right wing because he's left-handed, so that's good. Victor Loden, Luke Coonan. Not too bad as well, another centerman, but we'll probably throw him on the wing depending on his face off rating actually. 75 for him. And Loden has a 72, so it depends again. And that's probably it. Okay, another left defenseman. So our decor is looking good. Let's throw these guys onto the team. So after those changes, we ended up bringing in Luke Coonan to center Wayne Simmons and Trevor Moore. We then brought in Ross Johnston and Victor Loden to play with Justin Kluse. And then we got Mark Sipson now playing with Josh Dunn and Jake Coleman. And then on defense, it's looking better. We got Jordan Gross paired with Jake Bean. We got Kyle Capo Bianco. Not too bad actually. I think I nailed that. Playing with Shea Weber and then Holloway and Beutic. We do got better goal tenders, man, but I'm not playing Hutchison. We're sticking with Ben Bishop. We're heading into the next game. All right, game number three, Kaepersov, Panarin, and Hensley. He's got a good team. We're gonna try our hardest to win this one. I see McDavid on the ice. Is that, no, that's 97. I see 97, I automatically think it's McDavid. I don't think it is. Let's just get this win. Beautiful saucer over to Kyle Conner and we're getting robbed again. Oh my, okay, his goal is short, man. We gotta take advantage here. This is the goal. All off the post, Wayne Train almost had his first. That is so tough. Kyle Conner, down low, John Tavares over across and that's Kubell with his first of the series. It's one to nothing. Absolutely love it. Great power play goal. We finally scored after not scoring last game. And Kubell with his second of the night. What a pass from Tavares. That's his second assist of the night. We're up two to nothing early. This feels like a better game. The team's feeling good. All right, shorthand of goal given up by us. Gum passes by me. It's a one goal game. I got a smart and opera. I'm gonna lose this game. What a save, dude. No, they gave me the wrong player to control. Oh my God, it's two to just like that. End of three. This guy's definitely brought this game back, man. Obviously we were up to nothing. It's two to now. I'm not too worried. We win this in overtime. That could have been bad. Oh my God, I just missed the net. We dunk. I don't care. We take the win. I should have won this game 20 times over. We take it. It's a three to two victory in overtime. I dunked. I feel, I don't feel bad at all actually. We take that win. Let's go. So currently altogether we have 2,266 coins to spend if we land on any player. And looking at the stats here, we came out with the win. That's all that matters. Well guys, that is it for episode one of Monopoly Hut. We ended up going two in one. Getting some good players for the team. Obviously could be better. So we're hoping for some more packs next episode. But that is it for today's episode. Hopefully you guys did enjoy it. 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