I could see myself getting back to Bones. I've just been on a DoC kick, and I like that I can record an entire game in 10-15. For Bones, I might upload some 3rd periods when I get back to it.

@@HockeyUnreal Yeah, I get not really having enough time for a full game of Bones.

@@mynameismud-qd9vu I feel bad. I wish I did. It's not a knock on the game being too long. There are other even longer games that are also reputably good. But when in the mood for season replays, and a desire to progress through them at a certain rate, faster-playing games lend themselves to the task and more feasibly fit into the schedule.

A surprise upset!

"The Inevitables" finally strike...

Thank you!

I hope the rink design's not a letdown. Nothing too elaborate.

Great to see your comment! I just finished playing a game of this project. Up to 50 now. Going to stop for the night and settle in with a Christie Marple mystery. Probably the next video I upload for DoC will be to start my 1949-50 NHL season replay, but I'd like to upload an intriguing matchup from this '93 replay (probably Pittsburgh and someone) when it comes up.

Have you tried playing it before? I do have older, slower videos where I go through it step-by-step. See my DoC Hockey playlist.

@ I will take a look thank you!

​@@ZIGGYZIBBz As soon as I get another intriguing matchup from this project, I'll upload it and try an updated, slower play matchup. Also, I'll be putting 1949-50 on the table soon, and plan to "launch" that season with a video - and again I can start it off with a slower play where I annotate each card flip. ;)

@ sounds good

For an injured goalie that stays in the game, I'd deduct a level from the goalie, not the team defense (though one could argue the goalie's part of the team defense). I think C to D might change from season to season. If you're using seasons created by Michael, there should be a key at the top of each sheet and bundle of four teams. For pulling a goalie, I count any shot that the shorthanded team gets to the net as a goal.

Thank you. Have a great weekend!

1000 to go ;) I'm keeping light player stats, just goals, assists, and points, and W-L-T, GAA, and shutouts for goalies.

DoC Hockey forums.delphiforums.com/schultz8/messages/?msg=1060.1 forums.delphiforums.com/tabletopsports/messages/?msg=21431.1

Thank you! That's always nice to read. I put a fair bit of thought into the 1992-93 setup, and I think I'll use it often even when I'm not video-recording. I'll probably replace the playing cards with ones I can simply click to shuffle when I play offline, but the rink is a nice added bit of immersion with the team cards.

Thank you for taking the time to say that. That's nice to hear. You're not alone in this community if you're into a tabletop sport despite not knowing the players. It's been a topic that's come up sometimes on Digital to Dice over on Dave and Ron's channels, and elsewhere. Sometimes a game just... works for a player! I'm actually not much into many other sports besides hockey, so it's possible this will happen to me someday.

That humming actually caused KZbin to "check" this video extra long before it'd fully upload. No lie. To be fair, I think it was probably the 'c' word "c.o.p.y.r.i.g.h.t. strike" right before the humming that put the bots on guard.

Or ZZ in Montreal where he scored his last career NHL goal.

They've been a mainstay. A good, simple, colorful scoreboard easily visible on camera without having to tweak and fuss with anything electronically.

Thank you. There's definitely something to be said for the anticipation. Like a great game or series of hockey itself. The opening puck drop's my favorite moment.

Thank you. I put a lot of thought into it.

Thank you! If this replay could be made any more exciting for me to play than it already is, it's comments like yours adding to the excitement. I remember watching highlights of that Bolts - Hawks game as a kid getting ready for school the morning after and wondering who the heck Kontos was. He had a strong year for the Lightning during their inaugural season. Brian Bradley, too. I've got two more games from opening night uploading in a couple.

I'm playing your favorite fast-playing hockey game in 2028 ;)

The HU curse lives on. I should have made a point to mention near video's end that Montreal has still not won a single cup or championship since I started this channel. I've seen in some of your videos that you overlay text in spots to make corrections or other remarks. How do you do that? (Sorry if I asked before and have since forgotten again due to inactivity.)

@@HockeyUnreal -- it was a feature on the default video editing program on my old laptop which I believe was Windows 7. My current laptop is Windows 10 and I hate the video program that came with it. The previous one was easy and intuitive but they just can't leave well enough alone. So if you upload a video directly from your phone or video camera to KZbin, there's no means to add text and other bells and whistles. If you upload it to some video editing program first, then you can tweak it and upload it to KZbin. Which reminds me that I should dig out the old laptop and use that program again for future videos...

@@pjet8042 thanks anyway! I may have to look into something online I can use, like a video editing program online.

Thank you. I just replied to your other comment. Regardless of the outcome, it was a very tight series throughout, so it's hard to ask for much better. I'm looking forward to playing some more of this, too. Playing this series reminded me how great this game really is!

Also, I sent Michael a humble request (and money) last night to create the 1949-50 season for DoC, which I'm very eager to play after this series, and he said that he's started working on it! ;)

Hahah, it was close though! ;)

This series has been another reminder of why I love DoC so much. I'm definitely back on a DoC kick at the moment. I'm happy to see your comment, and thank you for the encouragement. Unfortunately, I'm a little under the weather in games 3 and 4, but I did my best. ;P

Thank you for taking the time to comment. It always makes it encouraging to come back even after it's been a while.

Thank you, pal! Just the guy I was hoping to see here. Even with multiple ongoing projects, some that sadly have been neglected of late, this has me super hungry to request Michael Mitchell to make the 1949-50 NHL season for DoC. These were fun, dramatic games. Back-to-back-to-back-to-back nailbiters! Other than for a different end outcome, it's hard to ask for better from a playoff series than this. And I'll have to see what I can do about what you said at the end. ;) Furthermore, talk about "Strange Magic" yet again. One of the storylines during the regular season, reported by me multiple times on Delphi, was that sophomore and secondary scoring for Detroit, Max McNab, did not have a goal all season long until very late into the regular season. McNab finished with just 3 goals in my regular season replay (10 in real life, and any double digits was okay secondary scoring in a low-scoring era and 60-game season).

They're missing that inevitable mystique ;)

I never really went away. I just don't come around as often. ;P

If you go on Delphi's The Penalty Box and Tabletop Sports, there are DoC Hockey threads that I'm quite sure include team/player creation formulas, but it may be a bit of an army surplus shop discount bargain bin dive! forums.delphiforums.com/schultz8/messages/?msg=1060.1 forums.delphiforums.com/tabletopsports/messages/?msg=52207.1

Thank YOU.

Thank you! Variety's the spice and Hockey Bones takes a lot more time to play than this and another faster playing hockey game I've been enjoying more of lately. With that said, I could be getting the itch to get Hockey Bones back to the table again before long...

@@HockeyUnreal Got it! Thanks for the replay. It is nice to try something different occasionally.

Same to you and yours! Happy New Year :)

Lift the channel curse!

Thank you for your kind encouragement! The best place to find seasons and other game info are here: forums.delphiforums.com/schultz8/messages/?msg=1060.1 and here: forums.delphiforums.com/tabletopsports/messages/?msg=54633.1

@ thank you

@@farmermaggott my pleasure.

Thank you for watching, and Happy New Year!! I agree they're a lot of fun to play! Blue Zone is another I could have included in the category that includes Stone Cold and Shoot-Out when I was talking about faster playing games near the end of the game 1 video. They're all similar in length. DoC and Mike's come at in just under that, at a similar, lesser amount of time to play a complete game (though Mike's could be faster if you just roll for goals and a team score and not goal scorers).

Thank you! Likewise :) I was thinking of you just a little earlier, wondering if you'd reach out and hoping you would. The Habs may be "due" but the Red Wings were the best team in the regular season, both in real life and in my replay, and as us replayers know, those Presidents' Trophy winning teams (though the trophy itself didn't come into existence until 1985-86) are a lot harder to defeat and eliminate on the tabletop. ;)

Thank you! Most sequences use four cards, though some sequences can use five or even six cards (and if a sequence ends in a goal then an additional card may be flipped for assists; there's also additional flips for possible injuries, but I normally don't play this game with injuries, so I forget how exactly they work). A sequence begins under the assist column (card flip no. 1) with a player trying to set someone else up (possibly even himself) for a chance to get a goal. If this set up attempt (card flip no. 2) fails, 2 more cards are "burned" to end the sequence. That's probably what you're seeing when you see or 3 cards flipped before looking at a result (3 cards flipped is probably that the puck has gone to a 'team' player on either side, requiring an extra flip to determine the player involved in the play, and if the assist/set up attempt fails after that, 2 more cards are burned to complete the sequence (to "cancel out" the goal player and that player's attempt, I guess)). Keep in mind that I hadn't played this game in months prior to making this video, but I did watch through it myself last night after uploading it and couldn't find any mistakes (but it was late and I was tired so it's possible there are some).

Thank you! Happy New Year! :)

Thank you for the kind words. Even though I've not made videos in a while, I still have an interest in doing them but it's become harder to find the time and of course if I'm not setting aside time to do it actively then I'm rusty, so it takes even more time to get back into the swing of things. I just use a standing tripod and whatever phone camera I have at the time (presently it's an S23 (Samsung) but I think this video might have been recorded with my previous phone). Just a basic setup. I think Baseball Demos has a similar setup. I just keep it simple like he does.

I'm glad you found your way back to this. It's probably still a really underrated hockey game (in my opinion) and one I would have played a few times over the past couple of days while away on a holiday mini trip, but I couldn't get the deck of cards app I like to use on my phone to work and it discouraged me from playing altogether (next time I'll bring an offline, manual deck). Not knocking Shoot-Out or Stone Cold, but a game of DoC can be played in about half the time with twice the roster interaction (actually about 4-8X the roster interaction). Mind you it doesn't have penalties and doesn't account for home-away advantage/disadvantage as markedly as the above two games, so it's really a matter of being different and neither better nor worse. Mike Owens's Quick-Play Pro Hockey is actually a game more comparable to DoC, in terms of playing time, but it uses dice over cards and also doesn't normally interact with players on a roster until after a goal is scored, but it's another great game to play if you want to play a fast game that still progresses through periods without being slowed down by penalties.

Yeah, I've gotta get back to this series. And I'm about to go away for a couple of days and DoC Hockey is a great travel game!

Thank you for taking the time to say such nice words! Have a great day! Someday hopefully I'll be able to play APBA Hockey. It's so well-liked in the community that it's hard to imagine I wouldn't also like it.

You can start here forums.delphiforums.com/schultz8/messages/?msg=1060.132 and scroll through and find a few seasons that are free/homebrew. Same here as well: forums.delphiforums.com/tabletopsports/messages/?msg=54184.1 You can also PM Michael Mitchell (MichaelM (mgmitchell)) on Delphi with specific seasons requests. He makes and sells them for a good price. Any set of his I've ever paid for, including this one, I've played it enough that it's worked out or diluted to pennies per game played, probably a lot less actually.

Thank you for the info!!@@HockeyUnreal

@@jerryscherer6148 happy to help :)

@@HockeyUnreal Thank you, I did find this info you sent and got the wha 6 teams and the 4 nhl 2023 teams but would like to get more seasons. can you give me the guy that created the games e-mail address i would like to purchase some other seasons. Thanks, Jerry

Haha You think I'd learn to quit talking smack about teams and players like I did about Boston and Pete Babando here...

Hahah Just oddly, randomly in the mood to do it. Enjoyed yesterday's game and can't recall if I've ever video-recorded a game from my 1948-49 replay or not.