Hmmm...That doesn't sound ALL bad...LOL!
Seriously though, last year I joined a public league on a lark not knowing what the heck I was doing. I found that I didn't know nearly enough about the NHL in general, but it was fairly easy to catch on to just by looking at the available players and seeing if they were doing better than the guys I had. I let the system draft for me and I got Marion Hossa, Glen Murray, and Eddie Belfour, and a few others, of course, but I basically rode those 3 to victory all season long.
The way it works is, just like you can preview ahead and make sure you have your starters in the lineup on the days they're pitching in baseball you preview ahead and see when you're players have games. You put the guys into the starting lineup when their teams are playing, and take out the guys whose teams are idle. That maximizes your ice time for your players, which translates into more goals, assists, PIM's, etc.
There's actually a bit more managing to it than there is for football, IMHO. In football, once you get into the season (and bye weeks) the hardest part (for me anyway) is keeping a full lineup of quality players from week to week, but once you set your lineup for the next game all you really do is make sure your players injury status doesn't put them on the bench with you all unawares.
In hockey you have more to login and do, which I thought made me feel more involved. It also put me more in touch with the game again, and the players on the other teams around the NHL, which was also nice for me. I doubt you'd get as much out of it as I did though, Spidey, if you're not really a hockey fan, so I'd understand if you didn't want to do it.
train's in. Anybody else?
