Eastside Hockey Manager - Part X Patch 1.5 Edition! (April 22nd Open Beta)
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GagneHanson12
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Just did the poll. Was incredibly tempted to vote the Ukrainian centre as best player in the game but voted honestly instead 
So far we've had a great response to the poll - thank you to all who have filled it in! There's about 36 hours until the poll closes (closes on Friday morning). I'm planning to take the weekend to mull it over and start posting results on Monday next week. I will publish in a few short things like this:
Day 1 - Overall findings, open box comments and quick wins
Day 2 - The various Offline / Online things
Day 3 - Drafting
Day 4 - Goalies and Defencemen
Day 5 - Centres and Wingers
Form Link if needed: EHM Community Poll - 2025 (edited)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...f4f07d364eb4db8128902505010ffc514677167a98f0&
Day 1 - Overall findings, open box comments and quick wins
Day 2 - The various Offline / Online things
Day 3 - Drafting
Day 4 - Goalies and Defencemen
Day 5 - Centres and Wingers
Form Link if needed: EHM Community Poll - 2025 (edited)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...f4f07d364eb4db8128902505010ffc514677167a98f0&
Pivot 9.4 - January update posted!
Some pretty substantial changes here, please give feedback on them!
General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- Implemented new attribute standards based on researcher consensus and applied them database wide except for players over 100 CA and NHL floor PA players. I removed a majority of pre-set attributes, allowing the game to randomize them on start to allow more variation to players based on role. Expect a lot more randomness new game to new game.
-- I am looking for feedback here, good or bad, especially for lower-level league or European focused players!
- Any players with no player-type set have had all attributes set to 0.
- Cleaned up free agent players
Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- In the last release, about 30% players had no physical attributes set. Physical attributes have now been set for all players
- Updated model for anticipation, creativity and decisions implemented as a beta for this issue
- Expect significant changes to be coming to the PG based on Community Poll feedback, these will be included in the next issue
International Updates:
- Updated World Championship top level team count to 16 and Divsion 3 team count to 6 -- thanks filip85!!
- Updated game counts for all stages of WC
Canadian Updates:
- Updated CHL league captains and attendance and processed all trade deadline moves for all three leagues.
Finnish Updates:
- Tightened up Liiga and Mestis schedules in February/March to move playoffs forward three days to prevent Relegation Playoffs from rolling over past the May 1st cutoff date. This may need further adjusting after more testing. -- Thanks Thomaxius for the report!!
NHL Updates:
- Updated the entire 2025 draft class (396+ players) based on CSS mid-term rankings and World Junior performances
- Updated notable players for 2026 and 2027 draft classes
- Updated starting injuries and future retirements
- Updated attendance averages
- Will be reducing/re-tiering NHL level staff, feels like rep/CA are too high end for positions like scouts. Will be adjusted as I update organizations during re-rates.
- Re-rated starting goalies based slightly on The Athletic's Tier List
- Started NHL re-rates which cover staff, players and prospects/RFAs. Teams completed in this update:
-- BOS
-- DAL
-- FLA
-- NAS
-- NYI
-- NYR
-- STL
Some pretty substantial changes here, please give feedback on them!
General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- Implemented new attribute standards based on researcher consensus and applied them database wide except for players over 100 CA and NHL floor PA players. I removed a majority of pre-set attributes, allowing the game to randomize them on start to allow more variation to players based on role. Expect a lot more randomness new game to new game.
-- I am looking for feedback here, good or bad, especially for lower-level league or European focused players!
- Any players with no player-type set have had all attributes set to 0.
- Cleaned up free agent players
Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- In the last release, about 30% players had no physical attributes set. Physical attributes have now been set for all players
- Updated model for anticipation, creativity and decisions implemented as a beta for this issue
- Expect significant changes to be coming to the PG based on Community Poll feedback, these will be included in the next issue
International Updates:
- Updated World Championship top level team count to 16 and Divsion 3 team count to 6 -- thanks filip85!!
- Updated game counts for all stages of WC
Canadian Updates:
- Updated CHL league captains and attendance and processed all trade deadline moves for all three leagues.
Finnish Updates:
- Tightened up Liiga and Mestis schedules in February/March to move playoffs forward three days to prevent Relegation Playoffs from rolling over past the May 1st cutoff date. This may need further adjusting after more testing. -- Thanks Thomaxius for the report!!
NHL Updates:
- Updated the entire 2025 draft class (396+ players) based on CSS mid-term rankings and World Junior performances
- Updated notable players for 2026 and 2027 draft classes
- Updated starting injuries and future retirements
- Updated attendance averages
- Will be reducing/re-tiering NHL level staff, feels like rep/CA are too high end for positions like scouts. Will be adjusted as I update organizations during re-rates.
- Re-rated starting goalies based slightly on The Athletic's Tier List
- Started NHL re-rates which cover staff, players and prospects/RFAs. Teams completed in this update:
-- BOS
-- DAL
-- FLA
-- NAS
-- NYI
-- NYR
-- STL
vcanuck
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- Feb 7, 2011
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this is why I pay for internet.
**EHM Community Poll Results - Part 1**
Hi everyone, thank you for all your responses! Please see below for the review for Part 1, Overall findings, Open Box comments and Drafting.
DOCX Format - EHM Community Poll 2025 - Day 1 & 2 Analysis.docx
PDF Format -
I'll respond to comments here too when and where I can.
Hi everyone, thank you for all your responses! Please see below for the review for Part 1, Overall findings, Open Box comments and Drafting.
DOCX Format - EHM Community Poll 2025 - Day 1 & 2 Analysis.docx
PDF Format -
I'll respond to comments here too when and where I can.
Nice. Just finished a Chicago franchise last night.
Now I can dive head first into a Penguins rebuild. Sucks that my boys are heading that way IRL, but love that I have two first rounders to work with. Usually we have zero. Hell yeah. The benefit to my favorite team sucking.
**EHM Community Poll Results - Final**
Hi everyone, thank you for all your responses! I decided to combine everything into one document for analysis.
DOCX Format - EHM Community Poll 2025 - Final Analysis.docx
PDF Format -
I'll respond to comments here too when and where I can.
Hi everyone, thank you for all your responses! I decided to combine everything into one document for analysis.
DOCX Format - EHM Community Poll 2025 - Final Analysis.docx
PDF Format -
I'll respond to comments here too when and where I can.
Apparently, if Montreal kept Roy, Damphousse and Leclair, they win 5 straight cups from 1995 to 1999.
Without all the injuries, Gretzky passed the 1000 goals cap and is closing in on 3000 points. Might even catch Howe's games played, 239 games to go at 38.
Same with Lemieux who is going to crush Howe's 2nd place in points (22 points away at 33).
Gino Odjick pierced the top10 in PIM at 28.
Without all the injuries, Gretzky passed the 1000 goals cap and is closing in on 3000 points. Might even catch Howe's games played, 239 games to go at 38.
Same with Lemieux who is going to crush Howe's 2nd place in points (22 points away at 33).
Gino Odjick pierced the top10 in PIM at 28.
Pivot 9.5 - combined Feburary/March post NHL TDL release!
General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- We no longer recommend disabling "Starting Financial Adjustments" to enable the game to determine and set initial starting team budgets. We hope this will make some playable leagues more sustainable and healthy financially instead of using the DBs set theoretical maximums which might be overkill. More testing and feedback needed from non-NHL EHM GMs!
- Set Natural Fitness to 0 for most players based on researcher consensus, this will enable more randomness with the length of careers for players, impact NHL prospects (161+ PA) should be able to overcome a low roll and be productive into their 30s. Natural Fitness has been manually set for 35+ year old players in top leagues.
- Many attributes have been set to 0 for all players under 161+ PA or potential PA roll based on researcher consensus and testing. Based on our research what the game was setting when set to 0 (let game decide) vs what we had a previous consensus of setting them to manually was not in alignment, we decided to let the game handle this going forward.
-- This includes mentals, as a result players have much more varied personalities
-- Existing NHL stars and notable players will be manually updated as appropriate
-- The intention here is for Current Ability to be the major driver of quality of players instead of static attributes, how I had been doing ratings did not produce enough unique players.
- Ensured starting Morale was set to 0 for all players/staff
- Fixed and refreshed club histories for playable leagues - how did no one notice 2023-24 stats were missing?!
- Started adding notable European future transfers for 2025-26 season, will continue to update rest of the year for top leagues only.
Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
= Change notes to be updated
NHL Updates:
- Cap expanded to 95.5m upper/70.6m lower limits, the 2025-26 projected numbers to allow teams to be compliant without end of season LTIR (NHL, NHLPA announce team payroll ranges for next 3 seasons | NHL.com)
- Updated all players/staff involved in the Four Nations Faceoff
- Expanded goalie CA to 190 max, set min/max limits for Consistency based on scaled max PA
- Updated notable Euro/NCAA/CHL free agents who may get NHL contracts
- I've started adding more "favorite teams" to players, specifically home clubs for European players and junior/college teams (where the player captained or played multiple years) for others. Should add some more personality to the DB, this is being done for teams I've more recently re-rated in this release.
- Organization re-rates completed in this update:
-- CAL
-- CAR
-- COL
-- EDM
-- LAK
-- NJD
-- OTT
-- PHI
-- PIT
-- TBL
-- TOR
-- VAN
-- VGK
-- WAS
-- WPG
Chinese Updates:
- Updated new Chinese Ice Hockey League and added clubs and affiliation for Kunlun RS -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!
Swedish Updates:
- HockeyTvaan has finally been added as a playable league! Big thank you to the multiple people that helped but especially Vik3tbotselektor and Aahlstroem along with many others who spent months trying to figure out how to make it work! It's a massive 80 club 18 stage monster of a league structure! This needs extensive testing, due to the low reputation of the league it may be difficult to play long term but should be a fun starting point!
- Updated HockeyTvaan and Swedish HockeyTrean clubs
- Various detail updates in SHL/HockeyAllsvenskan -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Fixed SHL so winner is now properly promoted to Champions Hockey League -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- We no longer recommend disabling "Starting Financial Adjustments" to enable the game to determine and set initial starting team budgets. We hope this will make some playable leagues more sustainable and healthy financially instead of using the DBs set theoretical maximums which might be overkill. More testing and feedback needed from non-NHL EHM GMs!
- Set Natural Fitness to 0 for most players based on researcher consensus, this will enable more randomness with the length of careers for players, impact NHL prospects (161+ PA) should be able to overcome a low roll and be productive into their 30s. Natural Fitness has been manually set for 35+ year old players in top leagues.
- Many attributes have been set to 0 for all players under 161+ PA or potential PA roll based on researcher consensus and testing. Based on our research what the game was setting when set to 0 (let game decide) vs what we had a previous consensus of setting them to manually was not in alignment, we decided to let the game handle this going forward.
-- This includes mentals, as a result players have much more varied personalities
-- Existing NHL stars and notable players will be manually updated as appropriate
-- The intention here is for Current Ability to be the major driver of quality of players instead of static attributes, how I had been doing ratings did not produce enough unique players.
- Ensured starting Morale was set to 0 for all players/staff
- Fixed and refreshed club histories for playable leagues - how did no one notice 2023-24 stats were missing?!
- Started adding notable European future transfers for 2025-26 season, will continue to update rest of the year for top leagues only.
Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
= Change notes to be updated
NHL Updates:
- Cap expanded to 95.5m upper/70.6m lower limits, the 2025-26 projected numbers to allow teams to be compliant without end of season LTIR (NHL, NHLPA announce team payroll ranges for next 3 seasons | NHL.com)
- Updated all players/staff involved in the Four Nations Faceoff
- Expanded goalie CA to 190 max, set min/max limits for Consistency based on scaled max PA
- Updated notable Euro/NCAA/CHL free agents who may get NHL contracts
- I've started adding more "favorite teams" to players, specifically home clubs for European players and junior/college teams (where the player captained or played multiple years) for others. Should add some more personality to the DB, this is being done for teams I've more recently re-rated in this release.
- Organization re-rates completed in this update:
-- CAL
-- CAR
-- COL
-- EDM
-- LAK
-- NJD
-- OTT
-- PHI
-- PIT
-- TBL
-- TOR
-- VAN
-- VGK
-- WAS
-- WPG
Chinese Updates:
- Updated new Chinese Ice Hockey League and added clubs and affiliation for Kunlun RS -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!
Swedish Updates:
- HockeyTvaan has finally been added as a playable league! Big thank you to the multiple people that helped but especially Vik3tbotselektor and Aahlstroem along with many others who spent months trying to figure out how to make it work! It's a massive 80 club 18 stage monster of a league structure! This needs extensive testing, due to the low reputation of the league it may be difficult to play long term but should be a fun starting point!
- Updated HockeyTvaan and Swedish HockeyTrean clubs
- Various detail updates in SHL/HockeyAllsvenskan -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Fixed SHL so winner is now properly promoted to Champions Hockey League -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
Thanks as always, you magnificent human.
karlstegger
Registered User
As always thanks for your work, really appreciated.
abo9
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- Jun 25, 2017
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Started a new game recently, I figured the Nashville Predators would be a fun challenge.
This is the state of year 2 on Dec 13th.
Stamkos played 3 games, ROR injured after 15, and in the meantime Forsberg, Evangelista (who was my best scorer), Bunting, Skjei also joined the hospital!
After making the playoffs in year 1, I was hoping for a big of a soft landing into the rebuild, hopefully I survive the year
abo9
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- Jun 25, 2017
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What kind of feedback are you looking for?
Right now it's smooth sailing! I've tried supplementing my roster with cheap russian imports and it's failing miserably (not unlike real life haha). Year 3 and fighting for a playoff spot
LeafSadist
Registered User
Wish I could play this again. I've uninstalled, ran as administrator, ran chkdsk several times and found no bad sectors, installed on an external hard drive since my laptop is low on space and I still get the "unable to write data to disk" error.
Try unchecking both "Save Safely" and "Save Compressed" options in the Preferences and see if it helps.
LeafSadist
Registered User
EHM is extremely hardware sensitive, it is actually a great program to detect potential issues, very likely you have such an issue. You can reach out on Steam/Discord and I can try to troubleshoot but for a small section of folks either they are trying to play it on some really non-standard hardware or there is a likely hardware issue going on (motherboard/RAM/disk).
LeafSadist
Registered User
I will try that, just find it weird that a while ago I was able to play and then I get this error. It can't be a disk space error since my external hard drive is new.
EHM is very old and thus uses very old Windows API to "talk" to hardware, pending on how you are connecting that external drive I can see it not working (USB-C for instance). Similar logic behind EHM having a lot of issues in Virtual Machines.
LeafSadist
Registered User
Tried more solutions and still no dice. Made room on my laptop and still getting the disk space error. It used to work on my laptop so it's a little frustrating.
