What will be your first Franchise in NHL21 ?
Mine will be Arizona,
- they have a really old team (Especially on D)
- I'll make sure I don't have a 1st and 3rd (since they have to forfeit it).
- Kessel, one of the G, OEL and Stepan can be important piece traded for futur (Picks/Prospects)
- Hayton, Keller, Soderstrom are a young core you can build around, with Dvorak, Schmaltz, Crouse and Garland being a good supporting cast for the first couple of years.
Unfortunately there is so much to be done before I can even do a serious one.
- The overall bug. In the main menu, when you go through rosters, the overalls listed are sometimes as much as 3-4 overalls off what the players actual overall is when you go in to edit them. It’s super bizarre
- Auto-Scouting needs to be fixed. Not sure what the hell happened with it.
- This isn’t really their fault, but we need the free agency and draft update. I am going to assume that could come out Friday with the “full release” of the game.
- Secondary position fixes. A lot of primary wingers are listed as primary centres. Even worse than previous versions. Any winger who has any sort of Center experience got listed as a primary Center
- Potential fixes. Admittedly, from what I’ve seen, the potentials don’t seem too bad. There’s a few prospects that need to be reduced. I find EA is slow at reducing a players overall more than anything.
- Player Ratings. Other than the issue mentioned above it’s...... a lot. I think it’s the worse state ever in terms of overalls. The goalies are all over the place. Mainly the backup range goalies (though a guy like Holtby is a couple overalls high). The d-man are awful. Brett Pesce is again a 83 and Slavin is like a 86, and Hamilton a 85, when I have Pesce at a 86 and Hamilton/Slavin at a 89ish. Awful defensively forwards have high ass defensive awareness stats just to boost their overall.
I dream of an NHL game with no overall stat. Just individual stats and performance stats to make decisions on.
I am hoping a lot of the bugs and the draft update are fixed in a update on Friday and then I can start my roster overhaul. The REALLY need to allow us to move draft picks within the player movement area in the main menu. Also need the “merge rosters” control to be a bit deeper. All it does is move created players to the new roster update. Let me choose, to only for created players to merge, but also attributes to merge as well.
Or, if there are players added to the game in the January roster update for whatever reason, let me merge them into my custom roster file, so I can delete my created versions of them.
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When I do start, I think I am leaning one of a couple options;
1. Winnipeg: This once promising team has sort of stalled in progress. Laine seems like a certainty to move, if not this off-season, than next. So that would be a cool situation to control where Laine is traded.
2. Anaheim: I think managing to get Jamie Drysdale should launch Anaheim into spending the next 2-3 years to get a true young core to build with. Guys like Silfverberg, Fowler, & Manson need to be moved. Probably need to just part ways with Getzlaf when his deal is up. Really start gearing up towards the next core with Steel, Comtois, Lundestrom, Drysdale with guys like Gibson and Lindholm being the new veterans and leaders of the team.
3. Carolina: Just a fun team. A quick (hopefully) to get this team a cup.
Thinking about it, definitely leaning Anaheim.
