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DancingPanther said:
Wait that's so good. Did you edit your players to be backyard kids? Proud plats btw
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I created all but 4 of the Backyard kids as players in the game, stuck them all on a created team, then replaced the Flyers with them in franchise mode. Dispersed the Flyers throughout the rest of the league. Bedard is on the team because they were garbage the first year (made them all 18-20 year old, 70s-low 80s to start except Pablo who started as an 85), I lost the lottery, then cheesed my way into a trade for first overall.

I'm 100% throwing all the cash in the world at McDavid if he ever makes it to free agency (have the salary cap off because there's no way in hell I'd be able to keep the team together otherwise, lol).

Figure it'd be a nice way to make an incredibly stale and shitty game at least a little fun. It's year three and they're finally hitting their stride
 
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Strawberry Fields said:
I created all but 4 of the Backyard kids as players in the game, stuck them all on a created team, then replaced the Flyers with them in franchise mode. Dispersed the Flyers throughout the rest of the league. Bedard is on the team because they were garbage the first year (made them all 18-20 year old, 70s-low 80s to start except Pablo who started as an 85), I lost the lottery, then cheesed my way into a trade for first overall.

I'm 100% throwing all the cash in the world at McDavid if he ever makes it to free agency (have the salary cap off because there's no way in hell I'd be able to keep the team together otherwise, lol).

Figure it'd be a nice way to make an incredibly stale and shitty game at least a little fun. It's year three and they're finally hitting their stride
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Have they changed anything at all in franchise?
 
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I can't stand Horse-Toothed Joe Pavelski, but those two tip-ins were f***ing amazing. And then they lost to the ultimate loser. Idiots.

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We start the day with @Rebels57 on the clock, @BiggE on deck, @Striiker on the lido deck, and MacGruber on the lido afterdeck.

Member how I said I was watching that K-Drama "Our Beloved Summer"? Man, that f***ing thing ate me alive. Every single episode brought the waterworks, for a lot of reasons. For one, the male protagonist (Choi Woo-shik) is a three-dimensional, REAL character - he is normal, sympathetic, charismatic. So completely the opposite of that guy I hated in the other one. Another reason is that the situations were so f***ing emotionally manipulative. The girl's family - which includes the girl and her grandmother - only have each other, and they get hit with crippling debt, and the grandmother's health crises, and other horrible things. You just feel so sorry for them. But above and beyond is the girl herself, played by Kim Da-mi. She's the kind of actress that you just want to protect. The role barely matters (though here it is a great one) - she just draws you in and makes you care so much, and not just in a pervy way. She's on her way to being an exceptional actress, at least for shows like this. Don't forget that she plays the title role in "The Witch, Part One: The Subversion" (2018), which everyone should watch, because it kicks ass.
 
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DancingPanther said:
Have they changed anything at all in franchise?
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Depends on how recently you played the game. They added custom league options where you can set the number of teams (6-48 team league), number of games, points system, playoff format, etc. but I haven't done anything different yet. They tweaked scouting a few years ago and added coaches to the game, but all of them are computer generated and fake so it doesn't add much. Retired players can become coaches and scouts now. Thornton retired and became a coach after year one and I was tempted to grab him because he was in both Backyard Hockey games (I think he was even on the cover of the second one) but he had pretty shitty coaching overalls so I passed.

If you haven't grabbed the game in years you're honestly not missing much. I only buy it every three years or so anymore, unlike when I was younger and bought it every year (NHL 06 was my first console game. I legit played it regularly for a solid decade). This year's soundtrack is better than it's been in years though, imo. I wish custom music was an option like it was on the PS3/360 gen games)- it'd have been fun to add all the kids' theme music as their goal songs.
 
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Strawberry Fields said:
Depends on how recently you played the game. They added custom league options where you can set the number of teams (6-48 team league), number of games, points system, playoff format, etc. but I haven't done anything different yet. They tweaked scouting a few years ago and added coaches to the game, but all of them are computer generated and fake so it doesn't add much. Retired players can become coaches and scouts now. Thornton retired and became a coach after year one and I was tempted to grab him because he was in both Backyard Hockey games (I think he was even on the cover of the second one) but he had pretty shitty coaching overalls so I passed.

If you haven't grabbed the game in years you're honestly not missing much. I only buy it every three years or so anymore, unlike when I was younger and bought it every year (NHL 06 was my first console game. I legit played it regularly for a solid decade). This year's soundtrack is better than it's been in years though, imo. I wish custom music was an option like it was on the PS3/360 gen games)- it'd have been fun to add all the kids' theme music as their goal songs.
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Yeah I usually play every iteration either by game share or buying it every few years, so sounds like it hasn't changed at all. Typical EA
 
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Get a load of this smarmy piece of crap
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Our next spite forward: MARTIN HAVLAT

Ken Hitchcock once said, “we’re gonna make him eat his lunch”. Seemed like not much of a threat to me unless his lunch is a turd sandwich. Here in the Quackverse we’re gonna watch him try to play hockey with 2 shattered kneecaps but he can still feel free to eat all the turd sandwiches he craves.

@Striiker , what are you pairing with your choccy milk for lunch today?
 
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The Honolulu Ghibli give star billing to our Team Classic Actor......William Holden

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We're talking: Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch. No one knew how to use him quite like writer/director Billy Wilder, and his last great role was in Paddy Chayefsky's masterpiece Network (albeit after our 1968 line in the sand).....and I just so happen to have both of those men in the organization. Chemistry is vital, eh?

William Holden was one of the most naturally magnetic screen presences of any era. Not surprisingly, he was a popular fella behind the scenes too. I think of him as one of the links between Old and New Hollywood. He felt like a silver screen legend without the artifice; he felt naturalistic without an inflated sense of his craft. He never had to overact to command the screen; in fact, his most underrated talent was not hogging a scene with screen legends and character actors alike. But he'd command your attention because he was just that damned good.

Holden had a quick, rakish way about him that played well in lighter moments (he wasn't nicknamed "Golden Boy" for nothing). But there was always a simmering -- sometimes boiling -- sense of cynicism and self-loathing to his best performances that played against his looks. It's a shame he died tragically at 63; like a later stage Paul Newman (who, a decade apart, performed on a similar wavelength), he still had some good roles left in him. His performance in Network is a revelation that few, if any, of his peers could've pulled off. It's immeasurably far beyond a classic Hollywood persona.



 
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Magua said:
The Honolulu Ghibli give star billing to our Team Classic Actor......William Holden

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We're talking: Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch. No one knew how to use him quite like writer/director Billy Wilder, and his last great role was in Paddy Chayefsky's masterpiece Network (albeit after our 1968 line in the sand).....and I just so happen to have both of those men in the organization. Chemistry is vital, eh?

William Holden was one of the most naturally magnetic screen presences of any era. Not surprisingly, he was a popular fella behind the scenes too. I think of him as one of the links between Old and New Hollywood. He felt like a silver screen legend without the artifice; he felt naturalistic without an inflated sense of his craft. He never had to overact to command the screen; in fact, his most underrated talent was not hogging a scene with screen legends and character actors alike. But he'd command your attention because he was just that damned good.

Holden had a quick, rakish way about him that played well in lighter moments (he wasn't nicknamed "Golden Boy" for nothing). But there was always a simmering -- sometimes boiling -- sense of cynicism and self-loathing to his best performances that played against his looks. It's a shame he died tragically at 63; like a later stage Paul Newman (who, a decade apart, performed on a similar wavelength), he still had some good roles left in him. His performance in Network is a revelation that few, if any, of his peers could've pulled off. It's immeasurably far beyond a classic Hollywood persona.



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It's Stalag and Wild Bunch for me
 
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Watched [RANCH] for the first time last night. Man, was [REDACTED] cute. I don't think I'd ever seen her in a movie before.

Going to stretch the boundaries of the category here, but I can't not try to sneak this pick in somehow, and they're not from North America. Used to go watch this team's home games when I lived abroad. The atmosphere was just nonstop fun, even if we had to stand the whole time because the arena only had seats on one side. Just grab yourself a fried [LIVERWURST] sandwich, a local beer, and have fun.

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You might recognize my old avatar.
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Team International Hockey Team: Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs

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