Your national team's roles

[PatrikBerglund]

Form your best current national team and assign every player the role you'd say he plays/has, using the roles from EA Sports NHL series.

Some are really hard, since they are a mix of several roles, but try to choose just one.

Nylander (PLY) - Backstrom (TWF) - Lindholm (TWF)

Forsberg (TWF) - Pettersson (PLY) - Arvidsson (GRI)

Landeskog (PFW) - Zibanejad (TWF) - Olofsson (SNP)

Eriksson-Ek (TWF) - Karlsson (TWF) - Hornqvist (GRI)


Hedman (TWD) - Karlsson (PMD)

Dahlin (PMD) -Ekholm (TWD)

Lindholm (TWD) Klingberg (OFD)

Markstrom
Lehner


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[DeysArena]

Can you provide an acronym rundown for those of us who don't play EA NHL?

 

[FiLe]

Can you provide an acronym rundown for those of us who don't play EA NHL?

I don't play NHL either, but I'm going to guess:

PLY: Playmaker
TWF: Two-way forward
GRI: Grinder
PWF: Power forward
SNP: Sniper

TWD: Two-way defenseman
PMD: Puck-moving defenseman
OFD: Offensive defenseman? (If so, I wonder how he differentiates from a PMD and if there's a DFD as well.)

 

[theslatcher]

Ottosson? Do you mean Olofsson?

 

[PatrikBerglund]

Ottosson? Do you mean Olofsson?

Yes, ofc. I had a brain freeze. Sry.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Ottosson? Do you mean Olofsson?

Kristofer Ottosson.

 

[Elvs]

I don't play NHL either, but I'm going to guess:

PLY: Playmaker
TWF: Two-way forward
GRI: Grinder
PWF: Power forward
SNP: Sniper

TWD: Two-way defenseman
PMD: Puck-moving defenseman
OFD: Offensive defenseman? (If so, I wonder how he differentiates from a PMD and if there's a DFD as well.)

There is no PMD in the NHL games, so I'm guessing the OP simply got his abbreviations mixed up.

DFD exists, as does ENF (enforcer).

Anyway, by EA's default rosters, there's barely any enforcer, or even grinders, in the game. The only players who are labeled grinders are gritty players who aren't even productive in the AHL, such as Zac Rinaldo or Nic Deslauriers.

I personally disagree with OP's label of Backstrom as a TWF. He is great defensively, sure, but game style wise, he's a PLY first and foremost. Hornqvist I'd lable a PWF, as I imagine it makes him crash the net more in the game.

I wish they would add DNG (dangler) again. It's argubly a bogus player type, but I feel it fits a few players, such as Rickard Rakell who doesn't really fit any of the other categories (or is a mix between several of them). Filip Forsberg could also be considered a DNG. I know he's great defensively, but I'm strictly talking about styles.

 

[Elvs]

Tatar (SNP) - Hudacek (PLY) - Panik (SNP)
Cehlarik (PLY) - Hrivik (TWF) - Lantosi (SNP)
Jurco (SNP) - Ruzicka (PLY) - M. Pospisil (PWF)
K. Pospisil (TWF) - Skalicky (TWF) - Studenic (GRN)

Fehervary (TWD) - Cernak (DFD)
Chara (DFD) - Sekera (TWD)
Marincin (DFD) - Jaros (TWD)

 

[PatrikBerglund]

There is no PMD in the NHL games, so I'm guessing the OP simply got his abbreviations mixed up.

DFD exists, as does ENF (enforcer).

Anyway, by EA's default rosters, there's barely any enforcer, or even grinders, in the game. The only players who are labeled grinders are gritty players who aren't even productive in the AHL, such as Zac Rinaldo or Nic Deslauriers.

I personally disagree with OP's label of Backstrom as a TWF. He is great defensively, sure, but game style wise, he's a PLY first and foremost. Hornqvist I'd lable a PWF, as I imagine it makes him crash the net more in the game.

I wish they would add DNG (dangler) again. It's argubly a bogus player type, but I feel it fits a few players, such as Rickard Rakell who doesn't really fit any of the other categories (or is a mix between several of them). Filip Forsberg could also be considered a DNG. I know he's great defensively, but I'm strictly talking about styles.

PMD is in EASHL. Puck moving defenceman is different from offensive defencemen in terms of areas of skill.

Dangler is also in EASHL.

EA:s definitions of players are often pretty off base. It's like the devs don't even watch hockey themselves.