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Uh just drink beer and play? Thats what everybody i know does.

Joukki would be just "okay" if he wouldnt suck Odens Extreme White Cold Dry -snus. In my case I didnt even remember the controllers . In NHL 14 only thing what I knew well how to do was throwing the puck over the board and getting the goalie out of the net and back. But for some reason game always started to loop like cd u know. And every game ended that way. Maybe It wasnt good idea to buy that game from my neighbor. But he is always selling me something for example his knife especially if I touch his Mercedez. He says that it would look good in my stomach. But I dont want to eat his knife. Im not stupid. Buuut back to the business. Now when I suck Odens I remember those controllers easily. I dont even have to look at the controller anymore when I play. And I could say that Im at level "nobody". And there comes also other goods with it... WOMEN! I get THAT a lot! (bi***slap). Because I have courage to talk to ladies. So my advice is that play versus and sometimes go to practice room.

EAT. SLEEP. PLAY. REPEAT. Playing thousands of games, in a nutshell. EASHL, Versus, HUT and Be a GM. There's literally no elite player who plays once a week, especially nowadays as there's +50-60 teams trying to win the ultimate prize of hockey, ECL championship. For me example, I've really had my hardest games ever on NHL16 thanks to Finnish Defence Forces. Fucking shit took 9 months away from my hockey career and I've been really rusty. I've never been this shit and it pisses me off every time when I play against players like @Joonas Paatiala(Patz), @debi_85, @Joukki or @Dominointi. Oh my God, even @Basstian23 is sneaky for me these days... Before back then, on NHL14, only forward I had problems to D against (even tho it was fun as hell) was @Foppatofflan, who's btw still greatest forward Europe has seen by far. But there's one cure which helps for this issue: playing daily. Before, lets say like on NHL14, I played +2500 EASHL/drop-in games combined, 50-100 versus games + HUT so yeah, more than 100 versus-games and that's nothing compared to guys like @plee999 or @Dominointi(seppo). And those guys dominate the leaderboards. So after EASHL and Vs., there's like lets say 2750 games played. Then there's Be a GM what I like to play, a lot. I'm not lying when I say that during NHL14, I played more than 10 different careers, atleast 2-3 seasons per career. Of course I simulated lots of games but also I played much. Even though it was just offline, you always learn when you play. So lets put it this way; who'll know more about the game, player A who plays only EASHL or player B, who plays hundreds or in some situations even thousands of games more than player A. And now on NHL16 I've played under 1000 6vs6-games, no more than 100 offline-games and couple 1vs1-games and you can clearly see it on the ice. That's it. Of course there's this thing called "hockey IQ" which you cant study. Either you have it, or you dont. That's why there's mainly the same teams or guys dominating the EASHL-leaderboards or 1vs1-boards. Hope so this helps to realize the importance of playing the game, a lot.

Hello, I have followed this community for a long time and now i would like to know thing or two from veteran eashl players. Well ive watched several ecl games on twitch, youtube etc. and theres always a question in my head, how they became that good? Well for example players like Joukki, Vsilenttio, Patzlav, pleemaker, sadapoika etc. seem to have no ps4 controller between their brain and game. They seem to do whatever they want on virtual ice and i want to know how to become a player who can dominate the whole ice.First of all, I play myself in a small eashl team filled with workmates. We are not playing for winning, just enjoying the game but its not fun when you keep losing all the games and cant do anyhting about it. My biggest issue is protecting the puck and playing smart on offensive zone. For example, look at this offense. All those little fast moves and shit. So any tips for playing like that? Is it all about reactionskill to avoid pokechecks and how you basicly keep the puck on your blade? Elite players seem not to use l1 dekes much or do they? Are they useless? I think my biggest issue is to keep my speed up. When im trying to do something on right stick my speed usually drops and then opponent makes sticklift or check and i lose the puck. So i need something to help me getting the puck on offensive zone and keeping it there. My motivation is high, I would love to practice this gamemode but i cant find a smart way to do it. Offline and online versus are so much different, Drop in games are made by devil and my teammates are tired of seeing me trying to do those little moves like joukki or some LW did there. So, I would love to hear any tips about eashl from u guys. Anything. How u guys became that good? how did u practice? Any useful info playing smart and protecting puck? How to score against human goalie? Also i would like to see in the future that elite players would join on low skilled teams aswell. Seems like all elite players are cycling to team to other with all same players. It would be good challenge to trying to get random teams on top. One major problem about my playing is that theres noone who could teach all this shit. Rock on!

Hey, back when I started in 2010 I had the exact same questions. It's really just lots and lots of practice though - there's no magic switch you can flip to suddenly have full control over the game In my opinion, the most important thing is to not only focus on EASHL but also play Versus once in a while. It's the best way to get a feel for how the game works.

The good: - Quality of connection is much better than NHL16 for me. Here's to hoping it will translate to the full game. The live ping thing is a welcome addition too. - Skating feels better. - Pokechecks being stronger is a good thing too. - The unlockable shit in EASHL is a nice feature. - The new player builds are not useless - The new layout looks nicer I guess... - Passes seem harder to make, which is also good. The bad: - The bug where games don't start. - Sometimes when you shoot from behind the goal line the human G will do sort of a 360° spin and backhand slap the puck into his own net. That's a little stupid. Overall I like the beta.