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For the upcoming Pro season, we are searching for one player, RW to be specific. Our team consist of both swedish and finnish players, so we communicate in English. Aiming for playoff spots so please be realistic while considering the opportunity. About tryouts, we'll get the machinery going by end of summer but could potentially arrange something next week, so a dialog could start already. Doesn't matter if it's NHL 23/24 - chemistry shows either way. Contact: @AG_Jarl @Burtsi980H @ItzPoro @MaciPapi on any platform. p.s From all of us in Hawaii to where ever you all community members are, at the mökki, on the train, at the beach or just working your ass of as usual, wish you a nice summer shitheads 💩😎🌴

Free Rw/Lw for upcoming tournaments lite/pro https://sportsgamer.gg/players/8264#nhl Contact me here or Dc: Juhaniz-#4048

Free LW, RW, (C) looking for a team Contact dc: JesseL2002 #4891 or psn.

Gunners HC (pro) Looking for LW for upcoming season. Previous experience from pro or higher is a huge plus. Contact me, @Lotiseva or @Jobeyz here or psn.

free G/F looking for a team contact me: psn torvelajr__

Exerceo (PRO) Looking for finnish speaking C and RW to our starting lineup for ECL and other upcoming tournaments. What we expect: -experience from top lite/pro at least - you are able to play 4-5 times a week (between Sun-Thu, starting from 20 fin) - you are able to communicate in games and use your mic - you have competitive mindset and you want to practise a lot and improve your own and your team game What we offer: - 100% club and tournament games - competitive atmosphere where everyone wanna grind hard and develop as a team - great group of guys with good sense of humor Contact me here or discord Saviinainen #2716

Free G/D lite/Pro Contact me here or Discord

Free goalie for every upcoming tournaments

…sooooo I did some stats! At first I was just interested who was right on what’s gonna happen if some X-Factors are to be banned – the comment section was on fire before ECL Spring Probably the easiest way to check it was to compare the ECL 23 Winter & Spring stats in the Elite Division. I chose to analyze these equal sample sizes by average aggregates from both leagues: Regular season games only Forwards: TOP50 skaters in Points total (manually deleted defenders from that list) Defensemen: TOP30 in Games played Goalies: >14 games played Let’s go through the banned abilities one by one and see what the numbers look like. All Data © SportsGamer “If you ban Close Quarters, you need to ban goalie abilities too” If the goalie abilities remain the same, less shots go in when CQ is removed? Well… kinda, yeah! Forwards certainly had less point production and a lower shot percentage while goalies had better stats across the board after the ability bans. Especially breakaways SV% increased significantly, though goalies face far less than one breakaway per game on average. But does it mean that the goalie abilities are too OP? A 0,7 %-unit increase in SV% might not be it. Some goalies made the argument that “banning CQ removes the shit goals” and that seems to be the case by the numbers. Some personal observations: at the time of the ban polls and heated conversation, nobody was using the Shnipe or Make It Snappy traits and probably didn’t realize that those would, to some degree, balance out the end result. Goalies have used the same builds all the time. “Banning truculence makes the game more enjoyable” This one is a tough one to solve in numbers - how do you measure enjoyability? Some said that you lose the puck constantly on small bumps and the energy loss is devastating. So, let’s look at it this way: did defensemen have less hits and takeaways? Did the forwards have less giveaways and more time with the puck? LOL the decrease in hits for defenders! Man I wish there was a record for pokes… Or if someone actually knows what the “interceptions” stat for skaters is, please let me know if it also counts for pokes and not just intercepted passes. Defenders’ takeaways remained the same, only a 0.05 increase per game and could be the result of the meta change, I don’t really know. Also, the TwP/G is up by 13 in-game seconds – more control breakouts? Less forecheck? Let’s keep in mind that not only defenders were using Truculence, quite a few forwards had it equipped as well. Forwards had the puck for 5 in-game seconds more and gave away the puck slightly less per game. Those average aggregates aren’t much but proving a point: the game is more enjoyable for forwards after the ban. “Big Tipper” No-one was against banning the Big Tipper ability. After all, deflections aren’t done manually and banning the even more superior deflection abilities seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, there isn’t a stat for deflection goals, only the deflections per player. A deflection usually comes from a defender’s shot attempt resulting in an assist for the defender – is there a decrease in assists for defensemen? Let’s take a look…. Interesting to say the least! Defenders shot the puck far less per game but their shooting % went up by 2 % and scored nearly equal amount of goals per game - did the meta change to defenders joining the rush more? Or did they shoot from the blue line as usual but more of the shots weren’t tipped and went in straight? I prefer the latter. This one I find even more interesting: the amount of deflections per game for centers across different leagues. Even without Big Tipper, centers were making far more deflections in Spring vs Winter; tips are very good even without the extra ability and Elite teams know it. The meta change is even more evident when you look at the historical change from NHL22 to NHL23. League-wide stats Δ% means the % difference from the row above When comparing NHL22 to NHL23, I think you can see the “more fun” aspect here. The penalty minutes were down by a massive margin, causing more up-and-down even strength hockey to be played. Shot attempt totals show how the deflections had a huge buff and the gameplay changes buffed offense. The huge increase in hits shows how dominant Truculence before it was banned, resulting in total hits being lower in 23 Spring than 22 Spring. Conclusion of the ability bans Banning the Close Quarters ability had the biggest direct impact of all the bans. It buffed goalie stats and nerfed forwards’ shooting percentage, but it was also the easiest to calculate without a huge margin for error. The previous meta was replaced by a slightly more balanced meta, one could argue. Without Truculence defenders had far less hits, which however didn’t result in any less takeaways. Forwards had the puck for longer and didn’t give away the puck as often. The ban definitely took away the "crazy hits and bumps that make you lose the puck" but hitting is still a big part of hockey. Deflections are somewhat OP even without Big Tipper ability and the stats confirm it. Bonus stats for shits and giggles: “NA vs EU” 🔥 These stats won’t tell you who is better, NA or EU, but they are here to showcase the different playstyles of NA and EU. In NACL 23 Winter the skill difference between teams was quite massive, which means that the top teams in NA scored far more against the bottom teams than in ECL Elite. I think it would be better to merge ECL Elite & Pro (maybe even Lite and Core) team stats together to represent EU as a whole and then do the comparison - maybe even decide who’s better - but I didn’t have the time to do it. Maybe next time!

That’s some great work out there man, appreciate the approach! Love it 🔥

Rapitzin =🐐

Free RW/C for upcoming tournaments https://sportsgamer.gg/players/7105 Contact me on Discord: bot_hene

🦇 Gotham Knights 🦇 We are looking for starting RD!🔥 We have PRO quali spot so that's where we are aiming! Experience atleast from PRO would be good Things we demand: Mature behavior, no toxicity,good team spirit, humble attitude, ready to grind, sense of humour, good hockey iq 🦇 It's summer now so can't promise any tryouts for now, we are not active yet 🦇 But maybe in this version later if everyone wants 🤷 Contact me here or psn: ReDMisTi for more info! 🦇🦇🦇

DJURGÅRDEN HOCKEY (Pro) Looking for a starting LW. Contact me or strumpan here, on psn or on discord @svetidaje#3679 💛❤️💙

Fiilis Hockey (lite qualifiers) Looking for: D (rotation) G (back up) We have Fiilis on the ice and Fiilis in the chat! Lots of experience in the roster and our goal is to be competitive in lite! We are all fins so at least for the Dman we are looking people who speak finnish. If interested don't hesitate to contact us here or PSN krapulantti!

HC Lugano eSports We are the Official eSports Team of the Swiss National League Club "HC Lugano" Official HC Lugano Official HC Lugano eSports For the upcoming ECL (Lite Qualifier) and upcoming Tournaments we are looking for the following positions - LD - RD To bring our team to the next level, we are looking for solid experienced players that are interested to play with us on high competitive level and Family based Team Chemistry It's not a problem if you are not living in Europe we play a lot on North Servers too! If you want to know more about our Team or Interested to Tryout, drop me a 📩 here on sportsgameror Discord: SwissGoon#1210 or SwissMoger#8384

Lutunilkat etsii maalivahtia tuleviin koitoksiin! Ainut kriteerimme on, että olet täysi-ikäinen, hyvä tyyppi ja sinua ei haittaa olla osana Lutunilkkojen Twitch-lähetystä. Tarjoamme sinulle erittäin hyvää peliseuraa NHL:n lisäksi muissa peleissä, sekä saat pelata kaikki ottelut ECL-kaukaloissa. Yhteydenotot yksityisviestillä täällä tai PSN lutuniemi edit: LD/RD vois olla myös hakusessa!

Hey, Black Sharks looking Fire new Players to complete our squad for the upcoming ECL. 1 C/W 1 LV/RV 1 G What we want: - Experience ECL GCL min. Core - reliability - team player - ambition - Communication on and off the ice What we offer: - ECL GCL participation - communication via WhatsApp & Discord - regular training sessions 3-5x week - fun playing and a good atmosphere within the team, so no room for quarrels ! - a healthy will to win - international german/slovakia/czech Feel free to contact me or for a tryout if you are interested 🙂

TUPSUKORVAT Looking for players (G) and backup players we are going Lite. Contact here @Paueri@Jorkee91 @Janucek Or discord: LucePro#5402

🟡 Nameless ⚫ is searching for players! (Core) We are searching for a backup or 50/50 goalie, left and right D and a right wing Contact here @riegel29, @MarciMerc_TTV, @Palawatsch or discord (xRiegel68 #6071)

NOVA (PRO QUAL) Looking for backup G.

Dark Wild (lite qual) Looking for backup (F/D). We cannot guarantee Ecl games but you will get normal club games. Contact me here or psn: Juhaniz-