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Kokemus Puuttuu (Lite) IN: @Kaapo13 @Fidelvv Sieltä taas putkahti kokemusta! Avauskokoonpano on nyt kasassa ja jyrsintä voi alkaa. Puuttuuko kokemus tällä kaudella?

SSK Esports - Elite We are very pleased to welcome the last piece to our team, welcome to the team@Wagge01!

Free RW/LW for upcoming tournaments

Free G for upcoming tournaments. Backup ok. Pirtsa-

vNexs - ECL PRO IN: @LukasGudinge (LD) With the final piece now in place, our roster is set for the upcoming ECL season. Goaltenders Benjamint737 SeboLHD Defensemen S-S-vamp Gudinge Forwards Artusjo Veronneau Dippen04 EDHOLMINHO ------------------------ Alongside our ECL PRO team, vNexs will also be represented by two squads in ECL Core: vNexs Faxes vNexs Wisemen Those rosters are also shaping up nicely with exciting new players joining the teams. See you on the ice - and may anyone running TRUC forever be cursed with sour milk at dinner, soft gifts at Christmas, and rain on every single vacation day in the summer of 2026

95% of this community won’t even read this. But 9 out of 10 teams we faced tonight had players running Truc – even in PRO and below. Let’s be clear: that ability is garbage. It ruins every single game from the moment the puck drops. It doesn’t matter if it’s Friday, Thursday, or a random night in the middle of the week – stop ruining the gameplay for everyone else. Spread this within your teams. A gentleman’s agreement, so to speak.

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Free RW (maybe C) Prefer finnish teams but can also speak english Contact me here or Discord

RAMPA BAY (entinen viitapohjan viikingit) Etsinnässä RW tulevaan Core kauteen Pelaillaan su-to klo: 20-23 noin 3 krt viikossa ilmianna itses jos kiinnostaa mestari kaliiberin porukkaan hyppääminen! DC: rehtisose_

Free G for next ECL. (Can't play playoffs)

Free G for next ECL contact me on Discord: Horys20

🟪 🟪 🟪 NOVA 🟪 🟪 🟪 OUT: @XxKapUstaxX to Pivtochka probably @Motzzyy to some elite team maybe @toikka to NOSTREET i suppose @vlxddyy only god knows where 😃 Thanks for the time and effort. Was fkn nice to experience that Elite vibes. Not everything went as it supposed to but it was a fun season anyway. We will see how it goes now.

Free LW for next ecl Contact here or discord : AdriF_23

Free Ld upcoming tournaments contact here or psn: Rightinkarlsson

Supernatural (ex setelikerho) Is looking to build a new team for ecl lite Mainly looking for F/D. Contact me here or by psn.

Free rw for next ecl also might consider c or rd contact me on discord winci23

I don't play slow because of the perks. I play slow because of my brain. And I don't use the right stick because NHL didn't have it when I wasn't old.

Polski Boys IN: @Pikkarii from Exen @wengerii from Exen @Skumboo from Vnexs Out: @vote_10 --> FA @xSaski_ --> Reiviluola HC @Mestari tikku Reiviluola HC

Honestly, it’s quite simple if the upcoming season is meant to be played primarily on player and team skill. The logical approach would be to only allow Elite Edges, regardless of tier, and perhaps Endurance. A lot of people here are reacting to X-Factors that provide speed boosts, and I agree with Jani on this: the META is something we inevitably force into existence. If forwards use abilities like Wheels, then defensemen are essentially forced to counter with the same, which ultimately leads to everyone running identical builds when ECL begins. This can be avoided by simply removing Wheels and any other X-Factors that create unnatural speed boosts, because there will always be ways to exploit them, as shown in the clips shared earlier. Elite Edges, on the other hand, provides a natural improvement to movement. Allowing the most mechanically skilled players to use it doesn’t give them free offense, it simply rewards skill in terms of what each player can execute. That’s fair, because it’s available to everyone. Different players have different ceilings, and that’s how it should be. In the end, championships are won by the best team play (Last Dance), not by one individual dominating like in the lower divisions. The criticism of Truculence is also completely valid. It’s broken in this game and frustrating to face, whether you’re a forward or a defenseman. Even body checking in general feels overtuned, no matter the attribute. But that has always been the case since NHL 09: with speed and timing, hits land. At the same time, there’s this strange culture where everyone insists on using 72.5 kg builds while expecting to be physically unbreakable. That contradiction is part of the problem. Players choose to sacrifice weight for speed, yet still expect to be rock-solid in physical battles. What strikes me most is that very few forwards in this discussion even consider banning anything other than speed boosts or physical dominance. What about Quick Release or other shooting-boosting abilities? Do we really need them? Season after season, we’ve shown that scoring rates don’t actually drop when we remove those perks. I analyzed last season to see which teams lost offensive production after losing their gold abilities in NHL 25. Only one Elite team saw a noticeable decline, and it was significant. Every other team performed better, likely because they played a different type of hockey that leaned more on team play. If the goal is to create hockey that resembles the real game and rewards teamwork, then the best model is what we had in NHL 21 and 22: let the meta be Elite Edges, not a collection of boosts to speed or shooting. I understand this will cause a reaction. Scoring goals is fun, and some players probably feel they’ve become better scorers in this version of the game thanks to Quick Release. But if forwards are allowed such handicaps in front of the net, then perhaps we should allow Truculence for defensemen—and for defensemen only. The defensive side of the game is being overlooked too. Poke checks are weak, and NHL 26 enables extremely fast passing tempos. Yet we accept that forwards can run abilities that literally reduce a goalie’s save percentage. Shouldn’t that be just as important to discuss? Too often, these debates focus only on offense, when they should be about the whole game. In a tournament played for money, at the highest level of eHockey, we should aim for as few handicaps as possible. Games should be decided by team play and individual skill, not by artificial advantages baked into the game. I genuinely don’t understand why a top player would need a shooting boost in the first place. Using Quick Release is the equivalent of running an aimbot in CS, and Truculence is like wearing reactive body armor. We should strip it back and run tournaments where the only X-Factors allowed are Elite Edges for natural movement and Endurance to maintain tempo. Everything else should be removed. That would allow players to once again use any length or weight they want without being locked into a narrow meta. It would force people to think deeply about their builds, and success would come down to skill and hockey IQ, exactly as it should.

VESUVIUS (Elite) : Looking for starting RD or RW + G for the season! We are interested by Elite / Top Pro contact @Edgard_gcn or @Patzlaf

@JanEerikBanan THE BEST ❤️

Alfombras (former Vapor) Out: Easychasniper2 jm98II Dzouvi_ Pensasmies I-Nisse-I Gresu__ Thank you guys and good luck for the future! 🙏🏻 In: @MuKiMaisteri from break @Tanski87 from Setelikerho @Sagee95 from ONSE Esports @Janikka from Including Me Warm welcome guys! 💪🏻🔥 Nice to have old gang back together! 🙏🏻🔥

GOONS IN: @tkantola @Ikavalko @xrikardo55 @Sakkem @Pensasmies @Xkeineri @Tuhmakalastaja91 OUT: @Lekxsa_70 @MrNipsuli @TheSpeedo Thanks of the season(s) and good luck for the future!! Welcome our new guys🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yes yes, lets ban all the perks so janikka can play his slow playbook hockey without right analog 👍👍👍👍