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F0CUS IN: @rakkauspakkaus- @Gresu__ @Anhel_Kuru @tuskanparahdusta @MCH_98 @jm98II @Koppipelaaja (backup)

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VESUVIUS (Elite) sign: @Nieppii welcome boy 😎 out: @Eken45jr thanks for all brother good luck for the future ❤️

UNWANTED IN: @karlssonadam_ @localhefe @xLeikku @letsgoat @XD_Jacke Welcome to the team! ⚫⚪ !

Mythix In: @Mozjayh Welcome to the team!🩵

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

🟪 🟪 🟪 NOVA 🟪 🟪 🟪 OUT: @Wagge01 to SSK Esports Just wanted to congratulate Markus for his effort in our team and the fact that he got his spot is just another prove that he deserves it. We got him on the final day of transfer window last season and he proved to be a great overall signing. Also was our best guy in relegation games. And a nice person too. SSK is lucky to have him. Best of luck man!

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

VESUVIUS sign: @Wpaanane welcome legend 🌋

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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.

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

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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

Vizio (Pro) looking for starter rw! Dm here or psn/discord Artuzio

Truculence and Wheels are pond hockey xfactors and should not have place in competitive games. Rest are negotiable. maybe make a poll or survey to get the bigger picture. Then it is up to EA to tune up pokechecking/stick defending before there is only masochist left to play as defenders.

Free C Rd Rw (G). Backup is also an option.

Free f looking for only back-up spots. Level doesnt matter. Contact here or psn: Aaronss__

Free RD/LD for next ECL pro/lite (Back-up fine too) https://sportsgamer.gg/players/120 Contact DC/PS - Ritchey_LV_

Alfombras Out: @I-Bysse-I In: @jubex0r Thanks for your time Bysse and good luck to the future! 🙏🏻❤️ Warm welcome Jube! 😎🔥

Free LW/LD. Lite/core/neo Contact me here or psn X_KABA_X

VESUVIUS ACADEMY (Pro-Qualifer) Looking for: starter G (pro expérience) C or RW (top pro expérience). contact me on discord: Edgard_Gcn or here.

🟪 🟪 🟪 NOVA 🟪 🟪 🟪 Since there are not many players left on roster its time to go to rebuild mode. All positions are in the mix except G. Contact me here, on PSN or Discord (bxrxnizer)

BOOMERS Looking for G starter or 50/50 Finnish big + DM here, PSN or Discord

free 50/50 G backup is fine level doesnt matter contact here @sMiiga or psn: sMiiga

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

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Wida (Lite) looking for player We are looking for BACKUP F We hope that you will be able to play few games per week or as needed You can contact us here, Discord, or PSN: nikitikitin

ROBE Esports (Elite) IN: @aaksu17 Welcome back!

Free ld (lw) for next ECL Write me here, or on discord/PSN: NI-ChooseK-IN- Stats: https://sportsgamer.gg/players/15873

Free G for next ECL contact me on Discord: Horys20

Heimo In: @aJuti ⬅️ ONSE Esports @aaksu17 ⬅️ ROBE Esports @jaageri_ ⬅️ Mustaa Kultaa Happy to welcome some fresh blood! Out: @KingOfApes_ ➡️ Parasite @Mozjayh ➡️ ? @xSnaipperi ➡️ Army / ? Big thanks to those leaving and good luck on your next chapter

Hi! Experienced player looking for a team ecl and ithl. Preferred playing positions are either wing. I can handle both hands. I feel like I'm a good team player and it's important for me to balance the game as well. Preferably Lite/Core/Neo Preferably a Finnish team, but others will also be considered. If you're interested, send a message here, psn or dc. psn Risbe85 dc risbe85

Free G for upcoming NHL26, looking for a starting position but would settle for backup if other goalie is performing better than myself. Contact me on discord CW1LLO_

Ex-Aspyre GM I’ve took a year out but looking for a core team ideally. RW/C/RD Send me a DM for tryout. Xbox and discord: Grizzly 17

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.

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.

Hiljainen Pikkukaupunki is looking for a starting defenceman + backup or 50/50 center or winger for next season in Lite/Core message me on discord Meloni88#5038 or here😄

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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_

HoneyWasp looking for backup RW. You get rivals games and maybe some ecl/ithl action (can´t quarenteed). Contact here or Discord (same username)

🟪 🟪 🟪 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.

Biggest problems is not perks, its skaters gameplan. always look for glitch goals, exploit it, and play the same hockey every season. the same way crash net try to hit goalie, glitch in some five hole shit, go for wierd angles to snipe shortsides, do some random moves to make goalies flop or whatever game is allowing you to do. Maybe if you start to respect hockey as game not only broken arcade, all will be fine. Till then nothing realy matters. Learn one thing what goalie never catch, then lets repeat it 10 times in row, its so fun. If we talk from goalie perspective now, there is nothing so op what we could not catch, if not some broken animations, and sometimes goalie just do random shit, but perks op like in 25 i dont feel. We get freedom on movement what i realy like, so if shot is good it goes in because you beated goalie, not because he was freezed. everything is pretty good with goalies and catching shots for now.

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

Just ban everything. So many OP traits this year that make the game too unrealistic. I can also kinda agree with allowing elite edges and nothing else.

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