[Playoff Preview, Round 2 [ECL 4]]

Sjukstugan vs. Unlucky Boys HC - A close series for sure. In regular season results was 1-5 and 3-2(OT). Both could win the series. Much depends can Sju keep their attack in form and shoot enough pucks to the net. You cannot win if you don't challenge goalie. UB has more effective attack, but can they defend also as a team? Or will Sju find holes in their defense and not get frustrated? I would say 4-2 to UB.

[Patch 3.0 & Tuner 1.02 coming today]

Tuner:
"Increased ability to make saves in tight to their body and decreased ability when reaching to reward better puck tracking and cutting off angles."
Puck closer to torso --- Easier to save
Puck further away from torso --- Harder to save
This is a good thing: "No more goal line sitting"

"Increased ability to make saves on cross grain shots by tuning movement so goalies will stay square even if the user is requesting to move away from the shot direction."
Mixed feelings about that: Momentum after shot has been decreased so snipes should be easier to save, but one timers harder to save. It is more like tuner 1.00.

"Increase save success on blocking saves."
These "blocking saves" are shoulder saves. Wonder who invent blocking save -term. I don't think it was even a problem, but will take it anyway.

"Decreased the impact goalie movement to help promote puck tracking so that good angles and positioning mean the most for a goalie’s ability to make a save."
Not a actual tuner! : Just explanation of above tuner's. Like collection of those...

"Decreased screen effect slightly."
Goalie will be screened less. Note that EA adjusted atributes of skaters so resuls should be less deflect/turd goals. Good thing: As a goalie you cannot "save" those goals and EA has heard that. In theory.

"Increased goalie speed for post-to-post movement."
Very noticeable. Good and requested tuner.

"Increased AI goalie’s awareness for a possible shot off a faceoff and increased ability to react after a save to increase their chance of getting back in position and making rebound saves."
Couple of good tuner's. You cannot blame game now for your slow reactions... 

Next some inside detail look about goalie class updates: There is more separation between classes and attributes that has changed:

These are in text format:

• Increased speed and agility of all goalies and added variance with Standup being the highest and Butterfly being the lowest.
• Increased Hybrid goalie’s recover rating so that he is now faster recovering than the Butterfly goalie.
• Increased rebound control of all classes. Standup goalie’s will still have the lowest rating while Butterfly goalies will have the highest.
• Increased poke check ability for all classes. Hybrid has the best poke check rating of the three classes and Butterfly has the lowest.
• Hybrid goalie now has the best stick side and paddle down rating of the three classes.
• Increased vision for all classes. Butterfly is still the lowest and Standup is still the highest.
• Increased 5-hole rating for both the Hybrid and Butterfly classes to separate them from the Standup goalie.
• Increased rebound control for the AI goalie class.

And here are the same in picture format.

Hope you find this intresting and feel free to ask something more what is still confusing about goalies.

[Playoff pairings, Round 3 [ECL 3]]

Preview show... 

What about some aftermatch too? And some comments from players between matches? (Like: "We must keep concentrate our defence it is the key to victory") Or, or... cat videos? No, no. 

[Teams removed from the tournament, Part 2]

4 hours ago, Malcowich said:

What then ? flip a coin for WO:s just to get the POFFs started on Monday

No they won't do that, because then they are just breaking their own rules and should be banned from here. 😁😅

[Teams removed from the tournament, Part 2]

"We would like to remind all teams that the absolute last day to finish your regular season games are Sunday, December 18th as the playoffs start Monday, December 19th"

Rules say that last day should be week after regular season ends: "All games must be until 7 days after the end of the regular season schedule"?

[Introducing - ECL Divisions]

You cannot play NHL games competitive, there are just so much random elemets, bugs and errors. Period.

What about players of those teams? Do you want be #8 - #10 (Many teams have even more) players of Div 1 team or active rooster player in Div 2? Will this be a problem for those who want just play versus those who want just be part of team? I assume there will be some trades made because of this...