[Free Agents EU - PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S]

Not enough players on the bench? Why is there nobody sitting between the defenders and forwards? I got the answer to those questions, get a grocery stick - add me to your team!

Free backup defender. I'm going to be a defensive or stay at home type of defender who relies on positioning and easy passing. I do very little and a lot at the same time.

In the ideal world, your team has at least two active defenders who can play a lot and I'm the backup who fills in here and there, so I would be there max two nights per week. I can also play winger/center if needed.

I can play from 20 - 22.30 FIN time usually.

Open for tryouts starting from 26.10 ->

Send a message here or on Psn: Kickingapollo

 

E: Found a team!

[server issue complaints]

From my limited experience as a Finnish player visiting a German team in few separate nights, I had 62 ping in every game, only played against teams in that region. Even if the search thing was on relaxed. Same thing a few weeks later. The 62 ping was ´playable´ as in it did not freeze or anything like that, but if you play with 20ish or even smaller pings normally, you notice it in everything. It´s not fun.

My only guess on how to maybe ´open the borders´ is to run the searches on relaxed and hope teams in the south/west Europe get matched that way. I have no idea to be honest.

Unfortunate and unfair that EA has managed to put such a glorious system in place. Europe needs all the teams and players together, ECL tournaments and leagues are not nearly as fun and exciting if it´s just mainly Finnish and Swedish players. Hopefully they make the changes as soon as possible.

Make sure to answer the Leafy NHL 20 survey and talk about the issue in there as well. (front page on nhlgamer.com/community)

 

 

[Free Agents EU - PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S]

Free player looking for a team, winger first in the list, but I played defense mostly during this ongoing season, so open in trying it out OR being more of a swiss army knife type of player who plays wherever. Both sides/hands are fine.

Can play Mon-Thu, a couple hours a night, sometimes during the weekends too. Would prefer PRO team, but taking all kinds of offers

Send a message at  PSN: Kickingapollo or here

[Poll for lower-tier Spring League teams]

Slightly confusing if you just vote yes/no on the main page without actually coming into this thread. Get the idea that in regular ECL for example a pro team would play in lite playoffs. (´Inaccurate´ results for the poll)

 

 

[Are you having problems with Dressing Room Errors on PS4?]

Our team has multiple DNA players, but we still keep playing almost every day with few of them on the ice/bench, we get around 3-4 games in 2.5 hours, so not bad.

To those who are annoyed that DNA teams still remain active, relax and take a breather -  maybe do something that we do, we play various word games in voice chat while searching , hangman has been the favorite so far and I can honestly say the time goes by almost flying even when big chunk of games end into error before they start. 

We also do races on who gets back to the locker room the fastest after closing the application, that is quite fun and helps keeping fingers warm.

[EU Clubs looking for players - PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S]

Freddie Mercury Institute hakee RW ja RD - pelipaikoille vahvistuksia. Pelaamme ECL-litessä. Liteä on takana jo kolme kautta ja ensi kaudella haluamme pelata itsemme PRO-sarjaan. Pelaamme pääsääntöisesti sunnuntaista torstaihin, yleensä klo 20-22 välillä.

Aikaisempi ECL-kokemus ei ole pakollista, mutta sen voi nähdä eduksi. Pelaamme melko taktista kiekkoa, joten odotamme hakijoilta ennen kaikkea sopeutumiskykyä ja taitoa sisäistää ja omaksua uusia asioita peliinsä.

Lisätietoja ja yhteydenotot NHLgamerissä minulle tai PSN:Kickingapollo.

--- Same in English, the ideal option would be a Finnish player, but the door is still open for players from other nations as well, the most important thing, after all, is what happens on the ice!

Freddie Mercury Institute is looking for RW and RD, we are currently playing in Lite -division. We have played three seasons in Lite so far, next season we want to play our way into the Pro-division. Usually, we play from Sunday to Thursday, 19-21 CET.

Previous experience from ECL is not required, but it can be a plus. We play fairly tactical hockey, so we expect you to have the ability to adapt, learn and add new ideas to your game.

More details and all the contacts to me here in NHLgamer or in PSN: Kickingapollo.

 

[Money league]

As a average player who plays and has played NHL a lot every year for some time now, I do not understand the desire to play for money, but I´m going to comment anyways. Lets say the prize pool and system is something like what @jouni29 suggested earlier: Elite could have somewhere around 100€ buy-in for team, Pro 40€ and Lite 15€. With those amounts it would be Elite 1600€, Pro 1200€ and Lite 900€ based on ECL 6's team amount in each division. This could be split something like 60% for winner, 30% for second place and 10% to NHLGamer.

Lets say you were part of the team that just won the elite division, 960 euros for the winning team that is then shared with at least 8 players, 120 euros per player. Play the game and season for what - 2 or 3 months? and the difference between finding motivation to do so and having fun or not having fun and losing motivation is in the best case potentially getting 120 euros into your bank account? Sure, still in the very beginning with the whole thing,so the prize money is going to be ´low´ at least when comparing to some other games,  but I´m willing to bet the next thing the ´playing for money´ community asks is: lets try to find a way to increase the prize pool somehow - never going to be big enough prize pool. I´m having hard time believing there will be 16 Elite level teams that are willing to pay 300,400, 500 etc euros each? Keep going down that road and the Elite is not Elite anymore, just a mercenary league.

Even if a sponsor comes in and hands out the prizes, think about how many players go from team to team now or how many teams is destroyed during one NHL calendar year, what will happen in the future when money is involved? I´m again having hard time believing the level of competition is as high as now - in any of the divisions.

More in general, have you guys ever thought that maybe this game and eashl is not as fun as it used to be? It´s perfectly normal to lose interest on some things that you for example few years ago liked a lot. Don´t you think it´s pretty sad that only way for you to enjoy the game like maybe in the past is to have money involved? But as mentioned, I don´t get the thrill and idea of playing for money and more than likely never will. I play the game for my own entertainment and to have fun, what is fun for me is maybe not fun for you - I get that. If there will be some kind of money prize tournament thingy coming up - great, I hope the users who feel that is absolutely needed in the scene get what they are looking for.

Also liked Jouni29´s comment on the summer league, 100% agree - add prizes into the tournament and the whole idea of getting the community closer to each other goes out of the window.

 

 

[Täällä puhumme Suomea..]

11 minutes ago, BusinessInk said:

kapollo tuosta kuvasta pakko antaa 5/10 koska rusetti punanen.

Joulun kunniaksi punainen rusetti!

[Täällä puhumme Suomea..]

 

[Is the Powerforward class "overpowered"? (The role of balance amongst EASHL player types)]

It´s overpowered, at least when you compare to other classes. I still use it quite often though, especially when playing winger and feeling like throwing my body around. I mean you can do pretty much everything with it. I would even go as far as saying powerforward has a better shot than the Sniper class.  Although I have not played nearly as many games as Sniper, but for some reason for example the one timers fail to hit the net with Sniper more often than with PF. (That might be just me though :p) 

TWF is what I use the most still, more agile and the stick checking is just the best, great for my playing style.

Powerforward is pretty solid defensively as well, you can hit more and the stick checking is not that much worse than with TWF.

Playmaker/sniper is  terrible when it comes down to stick checking, even if you do everything ´correctly´ you might still end up hitting the face or tripping the guy over. With TWF, you don´t get nearly as many penalty mins from tripping/highsticking. 

Powerforward is a somewhat easy choice  when you compare the builds between each other. Hopefully the classes will be different in nhl 17, so we could see more variety in ECL and in eashl games in general.

 

[ECL Draft (Summer Cup) registration - PS4]

• PSN Name:  Kickingapollo
• Positions:  C/LW/RW/LD/RD
• Tell us about you:  I´m from Finland and I have been playing EASHL since nhl 12, I think. Played in few of these ECL tournaments over the years, mostly in friends teams or as a backup player. Perhaps an interesting fact, I have scored an own goal in the ECL finals. Would prefer either c or wing position, but I can play as D too.

          If I would have to compare my playing style to someone from NHL, I would say Leo Komarov is pretty good comparison. 

          I can play almost every day, usually earlier in the evening, but I can show up online later too if needed. 

          (Oh and not interested in being the captain)