[Player Spotlight: Robin "Rubituss" Söderqvist of Färjestad BK]

@pierustaerektio

 

Shit, he's no more to be found on NHLGamer. Let's replace him with

 

@Herqqu99

[FILADELPHIA is now Linköping HC]

I kind of understand why some people are frustrated and against this move by Linköping, but I personally believe there's nothing wrong here - at least from Linköping's part. As a matter of fact, this will most likely be a great thing for the eSHL as a whole.

 

If there's something that should've been done differently for the upcoming eSHL, it'd be for eSHL teams to have some kind of common ground and criteria or guideline for their teams and how they should be built. As of right now, I see some teams building their rosters purely out of locals and/or having all kinds of players coming in through internet applications and local tryouts. I'm not saying recruiting bunch of Finns (or players of other nationalities) is what these teams should look out for, but I think it's must worse to have eSHL team(s) built out of some beer night tryouts than recruiting an actual team (or have a person who knows the scene build the team). These teams have a huge risk of turning out just like so many FCL, SCL and IS Cup teams that join into the tournament after reading about it on paper, get trashed and maybe even quit mid-way through. And bare in mind, these teams that might get absolutely trashed will be representing an actual hockey organization. They're not like some random group of friends who can leave the tournament after losing 8 games by 10 goals each.

 

Congrats to Linköping/FILA for the signing!

[Welcome to Summer Cup 4 (EU)!]

38 minutes ago, vatalisti said:

Well i enjoy more playing with better players so idk does it help that teams would be more equal to eachother but worse overall considering what i prefer. 

But anyways thats why i dont participate

Come on vata, you've already won eSM and ECL Elite, why can't you let scrubs like me win something for once? 

[ECL Elite 16 in 16: Northern Ascendancy]

"Before that me, Poliskontroll, Juizki and Tacklecontrol played mostly 4s in NHL 12 under a different team name" 

Little did we know, this group would end up playing on the level it currently plays on. 😎

 

Also, I think we all know foppa is like wine; he just gets better with time. 

[Sign up for ECL 7 now!]

15 hours ago, vatalisti said:

IMO it should be that either every team pays the elite fee, or no one sounds stupid that way. And why #3 and #4 gets money? 

There's a huge problem here: we would either have to make elite a must-pay-division, or scrap the whole idea of buy-ins. Otherwise it really wouldn't make any sense that just one team would be enough to ruin this possibility for everyone.

But I'm (kinda) with you on why #3 and #4 should get a part of the money: I mean after all, all you get is your money back. But that's not an issue in my opinion, whatever the community wants to do with this.

Anyhow, great addition!

[NHL 19 Beta - We want your feedback!]

1. NHL Ones: Nice arcade hockey. Great addition!
2. NHL THREES Drop-In (Arcade Threes): Great way to bring this game mode more alive. It was quite forgotten game mode for me last year. Even though it was nice variety for so serious 6v6s, playing alone against one opponent and two AIs wasn't very tempting in the long-run. Now I might even play this around the year.
3. EASHL Club 6s: It's pretty much just the way it should be. Deflections could be tuned down a bit, but other than that it seems to be the best 6v6 so far.
4. Customization: Player Classes + Traits/Specializations: This is really balanced and a nice addition. I was pretty sceptic about the feature when I heard about it, as I was worried it would result into unbalanced and overpowered builds just like last-gen NHL games had, but this works really well.
5. Customization: Gear (Casual + Pro gear + Gear Bags): Not something I would extremely pay attention to, but it's fun to have more equipment and more personalized characters in the game. Some of the equipment is pretty goofy, but that's fine. If there's something I'd hope EA would add, it would be editable goalie masks: possibility to edit the color of the helmet and the grill, edit the surface type/material (matte - glossy), and maybe add some logos etc. on the helmet (why not text as well, assuming it goes through profanity filter). I'm still waiting for a chance to wear matte black helmet
6. Human Goalies in EASHL: Feels great! Finally the goalie feel responsive and doesn't get stuck into animations as much as it used to.

 

[*UPDATE* NHL 19 Open Beta starts today!]

@Oicteppotulppu Here's the link for English one :https://store.playstation.com/en-fi/product/EP0006-CUSA12556_00-NHL2019BETAGAME1?code=4kbu7R&state=returning&cid=aaa6f3bd-4921-489e-9f4d-9af6f1b85f74

Click "Try Free Demo"/"Download to your PS4", log in to your account and add to downloads.

[NHLGamer on the Road: IS Cup 2]

Had amazing time with amazing people. Thanks to staff and the community for making this event what it was!

[Season 4 - Violation of rules: Transfer of Kefleri (RTL -> SSG)]

Just to clear things up a bit:

When we noticed Kefleri was playing for SSG, we contacted SSG saying they're (most likely) not allowed to play with Kefleri on their lineup. We also tried to contact The_Alpha_Furyan to get a confirmation the captain rule still applies. We did not get a reply from The_Alpha_Furyan before our games were supposed begin, but we got a message from SSG saying that the rule has changed and it's ok for them to play these games. Since we had no confirmation we had to play against SSG, simply due to a fact that if we happened to be wrong SSG would've (most likely) requested a WO wins over us.

SSG: you guys know the rules. I think it's quite hypocritical to blame us for this situation after you tried to misslead us saying rules have changed, you are the ones who broke the rules AND you completely neglected our warning that your roster might not be eligible to play.