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Here are my personal thoughts and wishes on the future of NHLGamer and ECL. It's more like bunch of notes than wall of text, but anyways here it is. ECL Wishlist 1. Get comments back to game reports. I know it's not that big deal but I'd say that our community would like to have it back. 2. Using whole time period of NHL-game, like the other competetive sites do with their leagues and games. Yeah, it might sound too much now but after all it would be best for the community to play this game a lot, and hey, after all there would be only two leagues per year, with two shorter Cups. --> 2x Elite ECL leagues per year (+ divisions) --> 1x Euro Cup, big tournament with every team who wants to play > as much as possible groups, about 6 teams per group which would keep the Cup short. Just like Football and Hockey has their short tournaments before/during/after their real seasons. --> 1x Summer Cup in July-August, snake draft teams etc. 3. Bigger Staff. To make this whole thing really work, NHLGamer needs to have strong and active Staff. I'm not saying there should be over 20 guys deciding what to do or anything but more people, with different tasks and responsibilities would definitely be better than handful of guys. And after this, create new topic or site where is every Staff member, their introductions, what their main tasks are and how to contact them. Community needs to know about our Staff. --> site-admins: big bosses, all-arounders --> moderators: league maintenance, news, articles, interviews --> country captains: this is something new I've had in my mind for some weeks now and the meaning of this would be basically to have certain guys representing their countries team captains. For an example, one finnish, one swedish, one russian and one "european" person, and their only task would be to keep things clear between our captains and Staff. If this sounds stupid, then get bigger group of moderators who have their own responsibilites (certain guys taking care of certain groups/countries). -->team captains: I guess everybody knows what this means. But I just wanna say if someone really wants to be captain of their team, and gets his team to the ECL for example: respect the rules, staff and your opponents. 4. Profile-info in the forum, which people would see when we write here. Just a little subtile add to forum, not much. Example: vSilenttio Advanced Member +148 Team: SIKA PSN ID: vSilenttio Gamertag: Silenttio Twitch: vSilenttio Posts: 58 5. Bring us wild cards! For an example, if there's 30 teams in ECL, 15 per group, lets have wild card spots. Six best teams go straight to the playoffs, 7th-10th teams battle for remaining two playoff-spots. Teams that dont make playoffs (11-15th placed teams in both groups), would battle in elimination round for their next seasons ECL ticket. Five losers from these five pairs get eliminated. Hope here's something what you guys could even consider to do in the future of NHLGamer.

ECL: SIKA vs. TIKI TALK 29/11/2016: Post-game Show

This is just a theory based stuff, but @Snapster (King of Dynasty) told me that he has the NA version of this game, and when he is the captain in dressing room, they find only NA teams. Didnt say anything about lagging tho. @Givystar, do you have euro version of the game?

Could we get this topic updated/upgraded some day? @kooffein, buy PS4.

More like imosi being drama queen . We're still having the ceremony on this weekend though. Here's one pic we all could learn from. We call it team defense. @SpiderRoyal managed to save this somehow.

Exactly. We're talking about imosi, not an superstar. More like Jere Lehtinen, or Antti Miettinen some might say.

Those badboys are not for sell. You might still buy replicas from Dressmann or Seppälä.

Imosi's retirement weekend on 4th-5th of November. Greatest forward in Xbox's history will have his #93 retired on first weekend of next month. You dont want to miss that. Whole event is going to be streamed. Hockey, wine and cheese. Come witness imosi's last EASHL-games. www.twitch.tv/SpiderRoyal

Staff has their plans. No need to worry about it. Just need to get things working 110% before you can ask money from it.

Yes, @vatalisti, it have happened before. But I have very strong feeling about the word "divisions", which will take this whole shit to the next level. This may be last time when every team out there can play in the "real ECL" if you know what I mean. If you want to play the ECL in the future, this might be your last chance to prove it. Teams who really want to play this game competitively, will play those 54-58 games. Personally I dont even care if some teams participate ECL3 and then just quit when they see that they cant make the playoffs. I want to get rid of those kind of teams. Let the games begin.

What the title says. Imosi packed his sticks and sold his PS4, again. So we need motivated elite RW. If you have what it takes, you'll play a lot. All finnish and swedish boys, text me on PSN!

Haha, advanced scout spotted! Good job

Aftermath starts here! I think SC was great add to summer for people who likes to play NHL during summer. It would be nice if we could get some opinions here that what was good in the whole Summer Cup and then again what Staff could do better next summer. About the Draft-system: it was good. Main reason to have this tournament was to get players from other teams together, and IMO we nailed it. Only thing I would want to fix in next SC, is the amount of games. I mean, people played NHL16 ALOT during summer and people mostly enjoyed playing SC so why not to play against every team in the tournament, and not just half. Maybe the main reason for having split league was the time, I dont know, but next time if theres like 10-15 teams, lets play bigger regular season. Nothing else from me. I think SC was succees, and it should be played next year as well. Thanks to everyone who made the whole SC happen.

Right after you learn how to play D. Btw boys, at last SIKA will stream its every ECL-game from now on, and maybe even upload those ECL-streams to our Youtube channel as well so NHLGeeks can spy us better in the future! Huhuu, jöötiä rairai, on se. please follow us on everywhere

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EAT. SLEEP. PLAY. REPEAT. Playing thousands of games, in a nutshell. EASHL, Versus, HUT and Be a GM. There's literally no elite player who plays once a week, especially nowadays as there's +50-60 teams trying to win the ultimate prize of hockey, ECL championship. For me example, I've really had my hardest games ever on NHL16 thanks to Finnish Defence Forces. Fucking shit took 9 months away from my hockey career and I've been really rusty. I've never been this shit and it pisses me off every time when I play against players like @Joonas Paatiala(Patz), @debi_85, @Joukki or @Dominointi. Oh my God, even @Basstian23 is sneaky for me these days... Before back then, on NHL14, only forward I had problems to D against (even tho it was fun as hell) was @Foppatofflan, who's btw still greatest forward Europe has seen by far. But there's one cure which helps for this issue: playing daily. Before, lets say like on NHL14, I played +2500 EASHL/drop-in games combined, 50-100 versus games + HUT so yeah, more than 100 versus-games and that's nothing compared to guys like @plee999 or @Dominointi(seppo). And those guys dominate the leaderboards. So after EASHL and Vs., there's like lets say 2750 games played. Then there's Be a GM what I like to play, a lot. I'm not lying when I say that during NHL14, I played more than 10 different careers, atleast 2-3 seasons per career. Of course I simulated lots of games but also I played much. Even though it was just offline, you always learn when you play. So lets put it this way; who'll know more about the game, player A who plays only EASHL or player B, who plays hundreds or in some situations even thousands of games more than player A. And now on NHL16 I've played under 1000 6vs6-games, no more than 100 offline-games and couple 1vs1-games and you can clearly see it on the ice. That's it. Of course there's this thing called "hockey IQ" which you cant study. Either you have it, or you dont. That's why there's mainly the same teams or guys dominating the EASHL-leaderboards or 1vs1-boards. Hope so this helps to realize the importance of playing the game, a lot.

SIKA is looking for elite RD. We need experienced, defensive-minded but still producive player to our blueline. By that, we mean that you have played tight EHL/ECL games before and basicly know how to play the game even when heat is on, defensively and offensively. 1st lineup spot guaranteed if you got what it takes to be #1 RD in team which is aiming to win ECL on NHL17. And as a team, we offer good team spirit and environment where you dont have to be afraid of people speaking bullshit behind your back etc. If there's something to say, we say it. Me and @imosi are responsible for that and everything else as we are SIKA's captains. Oh and we play daily 20-23fin so you have to be active as well. If you have any questions on our team, contact me on PSN.

Love the name! It has great story behind it. And guys, for example SIKA is "pig" in finnish so...

It's good that some guys are doing things like this for fun! Even though they are not official as these kind of things are based on a) stats and b) opinions, they still bring something to this community. Specially when there's not that much drama these days. Guess @vatalisti is just mad because of he got listed. Dont worry, after all it's just @The_Alpha_Furyans shitty opinions Keep them coming!

Good stuff again. I haven't been so active myself during last weeks to say something on who's hot or not but I agree with everything you wrote on me. 50% of games behind and we still have our chance to make great comeback. Small chance, but it exists. Like AshtonArmy used to say: c'mon boys!

As it's not here yet. NHL 17 Gameplay Series: EASHL If im right, it seems like that TWD-build is like 183cm in NHL17. Interesting when most of the forwards are big sized (+188cm). Anyways, puck moving DFD sounds cool! Well okay, dangler is like 180cm but isn't @Basstian23the only guy who plays with that kind of builds? Jumbo Playmaker and Hitting Sniper (what a dork name) are great adds to the game on the paper. Finally stronger and bigger skilled guys. Or if PWF is still perfect all-arounder, then those new builds are pretty much nothing... Smaller guys for cherry picking, bigger guys for team playing. Now just lets hope that D-men are not weak compared to basic forward builds (jumbo etc.)

Seems that you are.

Yeah I've played with OFD as well but against bigger and stronger PWF's, it's not the most suitable build.

It's true. Damn true. I started to play NHL16 daily on March, and since then pretty much every top teams have been Team PWF's. I played some nights during winter and then I saw some other types as well but still, even then the new PWF was most used. Compared to NHL14, the difference between player types is huge! Old PWF was slower atleast and it got tired much faster. Then again there's this new PWF with ultimate package of everything compared to PLY, TWF, GRD or SNP. If I had to choose from all types which to play with, that would be PWF as it's all-around good forward. Then if I had opportunity to choose who to play against, PWF would be last to pick. I guess they wanted to do player you get when you add Lucic, Benn and Voracek all together... Good job, EA. Not players fault so it's not a problem when people use it as the PWF is choosable type just like any other class. Would be cool on NHL17 if PWF wouldnt be good in every zone, so it really would have atleast one weekness. Slow, or not that good with playmaking or something. On other types, yes there are players who are using PLY or TWF for example, but tbh they would not be the most greatest or toughest guys to play against. Some guys want to be faster but with this engine we're playing on this & next game, on top level, all-around ability of type and whole team is the shit. I play with two-way D-man, as it's always solid, was the connection good or bad. Defensive is great build as well but sometimes the DFD seems to be way too slow against faster types. And IMO it's stupid to play with OFD in this game because of size of the build. I dont like it when you cant pick whether to play with big, regular or even small sized DFD/TWD and hate the fact that EA thinks that every OFD is mickey mouse (small, not that good with checking). It would be nice if there were like 2-3 different sizes where to pick from as you cant make your own guy anymore. Now it's all the same.

Okay good, never doubt that you guys wouldn't have any plans. And on my team; obviously.