EHM The Blue Line

is there a way to know which of your players have improved or declined? or do you just gotta remember basically?

Season 4 runner up in the Stanley Cup final. Kane with 209 points for the season.

2017/18, finally won the Cup with the Panthers!

Had a real fight for the President's Trophy with Washington all season but they managed to pick it up with 128p, we finished with 125p. Had to face Tampa Bay in the 1st round but we took sweet revenge winning 4-2 before battling out a tough 7 games against Toronto. We then went past Washington 4-2 in the Conference final before beating St Louis in the final 4-2.

Huberdeau managed 101p and was only beaten by Ovechkin who got 114. Valentin Zykov was named rookie of the year with 81p, a real goal scorer. Eichel was 2nd in points among rookies as well! Here is my Stanley Cup winning roster:

Huberdeau-Barkov-Saad
Zykov-Eichel-Bjugstad
Howden-Trocheck-Comeau
Garbutt-Vitale-Komarov

Moore-Ekblad
Kulikov-DeKeyser
Gudbranson-Jokipakka

Luongo/Pavelec

Plus Repik, Killorn, Kampfer & Petrovic getting a numbers of games. Also our 2016 24th overall pick Channing Brodeur came up for a total of 9 games scoring a fine 13 points. A big prospect for the future, we are stacked with talented wingers right now. Some tinkering going into my 5th season.

Notable Players out: Killorn to Detroit. Kampfer to Dallas. Pavelec to Montreal. (I thought Luongo was gonna retire for sure so had a goalie dilemma and had to let Pavelec go, he wanted more ice time anyway.)
Players in: Malcolm Subban (free). Daniel Winnik (free). Brandon Sutter (free). Andrew McDonald (Dallas).

Funny to find out Killorn is doing just as terrible at Detroit, I think he must have been my worst trade to date.

lafontaine83 wrote:is there a way to know which of your players have improved or declined? or do you just gotta remember basically?

I haven't noticed anything, unless I'm wrong then that's something that would need improving - trying to remember stats for so many players is impossible - though perhaps there's a way to export the stats to excel and just check them once a year or something?

In the practice screen you can look at which stats are improving over the course of the season I believe.

SEASON 2015-16

Theres nothing much to say about Toronto's season 2015-16. Spent the whole regular season below the playoff line, sent some veterans to cup contender teams and prayed for the season to end.

Notable transactions

Players in (that played at least one NHL game in Maple Leafs during the season)

- Matt Bartkowski
- Antti Pihlström
- Chris Stewart
- Andrej Meszaros
- Jamie Oleksiak
- Jesper Fast
- Nail Yakupov

Players out (that played at least one NHL game in Maple Leafs during the season)

- Roman Polak
- Keaton Ellerby
- Nazem Kadri
- Stuart Percy

The Percy-trade ended up being very good for the Maple Leafs as New Jersey's first round pick was involved. The Devils ended up missing the playoffs after a losing streak just before the end of regular season. One thing they didn't lose was the draft lottery. Thanks to the trade made in February, Maple Leafs had Devils' 1st overall pick (no luck, pure skill) and their own 3rd overall pick.

Maple Leafs' top three draft picks:
- Jesse Puljujärvi, 1st overall
- Jakob Chychrun, 3rd overall
- Logan Brown, 75th overall

PREPARING FOR SEASON 2016-17

The Leafs signed only two notable players during the UFA madness, Finns Antti Raanta and Jori Lehterä. Stuart Percy rejoined the team in a trade involving rights to not-so-top-quality prospects and James Reimer, whose place Raanta took.

A bunch of fading veterans and failed prospects were left without a new contract, thus taking the train to free agency.


REGULAR SEASON

Leafs had another nice start for the regular season by winning seven games out of the first ten. When January hit and the team hadn't been outside of Eastern Conference's top 5 since the season started, my hopes for reaching the post-season were up. Confident with the team, I didn't make any trades at all before the deadline. The Maple Leafs finished 3rd in the conference.

Below is the plan for lines, which I followed through the season. This is the setup I had for playoffs, the regular season one had Kontiola's and Lehterä's places swapped.




THE PLAYOFFS

The first three rounds of the playoffs were an easy slice of cake. Bernier was like the Berlin Wall, leading the team to league's best goals against average in the post-season, while JVR and Kessel made sure the opposing teams' goalies were praying to every known god before skating to their crease.

The final series against the Blues started like any other disaster: Bernier melt, Kessel scored only two goals in three games, nobody else scored, the GM cried some manly tears. Bernier, having done the MAF, was replaced by Raanta who allowed only three goals in the following three matches, leading the Leafs to game seven against the Blues. Another notable player in tying the Blues series was Antti Pihlström who, as a 4th liner, scored a hattrick in the last period of game 6, winning the game 3-1 for the Leafs.

Game 7 was a very tight match between the two teams and it required more than 60 minutes to find out which of the teams would take the cup. Well, it took 60 minutes and 31 seconds. Franson let his cannon sing the song of the Ontarians, Fast was there for the rebound and tried to put it in without success. Luckily, Yakupov was there for the rebound from Fast's shot and put it behind Elliot, up to the top shelf.



PLAYER STATS


Forwards




D-men




Goalies



Raanta really surprised me with the level of his game. Especially when he replaced Bernier in game 4 of Stanley Cup finals and stood there like a wall, reaching 96.3 SVS% in the four playoff games he played.

Laanorfa wrote:PREPARING FOR SEASON 2016-17

The Leafs signed only two notable players during the UFA madness, Finns Antti Raanta and Jori Lehterä. Stuart Percy rejoined the team in a trade involving rights to not-so-top-quality prospects and James Reimer, whose place Raanta took.

A bunch of fading veterans and failed prospects were left without a new contract, thus taking the train to free agency.


REGULAR SEASON

Leafs had another nice start for the regular season by winning seven games out of the first ten. When January hit and the team hadn't been outside of Eastern Conference's top 5 since the season started, my hopes for reaching the post-season were up. Confident with the team, I didn't make any trades at all before the deadline. The Maple Leafs finished 3rd in the conference.

Below is the plan for lines, which I followed through the season. This is the setup I had for playoffs, the regular season one had Kontiola's and Lehterä's places swapped.




THE PLAYOFFS

The first three rounds of the playoffs were an easy slice of cake. Bernier was like the Berlin Wall, leading the team to league's best goals against average in the post-season, while JVR and Kessel made sure the opposing teams' goalies were praying to every known god before skating to their crease.

The final series against the Blues started like any other disaster: Bernier melt, Kessel scored only two goals in three games, nobody else scored, the GM cried some manly tears. Bernier, having done the MAF, was replaced by Raanta who allowed only three goals in the following three matches, leading the Leafs to game seven against the Blues. Another notable player in tying the Blues series was Antti Pihlström who, as a 4th liner, scored a hattrick in the last period of game 6, winning the game 3-1 for the Leafs.

Game 7 was a very tight match between the two teams and it required more than 60 minutes to find out which of the teams would take the cup. Well, it took 60 minutes and 31 seconds. Franson let his cannon sing the song of the Ontarians, Fast was there for the rebound and tried to put it in without success. Luckily, Yakupov was there for the rebound from Fast's shot and put it behind Elliot, up to the top shelf.



PLAYER STATS


Forwards




D-men




Goalies



Raanta really surprised me with the level of his game. Especially when he replaced Bernier in game 4 of Stanley Cup finals and stood there like a wall, reaching 96.3 SVS% in the four playoff games he played.

is this quicksimming without tinkering with tactics ?

Not likely, D are rated more like full sim.

Playing as the Oilers and in 2021 we've gotten 2 Cups in three years so things are going well. That is until Nugent-Hopkins and my other top center went to free agency. This should be interesting...

What are some good ways to scout? Usually, I have a bunch of my scouts scout the NHL Entry Draft players. But usually my teams always draft in the top 20s, so I haven't been able to draft any "blue-chip prospects".

Reason I'm asking is because none of my previous 1st round players have really panned out.

I don't control my AHL team, so maybe that's an issue?

I'm open to any suggestions.

Well, one reason your #20-30 picks haven't worked out might be because the player progression was quite a bit off in the game and it's been patched in the last 2 patches, if you start a new game on the new patch it might turn out differently, remember that this is just Early Access. If you think you are not great at helping your prospects develop there are several threads on development on these forums, search and you shall find

CanucksFan1993 wrote:What are some good ways to scout? Usually, I have a bunch of my scouts scout the NHL Entry Draft players. But usually my teams always draft in the top 20s, so I haven't been able to draft any "blue-chip prospects".

Reason I'm asking is because none of my previous 1st round players have really panned out.

I don't control my AHL team, so maybe that's an issue?

I'm open to any suggestions.

I always have scouts on the AHL, OHL, QMJHL, WHL, ECHL and some other smaller leagues

Anyone try playing with the Hidden attribute option where you can't see ANY of the attribute numbers?

SOmething I most definitely plan on getting to. Need to get a little more used to how ratings work though, in order to do that for games that are beyond who is in the show right now.

I won 5 Cups in a row, and 6 out of 7. I should have had that one in the middle as well, but the AI basically dropped out of the sky, deus ex machina style, and stole the Cup from my hands. The last 2 seasons it has done exactly the same thing. My league-leading defense and goaltending turn to garbage. My league-leading scorers are either hurt just before the playoffs or just before the finals, or turn to garbage. Ridiculous scrap-heap players play out of their skin against me. It is just so frustrating. I am still playing on my original save because I don't want to give all this up, so maybe the patches change it a bit and make it a bit more fair? I understand in real life these things happen - I'm still mourning the loss of Tim Kerr in 1987, whose presence would have seen us past the Oilers. It's just that it seems like the game has a system of checks and balances in place to limit your runs of success. Of course I could have failed somehow, I just don't see what I could have done differently.

Has anyone ever went from the lowest tier possible anywhere in the world to the NHL yet in the EHM:EA? I'm thinking of doing that, but which one is the lowest playable tier anywhere in the world anyway?

redmongoose wrote:I won 5 Cups in a row, and 6 out of 7. I should have had that one in the middle as well, but the AI basically dropped out of the sky, deus ex machina style, and stole the Cup from my hands. The last 2 seasons it has done exactly the same thing. My league-leading defense and goaltending turn to garbage. My league-leading scorers are either hurt just before the playoffs or just before the finals, or turn to garbage. Ridiculous scrap-heap players play out of their skin against me. It is just so frustrating. I am still playing on my original save because I don't want to give all this up, so maybe the patches change it a bit and make it a bit more fair? I understand in real life these things happen - I'm still mourning the loss of Tim Kerr in 1987, whose presence would have seen us past the Oilers. It's just that it seems like the game has a system of checks and balances in place to limit your runs of success. Of course I could have failed somehow, I just don't see what I could have done differently.

When other teams who do not normally play well start dominating your team, and doing things to you that are really out of the ordinary, it is time to make some roster changes...well line changes, as well as tactical changes. They catch on to what you are doing and are able to match up against you in ways that benefit their play and team tactics. So you have to make a change or two. I quite often will switch my #1 and #2 C around, and will often change my break out when this happens. I usually make one or two changes every couple of games.

Peter_Doherty wrote:Well, one reason your #20-30 picks haven't worked out might be because the player progression was quite a bit off in the game and it's been patched in the last 2 patches, if you start a new game on the new patch it might turn out differently, remember that this is just Early Access. If you think you are not great at helping your prospects develop there are several threads on development on these forums, search and you shall find

Do you know if I actually have to start a new game to get the player progression fixes, or will they happen "magically" to my existing game if I wait it out?

batdad wrote:

redmongoose wrote:I won 5 Cups in a row, and 6 out of 7. I should have had that one in the middle as well, but the AI basically dropped out of the sky, deus ex machina style, and stole the Cup from my hands. The last 2 seasons it has done exactly the same thing. My league-leading defense and goaltending turn to garbage. My league-leading scorers are either hurt just before the playoffs or just before the finals, or turn to garbage. Ridiculous scrap-heap players play out of their skin against me. It is just so frustrating. I am still playing on my original save because I don't want to give all this up, so maybe the patches change it a bit and make it a bit more fair? I understand in real life these things happen - I'm still mourning the loss of Tim Kerr in 1987, whose presence would have seen us past the Oilers. It's just that it seems like the game has a system of checks and balances in place to limit your runs of success. Of course I could have failed somehow, I just don't see what I could have done differently.

When other teams who do not normally play well start dominating your team, and doing things to you that are really out of the ordinary, it is time to make some roster changes...well line changes, as well as tactical changes. They catch on to what you are doing and are able to match up against you in ways that benefit their play and team tactics. So you have to make a change or two. I quite often will switch my #1 and #2 C around, and will often change my break out when this happens. I usually make one or two changes every couple of games.

I was trying that and during the season it worked fine, but then in the playoffs it seemed like nothing I did was working. In a short series, I find it hard to decide how radically I want to tinker with things, you know what I mean? Often the guys bounce back after tough games and are fine, but in this series it was just straight into the toilet. The goaltending was the real issue - he (Vasilevsky) just had a stinker, and it's really the first time he has done that for a whole series. I don't actually think I was "cheated" by the game or anything like that - it just really hurt my heart and other internal organs to lose to Edmonton in the finals, even in a game - I have had enough of that in real life to last an eternity

My usually well disciplined team was just the victim of some horrible officiating:

So finally after testing the game in KHL i decided to try it out with NHL, i tried to get into NHL in EHM 2007 but wasn't successful, this time around im loving it!
The 4th season is starting with Philly, the first year i was dead last on the league Mason was god awful for me, in the 2nd season i really got to building a new team which i could take to playoffs, the 2nd year i was beaten in the 1st round, Tuukka Rask single handily took care of that. In the start of the 3rd season i acquired Bobby Ryan and Jack Johnson to help provide depth, and we won the Stanley Cup in 6 games against LA! Jake Allen was amazing during the playoffs, we almost didn't make it out of the 1st round because he got injured in the series against Pens, and Reimer was poor, thankfully Fleury was as well.

So the 4th season is here, here is the team currently. Also first one of these i've done so tell me if im doing this recap wrong guys

All looks good, but unless you have salary cap issues you should have a backup goalie up with the team, and use him a bit. If Allen gets hurt in game you are getting a sieve filler character. Oh and if you are at the cap with that lineup you have done something wrong. No way that lineup should be that expensive.

batdad wrote:All looks good, but unless you have salary cap issues you should have a backup goalie up with the team, and use him a bit. If Allen gets hurt in game you are getting a sieve filler character. Oh and if you are at the cap with that lineup you have done something wrong. No way that lineup should be that expensive.

I just realized that for some reason Anders Nilsson who is my backup, but yeah i have him and a prospect in the AHL. The team fits under the cap although Voracek wanted a massive contract after he had a crazy couple of seasons. id say he's worth it though!

Just curious, instead of starting a new thread.

Do you guys base your tactical/lineup decisions(changes) purely on watching games(which I've been told can be unreliable) or play-by-play, or just numbers?