EHM The Blue Line

I'm in 2023 with the Panthers and have been struggling every year with shootout losses. I've got a team that was going into the season as the #1 ranked team, but I'm closing out the season 10th in the East and missing the playoffs. I'm also 1-8 in the shootout, that is most certainly the difference in making or missing the playoffs. It seems like every year my shootout record is terrible. I keep my players with the highest creativity as my shootout choices... any advice on what I can do to improve this?

I might be wrong, but isn't Deking more the attribute for shootouts? Creativity is more for creating scoring chances, finding the open man... right?

My team is struggling too with that. I've got 12 or 13 OT losses in my season and on that only 1 is an OT loss. The rest is all shootout.

Was that an issue before for you? I noticed for me since the lastest patch I've got more problems. So it might be a part of the problem as patches always have a risk to mess with your saves. Because I've got so many players with 16+ in deking that I don't understand why I can't win haha

philou21 wrote:My team is struggling too with that. I've got 12 or 13 OT losses in my season and on that only 1 is an OT loss. The rest is all shootout.

Was that an issue before for you? I noticed for me since the lastest patch I've got more problems. So it might be a part of the problem as patches always have a risk to mess with your saves. Because I've got so many players with 16+ in deking that I don't understand why I can't win haha

I haven't seen anything regarding the match engine, but I guess that is possible.

Tasku wrote:I might be wrong, but isn't Deking more the attribute for shootouts? Creativity is more for creating scoring chances, finding the open man... right?

Ouch.... I just looked and all my shootout choices were terrible in dekeing.... I don't know where I got the idea that creativity was a good thing for shootout chioces! We'll see how the next season goes and report back, thanks!

Tasku wrote:

philou21 wrote:My team is struggling too with that. I've got 12 or 13 OT losses in my season and on that only 1 is an OT loss. The rest is all shootout.

Was that an issue before for you? I noticed for me since the lastest patch I've got more problems. So it might be a part of the problem as patches always have a risk to mess with your saves. Because I've got so many players with 16+ in deking that I don't understand why I can't win haha

I haven't seen anything regarding the match engine, but I guess that is possible.

Oh you're right! My bad maybe.

But I still find it weird. I've got at least 5 players with 16 in deking and a couple with 14 and in all my shootout losses I never scored one single goal this year.

I think there is somekind of influence to the shootout if you press confirm in the tactics screen or just press cancel Not sure of this but I've just got this feeling (pressing cancel has gotten me more wins maybe)

High deking, high stickhandling, higher-than-average-mental abilities. Maybe not too bad in wristshots. My shootout record has been positive for every year, last year it was 8:2. This season has seen me struggling for the first time, right now it's 5:7, but it still is ok, since my bigger problem isn't scoring but conceding a goal with almost every penalty right now.

I sometimes vary the players taking the penalties, when I see a player with good abilities failing to score for more than 2 shootouts.

Shame you are so long into the game. Could've just signed Sam Gagner to help the situation. I basically won all the shootouts with him in the team.

I went 11-0 in shootouts as the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the only traits I paid attention to were "slapshot" and "wristshot". There might be more to it than that, but, I think those are the two most important traits. (Or, maybe having Sydney Crosby on a team is the most important trait. XD)