EA NHL 2011 Discussion thread

SpezDispenser wrote:

Dash wrote:Passing is very good this year. Yeah it will take time with the timing, but all in all, it is a much better system. A hard pass travelling a short distance might bounce off recipients stick, but very crisp passes down the middle, tape to tape, leading to breakaways still happen. The passing attribute really makes a difference - for the passer and the receiver - in their ability to send a pass and cleanly receive a pass.

The main issue I have had with passing is the sensitivity for the one touch pass. I press RT a lot, like after I pass I press it to change to the player receiving the pass, and by the time he gets it he is passing it off again.

Me too, I press the RT a LOT and I've noticed the same. Plus, have you found it hard to hold the pass button without getting creamed? I'll see an opening, I press the pass button slightly longer to get a hard pass off and inevitably I'm hit.

PS - the hitting in this game is WONDERFUL. Love it. I've already broken a couple of guys.

I think Wonderful is too soft a word to describe the hitting Haha just kidding...do we now get to perform Double Dions?

Mattias Tedenby, Jacob Josefson, Kyle Beach and WBS Penguins player ratings?

johnnb69 wrote:Mattias Tedenby, Jacob Josefson, Kyle Beach and WBS Penguins player ratings?

Tedenby 68
Josefson n/a
Beach 73

Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins:
Craig 76
Hutchinson 76
Brookbank 74
Tangradi 74
Boogaard 74
Sterling 74
Bortuzzo 74
Engelland 74
Curry 73
Boulerice 73
Connor 73
Wagner 73
Jeffrey 73
Veilleux 73
Smith 73
Pushkarev 73
Thiessen 72
Pierro-Zabotel 72
Letestu 72
Grant 72
Strait 72
Haddad 72
Johnson 72
Wallace 71
Sill 71
Lovejoy 71
Vitale 71
Lee 70
Caffaro 70

Big Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

Dash wrote:Passing is very good this year. Yeah it will take time with the timing, but all in all, it is a much better system. A hard pass travelling a short distance might bounce off recipients stick, but very crisp passes down the middle, tape to tape, leading to breakaways still happen. The passing attribute really makes a difference - for the passer and the receiver - in their ability to send a pass and cleanly receive a pass.

The main issue I have had with passing is the sensitivity for the one touch pass. I press RT a lot, like after I pass I press it to change to the player receiving the pass, and by the time he gets it he is passing it off again.

Me too, I press the RT a LOT and I've noticed the same. Plus, have you found it hard to hold the pass button without getting creamed? I'll see an opening, I press the pass button slightly longer to get a hard pass off and inevitably I'm hit.

PS - the hitting in this game is WONDERFUL. Love it. I've already broken a couple of guys.

I think Wonderful is too soft a word to describe the hitting Haha just kidding...do we now get to perform Double Dions?

Pass timing will come, you have to anticipate like in real life. Sometimes you get caught holding the puck too long, it happens.

The hitting is awesome. The animations are so much more realistic.

Just thought I'd re-post Dash's find in this thread:

Dash wrote:Just a heads up I found this years fake player: Bradley Cooper (not the actor). He's a 16 yr old goalie in the FA list with a 95 OVR.

Thanks for finding this. I'll modify him as soon as I get the chance.

so after u finish the bagm season the (2010) and u start next season, will u get real life 2011 draft picks like adam larsson?

Is there some changes in the scouting system ?

And

Can we see the stats of the players that we draft ?

Thanks

Just a heads up I found this years fake player: Bradley Cooper (not the actor). He's a 16 yr old goalie in the FA list with a 95 OVR.

And I said I would look for Linus Omark's ratings from NHL 10 prior the roster updates, when he was removed:

LW Linus Omark #30
1987 – FEB – 05
5’9”, 163
2007
ÖVERTORNEÄ, SWE
Curved, clear, small, short, none, front, white
RBK 10K 90’ Modano
Bauer x60 11”
Bauer XXXX
Bauer 4500
C, A-, C
OVR 77
79
73
77
85
84
79
74
85
82
86
67
78
78
69
78
73
84
69
78
77
66
84
74

NHL_Fan1787 wrote:
Is there some changes in the scouting system ?

And

Can we see the stats of the players that we draft ?

Thanks

Scouting is done by leagues, so you can send your scouts to the WHL, OHL, QMJHL, USA, DEL, O2 Extrakiga, SWISS, SM LIGA, SEL, and Russia and then "Rest of World". Scouting assignments still one to six weeks in duration.

BAGM with Oilers - any CHL players I wanted to send down after pre-season had to go to CHL. Thats just the way it seems to be. MPS could go to AHL though.

I qualified offers to RFAs Cogliano and McDonald - only McDonald accepted, and Cogliano became a hold out. After Dec 1., RFA holdouts who were qualified but not re-signed become ineligible to play until July 1, and if unsigned, become UFA.

Trade deadlines is same as last year with a few rounds of offers.

Trading is just too hard to pull off now. Trade deadline was boring. Wish the trade negotiations weren't a no or yes, but you could go back and forth a couple of times with counters (didn't 09 have that?). I hate having to pull up the same trade offer everytime it is rejected to just tweak it. Plus you only get as many chances as you have phones.

I simmed the entire season with the most current rosters, and trades/waivers off... and Buffalo wins the cup.

The 2011 draft class consists of actual 2011 draft eligible players.

Team red:
S. Couturier-R. Pouliot-S. McColgan
Z. Phillips-J. Gotzzman-A. Belzile
N. Samoluk-C. Smith-M. Populus
K. Bisaillon-J. Huberdeau-B. Maclean

D. Hamilton-N.Bealieu
M.Bell-D. Musil
A. Bolduc-M.Gagnon

M.Segal
A. Vernonneau

Team White:
M. Puempel-R. Nugent-Hopkins-T. Rattie
D. Broll-J. Raymond-M. Kantor
P. Ouellet-N. Tarnasky-M. Le Sieur
N. MacMaster-D. Chiasson-F. Bergeron

C. Duininck-G. Clarke
K. Hope-S. Percy
J. Narbonne-S. Woodsworth
R. Gusse
P. Tremblay

When you are in the draft, you can view the following player info: Nationality, Age, Handedness, Player Type, League, Team. And you can see your depth chart to see how many players you have signed, unsigned, and what positions you have filled, etc.

I want Frk!

Cool, thank you Dash

Big Ev wrote:I want Frk!

Frk you!

I don't play this game and I don't if this has already been discussed, but I heard The Source is already selling it.

Like ALL Source stores? That would sweet to get it early (although they could get in deep Dung haha)

man this is amazing. Can you post pictures of you offering a RFA and then the other team not matchingg it

If I get around to it I will, but what happens is you go to the FA screen and sort using the LB/RB and go to RFA, then you make your offer as usual. Advance to the next day/days they will accept/decline your offer. The offer you make is usually good anyways, as long as you give them at least what they want $$$ wise. Then they tell you they are happy to accept but that it is not official yet as their team has the right to match.

I did this with Brent Seabrook. His asking price was ~$4.5 and I upped it to $5. Chicago couldn't/didn't match and he was an Oiler. Compensation was a 1st and 3rd.

Edit: I just did this to show you what happens.