First games, not entirely victorious :)

Last night got 2 games in, four of us who managed to find the time on a friday night.

We played with both Dmen (myself on LD), a Center and a RW.

These were the first games we played so obviously our guys are not that good yet, statwise. We don´t buy boosts generally, unless the requirements to open them are ridiculous as they were in NHL10.

First game we lost 3-1, scored the opener on a nice onetimer but then the opponent started playing We had no chance to defend against these guys, they had something like 80-100 games played so obviously their stats were quite a bit higher than ours.

It seems like the cards, and stats, play a bigger role in this years EASHL, I can´t remember having such a hard time when we started playing EASHL in NHL10, and in NHL10 we started our team maybe three months after the game was released.

The other thing I noticed is that the AI goalie seems to perform more according to their stats than before, and the stats weren´t that good obviously.

It might be the time for me to step up and start playing as a goalie, at least when we have enough people on.

The second game was a tight battle between the bluelines, defense on both sides was a lot better than offense, we ended up losing 0-1. A loss for sure, but we played a lot better than on the first game.

One thing that bothered me a bit was the match making. On both games we were matched up against Elite teams, so the difference in player stats and maybe skill were to be expected, but shouldn´t we have been matched against other Amateur teams? I think so

Hopefully things will even out as time goes by, player cards and boosts opened will even the field a bit, and teams will start settling in the leagues where they belong.

And maybe one day we´ll climb up to the Pro league, thanks to my magnificent goaltending of course