NHL GAME GUIDE

[canuckle17]

I have a few ideas to enhance the EA Sports NHL game series.
Have an NHL Game guide with information, tips, guides, etc. Everything we need to know, would like to know, plus a whole lot more should be on this website.

We need a CONNECTED CAREERS MODE like the NFL MADDEN games where 32 different people may each control 1 team in franchise mode. There could be 32 different GM's each controlling their team, all making trades, scouting, and playing all the games. Perhaps some of them prefer just the on-the-field action than they could control just one player if they'd like. You could even have 32 participants each controlling just one player as if they are an NFL player themselves.
Draft Preview magazine/website/database with every prospect listed for each draft class. Each player profile would look similar to that which we see in the NHL games and in “The Hockey News” NHL Draft Preview magazine. The player profile would include their name, height, weight, position, amateur team & league, country, handedness, player style (playmaker, power forward, sniper, two-way forward etc.), jersey number & alternate jersey numbers, 25 attribute ratings and their potential out of 5 stars and their photo as well.
The CREATION ZONE should have a guide on creating players. Educate people on creating players in an authentic manner within the parameters of a BE A PRO player. Include a step-by-step process manual.
In the section where we design our players you can build off of this. BE A PRO forwards and defensemen: Poise 65-75, Strength 70-85, Speed 76-88, Endurance 75-78, Durability 75-79, Balance 72-83, Agility 72-86, Acceleration 71-85, Stick Checking 66-83, Shot Blocking 61-82, Fighting Skill 56-82, Face-offs 56-73, Discipline 65-80, Defensive Awareness 65-78, Body Checking 71-87, Aggressiveness 65-88, Wrist Shot Power 76-85, Wrist Shot Accuracy 65-81, Slap Shot Power 76-85, Slap Shot Accuracy 66-81, Puck Control 65-83, Passing 66-82, Offensive Awareness 66-82, Hand Eye Coordination 67-82 and Deking 63-79.

BE A PRO goaltenders: poise 75, vision 75, speed 82-83, endurance 82-83, durability 80-83, aggressiveness 74-75, agility 80-82, recovery 74-75, rebound 71-76, puck playing frequency 80-95, poke check 65-78, passing 77-78, stick low 73-75, stick high 75-78, glove low73-75, glove high 75-76, five hole 72-76, breakaway 74-76, angles 72-77.

Elaborate on this. Go into extensive details as to what each range of numbers means for each attribute. The numbers equal certain things. They create strengths and weaknesses for each attribute. I think there needs to be more explanation on this to educate all the people who play the games.
In the section of a player’s origin there should be a list of countries to choose from. Perhaps the first list could consist of the major hockey nations Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland and Germany.
Then the 2^nd list would be other hockey nations (Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Austria, Slovenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Ukraine, France and Italy. The 3^rd list could be called “other countries” or something like that. And as far as the NHL Draft goes 99% of all fictitious players in each NHL Draft class should come from these top-20 hockey countries.
There should be a section on GM mode and instruct the user GM of all the intricacies of the NHL GM job. Right off the bat, before you advance any days it give a recommendation to send the scouting staff on a lengthy scouting trip. Some other tasks to tend to would be to check contracts and fill your roster to 50 SPC’s. Conduct training camp with drills, strategies, line combinations, skills competitions etc. Then draw up your training camp rosters into 2 split squads. There should actually be an 8-game pre-season instead of just 4 games. The youngsters compete in the opening 4 games and the veterans play the next 4. Treat it like a real-life training camp.