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Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

hopefully they address this in the upcoming patch or its "play now" and "playoff mode" for me all season.

It would be great to see them fix the simming stats issues in the patch but realistically I expect them to wait for NHL12 and possibly with a similar strategy to FIFA's whereby they went for a complete overhaul of the engine behind their franchise mode.

Quote: Originally Posted by khill04

I've heard this 'broken' sim engine carries over to the standings as well, is this correct? I've heard it's pretty much a crapshoot as to who makes the playoffs? Too bad if this is the case, as that is the only thing that is keeping me from buying the game at this point. I'm pretty much solely a Be A GM guy, but if the season/playoff results are completely random, what's the point?

I simmed through 5 seasons to give it a test drive and I felt as if it was completely random. I know the NHL can be unpredictable from one year to the next so I don't worry about it too much but on my sim both Chicago and Detroit missed the playoffs for the first two years, Washington only had one season where they comfortably made the play-offs while the Islanders took 3 out of the 5 Stanley Cup's on offer.

As for player stats during the season, they just felt way off.