[brandon27]

I prefer just to take my favorite team (Detroit) and move on from there. They're due for a rebuild anyways.


The morale system makes it a bit difficult I found. I'm in 2022 in a Wings dynasty right now. I think it was in the second year, I decided to blow it up and get something for Datsyuk and Zetterberg before they retired on me.


Trading them away caused several other players to take a morale hit which dropped their overalls in some cases by 5 points. It was really frustrating, because one dropped from 88 to 83, and is demanding to be traded. He's 22 years old. It's a little crazy. To this date I haven't moved him, because that would be stupid... and he's never recovered.


I find scouting and drafting to be a nightmare in this game. It's a complete crapshoot IMO. So the picks I acquire from dumping off UFA's and older players, I'll tend to package and ship out to bring in a younger star player. Then trading away the 1's and 2's, caused players to take a morale hit as well. But bringing in Ryan O'Reilly a 91 OVR C for my top line means nothing for morale? Ok...


So those two issues, morale, and draft/scouting makes it pretty difficult to rebuild teams without getting everyone's undies in a wad presently on the roster.


The roster management screens are a disaster in the offseason as well. You hit free agency, you get a great list of players to sign, but good luck taking a look at how your roster/lines presently shake out to really plan out who to sign. There's nothing... convenient to help with that process.


I'm having fun with it, that's for sure. However The whole mode could really use an overhaul though. I wish they could have done that when transitioning the mode into the new gen games when they stripped it down, and now are slowly adding things back in. It is what it is though.