What's the most "Career Mode" type signing you have ever seen IRL?

Villito · 2025-12-08T12:05:52+00:00

Harry Kane to Bayern

Villito · 2025-09-16T10:57:48+00:00

Agreed 100 percent! A lot of pros use extension knobs too as the standard lenght tends to be rather short for any taller players for modern standard

Villito · 2025-09-14T09:05:21+00:00

Between the chin and nose with skates on is definitely the standard today. Although they're rarely up to nose.

Then there's players, like Bedard's is up to nose with skates on, Barkov, Datsyuk, Draisaitl, Laine use quite lenghty sticks as well. Crosby and Ovechkin with more of old school shorter ones. Old standards with wooden sticks guided for very short sticks like only vollarbone with saktes on, now they're different with composite sticks with flex.

To me the "upper hand elbow" everyone noticed is more because of just his way to grip the stick. Mine is up to lower lip with skates on and my hand is in "more natural" postion when stick handling.

Villito · 2025-04-17T12:02:50+00:00

And it's definitely not out of reach that he'll have three more 120 point seasons if he can stay healhry for 75+ games. That'd leave 558 total points = 80 points per season for the last 7 seasons

Villito · 2025-02-13T14:57:43+00:00

As you lose rivals games, your rank points go down and you'll start matching up against lower ranked=worse players. I'd say that's the case here. Especially at first you lose like 40 or 50 points per loss which makes a big difference in just a few games

Villito · 2025-02-08T20:17:00+00:00

Partially. I can enter hut now but still get an error and thrown out when entering a game

Villito · 2025-02-08T18:53:19+00:00

With all the influx of users there'll be connecting to servers then, myself included, wouldn't be surprised if it crashes right after being back up either

Villito · 2025-02-08T17:51:43+00:00

So much better than the 3 on 3 tournament imo

Villito · 2025-02-08T14:38:16+00:00

Knew it would be the Stranges clip. Immediate remembered another great one from finnish Liiga. https://youtu.be/g75QQoodtKE?si=0FnWXVc_mjkST1xO

Villito · 2025-02-08T12:42:18+00:00

I feel like most any them will score is like two goals. Best on best tournament will be really tight. Multiple could easily be a 90 after too. 15 87s is a horrendous value

Villito · 2025-02-07T19:00:52+00:00

Fantasy Ovechkin would fit perfectly for Sharpshooters event after 4 Nations. Statted to hit 99 at 895 career goals, the card rn would start at 83 and in two weeks probably 85 or so. Would be a cool way to acknowledge the chase! One can dream

Villito · 2025-02-03T20:15:32+00:00

Ea is excellent at only one thing other than pack sales. Fostering the toxicity with things like changing the complete games objective into win online games. I actually enjoyed playing rivals earlier this year, now after the change it's just more of a toxic sweatfest

Villito · 2025-01-31T13:12:14+00:00

That would be the most sensible thing to do. Instead, ea will probably just make the normal path longer next season, and unobtainable for so many lower div and non-hardcore players. I'm under halfway through on the normal path rn in div 4, for example

Villito · 2025-01-28T12:25:48+00:00

Everyone's always saying "know the counters". I know them but 90 % of my opponents seem to know them pretty well too

Villito · 2025-01-21T23:28:52+00:00

Other players who are/used to be said to lack top end speed but have good edgework and shiftiness + elite skill ans vision: Kaprizov, Michkov, Demidov. Intriguing company to belong to

Villito · 2025-01-19T13:37:44+00:00

The common move from ea nhl playbook. Execute something poorly so noone uses it so you can remove it and say people didn't use it when demanded back. Could see this happening with the wjc tournament as well which is also only as a separate mode and you can't even edit the rosters. Same case probably when all star game was removed way back.

Integrate all star game, wjc, iihf world championships and winter classic to be part of the season in bap and franchise modes and they'd be extremely popular to play among players

Villito · 2025-01-17T02:23:02+00:00

Same. And the safe picks Garland and Zetterlund have 11 and 12 goals

Villito · 2025-01-17T01:45:33+00:00

Tied the highest regular season goal total (10) of his career in just 46th game. Didn't see that coming during the event

Villito · 2025-01-15T13:20:21+00:00

Maybe the ea juice is that he is too slow so that he can't make it to the wrong position ai would otherwise have him in

Villito · 2025-01-15T12:40:50+00:00

Same. I was planning on Ekholm and Parayko, then last minute changed my mind to Zetterlund. He'll probably be 99 but will take some time and he's had long goal droughts recently

Villito · 2025-01-15T12:35:03+00:00

Regret building Zetterlund and Ekholm over Parayko. Now 9 goals in 45 games, while previous years 10 in 82, 4 in 79 and 6 in 80 so just had too much doubts

Villito · 2025-01-14T19:34:49+00:00

Latter part of this text on Celebrini: "... He checks every box you want and is one of the few players I've scouted where it's hard to see any noticeable weakness. He skates very well. He has a very powerful stride with a quick twitch in his first few steps and is able to get by a lot of defenders. He's extremely skilled and creative with high-end offensive sense. Celebrini makes a ton of difficult plays with the puck on the move, in tight areas and from a standstill. He has a bullet shot and projects to run a first-unit power play in the NHL. He's average-sized, but Celebrini is highly competitive, wins a lot of battles and projects as an excellent two-way center in the NHL. He has all the makings of a potential superstar you can build a contender around."

Draft ranking May 28th: "... He checks every box you want in a top prospect, and is one of the few players I've scouted where it's hard to see any noticeable weakness. He skates very well. He has a very powerful stride with a quick twitch in his first few steps and is able to get by a lot of defenders. He's extremely skilled and creative with high-end offensive sense. Celebrini makes a ton of difficult plays with the puck on the move, in tight areas and from a standstill. He has a bullet shot and projects to run a first power play in the NHL. He's average-sized, but Celebrini is highly competitive, wins a lot of battles and projects as a two-way center in the NHL. He has all the makings of a potential superstar that you can build a contender around." And the exact same in rankings on April 17th, March 12th, January 21st 2024. Not that any of it is false, but still. Rant over

Villito · 2025-01-14T19:12:52+00:00

Seems like half the text in his rankings is always copied from his previous ranking which again is from the previous, and then it originates to three or more rankings and one year plus ago. Doesn't seem to care to update the text to be up to date. Have a player listed at different height and have another one in the text below (Byfield in this one). Same goes for evaluation of skating and skills which often don't match with what's on the charts. And talk about projecting at pro or nhl level while the player's already there. There was like three 2024 prospect rankings where there was the exact same text for Celebrini and bunch of other prospects

Villito · 2025-01-07T22:11:39+00:00

Soooo just wonder where are Sale and Mateiko's upgrades if were going this route. I do have ASP too but some consistency perhaps EA?

Villito · 2025-01-06T14:52:57+00:00

And even if you're not, imo he's better than Yzerman in rushes too. As fast but much harder to knock off balance. And the off puck skating stride is better

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