Nerd Alert: For all you NHL 10 players

I’ve got:

1) NHL 2005 for Game Cube
2) NHL 2006 for Game Cube
3) NHL 2001 for PC
4) NHL 94 for Sega

I always play with the Leafs on dynasty mode, maybe I should stop, hasn’t done me any favours.
As mentioned in my 5 Things post my old University roommate and fellow PPP commenter Fleet Fox and I spent hours making trades and creating players to match the Leafs roster throughout the past three years. It was tough work and we tried to be as diligent as possible. Actually looking back now we made some serious misjudgments when we created Mitchell, Hanson, and Bozak last spring. We probably undervalued Bozak and made Hanson and Mitchell way to good.
As of right now I’m playing a lot of NHL 06 on the Game Cube (just swept the Habs in the first round). I’m buying myself a PS3 soon and have to decided whether I should get NHL 09 or 10 to play while I wait for 11 to come out. For those of you who have played both what do you recommend?

NHL 94
NHL 09
NHL 10

Kessel in NHL 10 is still an 84 rating, B- potential. This makes me a sad panda.

It’s where I go to live out all my rediculous trade ideas. Because they actually work!

NHL 94 was my fav as a kid growing up for snes, I also played NHL Stanley Cup alot, even though that game was pretty shitty.

When I got gamecube I played all the EA titles and most of the NHL Hitz ones as well, I would say that NHL 06 was probably my fav off that system.

NHL 09 and 10 are both great games, i found 09 to be a little less frustrating though, the AI in NHL 10 is annoying as fuck.

I always use the leafs in dynasty mode, I dont really beleive in superstisions that much. I also am usually a sucker for keeping the rosters identical to the real ones pretty much on a week to week basis. Like this year, once komisarek got hurt I stopped using him in the game and early in the season when Kessel was injured I patiently waited for him to return in real life.

Every now and then Ill just do a fantasy draft for fun (only in 06 and 10, 09 doesnt have a fantasy draft) but i rarley ever finish those seasons.

I played 09 online a ton and had a pretty decent record, i think i was somewhere around 400-100. I have barley touched NHL 10 online as i havent really had as much time for it this year.

I also enjoyed creating current leaf teams in NHL 06 for gamecube and had similar misjudgments when creating players. I pretty much made hanson, mitchell, stalberg, bozak, schenn and gustavsson all stars haha. Needless to say the leafs are rated like 98 and kick some serious ass haha.

Gotta say I only ever played NHL games on computer – I’m 23 now and bought NHL 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04. My computer is too old now to handle the newer ones, and I’m actually not sure if they still make em for computer

In NHL 99 you used to be able to check/slash the goalie! If I was feeling a bit crazy I’d turn all the penalties off and go buckwild on the goalie and get a few cheap goals this way. The fun would wear off after a period or two, and I never finished those games…

The other thing I like for 99 was once a “star” icon appeared under your player (depending on what his talents were) you could press a key and he would do a special move. A slick dangler like Forsberg would get into the slot and try a between the legs wrister! Little bit risky but looked beautiful if it worked. A power forward like Shanahan would speed towards the net, and once the star came up, press the button and he’d do a quick swoop behind the net to the other side and try a wrap-around/jam play. I also used to love some of the players with heavy shots, the one guy I’m thinking of was a created player, so he had great speed and an absolute bomb, but when the star came up he sortof leaned back a little a rocketed a shot off balance at the net. Not totally sure why anyone would try this particular move in a real game but it looked sick on the computer.

Anyone else remember this, or even feel like maybe I have it confused with NHL 2000 (Chris Pronger)? I really don’t think I do, because NHL 2000 was all about scanning your face and putting it onto a created player…also pretty awesome and something you can’t do on the xbox!! Imagine if you could actually put your face onto a player with graphics the way they are now?? Cool!!!

NHL’94 – Sega CD and on my computer as a ROM
NHL’96 – ROM
NHL ’99 – PS1
NHL ’00 – PS1
NHL ’07 – PSP

I really stopped playing video games for a long time until I was really hung over one day and decided to buy a PSP. I had just been to a wedding, and decided that the only thing I was going to do for the rest of the day was to buy a hockey video game and sit in my air-conditioned room. ‘07 is still pretty old though, and I have to create 2/3 of the players currently on the Leafs’ roster anyway.

As a side note, downloading NHL ’94 and ’96 pretty much got me through the most boring class of my entire university career: Business French. Shudder.

I have or have had:
NHL 94 for Sega and SNES
NHL 95 for SNES
Ice Hockey for NES
Blades of Steel for NES
Then for a long time nothing happened because I was a broke student and couldn’t buy any new games.
NHL 03 and 05 for PS2

Now I’m a parent, young professional and adult student and don’t have hardly any gaming time any more, outside of Guitar Hero. My last game purchase was Cars.

I got in late to video game hockey. Before college I hadn’t played a hockey video game since Blades of Steel. Then I got into NHL 2003 for PS2, me and my buddies would play in my basement apartment between classes. I got each year’s version until they started making the games for the next gen consoles. They really started fucking the dog with the PS2 versions once the next-gen consoles came out. Now I’m still playing NHL09 for PS2 until I get a PS3, which probably won’t be for a while.

My totally legit pro difficulty be a pro sniper is averaging something like 2 goals a game in NHL10. The gameplay is just covered in little annoyances that sort of kill it for me. I always liked be a GM but I think 2k does it better. I haven’t tried 2k10 but in 08 the GM mode seemed so much better.

In NHL10 – How about I rediculously overpay you for that right wing prospect you got there partner, im up against the salary cap. “This offer is insulting.” What if i throw in some ultra crappy no potential prospect. “I was a little skeptical at first but id be crazy not to take this deal!.” The trade system is just plain wonky, I liked in 2k where you can ask what the other team wanted in trade.

I played Blades of Steel (which I still own) and Ice Hockey on the NES.

Played NHLPA Hockey 93 until it melted on SNES and then NHL 94. Had a couple of PC years and now have NHL 09 for my XBOX.

I had in order:

NHL Rivals (Xbox)
NHL 2k6 (Xbox)
NHL 07
NHL 09
NHL 10

I’ve enjoyed NHL 10 far more than any of them. The gameplay is just so refined and realistic compared to the other games. Playing my power forward in Be A Pro is especially fun. Still, I find it hard to score sometimes because the goalie AI is too damn good.

I kind of miss NHL Rivals where every single wraparound attempt went in. The Minnesota Wild won the Cup that year with Marian Gaborik, Wes Walz, and young and promising player Richard Park all cracking 200 points. Good times.

NHL 10.
I am always, always the Bruins. I play either the Penguins or Habs and just try to hurt everybody.
In season mode I am 10-0-1 and average six goals a game.

While borrowing my friend’s PS3 I may have become addicted to playing NHL10 online with 4-5 other people with position lock on.

Call it weird, but I actually loved playing as a shutdown defencemen. Playing goalie is awesome too, but pretty hard unless you build up your stats.

If you aren’t playing EASHL you aren’t doing it right.

NHL 98 (PC)
NHL Rivals (xbox)
NHL 2001? (PC) was that the one with lemieux on the cover
NHL 2000 (PC)
NHL Powerplay 99 (PC)
NHL 07 (X360)

NHL rivals was an extremely underrated game, spent hours playing 3 on 3 pond hockey. Had me and a couple friends versus guys on live. That game and Midnight Club 2, and NFL Fever were my first live games oh the memories.

NHL 98 was awesome, Habibulian was almost impossible to score on.

’01 – I loved the whole trading card thing

’00 – the stupid scan your face thing never worked always came out shitty

’07 – first time the skill stick was introduced, love it

On a side note – EA for created player would it kill you to put brown skin tones to create a player. There is nothing really between tanned Italian olive skin tone and light skinned black guy. I’ve been waiting for EA to fix this since 98.