East Coast Icestyle
Registered User
I really don't get how everyone is having troubles with developing. Mine are going fine. In 2019 I drafted a left winger that was like 59 and in two years he was 80 with top 6 potential.
Honestly they do have a problem with prospects but players drafted after the 3rd round have almost no chance of making it to the NHL so i kinda get it. However the top 5 should all be NHL ready or a point or two away from it. The next 15 should be NHL ready after 1 year. After that it should take 3-4 years to make the NHL if they are going to. I still have a problem where 1st over all picks are years away from being NHL ready. I am like 8 years deep into franchise and the 1st overall was a 70 over all defense defender. He didnt hit 78 for 3 years.
I really don't get how everyone is having troubles with developing. Mine are going fine. In 2019 I drafted a left winger that was like 59 and in two years he was 80 with top 6 potential.
If you look at the first round of the 2016 draft there's defenitely not 20 guys who are NHL ready now.
I think a few people don't realize 77 overall is the new 80.
In this game 74-76 is a substitute level player. Someone with 77 would be a established NHL'er. Someone you typically wouldn't healthy scratch.
Exactly. It plays in huge. A 75 overall centre playmaker for instance, became my third line centre. He he had all 80s in stats except for checking, aggression, etc. He was basically what the 82-84 overall was last year.
I really don't get how everyone is having troubles with developing. Mine are going fine. In 2019 I drafted a left winger that was like 59 and in two years he was 80 with top 6 potential.
I did some experiments on NHL 17, and was able to figure out what each potential level means. So, assuming that they decreased the overalls by 3 on general (which I've read in a couple of places), this is what they translate to in NHL 18:
90+ (franchise forward/defenseman)
84-89 (elite forward/defenseman)
81-83 (top 6 forward/top 4 defenseman)
77-80 (top 9 forward/top 6 defenseman)
74-76 (bottom 6 forward/7th defenseman)
68-73 (AHL top 6 forward/AHL top 2 defenseman)
63-67 (AHL bottom 6 forward/AHL top 4 defenseman)
Now, in reality AHL bottom 6 forward/AHL top 4 defenseman potential is actually an ECHL level player. This is why you never see anyone with lower than AHL top 6 forward/AHL top 2 defenseman in the draft. Meanwhile, bottom 6 forward/7th defenseman practically means a substitute level player.
So my conclusion is:
81-83 (2nd line forward/top 4 defenseman or a complemantary 1st line forward/top pairing D)
79-80 (Decent to good 3rd line forward/good #5 d-man or poor #4)
77-78 (Decent to good 4th liner/3rd pairing d-man)
74-76 (NHL substitute)
68-73 (AHL player)
Now there are always exceptions. One guy with 77 overall might be better suited than someone with 80 in a top six role, depending on how they are built.
And if you have have a weak team, or if your team is top heavy so you can't afford good depth, those 74-76 guys might end up being regulars on your 4th line.
But if your team looks something like this ...
82 - 90 - 87
84 - 83 - 81
79 - 80 - 79
77 - 78 - 77
76
74
88 - 82
81 - 83
77 - 79
76
85
80
... Congrats, you are probably the top favourite to win the Stanley Cup.
Was he signed or unsigned?
I had a roster with similar ratings finished worst in the division in year 4 after grinding very carefully to build the roster without completely burying myself
Also weird when building a team the create a team jerseys are still Reebok
To be fair EA's games is mostly a lottery. I can't find it now, but I made a post in some NHL 17 thread showing my cup winning team there. On paper it was horrible.
Because I edited players manually, my players were generally worse than the opposition (basically the overalls that EA started using this year). But after a few years into franchise mode, the opposing teams would replace their guys who were below 80 with prospects who had surpassed them.
Meanwhile I kept any guy who was performing for my team, no matter what their overall was. Then I ran into severe injury problems, and when I won the cup less than half my team was above 80 overall (in a game where 80 typically was the line for an NHL'er).
And my "awful" team won despite that I only played every 5th game in the regular season, and only every 3rd game in the playoffs. The rest I simmed.
So to sum it up, don't put too much stock into overalls. Build your team with guys who perform.
Me and my buddy played 8-9 seasons with Boston in another franchise mode. Frank Vatrano, who never reached more than 79 overall, would constantly score 20+ goals and 50+ points for our team. He scored 37 goals one season. We had to pay him like $5 mil more than he asked for just to make the game realistic, cus he would basically settle for league minimum lol.
Found an easy way to get tons of valuble assets you can trade for great players and high first rounders.
Game mode is broken.
I created a 32nd team. After designing the jerseys, arenas, mascot, etc., the game crashed and it didn't save any of it?
That's weird. It crashed for me too at the same point, but it DID save my stuff.
Montreal acquires: Leo Komarov, 2019 3rd
Dallas acquires: Noah Juulsen, Jeremy Gregoire
NY Islanders acquire: Martin Hanzal
Los Angeles acquires: Jonathan Bernier, 2019 3rd
Tampa Bay acquires: Chris Tanev, Brandon Pirri, 2019 5th
Florida acquires: T. Raddysh, 2020 2nd, 2019 6th
Pittsburgh acquires: Jake Muzzin
Los Angeles acquires: Filip Gustavsson, 2020 1st
acquire: Brendan Lemieux
acquire: Dan Catenacci, Brandon Crawley
Analysis: The Rangers took the chance to acquire former 1st round pick Brendan Lemieux as soon as they saw the Winnipeg had him on the block. They got him for a pretty good price: a career AHLer/fringe NHL player and an unsigned 22 year old who hadn’t developed much since the Rangers drafted him in 2017. Chris Drury has shown to be the type of GM to take a chance on guys who were once rated high, but who haven’t developed as well as some had thought and are still young. He likes the low risk, potentially high reward type players, and Lemieux is one of those for sure.
acquire: 2019 7th
acquire: Brandon Halverson
Analysis: The Rangers now have 2 NHL goalies, 2 goalies with fringe starter potential, and a future AHL starter, so Halverson kind of got lost in the mix. At one point, he was going to be the guy to take over for Lundqvist, but Sheshtyorkin has taken hold of that title and now there’s two prospects who could back him up at some point. Halverson gets a fresh start and Colorado takes a flyer on a goalie who could maybe turn it around and still pan out.
acquire: 2020 1st, 2020 3rd, 2020 4th, 2020 5th, 2020 6th
acquire: Mats Zuccarello, Brendan Gallagher
Analysis: This is very interesting and leads me to believe one of two things about the Rangers: they were either so disappointed at missing the playoffs last season that they've decided to rebuild (which seems silly because they still have a good group when healthy) or they’re clearing cap to target a free agent. Stars become even more of an offensive powerhouse and the Rangers clear some cap and add a few picks.
acquire: 2020 2nd, 2020 3rd, 2020 4th
acquire: Henrik Lundqvist ($1M retained)
Analysis: Another somewhat puzzling deal here. I don’t think Sheshtyorkin is ready to start on a contending team yet, so I firmly believe they are either rebuilding or targeting some big name free agents as I mentioned above.
acquire: Shea Theodore, 2020 4th, 2020 5th, 2020 6th
acquire: Kevin Shattenkirk
Analysis: This one makes some more sense. Vegas goes with the proven commodity (as their current defense group is just awful) to anchor the back end, while the Rangers pick up a younger, more unproven player. Theodore however put up only 7 less points than Shattenkirk, is 7 years younger, and about $4M cheaper.
Lower round picks develop a lot slower than early rounders.