EHM Early Access Part II

[IslesRock4]

Continue.

You can buy it here now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/301120/

Real player database: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13590
Other downloads (face packs, logo etc): http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=75

Preview: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=13580#p180831
Interviews with Miles and Riz: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=13579
Detalied review: http://gmgames.org/eastside-hockey-manager-early-access-ehm-ea/review/ - (thanks Kbs)

So it was actually true, EHM is getting a second life.
This is amazing! It's like I'm walking on clouds...

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[Fire Tortorella]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

 

[Dabeast]

So this happened in my Canadiens franchise.

-I offered out Bryan Allen to all teams and only got offered Zach Redmon from COL. I accepted because Allen was in the AHL and this saved 1 mil in cap but then they rejected.

-offered him out again same thing happens

-offered him out 2 more times got nothing

-waived him and he cleared

-offered him out and got like 15 offers and accepts a 2nd rounder from EDM.

 

[Cor]

What's the best way to Create a Player for Early Access?

 

[Konnan511]

What's the best way to Create a Player for Early Access?

Go to TBL, download their EHM:EA 2007 rosters. Download the pre-game editor. Creat your players, make your changes, etc. Save the database. Open EHM:EA and click import 2007 database.

 

[Treb]

So this happened in my Canadiens franchise.

-I offered out Bryan Allen to all teams and only got offered Zach Redmon from COL. I accepted because Allen was in the AHL and this saved 1 mil in cap but then they rejected.

-offered him out again same thing happens

-offered him out 2 more times got nothing

-waived him and he cleared

-offered him out and got like 15 offers and accepts a 2nd rounder from EDM.

That's something that happened in EHM 2007 also.

 

[Digable5]

So this happened in my Canadiens franchise.

-I offered out Bryan Allen to all teams and only got offered Zach Redmon from COL. I accepted because Allen was in the AHL and this saved 1 mil in cap but then they rejected.

-offered him out again same thing happens

-offered him out 2 more times got nothing

-waived him and he cleared

-offered him out and got like 15 offers and accepts a 2nd rounder from EDM.

Real life:

-I offered out Daniel Briere to all teams. Got no offers.

-Waived him and he cleared.

- Trade him and a 3rd for Gratton and a 4th.

Not all that unrealistic. The circumstances and his value are obviously different, but trading a player after they already cleared waivers happens in reality.

 

[Treb]

July 1st 2015:
4 NHL GM
1 Finnish Liga GM
2 AHL GM
2 ECHL GM
4 Canadian Hockey League GM
1 KHL GM

Got fired

 

[Digable5]

Nearing the end of my 3rd Season.

Here is my team report. Does everybody's teams look like this?:

Goalie:
Raanta (having a Vezina season for the ages)
Pickard
Demko

Defense:
Yandle
Brodin
Vatanen
Scandella
Severson
Klein
Josh Morrissey
McKeown
Noah Hanafin
Nikita Zadorov
Haydn Fleury
DeMelo
Morgan Reilly

LW:
Jamie Benn
Jonathan Drouin
Tomas Tatar
Rychel
Nick Ritchie
Max Domi
Johnny Gaudreau
Shinkaruk
Lawson Crouse

C:
Kopitar
Sean Monahan
Tomas Hertl
Brett Sutter
Patrick Berglund
Martin Hanzal
McDavid
Sam Bennett
Jack Eichel
MacMillan
William Nylander

RW:
Tyler Toffoli
Filip Forsberg
Rocco Grimaldi
Anthony Duclair

This doesn't even include the 7 top 10 pick prospects I acquired last offseason.

My team is 39-8-5.
My AHL Team is 46-2-0

 

[New Jack City]

^^^ Jesus Christ man lol. While that may be possible to do in this game 1) Salary cap hell in a few years and 2) I personally try to play the game a little more realistic than that because I think its more fun to develop prospects, make the occasional trade and what not

 

[Digable5]

^^^ Jesus Christ man lol. While that may be possible to do in this game 1) Salary cap hell in a few years and 2) I personally try to play the game a little more realistic than that because I think its more fun to develop prospects, make the occasional trade and what not

See I am impatient and need to make moves as often as possible. If I go an offseason without trades or signings I will probably just quit.

That's kind of why I wanted some feedback. Is everyone doing what I am doing or taking a different approach? I am glad to hear people take it more realistically. I just have to keep improving every spot.

 

[PAZ]

Nearing the end of my 3rd Season.

Here is my team report. Does everybody's teams look like this?:

Goalie:
Raanta (having a Vezina season for the ages)
Pickard
Demko

Defense:
Yandle
Brodin
Vatanen
Scandella
Severson
Klein
Josh Morrissey
McKeown
Noah Hanafin
Nikita Zadorov
Haydn Fleury
DeMelo
Morgan Reilly

LW:
Jamie Benn
Jonathan Drouin
Tomas Tatar
Rychel
Nick Ritchie
Max Domi
Johnny Gaudreau
Shinkaruk
Lawson Crouse

C:
Kopitar
Sean Monahan
Tomas Hertl
Brett Sutter
Patrick Berglund
Martin Hanzal
McDavid
Sam Bennett
Jack Eichel
MacMillan
William Nylander

RW:
Tyler Toffoli
Filip Forsberg
Rocco Grimaldi
Anthony Duclair

This doesn't even include the 7 top 10 pick prospects I acquired last offseason.

My team is 39-8-5.
My AHL Team is 46-2-0

Ya it's quite easy to do. GMs at the draft haven't had time to 'determine' if the just drafted prospect is a future franchise player, so they'll usually just trade them for similar value.

On a sidenote, does anyone know if its possible to do off-season training for prospects?

 

[Intoewsables]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

I generally opt for something close to a 52/30 split, but it depends on how strong my goalies are. If I had an elite starter and a journeyman backup, the starter would probably be getting 65+ games.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

It depends. I've had seasons where my backup goalie was a youngster so I let him play against the lesser team in a back-to-back. Lundqvist retired and now I have to youngsters and try to let them play 40-ish games each to see which one is better.

 

[Alveio]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

I play him on one of the back-to-back games, when my starter is getting tired, and when my starter starts playing quite bad.

 

[Franck]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

For the second night of back-to-backs and when my starter got blown-out in the last game. If they do well I'll let them play until they eventually put up a poor performance.

 

[Flukeshot]

I had 17th pick in the 2016 draft and the number 1 prospect fell to me. The draft class as a whole didn't look great.

Also got McDavid in 2015 after winning the lottery and he was terrible in his first year. Anyone else have McDavid advice to maximize him. Currently on a line with Palat and Simmonds in Philly.

 

[Flukeshot]

Oh and Drouin led th league in points in 2015 with 104... Then TB Traded him for Blum straight up half way thru 2016... Ugh.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

How often do you usually play your back up goalie?

20 games approx.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

I had 17th pick in the 2016 draft and the number 1 prospect fell to me. The draft class as a whole didn't look great.

Also got McDavid in 2015 after winning the lottery and he was terrible in his first year. Anyone else have McDavid advice to maximize him. Currently on a line with Palat and Simmonds in Philly.

McDavid needs a couple of seasons to develop properly... his stats are not great to start, but he gets better slowly, same for Eichel.

Personally, I sent McDavid to juniors the first season

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Girardi just got traded to the Oilers for Matt Lashoff and a 3rd round pick...

Oilers are not supposed to pull this kind of steal

 

[Raymondo316]

Also got McDavid in 2015 after winning the lottery and he was terrible in his first year. Anyone else have McDavid advice to maximize him. Currently on a line with Palat and Simmonds in Philly.

He needs another 2 years in juniors & maybe a year in the AHL

 

[Eagle Eye Cherry]

So far I'm into my 3rd season and I'm still employed thankfully.

I made it to the playoffs in my 2nd season and in spite of that, the board is still not pleased with me. I gave them what they wanted, a playoff appearance. Sheesh!

My prospect Max Domi is doing well but Duclair is busting hard.

 

[irunthepeg]

^^^ Jesus Christ man lol. While that may be possible to do in this game 1) Salary cap hell in a few years and 2) I personally try to play the game a little more realistic than that because I think its more fun to develop prospects, make the occasional trade and what not

I agree. When I started playing EHM, I did more like what he's doing in just acquiring the best because it's easy to manipulate. He also has a lot of prospects who may seem like they'll be studs in real life but in the game might not turn out so well.

 

[WeThreeKings]

I'm trying to manipulate the game best I can to beat all the records..

I've beaten all of Gretzky's records except single season assist (I was close..)
and Hainsworth's Shutout record (17 shutouts is the best I was able to do so far)