I think the practice would be beneficial for the new guys who play with the old guys.
Case in point when a few of the old guys get together we steam roll teams over but throw just one new guy in the mix and things go away from the game plan.
Now its not that the new guys are crappy, most are pretty decent its just that they are not familiar with our tendencies yet, and are still a bit used to the CPU single player mode. We have to remember that some of the new guys haven't played EASHL before and do not know a few of these things so if we inform them about them it will only make them better at the team game.
The main things I see when we start losing is that we are grouping up and cuddling in the offensive zone/break out (last night we had 3 right wingers on every breakout), calling for the pass from the goalie, forwards getting too low in the defensive zone giving us 4 people out front of the net and one forward at their blue line. Additionally walking in over the blueline and taking a slap shot never works, ever. LOL
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