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Originally Posted by Cheerio
My BAP got drafted by Toronto 1st overall, and holy crap the difference between the WHL and the NHL is huge. I keep getting killed all over the ice by big D-men and I was one of the fastest players in the WHL, and I'm losing races everywhere. I'ma 73, and I feel like I'm perpetually the worst player on the ice.
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There is a massive difference between the NHL and the WHL. The skaters are a lot faster, their offensive and defensive awareness levels are higher, their agression levels are through the roof.
I completely sucked in my training camp spending most of my time face down on the ice bleeding and got sent back to the hitmen.
I was marginally better in my second training camp, but my coach told me that I'd better learn to play ball or I'd be back riding the buses, then he made me take his massively overweight mother on a date. That ocach Fotze was a real ball buster.
Anyways for the first while, I had to really simplify my game until I got my skating stats to a reasonable level. Thats right, I made sure that I simply got every player a danish before game time, and would load the dishwasher with player cups.
I also ended up playing way more dump and chase.
Once you get used to the speed of the players its nice. One thing that they've really improved is that they've made the defense way more unpredictable. In previous versions you could go up the boards, stop and either cut to the net or fire a pass into the middel, or with my pathetic passing stats, row 22.
Now the defenseman might let you come up the boards, or they'll angle you into the boards and secretly stab you with a shiv. Or they'll just step into you right at the blue line if they have help.
Its a way better game then last years.