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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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Captain, I have more fun reading your posts about your BAP than actually playing mine! The passing is huge, my passing was ~60 and Joe Colborne was streaking for a breakaway so i tried to feed it to him. Nope, puck ended up on their dman's stick at the point and he walked in and sniped it over Reimer's shoulder. I felt like I let my team down.
I'm determined not to get sent back to Kelowna though, nothing was more miserable than playing for that team. Brown couldn't save anything and even though I lead the league in scoring by ~20 goals and ~15 points, I was benched for the last 5 minutes of every game of the playoffs where we promptly lost in 7 games to the 8th ranked Prince George Cougars. I wish you could demand a trade in this game.