Asunto: Questions & Answers

good and bad days are no longer for goalies. there is goalie confidence which grows or drops based on the performance.

having said that, good and bad days are totally real. Just have a look at the Stanley Cup final and Mr. Luongo.

or look at the world championship where Germany beat Russia 2-0. A shutout by Dennis Endras, who is a good goalie, but he was matched up against a much better team. still, he managed to get the shutout.

I have 4 players with their primary attribute in bold but can't find in the guide what it means. All 4 are foreigners but i have foreigners without a bold primary attribute. What does this mean?

but that game my other lines except first was 2 times weaker than my oponent. so it should mean in real life - playing puck without defencemans and that means goal situations all the time. so geting shutout in this kind of play is unreal.

Talking about your examples - Mr. Luongo dont have any fault on most of goals. he cant save team if you face 2 forwards against none defenceman.

btw the times when Germany was beatable by anyone on hockey rink is long gone. its very strong team now and i guess will be top6 team each year very soon.

you have set them their position.

in real life you do not have season energy you can rest and prepare them for playoff, WC, etc... so then - we could have something like this:

if player plays 0 games in 7 days - he gets 1,0 or 0,5 energy back...

you have to set player type for your players to see that. Its a PRO feature

Interesting idea.very interesting

So it is. Previous managers set them but i don't bother. Thanks.

Luongo could have stopped a lot of those goals he let in.

Two times bigger numbers doesnt mean that the players have twice as hard shot, skate two times faster and are two times better at everything. It is really difficult to put real hockey players and teams into these numbers.

Germany is not an easy team to beat because of their system. The players themselves cannot be compared to the world elite like Russia had in Kovalchuk, Radulov and others.

The away team had 38 shots on goal. Your goalie, who is very good in his own right, stopped all of them. I think there is nothing unrealistic about that.

Yes interesting point gère

the shutout in your game is not realistic, because it doesnt matter how good a goalie is, if he faces two players, without help of his defenders, for several times, he would be beaten once or more..... and if i look at the difference between the defence and offence in this game, so its realistic that this situations happened several times.

BUT, good days and bad days are realistic for a goalie.

So i think if it was a good day for your goalie and it seems so, after 38 shots on goal, 2 Goals would be realistic.

Seriously guys, fluke games are part of any hockey game...

It's one thing to ask fellow managers why they think a game was won or lost, it's another to say there's a bug or a problem with the engine with each upset..

If your team is consistently losing to teams you feel you should be able to beat, and you want some insights, then go right ahead. I may create a "What's wrong with my team?" thread in the International Hockey forum for this.

But the constant complaining is really starting to grate on me, and I'm not even a developer or owner of the game...

What do we think about my "What's wrong with my team?" thread idea?

Do it! In that thread, it should only be allowed to whine.

And for managers, who want to hear second opinion ( on why they lost) create a different thread - I'll be visiting this one.

Im with you on this one. It's just so boring to read the complains over and over again. And I'd seriously would like to see that thread, would be more than great. Still, this is a Q&A thread, which is filled with 'how did I loose' variations.

so 2 goals is realistic and 0 is not. I wonder what kind of a scientific calculation leads you to this conclusion. I also wonder how you came to the conclusion that there were many 2-on-0 situations in that game.

When it comes to real hockey, an outsider rarely allows such situations. They rely on a tight defense and they want to keep the score tied as long as possible. All the time they wait for odd man rushes themselves.

Sure enough a much better team will eventually come out on top 9 out of 10 times or whatever the number may be. But if the outsider has a hot goalie and tight defense, they can shut them out on rare occasions.

Seriously, how do you know what is the difference between 120 and 60 when translated to real hockey? How do you calculate that? Instead, you should look at the shot count and the offensive zone time, because this tells you more than strength. At least when you want to compare it to real hockey.