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Which do you find more addictive-FM or EHM? I have to say that after my well-publicised problems (read sulk )installing the Smetana rosters it is the latter that has caught my imagination. I love the sheer amount of detail in the game-especially looking back at player's histories etc. I am also really eager to try and discover the next Ovechkin-(i've tried getting the original but to no avail ). Thanks to the game I have discovered more about the AHL and other Ice Hockey leagues of which I knew nothing before (now a fan of the Manitoba Moose-great name). A few questions though-do you know where I could find out more about the NHL transfer system. I know the basics, but would appreciate links to websites that describe it in detail (ie Free agents etc). Also, do NHL teams rely more on foreign imports or on the minor leagues? Just curious.
The Guide should really get you going but the basics of the NHL transfer system first relies upon having a player's rights. This can be done by drafting the player or by trading for his rights. In general there are three groups of players you'll hold rights to, overseas players, college players and Candian Juniors.
Overseas players when signed will only join your team during an international transfer window, the most common of which begins July 7th, if you miss that 'window' you'll have to wait until the next year. So if you are planning to draft and then sign someone playing in Sweden, offer them a contract as soon as the draft is completed. The only time this differs if if the players doesn't have an NHL Release Clause in their current contract. In that case they cannot sign with you until their current contract expires.
That situation is similar to owning the rights of College players. You can offer them a contract if you are going to play them on the NHL level, they cannot be sent to the minors (AHL/ECHL etc) during the years they would be contracted to their school. I believe you can only sign them after they've completed three years (though it might be two?). If a college player completes his four year contract he will become a free agent at which point you will be alerted that you will lose your rights to them unless you sign them. At that point the only contract they would have is with you so you can do what you'd like with them.
Players in the Canadian Juniors (QMJHL, WHL, OHL) have been drafted by their Junior teams so it is them who hold their rights. For this reason you can sign a Junior player if you will play them on your NHL roster but until they turn 19 your only other option will be to return them to their Junior team. If you have signed a player to a contract and then returned them to their Junior team you can recall them to your NHL team at any time. Your first contract to them is governed by the same transfer rules as international players, they will transfer to your team on July 7.
The waiver rules are rather complicated and honestly I'd have to look them up to get them correct but the bare-bones answer is players without much playing experience on the NHL level can be sent down to the minors without passing through waivers. You can check on this on a player's profile page. A veteran player you want to send to the minors will have to clear waivers first, giving other teams a chance to claim him. Once put on waivers you can send him to the minors right away, then if he clears waivers he can be recalled to your team and sent down again until he plays 10 games or spends 30 days on your NHL roster.
There is an explanation of the different rules that make players free agents or restricted free agents in the manual.
Now that there's NHL hockey again this season I got into it and decided to try EHM. I've played FM but it was getting too easy. I'll probably play it again at some point, but right now EHM seems more interesting with lots of new things to learn.
What I like about both of these games is that the more you watch games and your players in them, the more you learn about them and you're better equipped to make decisions. Then you see how your decisions work out and you can make further adjustments, pretty much an endless learning circle and the more you find out the more you like the game.
air wrote:Now that there's NHL hockey again this season I got into it and decided to try EHM. I've played FM but it was getting too easy. I'll probably play it again at some point, but right now EHM seems more interesting with lots of new things to learn.
What I like about both of these games is that the more you watch games and your players in them, the more you learn about them and you're better equipped to make decisions. Then you see how your decisions work out and you can make further adjustments, pretty much an endless learning circle and the more you find out the more you like the game.
True, although I am having difficulties at Dallas with consistency. We have a 50-50 won-loss record, and we end up winning one comfortably and then losing the next in OT. I have just checked out the tactics in archibalduk's guide and hopefully this will guide me with a bit more success. Our Powerplay is good and our penalty killing improving-it is just the number of goals we are conceeding that is killing us. Plus, I have only brought in Michalek from the Sharks (?) on a trade for picks and rights. He isn't very good.
I flip between EHM and FM, normally around when the patches are released. At the moment I'm playing FM far more, but will probably switch back to EHM after the next patch. To be honest, both are getting a bit repetitive at the moment, but there's no chance of me playing anything else!
)installing the Smetana rosters it is the latter that has caught my imagination. I love the sheer amount of detail in the game-especially looking back at player's histories etc. I am also really eager to try and discover the next Ovechkin-(i've tried getting the original but to no avail 
). Thanks to the game I have discovered more about the AHL and other Ice Hockey leagues of which I knew nothing before (now a fan of the Manitoba Moose-great name). A few questions though-do you know where I could find out more about the NHL transfer system. I know the basics, but would appreciate links to websites that describe it in detail (ie Free agents etc). Also, do NHL teams rely more on foreign imports or on the minor leagues? Just curious.
