EHM The Blue Line

Hey guys its been a while...

In my experience, in real life, a great first line is made up of a playmaking centre, a top sniper, and a good cornerman/two-way winger. Examples of this would be the Triple Crown Line in LA, French Connection in Buff, and Gretzky and Kurri and whoever they were paired up with at the time. Or Gillies Trottier and Bossy @ NYI.

My question is...does this hold up in EHM? and if so...what tactics should you specify for that line, incl. individual player instructions?

Any help would be great, thanks in advance

My line of Ovechkin - Briere - Jokinen was killer. Combined for something like 750 points in two seasons.

I had attacking mentality with high forcheck and hard pressing, with behind the net offensive system.

All 3 were set to Carry puck: Yes, Join Rush: Yes, and Simple Pass: No

Briere was set to pass and Jokinen and Ovechkin were set to Shoot. All 3 had 'normal' backchecking.


I've also had pretty good sucsess with the line of Ovechkin - Malkin - Semin, but I never got past the 3rd or 4th season with them, so they never matured to there full potential.

I tend to agree (nice to see ya back at TBL btw!); and my second line is a "poor man's" version of my first line.

My Washington Challenge first line that anchored by Cup team was Semin-Madden-Zubrus and with Carolina I've had a lot of success with Cole-Belanger-Balastik though Handzus took over for Belanger who went down to second line for my 2.2 team. I have them set for for Attacking, Skating, Triangle or Positional, High Forecheck, Zonal, with regular backchecking and pressing and hitting hard, and no matter the line it seems 'mixed' always yields the best board battle percentages.

I've played lines with one featured shooter and two passers as well as one passing center and two shooters. I pair them with one offensive playmaking defenseman and one stay-at-homer. I play linematching and two defensive lines with lines set to 'even' so my lines don't put up giant crazy numbers like someone playing overload run and gun lines would. Even so playing around 15-16 minutes a night on average Cole had 46g42a, Belanger had 22g56a and was named runner-up to the Selke, and Balastik en route to winning the Calder posted 45g43a. That was in 05-06 of my Carolina Challenge game.

Gagne - Spezza - Carter

370 points in one season
707 points in two seasons

That's Jeff Carter I assume?

In my last season with the Bs I have put togheter this one:

Heatley - Spezza - Bergeron

it turned out like this:

354 points in the regular season and

106 points in the playoffs...Patrice and Dany injured in the Finals

Of course we won the Cup!!

Minstrel wrote:That's Jeff Carter I assume?

Of course

Harper wrote:

Minstrel wrote:That's Jeff Carter I assume?

Of course

I always try to trade for Carter or Mike Richards....but the Flyers dont want to loose them!! I cant imagine why

My Caps formation with Heatley - Malkin - Ovechkin has won me the Cup two times in a row.

The first season together (2007/2008 season) that line produced 482 points (208 goals and 274 ass). In
four seasons togehter they have produced 1 666 points, and Malkin only played around 50 games last season.

This was evil.
the last two seasons with the sharks i´ve played
Marleau-Thornton-Cheechoo in the first line

in the two seasons they combined for 666 points... *scary*

My line of Tangauy - Crosby - Me(a more talented version of Martin Havlat) in Pittsburgh

1st year 345 pts
2 years 766 pts (421)
3 years 1176 pts (410)

I noticed that all three of them are being described as flashy wingers and centre. So I think 3 players with high skill and most importantly high 'flair' will do really well together on the topline.

In 2010-2011 my top unit with Ovechkin, Malkin and Kessel combined for 361 points despite AO missed out on like 20 games.

Nagy-Richards (Brad)-Iginla

Almost 200 GOALS between the three in one season. A good combination of pure scoring and nothing else (Nagy) and everything else plus scoring (Iginla and Richards). I have Jeff O'Neill on a line with them now and he's scored 100+ points and 50 goals and he's probably a second liner under most circumstances so put Richards and Iginla together and that's pretty much all you need.