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Sorry if this is common knowledge. I tried searching but the only answers I could find were the same school yard theories from nearly 30 years ago. It seems a lot of people have their own strategy for breaking the glass, whether it's using Al Macinnis or letting one rip from the blue line. The truth is a whole lot simpler than that. I found an interview with NHL '93 programmer Jim Simmons from Inside EA Sports (Volume 2 Issue 1, 1993). In it they ask what's the secret to breaking the glass. "I've built a small sweet spot into the glass panel directly behind the right half of the goal - it's only three pixels wide by five pixels tall. That's about the size of the puck. You have to hit that sweet spot right on, extremely hard. Using a player that has a really hard slapshot helps, but luck is usually the strongest determining factor in getting it to shatter." I look up whatever videos are available of breaking the glass in NHL '93/94 and sure enough, it's always in the same spot. Shot speed is not a factor, but it helps increase your odds of firing a wild puck at the "sweet spot". The spot is roughly in between the feet of one of the fans. Anytime you hit it, the glass will break regardless.

I'm not an online player, the missus and I have foregone having kids, she is far from boring, I'm already skating, rapidly, towards forty and I've been playing '94, for around fifteen years. Only having found this community, less than, a week ago, I can safely say... I'm here for the long haul.

I recorded a tutorial video last night that shows how I record my gameplay in RetroArch and then edit the file in order to create animated GIFs:

Congrats to @dcicon5148 for winning! Here's season 6. 1) @hokkeefan - HARTFORD 2) @Scribe99 - NEW JERSEY 3) @chaos - WASHINGTON 4) @Tickenest - ST. LOUIS 5) @Tess - NEW YORK RANGERS6) @Thrillhouse - EDMONTON 7) @aepurniet - TORONTO 8) @seventieslord - DALLAS 9) @Mitch Kramer (Chris O) - CALGARY10) @sonoffett87 - WINNIPEG 11) @Tecmo@DPS - QUEBEC12) @TecmoJon - VANCOUVER 13) @NotThatJared - BOSTON 14) @Joe H - CHICAGO15) @kidswasted - ALL STARS EAST 16) @BigValboski - ALL STARS WEST waitlist: @lego @SlapshotSean @boehm23@Mr. T@Triple A@#KentuckyWindage@sheehy @onceaguru @DoubleDown @matthew_d @JSchmidt Tier 0 - ASW/ASETier 1 - DET, CHI, BUFTier 2 - VAN, MTL, BOS Tier 3 - WPG, LA, CGY Tier 4 - DAL, TOR, QUE Tier 5 - NYR, PHI, EDM Tier 6 - PIT, STL, WSH Tier 7 - NJD, NYI, HFDTier 8 - TB, FLA, SJ, ANA, OTT

Hey you. Yeah the one who quit a few years ago and wrote off the league for a variety of reasons previously discussed and that don't really need to be re-hashed. Okay, I'll re-hash a few: 1) gens is confusing and annoying - We are all on Retroarch now. it's not perfect, but it's easier and better and we have dedicated people who can try a bunch of stuff to fix it. 2) people are tryhards/ assholes/ douchebags - okay lay off @Uncle Seth, but pretty much everyone else is nice and fun to play against. This season, we had enough players to have a C division, and next year if most stay, we'll be able to balance competition even more! 3) AOL IM sucks - LOL we use discord. I'm so glad I wasn't here in the days of AOL IM or I would have laughed this group into obscurity. 4) people don't play their games - @kingraph or @halifax can correct me, but I think we had like 95% league games and 100% playoff games played this last Classic. 5) soandso's not here anymore, so I quit - be your own man. There's lots more good people here to play with. even Halifax plays online now. 6) laaaaaaaaaaaaaaagolas - generally speaking, this keeps getting better not only because of general internet quality (like fiberoptics, and higher speeds, lower latency), but also because of chaos and other tech guys who can help with retroarch settings and computer settings to enable/disable/change things to tweak. Need more reasons? 1) lately we stream an average of 10 hours of high quality NHL94 action per week to various twitch channels. Okay, some is high quality, some is low, and some f**king weird dude has plastic stairs, but it's great fun to hang, drink, and chat with the other viewers. 2) There's some thing in Korea called "NHL 94 Rewind". We have no idea what it is or what system it's for, but this could be optimized for internet gameplay (unlike our original version), and could make finding and playing games all over the world easier. Or it could be a massive f**king flop. But either way, come join the party! 3) Just recently, a player named @Tickenest created an online ELO based player ranking/rating type of system. Since there may not be (m)any live tourneys for NHL94 that would qualify as official events and change rankings, an online system is a good way to find out where you rank against all the other players around North America and try to climb the ladder. 4) there's more exis available than ever, at all hours of the day. "Primetime" is still 7-11EST, but we have players who post for games as late as 5am EST, and as early as 7am EST haha. And imagine if YOU and ten others come back and post when you want exis? No more waiting for games. 5) who the f**k is danTML anyway? Never heard of him - I'm just a guy who accidentally skipped over nhl94 in the franchise due to being poor as a kid. Owned 93, 95, 97, and then stuck with 97 for 22 years. I'm very saddened and embarrassed, but I've been in this community now for a while and I realize 97 is trash and I've played thousands of games of 94 since and I'm always learning and improving. I started a YouTube and Twitch channel to help spread the joy to others. I exi anyone and everyone and also help chaos with tech support. 6) I'm considering helping to fire up Plablegs old league as it seems like it was thoroughly enjoyed and missed. The list could go on, but those are the main ones I can think of. I'm going to tag some names that I've seen around lately in tickenest's data that he's shared. Feel free to ignore, or wake up from your long retirement/hiatus/slumber, find us on discord and I'll help you get set up! @Zalex @Freydey @Depch @NorthwayNative @Carse @Bigfoot @minpind @dangleisious @Fitzo @donnybrook @Sicarius @Buc @flasox24 @Wittgenstein @nahkahomo @eggink444 @orangeblack92 @da94wookiee @skoolyardpuck @Sebe_The_Legend @Snyder @ba55i5t @Bo Knows NHL94 @Skeletor @jackandjose @redbonzai @JackVandal @xdeathsbloodx @Pearate @Burntman @The Dopefish @kylewat @VintageKing @jbalicki10 @Samuel Quirion There is 100% I tagged someone that I probably shouldn't have, like someone who was banned or someone who died, or whatever, but I don't care. I hope you're all okay in COVID times and you'll join us all with some NHL94 self-isolation (immolation???) To anyone else reading, feel free to tag a bug or two. To you @Brutus, how much can we as the NHL94 community pay you to spam text all those cell numbers you have in your phone and get them to come back for a tourney or some exis to see if they still got it? LOL. Thanks all.

Attached is a file of summary statistics from Classic Summer 2020, all leagues. One column = one league. There are also some amalgamations of multiple leagues in the file. GENS-ALL combines all Gens leagues. SNES-ALL combines all SNES leagues. SNES-A combines SNES-A-EAST and SNES-A-WEST. So now we can finally say GENS PLAYERS PLAY LIKE THIS WHILE SNES PLAYERS PLAY LIKE THIS. Key findings: -Gens games average about 7.6 goals while SNES games average about 8.6 goals despite both having about 25 shots per game, meaning that SNES players score with 5% more of their shots than Gens players -Scoring goes up slightly in period 3 -Shooting percentage drops substantially as you go down the A, B, C levels -Gens games average about half a penalty more per game -SNES players succeed at scoring on the power play about 4% more often than Gens players -SNES players score slightly more shorthanded goals per power play than Gens players -Gens players manage almost one more breakaway attempt per game than SNES players -Gens players score their one-timers about 5% more often than SNES players -Penalty shots occur at equal rates on both systems and we score them 36.4% of the time -SNES games average 2 body checks more per game than Gens -SNES players try 13 more passes per game and complete 11 more per game, for an increased success rate of about 3%. Note that I have applied an adjustment to the completed pass numbers where by one-timer attempts are counted as completed passes (neither system counts a one-timer as a completed pass) -SNES players score quickly after goals and period starts a little more frequently than Gens players (the GoalsScoredWithinXSecondsOfCIF means "Goals Scored Within X Seconds of a Center Ice Faceoff") -The player leading after period 1 wins nearly 80% of the time. The player leading after period 2 wins almost 90% of the time. Let me know if you think of any interesting analytics that I could calculate. table.tableizer-table { font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .tableizer-table td { padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #CCC; } .tableizer-table th { background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold; } Classic_Summer2020_GENS-ALL Classic_Summer2020_SNES-ALL Classic_Summer2020_GENS-A Classic_Summer2020_SNES-A Classic_Summer2020_GENS-B-EAST Classic_Summer2020_GENS-B-WEST Classic_Summer2020_GENS-C Classic_Summer2020_SNES-A-EAST Classic_Summer2020_SNES-A-WEST Classic_Summer2020_SNES-B Classic_Summer2020_SNES-C Games 1115 1018 280 520 271 256 308 260 260 260 238 Ties 0 8 0 4 0 0 0 1 3 3 1 Shutouts 78 62 18 19 19 16 25 7 12 19 24 ShutoutsPct 0.07 0.061 0.064 0.037 0.07 0.062 0.081 0.027 0.046 0.073 0.101 Goals 8508 8809 2297 4840 2012 1967 2232 2506 2334 2196 1773 Shots 27630 24945 6716 12418 6467 6434 8013 6504 5914 6377 6150 ShootPct 0.308 0.353 0.342 0.39 0.311 0.306 0.279 0.385 0.395 0.344 0.288 GoalsPerGame 7.63 8.653 8.204 9.308 7.424 7.684 7.247 9.638 8.977 8.446 7.45 ShotsPerGame 24.78 24.504 23.986 23.881 23.863 25.133 26.016 25.015 22.746 24.527 25.84 GoalsP1 2778 2904 763 1609 626 640 749 829 780 730 565 GoalsP1PerGame 2.491 2.853 2.725 3.094 2.31 2.5 2.432 3.188 3 2.808 2.374 ShotsP1 8952 7989 2200 3974 2087 2061 2604 2097 1877 2013 2002 ShotsP1PerGame 8.029 7.848 7.857 7.642 7.701 8.051 8.455 8.065 7.219 7.742 8.412 ShootPctP1 0.31 0.363 0.347 0.405 0.3 0.311 0.288 0.395 0.416 0.363 0.282 GoalsP2 2721 2799 715 1554 658 648 700 786 768 678 567 GoalsP2PerGame 2.44 2.75 2.554 2.988 2.428 2.531 2.273 3.023 2.954 2.608 2.382 ShotsP2 9012 8329 2178 4203 2135 2134 2565 2168 2035 2141 1985 ShotsP2PerGame 8.083 8.182 7.779 8.083 7.878 8.336 8.328 8.338 7.827 8.235 8.34 ShootPctP2 0.302 0.336 0.328 0.37 0.308 0.304 0.273 0.363 0.377 0.317 0.286 GoalsP3 2856 2995 787 1623 685 651 733 860 763 753 619 GoalsP3PerGame 2.561 2.942 2.811 3.121 2.528 2.543 2.38 3.308 2.935 2.896 2.601 ShotsP3 9188 8287 2254 4092 2131 2137 2666 2157 1935 2116 2079 ShotsP3PerGame 8.24 8.14 8.05 7.869 7.863 8.348 8.656 8.296 7.442 8.138 8.735 ShootPctP3 0.311 0.361 0.349 0.397 0.321 0.305 0.275 0.399 0.394 0.356 0.298 PPGoals 1206 1021 331 545 262 271 342 289 256 247 229 PPGoalsPerGame 1.082 1.003 1.182 1.048 0.967 1.059 1.11 1.112 0.985 0.95 0.962 PPTries 3007 2317 782 1209 682 686 857 614 595 565 543 PPTriesPerGame 2.697 2.276 2.793 2.325 2.517 2.68 2.782 2.362 2.288 2.173 2.282 PPSuccessPct 0.401 0.441 0.423 0.451 0.384 0.395 0.399 0.471 0.43 0.437 0.422 SHGoals 761 628 206 362 173 167 215 178 184 143 123 SHGoalsPerGame 0.683 0.617 0.736 0.696 0.638 0.652 0.698 0.685 0.708 0.55 0.517 SHGoalsPerPK 0.253 0.271 0.263 0.299 0.254 0.243 0.251 0.29 0.309 0.253 0.227 BreakGoals 693 505 203 287 140 165 185 156 131 106 112 BreakGoalsPerGame 0.622 0.496 0.725 0.552 0.517 0.645 0.601 0.6 0.504 0.408 0.471 BreakTries 4673 3447 1258 1780 1007 1095 1313 944 836 804 863 BreakTriesPerGame 4.191 3.386 4.493 3.423 3.716 4.277 4.263 3.631 3.215 3.092 3.626 BreakGoalsPct 0.148 0.147 0.161 0.161 0.139 0.151 0.141 0.165 0.157 0.132 0.13 OneTimerGoals 2641 2420 802 1350 593 627 619 668 682 582 488 OneTimerGoalsPerGame 2.369 2.377 2.864 2.596 2.188 2.449 2.01 2.569 2.623 2.238 2.05 OneTimerTries 9260 10515 2435 5243 2054 2263 2508 2714 2529 2581 2691 OneTimerTriesPerGame 8.305 10.329 8.696 10.083 7.579 8.84 8.143 10.438 9.727 9.927 11.307 OneTimerGoalsPct 0.285 0.23 0.329 0.257 0.289 0.277 0.247 0.246 0.27 0.225 0.181 PenShotGoals 124 122 30 76 29 27 38 44 32 22 24 PenShotGoalsPerGame 0.111 0.12 0.107 0.146 0.107 0.105 0.123 0.169 0.123 0.085 0.101 PenShotTries 342 335 81 186 70 83 108 110 76 83 66 PenShotTriesPerGame 0.307 0.329 0.289 0.358 0.258 0.324 0.351 0.423 0.292 0.319 0.277 PenShotGoalsPct 0.363 0.364 0.37 0.409 0.414 0.325 0.352 0.4 0.421 0.265 0.364 FaceoffTotal 17708 16650 4593 8789 4190 4045 4880 4516 4273 4137 3724 FaceoffTotalPerGame 15.882 16.356 16.404 16.902 15.461 15.801 15.844 17.369 16.435 15.912 15.647 Checks 57929 55046 17192 28763 13070 13160 14507 14796 13967 13532 12751 ChecksPerGame 51.954 54.073 61.4 55.313 48.229 51.406 47.101 56.908 53.719 52.046 53.576 PIM 7128 5206 1894 2700 1608 1620 2006 1366 1334 1286 1220 PIMPerGame 6.393 5.114 6.764 5.192 5.934 6.328 6.513 5.254 5.131 4.946 5.126 AttackDefendZoneTime 1435886 1269254 357482 645336 352276 327272 398856 320566 324770 326258 297660 NeutralZoneTime 571114 563146 146518 290664 135524 133528 155544 147434 143230 141742 130740 AttackDefendZoneTimePerGame 1287.79 1246.811 1276.721 1241.031 1299.911 1278.406 1294.987 1232.946 1249.115 1254.838 1250.672 NeutralZoneTimePerGame 512.21 553.189 523.279 558.969 500.089 521.594 505.013 567.054 550.885 545.162 549.328 AttackDefendZoneTimePct 0.715 0.693 0.709 0.689 0.722 0.71 0.719 0.685 0.694 0.697 0.695 NeutralZoneTimePct 0.285 0.307 0.291 0.311 0.278 0.29 0.281 0.315 0.306 0.303 0.305 PassComps 54943 61122 14768 31905 13005 12814 14356 16429 15476 13946 15271 PassCompsPerGame 49.276 60.041 52.743 61.356 47.989 50.055 46.61 63.188 59.523 53.638 64.164 PassTries 89506 94847 23274 48421 20767 21101 24364 24961 23460 22072 24354 PassTriesPerGame 80.274 93.17 83.121 93.117 76.631 82.426 79.104 96.004 90.231 84.892 102.328 PassPct 0.614 0.644 0.635 0.659 0.626 0.607 0.589 0.658 0.66 0.632 0.627 GoalsScoredWithin10SecondsOfCIF 121 126 35 66 26 29 31 44 22 34 26 GoalsScoredWithin20SecondsOfCIF 369 448 100 240 84 79 106 148 92 106 102 GoalsScoredWithin30SecondsOfCIF 675 770 174 421 160 156 185 248 173 185 164 LeadsAfterP1WinPct 0.787 0.801 0.802 0.78 0.745 0.812 0.786 0.797 0.764 0.823 0.824 LeadsAfterP2WinPct 0.875 0.879 0.889 0.88 0.863 0.888 0.861 0.873 0.887 0.873 0.881 TrailsAfterP1WinPct 0.213 0.196 0.198 0.218 0.255 0.188 0.214 0.203 0.232 0.172 0.176 TrailsAfterP2WinPct 0.125 0.116 0.111 0.115 0.137 0.112 0.139 0.122 0.108 0.118 0.114 Classic_Summer2020_ALL_LeagueSummary.csv

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