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Okay - version 1.1 has been released... VERSION 1.1 Updates - Boston Bruins logo updated to era correct version - Player sticks/Skate blades changed to white in order to fix colour issues on ice logos - Shayne Corson and Stephane Richer portrait photos flipped back to correct spots - New York Rangers photo portraits updated HNIC 90-91 Season v1.1 (NHL 94).zip

I saw this at PAX East yesterday but didn't get a chance to play it as there was a group of 4 people playing for a while and I had to run elsewhere. It looked similar to Goons but I feel I would gravitate more towards this game. Seems like a lot of fun.

'93 is fun because you get to punch people in the face and I think that's neat.

Not to interrupt the discussion regarding speed/agility but I want to retract what I said earlier (couple of posts ago) about aggression. Aggression has been confirmed to be tied to fighting tendency in NHL 93 but in NHL 94, it is most definitely tied to penalties. Looking at stats from the 1992-93 season, players with the highest PIMs were assessed 6s and 5s on down, in the game. So, it makes sense or why bother even having the numbers match stats? It's not an exact science as to who will take penalties and when but it does seem likely that certain players may be prone to take more or at least, each game, if given more ice time. I did some more sim tests and took four teams in which I made all forwards and Dmen have a zero aggressive rating. I did notice less penalties per 5 and 7 minute period games. There were still some but it "seemed" less than usual and I simmed 7 games. I know it is a small sample size but seems note-worthy unless someone is able to confirm otherwise. I also figured out why my original findings seemed to suggest there was no difference. I missed a few players in NOSE which might have altered my findings. Once I made four teams, with all zeros, it seemed to yield less penalties in simmed games. Anywho... back to "oddities"... I think this might have been mentioned before, somewhere on this forum, but if not... Patrick Roy, for goalies with 10 or more starts, had the 8th highest rated Save % in 1992-93. We know Goalie Defensive Awareness translates to Save %. Three goalies have a 6 rating (Belfour, Joseph and Potvin) and they were in the top 3 in 1992-93. There are 10 goalies with a rating of 5. Roy is not one of them despite being 8th in the league that year. Had he been assessed a 5, he'd have the same overall rating as Belfour (98). The "Eagle" did win the Vezina that year so maybe the programmers didn't want two goalies who are equal in NHL94 to take away from his achievement? Certainly, we know that Roy was a top 3 goalie, in the league, at that time, despite an off-year for regular season stats. Or, maybe the programmers were Blackhawks fans who were bitter that the Canadiens ended up with the Cup (Roy won Conn Smyth)? Hmmmm... lol Anyway, seems like a good "oddity" within NHL94.

Mine will only play Mutant League Hockey. She doesn't want to hear me talk about how great Pavel Bure is for an hour.

Since around mid 2013 I've wanted to make a goal scoring tutorial, but I've never found the energy to make one. This is because once you have the fundamentals of how to score on a computer goalie, manual goalie trickery comes into play and makes things 100x more crazy. Problem is it's all so hard to fully understand, let alone put into words. Thankfully one day around 6 months ago or so I mustered up the energy to lay down step one of this idea. Step one being making videos on how to score against computer goalies. You might say, what does this crap matter when everyone manual goalies? If you asked that question you'll probably smack yourself in the head in a second because of course, if you can't score on computer goalies then your opponent has no reason to take manual. This is why you not only need a good understanding of how each of these goal techniques work, but you must also be able to execute each of them pretty consistently. These techniques are as important at the top level of 94 competition as they are at the bottom. Without a good understanding of all these methods you will always be missing pieces to the puzzle of goal scoring in this game. That means scoring them, and defending them too. Learn these well, and then we can move onto the complicated crap of manual goalie stuff. Okay enough fluff. If anyone has any questions about any of the goals or any aspect of scoring, please post here or pm me. Each one of these goals is an individual youtube video on my channel, so if you wanna look at any individual ones feel free to search em up. They aren't really meant to be all mashed together like this but it's easiest to post them this way. I really wish I had the energy to make write-ups for each of these methods but I'm too lazy, and visuals definitely do more for you than textual stuff in this instance. There's no such thing as a dumb question, so ask anythinggggg. Here they are, in a rough order of personal importance Dekes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNQqb7xYUFw Floaters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZvrXXxJzNI Slap Dekes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYrIzdO4cc Crease Cuts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDUyIDjxDKs Pass Shots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTL9C8AEY40 Rebounds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0NjglcgBA Goalie Rams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWnRp71aN4 Since Raph (credits to kingraphhhh) already covered slapshots in a video he made a while ago I thought I'd just use that instead of making a new one. He has all the slapper stuff covered. Here it is: Slapshots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChjAiX7jGc Notes: I don't have every pass shot covered in the vid but those cover the main idea of them. Also, I messed up with goalie ram goals. They don't really fit in, in this case they're just like dekes except you don't press C. Real goalie ram goals are where people speed burst hard into the goalie and he gets rammed out of his crease. I have no idea how those stupid goals work, but they're rare. I just included the vid anyway cuz whatever. The first 6 vids + raph's slapper vid are the important ones. EDIT: All of these goals were scored with Robert Reichel against Patrick Roy. Reichel is like the most average 94 forward in the world I'd say. 6 weight 4 4 skating 4 4 shot, to illustrate that you don't need a superstar to score. Also, try watching the vids in 720p60fps quality, I think they look pretty