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Sorry sir... easier said than done!

Will do. Does he still play? I got the Coyotes away jersey but cannot figure out the home jerseys for the life of me.

Kind of makes you sad on the inside a little bit, doesn't it?

Hello all, I was wondering if there's anyone out there who has hex edited NHL94 team and bar colors, and if there are bytes which determine the number of letters in the [ QUEBEC ] bar (for instance) on the main screen. I've been able to change Hartford and Winnipeg to Carolina and Phoenix, but Colorado in place of Quebec (and changing one of the allstar teams to AllStars as opposed to All Stars) throws everything afterward off. All I've done successfully so far is change the team and arena names; I've figured out player statistics and such; and I might replace the All Star teams with Minnesota and Nashville (Columbus and Atlanta... sigh... they're not "real" franchises yet). I know there are palette editors and such, will have to take a look at those.

You should probably set the background to no-repeat. Looking forward to playing...hopefully :/

Yeah, even the Calgary Herald seems to think so. Just sayin'. I don't have my cartoon sloth for nothing.

Best of 3 series using Xsitoph's 2 on 2 SNES rom, 5 minute periods, no penalties or offsides.

I picked the Ducks to surprise repeat. Flames are going to take down the "Stanley Cup Champions" in round one. Heard it here first.

Avs or Blues?

Hmm... 'niche' market. There are only three people I can talk hockey with here in Southern Arizona. My roommate never stays in the TV room long when Centre Ice is on, and others have said, "I've just never really gotten into hockey," which I can completely understand... I mean, it is Southern Arizona. But if you take away the Canadian markets, the NHL still continues to draw as well as the NBA (the NBA averages 50 people more a game, and that is with larger capacity stadiums), and the NBA has three franchises drawing more poorly than the Islanders, 30th in the league (who I am sure should draw better - put them in a new arena accessible from all over Long Island and watch it skyrocket). Everyone seems to pick on the schedule, the Sun Belt teams, the fact the NHL is not a good television sport... and yet it's still chugging along. I admit the schedule is out of whack, but I love how important the last two weeks are. If it wasn't for relocation, the teams that were relocating probably would have faced their fair share of problems in the future years anyways. Winnipeg didn't have an arena. Quebéc didn't have much money. Dunno about the Whalers. Some of the Sun Belt teams are a joke. I'd throw the Coyotes in there even though they're the only team I get to see regularly. Panthers as well. But the NBA has Seattle and had Vancouver and Charlotte and New Orleans recently - despite the suggestions, the NHL is stable. And in places like Tampa Bay and Phoenix and Anaheim, the existence of the NHL teams has promoted hockey in a way only having an NHL team there can. The Coyotes support the hockey community better than any of the three other major teams in the Phoenix area promote their sports' communities - there's high school scores at every game, young kids in the stands (and on a Tuesday night, not many others). And relocation - how many cities get thrown out as a deserving city to move a team to? Kansas City, Seattle, Hartford, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Kitchener, Quebéc City, Las Vegas, even Saskatoon (probably more likely than Seattle even given their arena issues). An expansion team or two is much more likely than contraction or relocation. (Oo - move the Panthers to Kansas City and give Winnipeg and Hartford expansion teams!) Even though that doesn't quite put Toronto back in the west... Simply, the NHL is strong because of the fans who continue to watch it despite the fact the sport is the most likely to be in the collective subconscious in many areas. If you get exposed to it early, if you play it on your cement patio in your backyard, watch Eastern Conference playoff games on ESPN2 when you come home from grade school. It could do with some improving, but it's still the NHL, and it will continue to be around for a good long time.

Metzgerism cheated... he used his super the-nhl-team-i-support-is-gonna-get-swept-in-four-games power up. Flames for the cup!

I've got a full bracket on at http://www.stattosoftware.com/sports if anyone is interested. It's free, but you don't get anything for winning.

Tucson Arizona, a town with a 1000000:0 citizens to hockey rinks ratio.

Exactly. In the case that the rom is 2 on 2: Chicago or Winnipeg Juiced or Not figure it out

blarg blarg blarg, still need to prove I have a clean connection even though udp direct connect is now my preferred cap league connection...

I'm directly hosting things almost as clean as a whistle. If someone else could confirm that I'd be happy. If someone would let me beat them and not tell me, I would be more happy.

Sort of agreed, but it DOES provide incentive to play better in a unique way, and I think people would understand if you laid it out before the season started.

Perhaps the Aussie Rules playoff structure would be a good one to use in certain leagues. In Aussie Rules, the top 8 teams make the playoffs and play a first round like such: 1 v 8 2 v 7 3 v 6 4 v 5 After the first round, the league reseeds the teams. Top Ranked Winner 1 Top Ranked Winner 2 Winner 3 Winner 4 Loser 1 Loser 2 The two lowest-ranked losers are eliminated. The two top-ranked winners get a bye for the second round, in which Winner 3 plays Loser 2 and Winner 4 plays Loser 1. These losers are eliminated. Then, for the semifinals the league reseeds again, and the winners go to the final. The advantage of this system is that it affords a "double elimination" aspect to the best teams. Simply put, if you are a top 2 seed, you cannot lose in the first round, whereas if you're a 7 or 8 seed, you HAVE to beat the 1 or 2. The 3 thru 6 seeds bite their nails and hope for the best. This might keep interest higher later on by providing an extra incentive to play well. Here's a sample tournament format: ROUND ONE 1 defeats 8 2 defeats 7 3 defeats 6 4 defeats 5 7 & 8 eliminated ROUND TWO (cannot play the same team twice in a row) 3 defeats 5 4 defeats 6 ROUND THREE 1 defeats 4 2 defeats 3 ROUND FOUR 1 defeats 2 Now look what happens when we throw in some upsets: 1 defeats 8 7 defeats 2 6 defeats 3 5 defeats 4 Teams 4 & 8 are eliminated. Teams 1 & 5 are highest seeded winners. 2,3,6,7 all advance ROUND TWO 6 defeats 2 3 defeats 7 ROUND THREE 1 defeats 6 3 defeats 5 ROUND FOUR 1 defeats 3 Thoughts?

You don't know how helpful that would be, but at the same time you probably don't know how frustrating it would be when people continue to ask the same questions even after reading it...

AIM: Statto NHL 94 Time Zone: Arizona 1 CGY 2 CHI 3 BOS 4 PIT 5 DET 6 NYR 7 LA 8 BUF 9 MTL 10 WPG 11 QUE 12 TOR 13 VAN 14 WSH 15 PHI 16 NJ 17 STL 18 DAL 19 NYI 20 HFD ANA

It's really not that bad, the worst connection problems I have had are with TCP. Hamachi runs quite smoothly. And again, it'd be a lot easier to config the network, but it's not always an option. EDIT: Just did a crapload of research and configured the network I was on. Hope to God it's my roommate's

I've hosted on hamachi before without any problems. Just have to figure out where the router is physically now. Seems like a silly problem but I don't know where my roommate set it up, or if I'm connected to a network that's not my own

If by assuming that I don't need to do this again I am wrong, test game me please.

I can throw together a PHP standings module if it's needed...