smozoma

Me? No, I think you misunderstand.. I don't play, I coach.. my cat plays. Doesn't quite understand the different button names yet...

Gartner? More like gardener. He's out picking daisies at centre ice -- while we (for once) have the puck in their end. Tikkanen? More like tinkerbell. I clap like crazy behind the bench, but this fairy still won't come back to life. Messier? More like messier.. mess..i..er.. He's a total mess out there. Sloppy. I thought this guy was supposed to be able to pass? Patrick? More like hat-trick -- against his own team. Yes, he has scored three, count 'em one, two, three goals against his own team this year. Leetch? More like lichen. This guy's collecting moss out there. Vanbiesbrouk? More like... .... hmm.. .... ok i got something: More like can't-see-the-puck. 5 minutes, 5 shots, 5 goals, in the last game he appeared in. He was "hot" that game, too, so I thought I'd give him the start. Richter? More like trickler. .. At least he's not Vanbiesbrouk. 15 losses in a row for the Rangers, who started the season with a promising 6-1 record. The Rangers still hope to make the post-season, though. They'll have to steal a few games from some Western Conference teams in the second half of the season.

We can't do a full league -- no one wants to play as ottawa, san jose, anaheim, florida, or tampa bay. 8/20 is no fun because so few people make the playoffs. I'm doing terribly in the Gens A league, but I still have a shot at the playoffs, so I still have a reason to play each game. If I were eliminated already, I might not be too eager to play the rest of my games. The regular season is fun and decides the playoff rankings. What's wrong with that? Also, if you're in the B league, you want to do well in the regular season in order to move up to the A league. I need to keep working in order to stay in the A league. -- Next season will be half the teams? Are we having A,B,C,D leagues?

Wow, the 2nd half of September flew by.. I'm typically around after 7pm EST.

It's EEF2F7 (RGB) Steps to find a colour: Take a screen shot ("print screen" copies the screen to your clipboard) Open MSPaint Edit->Paste Use the "pick color" tool to select the color Go into the Colors->Edit Colors menu and click "Define Custom Colors" to see the values of the current colour. Then I use the windows calculator to convert from decimal to hexadecimal...

The Kings took this game easily, as the Rangers mounted little in the way of an offensive threat. Vanbiesbrouk played his best game of the season to hold the Kings to 3 goals in what could have been a total massacre. The Rangers were down 2-1 with 90 seconds to go and had hopes of tying it up, but James Patrick scored on himself for the 3rd time this season, giving the Kings their 3rd goal. Can you say "benched?"

After a torrid 6-1 start to the season, the Rangers quickly dropped below .500 in consecutive losses to Montreal (5-2), Detroit (9-1 - and he's supposedly rusty! 73 goals in 9 games!), Philadelphia (8-4, 4-1), and Washington (a pair of 6-2 games). As usual against tk11 (MTL), the game was fairly close, but Montreal pulled away for a win. As usual against backhand (DET), it was just total domination -- I can't get many good scoring chances on him. The Rangers were buried under a barrage of Ciccerelli slapshots. As usual against cr0ssbar (WSH), the Rangers felt they could win, but the scoreboard said otherwise. In the 2nd and 3rd life-time meetings between the coach smozoma and coach Tickenest, Tickenest showed why he was one of the best, taking two solid games. Game 2 looked like it might belong to the Rangers, as PHI was held to zero shots in the 1st period and the teams started the 3rd period tied 1-1, but then the floodgates opened and Philly scored 3 unanswered goals. Who knew Recchi was such a slapshot sniper? ggs guys

gg Dallas dominated the first minute and it looked like it would a looong night for the Rangers, but the Rangers bounced back into the game and managed to pull away near the end and take it 5-3. Very fast-paced game, and with the ferocious hits Dallas was doling out, the Rangers were definately seeing "Stars."

It looked like smooth sailing for the Rangers, who had a seemingly-insurmountable 7-2 lead at one point, but the Canucks never gave up, giving the Rangers a huge scare by getting to 8-5, then scoring 2 goals in the last 30 seconds to get within 1 with 10 seconds left. Vancouver won the next faceoff, and it looked like we may have been going to OT, but someone stripped the puck from Bure's stick as he crossed the blue-line, and the score stood, 8-7. Great game!

When Carse said before the games that he depends on the defence to score for him, he wasn't kidding. Game 1 was a tight one. As I predicted before the season, it didn't take long for a Ranger goalie to get the hook, the Beezer being pulled after a slapshot goal that put FLA up 1-0. The Rangers came back, getting a 3-2 lead, but then James Patrick on the Rangers corralled the loose puck in front of the Rangers net and dumped it in behind a confused and rather irate Mike Richter to give Florida the equalizer. However, with 20 seconds to go, Mark Messier beat the "other" Beezer (Florida and NYR both have John Vanbiesbrouk) with a floater to the far side to seal the game for the Rangers. Game 2 wasn't so tight. The Rangers hopped out to an early 4-0 lead, the NYR one-timers coming from every direction. The FLA Beezer was quickly pulled for Mark Fitzpatrick. Florida got on the board when none other than James Patrick scored on himself AGAIN. I thought Carse meant he depended on HIS defencemen to score for him, but apparently he meant MINE. The game ended in a 6-3 victory for the Rangers, Messier scoring 3 and helping on 2 others. Gord Murphy, star defenceman for the Panthers seemed to be mounting a comeback, but the Rangers held on. Game 3 was the tightest yet! A hard-fought game brought the teams into overtime, where Mike Hough put a "bullet" from the hash marks past Mike Richter to win the game for Florida, 3-2. Game 4 was pretty tight, too. The Rangers walked away from this one with a 2-1 win (Gord Murphy again giving the Rangers a scare by scoring a late goal to bring the Panthers within 1) and 3-1 record to start the season.

One problem I've seen is that I think Gens can play a ROM from within a ZIP file, so some people unzip it and others don't, and they can't play each other.

I have one of these: http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/P880.htm It's ok. Not amazing, but for 30$CA, not a disappointment. They could improve it by having 2 shoulder buttons on each side instead of just one big one on each side, and the analog sticks are poorly positioned, so you can't use them for long without getting uncomfortable. I find the D-pad to be a little too hard/sharp sometimes, too. For just playing NHL94, I don't think I would recommend this one, but if you play other things, too, it's ok. There are 6 thumb buttons. I set them up like this: A O O B C O and the right shoulder button is START. It seems like it would be awkward having A above B, but it's actually easier.

No one I know "in real life" can consistently beat me, but that's not many people. When I started playing online in the oNHL94 league (the one with the stats), I was Anaheim and was beating everyone or losing close ones, but then tk11 came from the other conference and crushed me 6-0 (5-0 after the first period) and I realized I had a thing or two to learn! I think people who haven't played online will be 1-2 steps lower than they think they are. When you play online, you learn so many new ideas: I NEVER used manual goalie until I was online and saw that it could decide a game. I'm still pretty weak at it, but then there a few players (ok, one in particular) who would serve themselves better by leaving the goalie to his goalie-ing and not turning him into an olympic horizontal ice diver The pass-goal was an occasional funny accident to me, not an integral part of the offensive arsenal of slow teams. People online are waaay better dekers than I am. I may be the one-timer king, though!

BEWARE THE RANGERS, MERE MORTALS! Actually, I should probably get a revolving door installed on my bench, for the frequency with which I'll be pulling Vanbiesbrouk and Richter. Prediction: Steve Yzerman will win the scoring championship.

Murphy is pretty incompetent, too. I find Christian Ruuttu doesn't look too bad on the ice with Roenick and Larmer (but really, who's going to look good next to those guys?? Some people even think Larmer sucks, since they can't see his skills when he's placed next to Roenick's domination!)

Terry Yake is awesome. I'm playing a season with a friend of mine, and Yake is 16th in scoring with 20 goals and 6 assists in 13 games. That puts him in a tie for 6th in goals (with Lemieux). Of players averaging more than a shot per game, he is leading the league with a 43.5% shooting percentage (20 goals, 46 shots). He is also a decent sub at centre on Hartford (Cassels never does much for me). I find he's a pretty smart player, finding an open spot in front of the net for one-timers. The worst scorers in our season are Andrei Kovalenko (QUE) and Dale Hawerchuk (BUF), each with 2 goals on 25 shots for 8%. Kovalenko scored one in his last game, so he was around 4-5% before that. He gets to play because of his crazy hitting, but like someone else on these forums said before, he "plays like he doesn't know much about the game" : ).

I've seen this happen if you score on a penalty shot in the Genesis version. Penalty shots don't seem to count as shots.

I find I like being shorthanded, too. The team on the powerplay plays poor defense and you get good breaks. I like the penalties on. They spice things up a bit . But yeah, the refs are totally corrupt! -- edit: oh, i already replied to this ages ago. Losing my mind.. Haven't been playing enough '94 lately, that's gotta be the problem!

I still say it's cheap. Well, maybe it's how some people employ it that's cheap. I rarely get scored on this way, but I hate it when people try it OVER and OVER and OVER again. That's why it's cheap: people do it over and over again because they have nothing better. It really makes the game boring (though it does help bring my bodycheck stat up). If you need the walk-across in order to score.. you need more practice and creativity/spontaneity, and I don't know how you're having much fun playing. I consider it like the trap in the NHL: within the rules, but .. yaaawwnn...

nice, hehe For the Sega, Top Forward lines: Roenick, Selanne, Bure Yzerman, Mogilny, Gartner Gilmour, Fleury, Ciccarelli Lemieux, Gretzky, Robitaille or Sandstrom Top Defencemen pairings: Housley, Sweeney Bourque, Chelios Leetch, Suter Coffey, Lidstrom Top Goalies: Belfour, Roy, Fuhr, hmm.. Essensa, Potvin, Hextall, Terreri.. really, after the top 3, they're all the same!

I've seen guys superman the entire width of the rink : ) Short story here, then a new term! My favourite lobster/superman was after a goal when playing aganist a friend of mine. One of us scored a goal (I forget who), then the other nailed one of the scoring team's players into the end-boards. The player Lobstered all the way out to the blue line, then, as soon as he crossed the blueline, he got up and raised his stick and arms above his head in celebration of the goal. He looked like a gymnast who totally messed up a stunt, but got up and did the arms-up-in-air thing gymnasts do at end of a routine to show off to the judges. Laughed..so.. hard.. -- "Grand Slam Goal" When you score a goal and then check all 5 of your opponent's players to the ice. This is VERY rare, since they guys must be lined up nicely for you, and since your guy is cheering, you don't get much time to dole out the punishment. I've only noticed myself do it once. Checking the same guy twice doesn't count as two checks -- it must be all 5 unique players. Note: They don't all have to be lying on the ice at the same time; it's ok if they get up, as long as you don't hit the same guy again and count it as two checks. I think this name ("grand slam goal") is a bit weak, though, considering the magnitude of the feat. Can anyone think of a better name?

I always thought it made a bit more sense to take a drink each time you scored Evens things out a bit.. and why not celebrate!

I thought it was the NHL itself that wanted the fighting and blood out?

The highlight was the stickhandling at the red line to get around some player at the boards. Four players frantically chasing him to the goal added humour. The goal itself was irrelevant (and a total skate across, though I doubt the CPU's enjoyment of the game was negatively affected). And the goal was scored on the rush (hence the hustle), not a set play. I thought I might get some flak for that goal in the video, but -- Gah! Offsides just add more whistles, since the CPU players are a tad dumb. In the oNHL94 stats league, we use offsides and line changes, and some games you just wish you could check the refs over the boards, as the offsides slow the game down a lot since people have to wait for the guy who went in ahead of them to come back, or someone went in offscreen and got a whistle. I don't think many people find playing with offsides on adds anything to the game, unless you're playing with 3 or 4 players and need it to prevent cherry-picking. I don't care if it's me or my opponent who went offside -- I don't want to waste time on whistled plays. It's hockey, not football