TomKabs93

That is freaking amazing. I hope they're available at Canadian gamestops too

I'm the same way, I'm not observant whatsoever while playing. I didn't know about the righty/lefty differences until a few months ago as far as I remember

You sound like a finn, aqua. Crazy theory crazy talk

You're right, I looked at the EA forums the other day and it was 100000 % hate. I love that, ea deserves it

Russ is 6 5 6, Modano is 7 5 5. Those are drastically different. Sure Russ is a righty which is a plus for him, but 7 5 5 is wayyy better at deking imo than 6 5 6, so Modano takes the cake deke wise. Well really, he takes the cake in every way against Russ.

Geoff Courtnall and Modano have the exact same skating attributes and are both lefties. They deke totally the same. I honestly like deking with Modano a lot, he just feels a little bit less 'free' than Klima and Gartner. No players let me feel the wind through my hair like KlimaGart

Lefties can't spinorama. Righties can 360 spin (or 180, 270, whatever you want, it's very controllable) on a dime basically. This means that something is different about the way lefties and righties turn. We don't understand 100% completely why, but it's definitely more significant than just not being able to spin. Something about the turning difference makes lefties poorer at deking. This is why Gilmour and Recchi feel weird to deke with. Sundin feels a little slicker at moving around than Robitaille and Roberts do. They're all 7 4 4 skaters, it's just that Sundin is a righty while the other two are lefties. To people who didn't know it already, it's a fact that lefties can't spin. Try it if you don't believe it

Forgot to respond to this. I think NYR has a very balanced attack with no weaknesses. Gartner is an incredible center who can do it all. Tikkanen is a pleasure to skate with and makes pass shots almost easy. I've never tried Messier but people seem to like him. Amonte is a solid grinder winger who adds some simple character to the line. There's just something about the way Gart Tik and Amonte mesh together that works wonderfully. I know it's all so subjective, I just feel that Gart and Tik propel NYR into stardom.

I said they're in no individual order within each group. So I just used alphabetical. Winnipeg is crap, Selanne can only skate in straight lines. He could be useful as a winger but none of the other Wpg forwards can play center well. Davydov would be the best bet. I would take Toronto over Winnipeg. Yeah I'd rather have Winnipeg over Edmonton, but it's not thattt unfair. Edmonton isn't good but they're better than all of the C tiers bigtime. I would take anyone over Winnipeg in B tier except Edmonton and maybe Quebec. I'm trying to not be biased though, honestly. I really believe that Winnipeg is a step below all of the A tiers. Philly is better than all of the B tiers I think. Recchi is pretty great (with classic advantage boosts), and Eklund is awesome too. They are a a little bit worse than most of the other A tiers but they belong there I think. Vancouver has a fake superstar in Bure, awful D, and other talented forwards who sometimes struggle scoring due to weak shots. Bure is a fake superstar imo because he has a lame 4 4 shot, less than 5 stickhandling, and most importantly he skates in a straight line due to higher speed than agility. Non top 10 forward imo.

Idk I've seen S tier in tons of other game tier lists. Maybe it stands for super or something. It's like god tier basically Those team placements you mentioned are all very important to this particular list (except EDM). Your opinions on CAL MTL and WINN all align with the more classical way of thinking 94 wise. Calgary has always been thought to be a top team, and even Winnipeg to an extent. Montreal isn't normally considered a fantastic team, but they've always been called good/very good. Here's my thoughts on those 3 teams. Calgary - Very solid team but they don't have: A - a one man show player, and B - great chemistry. Fleury is great but his shot isn't fantastic and he doesn't have 5 stickhandling. Reichel is solid all around but he's not good enough to be considered a great 2nd best forward. Their only good shot on forward is Roberts, and he's pretty gross being 7 4 4. MTL - No great shot at all on forward, and no 5 speeders. Muller is often used as the onetimer option but he has a 4 4 shot, not that great, and 9 weight omg so sluggish. Their forwards are mostly all agile without being really fast, so they can be slippery, but the lack of shot makes it hard to capitalize on good dekes. Winnipeg - Lame forwards other than Selanne, the fake superstar that is so gross to deke with. Selanne is good but not great. Zhamnov is ok but 7 weight and 3 speed means slowwww no matter how agile he is. Davydov does his job but he doesn't help this team's case for being A tier. Housley is whatever, you can say he's great but I don't think so. Even with Coffey on D instead of Housley this team would still be B tier!

B tier is still decent! I think they're a fun team

Yesterday, Plabax and I were talking about which teams are overrated and which are underrated and whatnot. This prompted me to think about what my current team rankings would look like, as the last time I tried to make one was probably 8 months ago. So I thought of this list and mentioned it to Plabax, and surprisingly he agreed with it. Anyway, here's the list. I strongly think that this is the most accurate grouping of teams posted yet. I know rankings are subjective, but I really believe in this list. There's no individual rankings within each group, so I just used alphabetical order for sake of simplicity S - Tier BUF CHI DAL DET NYR A - Tier BOS CAL LA PHI VAN B - Tier MTL PIT QUE TOR WPG EDM C - Tier HFD NJD NYI STL TB WSH D - Tier ANH FLA OTT SJ Note: I'm not saying that Chicago vs Rangers is 100% even by any means, but I think any matchup within each group is fair enough. Note 2: I only said the first 13 teams on this list to Plabax, so he possibly doesn't 100% agree with the second half of this list. Knowing him though, he doesn't care much for the lesser skilled teams, so I'm gonna assume he'd agree with that part anyway.

Anything above 4 frames feels so grossssss *barf

Yeah I was dumbfounded after trying nhl 16 and seeing that the ratio of love-hate threads on the easports nhl reddit page was like greater than 10:1. NHL 16 is one of the biggest videogame disappointments ever for me

Really good point AJ, using C as goalie is good for the odd scenario but I rarely ever use it. I'm not quite good enough at gc to get much out of it. For my first year or so playing this game online I never pressed C as the goalie at all.

Yeah you're totally right seth. I shoulda been more basic and clear. You laid out some very simple guidelines that I didn't even think of, stuff that I'd overlook. Great stuff. One thing tho is imo you should use a 1on1 rom to practice everything. I don't believe in playing against cpu when you have real players to play against, and shootout mode is flawed. It's flawed for 2 reasons: - One is that it's inefficient. It's slow waiting for your next shot, and most importantly, it forces you to play manual goalie against the computer, which is so bad for you hahaha. The computers don't act like humans whatsoever, and they even do weird shots that wouldn't go in had a human tried the same thing. Shootout mode will ruin your manual goalie skills lol. Second is that slap dekes and crease cuts don't work in shootout mode! Zeppelin told me this recently (I didn't know because i never tried to use the god awful shootout mode). The goalie just doesn't lay down. Goalies stay on their feet in shootouts, but in regular play they love laying down Here's how you practice anything and everything (aside from exis, which are by far the most important part): http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php/topic/16507-gdl-practicetryout-rom-set/ Download those roms if you feel like practicing anything. Leave the settings so the second player is 'human controlled' so he just stands there, and leave him standing at center ice. Grab the puck after the faceoff, and line yourself up facing upwards around center ice. Make a savestate there, and then mess around with whatever you want on the ice. Once you try scoring or try whatever, instead of waiting for a faceoff or chasing the loose puck down, just hit F8 and you will load the state standing right back at center ice. Even better is downloading a program (I use a program called 'JoyToKey') and set F8 to a useless button on your controller (I set it to the 'MODE' button on my 6 button sega controller). Then you don't even have to let go of your controller for endless efficient practice.

1: Without the puck, focus on positioning and B checks. Try to B check 95% of the time and C check 5% of the time, it fixes bad habits. C checks are too risky and they force you to worry about the weight difference between players and all that complicated crap. A well placed B check works 100% of the time (except against players with 5 stickhandling, they can withstand some B checks. But even then, it still slows them down a bit). Only C check when you are not in a good enough position to B check them, or when it's your only option ie. when someone has a step on you and you need to bump them off their path to the net. Of course it's okay to go for C checks sometimes against fat players but good coaches won't frequently allow themselves to be in such a vulnerable position with a fatty. Everyone loses to B checks!!!! Note: I don't mean never use the C button without the puck, using it to speed burst around is essential. 2: With the puck, try to learn how to deke around the ice with 1 player a lot. This is not the optimal playing style at all, as good passing and playmaking is essential to winning, but it's great practice to learn how to be dangerous with 1 player. If the other player is threatened by your moves with 1 player they will start to commit to you, opening up easier passes to your other more open players. 94 is a simple game with few buttons, so it seems like there aren't enough options to deke, and this is why I believe people love to pass pass pass in 94 (not top players so much). Another factor I believe is a lack of confidence. Don't be afraid to get C checked, B checked, CB checked, whatever. Just dust yourself off and try again next time. Deking in 94 is very dangerous, and it is my favourite part of the game. 1on1 deking is done through a variety of jukes, which are all very hard to put into words. Pretty much if you think they're gonna go one way, go the other way. Much easier said than done. It's all about positioning and reads. One part of deking that I will say is by far the most important is stopping up. Plabax and I like to call it 'stop n go.' A quick stop up at the right time opens up a massive array of options. Right before you think they're gonna attack you, stop up, and then make your choice from there. You can either do a hard stop, a quick stop and turn 1 way, a quick stop and turn the other way, or a quick stop and then go straight again (a fake stop). There's so freaking much more but idk how to explain it all 3: Become fluent in scoring on computer goalies in all of the possible goal scoring methods. Don't worry about pass shots, you really don't need them, just all of the C button goals. I videos for each individual scoring method if you didn't know that already. If you're interested, I'd be happy to link the thread here. It's called 'how to score on computer goalies' I think. Try to make all of the methods muscle memory, so you can score them 80% of the time or so. The methods are 'backhand forehand dekes', 'forehand backhand dekes', 'crease cuts', 'floaters', 'slap dekes', and 'slapshots'. Other than these all you need is onetimers, and they're more self explanatory. 4: Try to figure out simple mixups for goal scoring strategies. This is necessary when your opponent starts stopping your simple goal scoring methods with manual goalie. If you have simple mixups for each method of scoring on cpu goalies, then it all becomes a guessing game (which is great for you on offense!). Examples of mixups are - Cutting to the net diagonally with a lefty from the left (going up). From here the obvious choice is to go for a backhand forehand deke goal. Done right this will pretty much always go in on a cpu goalie. A mixup here would be to keep cutting across instead of going short-side, and hold C at the right time for a nice slap deke. The beauty of this mixup is they both work on cpu goalies, so if they don't take gc then it's a goal either way, and if they do take gc then it's a 50/50 guessing game for them. - Cutting across the crease horizontally with a lefty from the left (going up). The obvious choice is to go for a crease cut. A mixup here is to turn back as you get near the goalie and do a half spin and float it to the opposite side (the side you came from). They can't cover both options, they gotta commit to one. Another mixup here would be to stop up for a half second just before you'd start holding C for the crease cut, and then go forward again and complete the crease cut. The stop up makes people think that you are faking them out, not going for a crease cut, when really you're doing a double fakout (I think). That must sound complicated, but it's really not, it's just hard to explain. I'm a stupid man and I can do it, so you can do it too! There's a hell of a lot more, but I'm tired of typing and thinking and I really don't wanna overwhelm anybody. Ask any questions you have! Big, small, dumb, whatever. We take them all

Plabax is like the only guy to have a windows 8 or newer that hasn't had any problems. New computers + 94 = crap shoot

Care to elaborate? Let's be open with who we think will do what

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Philly isss better than Quebec Especially with home/away advantages in classic, Philly is a boosted team You can say Quebec is good on paper all you want, but nobody has had great success with them because together they are bad. They're world famous for looking good but playing awful

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