PlabaxV2

It amazes me how trudatman tries to convince others that his comments are "jokes" and not "trolls".

Just wait, the league wont be starting tonight lol. And I'm not even running the league anyway.

Yes C checking is easier.. But when you sub Esa Tikkanen for Tony Amonte, it wont do you better because against someone who can B check, I can guarantee Amonte will score less than Tikkanen would. But yeah I see also that heavier guys do move slower.

#1 - *WEIGHT VALUED TOO MUCH?* PART 1 - IS WEIGHT EVERYTHING?? Secret Insider Tip In order to deliver a consistent, solid check you need to be 2 WEIGHT points lighter than your target. This seems to be a surprise to everyone when I mention it, but you can try it if you don't believe me. You can try checking Dallas Drake (4) with Theo Fleury (3) and you will see as Drake wont even budge for most of your attempts. ------------------------------------------------ In GDL X, I traded away a bunch of good picks like Sergei Fedorov for light unskilled players like Andrei Kovalenko because I thought he could just steamroll everybody and nobody could stop him. I was wrong In NHL '94, there are other ways to get the puck that don't involve WEIGHT. You can either trip him using the "B" button, Hook/Hold him using the "A" button or you can try and get in the way of his stickhandling, but this one doesn't work as often. But here is the catch : Secret Insider Tip - The "B" Check Tripping somebody with the "B" button works no matter what WEIGHT you are, which is why it's so great. The "B" check is used by all the advanced players and it can knock down anybody even if you are Marty McSorley. So the question is : Why is weight valued so much then??? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Secret Insider Tip - Gamechangers In NHL '94, there is some sort of modifier that allows certain players to consistently shake off body checks and trips. I don't know what allows a player to do this, but this works regardless of your weight, and it's put in the game for the top players. Here is Steve Yzerman (6 Weight) trying to body check Ray Bourque (10 Weight) and failing to knock him down : I call all players with the ability to do this in NHL '94 game changers because there are just some times where you cant defend these guys. PART 2 - IMPACT IN THE GENESIS DRAFT LEAGUE (DRAFT POSITIONS) 2.1 - Bad Draft Spots and Steals GDL X had 24 coaches. In the first round you obviously draft your best player. What doesn't make sense to me is that some players are drafted WAY too early and some WAY too late. Some people waste their picks on someone who is not good because they are light.. Light Players aren't the key, skilled players are the key. Example : GDL 9 - TomKabs won with Klima being his Game Changer over Carse who did not have one. Carse had the better "team", but in the end you simply can't stop Petr Klima and TomKabs with a bunch of light noobs and Eddie Belfour. 2.2 - PLAYERS TAKEN TOO EARLY Peter Bondra (Top 20 1st Rounder) - This player is a goof. So overrated. Yeah he has 6 weight and 6 speed, cool, but he has a weak 3 in agility, He can't SHOOT or DEKE with the puck and he is not a GameChanger!! Don't waste your pick on this dude. He's worth getting in the 2nd round. Brian Bradley (Top 20 1st Rounder) - A light player, who is SLOW. This guy is not giving anybody nightmares as he's very easy to defend if you are good with the "B" check. Another dude worth getting in the 2nd round. Don Sweeney (1st Rounder) - A player who is only there to body check people, not worth it especially when all defensemen can B check the same. Stephan Lebeau and his boyfriend Denis Savard (Top 5 2ND Rounders) - These guys are just light people who can dominate the likes of jer_33 and jaylighter420 because they aren't as advanced. When it comes to the big guns, they are just getting "B" checked and then you wonder why you didn't take Sergei Fedorov instead. Andrei Kovalenko (Top 10 2nd Rounder) - A piece of s**t that just happened to look like a hockey player. Don't bother with this guy. Like Stephanie and Denise, he'll end up doing 0 if playing against a "B" check expert. 2.3 - PLAYERS TAKEN TOO LATE Look who you can get with picks 10-20 in the SECOND ROUND OF GDL. Mario Lemieux Geoff Sanderson Adam Oates Tomas Sandstrom (Leading GDL in Goals and Points) Steve Larmer Ray Bourque Esa Tikkanen All these guys are much better than the likes of Denis Savard lol... Ray Bourque is easily the most underrated defensemen in the game. 99 Overall with a screaming shot who can also shake off checks.. It's kind of weird how heavily weight is valued even if some of the top players are heavier than 6 weight. It has already been proved as TK won GDL with nobody lighter than 6 weight, and Raph is pooping in the mouth of everyone with Tomas Sandstrom who weighs more than an elephant, so I think we can agree here. PART 3 - IMPACT IN THE CLASSIC LEAGUE 3.1 - Teams Aren't Being Used to Their Full Potential Everyone complains about Chicago but like Icestorm likes to say, realistically how are they better than Detroit? Roenick > Yzerman Ciccarelli >>> Larmer Fedorov >>> ??? Chelios > Lidstrom Konstantinov = Smith/Russell Belfour >>> Cheveldae - But with a skilled player, scoring on Belfour is like scoring on any other goalie and when you have 3 TOP 20 Players it should be no discussion. The fact is Chicago seems to be so good because everybody is always subbing skillful players like Esa Tikkanen for people like Tony Amonte, or Eric Lindros for Pelle Eklund. This is why Blitz is much closer, as the skilled players are actually playing and then there is no more Tony Granato and Ted Donato as your "best" players. The New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers are actually very good teams, but nobody uses them because they don't have the 35 overall weight whores everybody wants to use with the weight bug. Look how the Canadiens are being used, these guys never win the A league because it's not a serious team at the end of the day. Savard-Lebeau-Damphousse? Try switching one of those goofs for Kirk Muller or something so you can have a one-timer king on your line. I'm telling you, you guys should try using some skilled players and you will see that they really aren't as bad as we are all making them out to be. 3.2 - Carse is Always Winning With Stacked, Light Teams This is because most of his opponents aren't crazy "B" checkers. When you are going against an offensive master in Carse who is coming up the ice with Pavel Bure and Cliff Ronning and all you are doing is mashing the C button hoping to knock down Pavel Bure until Carse has already scored 10 goals on you and ends up sweeping the finals for his 2901st classic title in a row, it's because you actually can't stop light players unless you "B" check. This is where it comes in, TK and NYR forced a Game 7 against Carse and VAN because he knows the proper techniques to stop a light superstar, which seems to be rare especially when it comes to the classic league. So what if TK still ended up losing, he ended up improving enough to take down Carse's heavily favoured GDL 9 team in 6 games... B CHECK IS THE KEY! Learn it so you can open your mind to new '94 Players Fall Classic is upcoming guys, so LEARN YOUR PLAYERS AND NOT JUST THEIR WEIGHTS! I don't like myself how I subbed Sergei Fedorov for Dallas Drake with Detroit. It's not necessary to rely on body checks when your biggest challenge will end up "B" checking you! End of Analyzation 1

PLABAX'S ANALYZATION - *INTRODUCTION* This is a section of the '94 forums where I will be analyzing various things centered around NHL '94. This goes from stats to players to miscellaneous topics. I came up with this because whenever I speak to some of the advanced players like TomKabs or Icestorm, it always ends up in a conversation or an argument that goes very very deep in to the world of '94 and we sound like professional '94 experts with the craziest knowledge that nobody else in the world knows. Some of these will probably be pretty long but it's full of insider tips from the best and it's really for the guys who already have limited knowledge in NHL '94 They should be interesting reads.

Unfotunately thats just how it is.. People would rather play exis or sit down and eat chips rather than finish whatever leagues/tourneys they are involved in.

8 Frame Delay!! Home of the JayLighter420

Yeah.. Windows 8 does that, but Gens just plays better for every other OS.

Cool Things - Mine aren't too cool - When I joined, the forum had a chat. - I only knew how to One Timer and Crease Cut for the first 6 months I was here. I learned the pass shot and the other common scoring moves later. I played 2 Classic Seasons like this and averaged over 4 goals a game. - I didn't know what GDL was until I saw the roll call thread for GDL 09. - My first game ever was a 7-2 loss to Pearate. - My first game ever against an "A" leaguer was against kingraph in the 2012 league. He won in OT 2-1 or 3-2. - I knew NOTHING about player ratings until the GDL X Draft, just the weight and speed stat. - I never B checked until this Classic season. - The longest game I have ever played was a marathon Game 6 (13 mins of OT) vs kingraph in our Survivor 02 series. He ended up winning the game on the road to force a Game 7 in which he crushed me. Misconceptions - I thought Carse's AIM pic was Carse until I questioned him. - I thought kingraph and c4outlaws were the same person for a while... The thought just suddenly went away though. - I didn't understand the username "BoKnowsNHL94". I had never heard of Bo Jackson until a couple of months ago. I had questioned Carse AND Bo if the guy in Carse's AIM pic was Bo a couple of times. - I thought TomKabs was a big-time noob, I had never talked to him but he was on my friends list for a while.. Don't even remember adding him, this went away when Raph told me he was an "A" player. - I never knew Zalex was french until a 8 months or so passed. It just never hit me.

GDL 93 (Weight Bug) Brett Hull Russ Courtnall Tomas Sandstrom Phil Housley Sylvain Cote Ron Hextall FINISH: League destroyed.. But Raph, TK and I were killin it

it must be why I have over 12 friends on this site

Also, last blitz you guys weren't able to trade 2nd round protects, should we be able to trade 1st round protects this Blitz?

Since we do all protects first, should I make a roll call thread and then start the draft while I work on the website? While I get the site ready you guys can play exis with the teams you drafted and trade around to get what you'd want. We only draft 6 rounds and 3-4 of them are bench rounds. Should be a quick draft.

yes, we are even closer than swos and Mogilny! shabaka and tk know that Ontario is the homeland of sexy 94.. We are the dynamic duo. - Both from Ontario - Multicultural, tk is white and shabaka is black - Shabaka is always in forum drama - TK is always in finals - Shabaka sets up leagues that die because the participants know Shabaka will win in the end - TK sits out of the leagues to give the others a chance - Last two people to beat freydey - Average over 6 goals a game - Have good pass shot skills

Not interested in seeing Kevin Dineen lol

Who should the poster boy for Blitz 08 be?? List some suggestions and even some pictures for the rom title screen.

16 Teams, 4 Divisions of 4 and 20 Games. 4 games against the other 3 in your division for 12 games, and 2 against the other 4 in your conference for 8 and a total of 20 games. or 12 Teams, 2 Conferences of 6 and 20 Games. 4 games against each opponent in your conference.

Yes.

It's a shame Carse has to he replaced.. Doesnt help that he randomly stops answering on AIM all the time.

Yes.. We will do the protection picks up front and I will go to the bottom of the draft. but I DO have the power to keep Vancouver though if hokkee takes a team I don't want.. Im just being nice.

Yes OB I am making an example. In regards to Raph, Shouldn't I already be in? If Blitz started and all coaches were to return, I would have VAN and hokkee would still be on the waitlist because wookiee was playing with the team I would have taken over. So if wookiee can only take Toronto it would make sense that I have Vancouver for now, until hokkee gets a team.

This draft will have the odd rounds (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) as protection rounds and the "A" league picking first in the regular picking rounds (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). New coaches usually get the last picks, and then the first picks with the snake results and these lead to my questions: 1. Since wookiee played with the team I was supposed to take over, does this make me a new coach or a veteran coach since I was technically already in? I'll also be in Blitz A. 2. If I qualify as a veteran coach, since hokkee will be back in Blitz I will most likely trade teams with him. Will/Should we trade draft spots? Say he takes over HFD and instead of having the 2nd pick he ends up with the 24th pick, will/should this rule apply to me aswell? 3. Can wookiee choose what team he wants?

How about me and TomKabs in B....

Mix up 2 or all 3 Gens Leagues so this way it is easier to get your top picks. And then when playoffs come you can group the teams based on their results into A, B and C.

UPDATE: Was going at a steady pace until I hit a problem where querying any of the B league data results in an error Fixed it! Progress will be slowed down until the 16th because that is when my job ends and I work 35 hours a day... Just remember that I have to convert all the asp.net into PHP so it takes a bit of time.