Executive Hockey News

Hi everyone!

This week we have a number of interesting new features and fixes, and two prominent changes to team names. Here we go!

The Columbus Yellow Jackets have been renamed to the Columbus Wasp and have a new logo
The Carolina Category Fives have been renamed to the Carolina Fivers
The match summary screen now shows when you click a match on the 'Scores' and the 'All Scores' screens.
Fixed a few incorrectly expired player contracts. Added 'Ironman' tag to Yandle.
Fixed a bug where clicking 'Moves' button late in season would cause a crash
Fixed 'Contract Has Expired' message on the Moves list when the contract had not actually expired
Added 'RW' column to standings page and added it to the tiebreakers
Added 'GD' (goal differential) column to standings page
When the standings page is in 'basic' mode for limited screen sizes, the goals for and goals against columns are no longer shown
Improved look of 'Tabs' on the live draft screen
The draft lottery screen no longer shows odds for a pick after the 3rd pick has been chosen.
Added a new set of up/down buttons to the salary on negotiation screens to jump by $1 million instead of only being able to jump by $50,000.

There are three new updates for March:

First, we have a whole new face system. Gone are those ugly old computer-generated player faces and in their places are some brand new faces created by an artist.

Players now have nationalities. You can see them on the player popup and tooltip screens. Players come from 18 countries: Austria, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA.

Unrestricted free agents and players in the draft pool now also have nationalities and names that are appropriate for their place of origin. Origins are weighted so you will see more Canadians, Americans and Russians, for example, than Slovenes, Britons and Danes.

This month's update is primarily minor bug fixes:

A few player updates
Slight layout modification to team archetype panel
No longer says 'No entries' on startup team selection screen
Fixed bug where shootout wouldn't display on summary screen
Fixed bug where shootout would end after one round if someone scored
Fixed mistake on how wise teams bonuses were displayed.
If tags are too long on player label on lineup screen they'll be shortened with '...'
Minor corrections to clock used when goal is described (e.g. goals in last second were previously 19:00)
Goals can no longer be scored in first two seconds of periods
Minor adjustments to player exhaustion during game
Minor adjustments to player value based on age (biased more towards younger now)

Our first update of 2020 is here, and it's a small one with just a few updates:

Fixed a bug when the game is trying to determine if a team had clinched the playoffs - previously some teams would 'clinch' and then slip out of a playoff spot
Updated UFAs so there are always exactly 30 of each position type available (i.e. 30 forwards, 30 defense, 30 goalies)
Slight performance improvements

Minor changes and fixes this month:

Updated backgrounds
Fixed order of LW-C-RW on the right hand side of the rink
Fixed bug that caused players who were already penalized to get penalties
Removing draft pick on trade planner now correctly removes it (it no longer re-appears when adding a new pick to the planner)
You can now drag players from lists correctly on the lineup screen if a list box is scrolled down
Minor improvements/fixes to Rosters page when 'Show Contract Info' is selected from display drop down