Executive Hockey News

Hello everyone!

We are working away on the next update of Executive Hockey, targeted for late February. This update will improve contract handling and make it much easier to see what's going on with the contract status of players on your roster. It's a fairly big update, so we are going to make sure it's working well before putting it out there, hence the lack of a recent smaller update.

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Hey everyone,

We just posted a new update to Executive Hockey. This one improves the player "tooltip" window and player injury information window. Let us know what you think!

If you have a few moments to write up a review for other Steam users, it would be much appreciated, even if the feedback is negative.

Have a great evening!

Small update this week:

Reduced likelihood of defensemen getting involved in scoring plays
Fixed rendering problem when dragging players among lines on lineup screen
Team tooltip/window now has salary cap information and count of pending FAs

This is the first build in a few months, so it contains a few big features:

2018-2019 Rosters and the game now starts in 2018.
High resolution support (automatic scaling)
Players now have 'tags' which modify their offense and defense power in different situations (e.g. powerplay, while trailing)

And some minor features, including:

Player tags can also affect how often they are injured
Players over age 35 now have reduced power
Salary info has been added to the player popup

With this big update made, we will get back to more frequent updates, including some more work on the tag system for players, which is still not quite where we want it to be.

Enjoy!

With the new rosters ready to go (update coming very soon), we simulated the 2018-2019 season. Here were the results. The winner was no surprise. But there were a few things along the way that we didn't expect!

Regular Season Division Winners
Winnipeg, Anaheim, Tampa Bay, Columbus

Scoring Leaders
Reilly (Toronto) finishes with the most points (90)
Matthews (Toronto) wins the scoring race (51 goals)

Goalie Leaders
Best GAA among goalies (min 20 games): Jones (San Jose) 2.11
Most goalie wins: Bobrovsky (Columbus) 51

Trades
Vancouver sent 1st and 2nd to Brooklyn for Sbisa. Ouch.

Playoffs

Round 1:
Anaheim beat Edmonton 4-3
Vancouver beat Vegas 4-3
Calgary beat Winnipeg 4-1
Minnesota beat Dallas 4-2
Tampa Bay beat Brooklyn 4-1
Buffalo beat Toronto 4-1
Montreal beat Columbus 4-3
Washington beat Pittsburgh 4-2

Round 2:
Anaheim beat Vancouver 4-1
Calgary beat Minnesota 4-3
Tampa Bay beat Buffalo 4-3
Washington beat Montreal 4-1

Round 3:
Anaheim beat Calgary 4-2
Tampa Bay beat Washington 4-3

Cup Final:
Tampa Bay beat Anaheim 4-3