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I don't see how you can say Bonino is at his best when Sutter is 10 fucking months younger than him. If Bonino has topped out, so has Sutter.

WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING? Bonino literally just bought a house. Where the fuck is it said he doesn't want to play for Vancouver? This is the same sort of bullshit that comes up after every trade. Like... WTF.

THERE ARE LITERALLY STATS ABOUT DEFENSIVE PLAY IN THE HERO CHARTS. YOU AREN'T EVEN TRYING. The only thing Sutter has on those charts that is better is his GA60 +/-, and it's not that enough of an improvement to make up for the colossal drop off in every other aspect.

Boubabi, you do realize I'm referencing a helluva lot more than just Corsi, right?

Yes, they are relevant. A shutdown center would suppress shots. That's their fucking job. If they don't, then they suck at their fucking job. Sutter isn't half the player Kesler was, or still is. And yeah, replacing a 40 point centre getting paid under $2M a year for the next two years is so easy. I should always trust your judgement, boubabi. You know everything.

Imma post the HERO charts again since people seem to enjoy ignoring them. Here's Nick Bonino. Not a defensive stalwart, but hey he puts up points! And here's Brandon Sutter... Oh look he doesn't do either of those those things well. Maybe this will be easier for you to understand.

It's not the Buffalo 3rd. It's the higher of Vancouver or NYI's 3rd. Get your facts right. Sutter is 10 months younger, and a downgrade in every way except maybe his hairline. It's also a terrible group that relies on Horvat to step his game up immensely if they want to have a hope in hell of scoring goals.

I want them to rebuild. But the team keeps saying they're competing. This is not a trade that helps a rebuild, and it doesn't do much to help them contend either. Sutter is a downgrade from Bonino, then they threw in a 22 year old defenceman and a 2nd round pick for shits and giggles. It's a terrible trade, there's clearly no plan guiding this management group, and I'm ready for Benning to be fired.

Baertschi and Virtanen are wingers. Virtanen will be lucky to get 9 games, he stalled offensively in the WHL. Vey is a fringe NHLer right now. Horvat is being thrust into a second line roll with pretty much no back up now. Brandon Sutter is a pending UFA, a fucking black hole possession-wise, and is not as strong defensively as everyone is deluded enough to believe. And we gave up Clendening and a 2nd for no fucking reason. P.S. NHL GMs are using those same analytics that the "armchair GM bloggers" use.

Corsi isn't the only stat the matters. Look at the fucking HERO chart. Sutter is a black hole in terms of possession, and he doesn't suppress shots well enough to counteract that. He's paid more, he's going to be a UFA next summer, and we're going to lose Bonino's offensive production. Him, Matthias, Kassian, gone... That's a lot of scoring that's gone with no one to replace it. This team is turning into a fucking tire fire, fast, and the sooner Benning is told to fuck off to Boston the better things will be.

What an awful fucking trade. Younger, cheaper players and a 2nd for a fucking 4th line centre who happens to be a UFA next season. Sutter is awful. He dragged down the Corsi of even Malkin and Crosby! What in the actual fuck is Jim Benning doing? Make up your fucking mind and rebuild, or compete already. Preferably the former of those two options. Kill me, please.

Pretty much on the right track. I don't know if any new stats were added in for 15, but what I had back in NHL 13 was this: CK = Body Checking, Aggressiveness FG = Fighting Skill DI = Discipline SK = Speed, Agility, Acceleration ST = Strength, Balance PH = Puck Control, Deking, Hand Eye FO = Faceoffs PA = Passing, Offensive Awareness SC = SS Power, SS Accuracy, WS Power, WS Accuracy DF = Shot Blocking, Defensive Awareness, Stick Checking Poise started at 60 with players who had been just drafted, and then would increase by 5 points every season you go back. So a S45 player has 60 poise, S44 would be 65, S43 would be 70, etc. I don't know how the potential system even works anymore, so I'm pretty sure what I had a few years back isn't relevant anymore. What I had was similar to poise though. Most recent draftees would be 5 stars (if they were active), then the older the player was the lower their potential. Though that was just a super simplified system that didn't really take any actual factors into account.

It's a ton of work to put together I had a whole method developed to transition STHS stats to NHL, but I haven't updated it in a while.

I wish I could give some advice but I have a black heart that can only love movies and video games, or something. It kinda sucks sometimes. Good luck though, I think most people here have got it right. You gotta find a way to say "date", and then just go for it. It might suck if she says no, but it'll probably suck more never knowing. At least that's my thought process, but what the hell do I know?

gib me da points pls

I know soooooo many things now and I'm not allowed to talk about em.

NHL 16 EASHL Beta starting July 30th.

Yeah, but then I can't be lazy and make my PS4 download new games from my phone!

BTW Brovy, CSGO is a PC game. CPU is just a part of the machine. Consoles have CPUs too.I'd recommend remembering the difference because someone's bound to hear that and chew you out for it. Maybe that's my bias against much of the PC gaming community shining through though.

One of the mods at /r/EA_NHL knows what it is and says it's pretty fucking cool. Confirmed you have to own NHL 15 on PS4/XB1 to make use of whatever they're doing.

It's not awful, but it's not as simple as making a new user and signing into your friend's account. Me and my buddy in Chicago spent most of 2009 splitting DLC buying duties. It was pretty awesome. The thing with sharing on PS4 is your friends can't play your games if you're signed in, unless you make their PS4 the primary console for your account.

A certain someone has been spotted in Belfast with his hair and beard intact. I feel like a fucking conspiracy theorist talking about this stuff haha.

Star Wars Battlefront. And you can, but it's kind of a convoluted process in comparison to what the PS3 used to be.

Just got a super fucking cool email that I'll say what I can about on the weekend if it all pans out.