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If you have an 18 year old 80 Overall sniper, should you play him with the best playmakers you have? Or will the other players steal all the points from him? I played McKenna and he just put up 32 points with Martin Necas 92 Overall. If you have other ideas or advice on how to maximize the potencial i would be glad to hear them.

What does the personality of players affect? And why cant you see them if you aquired those players? For exanple what does it help if a player is friendly, well rounded or has a good leadership? Also what does a team captain even do and how big is the difference if you put an player that has leadership as a personality or if you put a regular player there?

Hello guys I’m doing a flames rebuild I’m trying to figure out who I would give the C to in the future seasons didn’t really have a problem with it before but since I’m a flames man I’m really thinking hard on this so wondering how do you guys determine who gets the C in your franchise mode saves ?

Anyone make a roster that has the free agency moves so far but NOT the draft class? Let me know, want to start a franchise but not with the current picks on their teams yet! Thanks!

Edit: for xbox

What is the best more unknown ways to get good, cheap, long term contracts. I noticed they changed a lot with long term contracts in this years game. It's a lot harder to get a player to sign long term for cheap, and it's hard to get them to want to stay/sign long term.

I use to just throw a player on a lower line or something to make him “worse” the sign him for cheaper but that doesn't work anymore. e

Just trying to create a super team

So I’ve seen a couple community rosters with a good amount of downloads that already have guys like McKenna, Stenberg, etc on their drafted team. How does that affect the draft in NHL 26 since you’re still starting from the beginning of the 25-26 season? Will it populate with the following years draft class with DuPont and others?

*Disclaimer, this is a fun franchise*

Now, rewind: Lets go back to 5/5/2025

Islanders get the 2nd pick of the upcoming draft, which means the San Jose Sharks have won the 1st overall pick! 

Realistic, nope. Fun, maybe? 

To get this to happen in the game we do this:

Sharks send: 

LW W. Eklund
C M. Misa
D M. Ferraro
C P. Kurashev
LW E. Afanasyev
2030 1st
2031 1st
2032 1st
2033 1st 

Isles send: 

D M. Schaefer
LW O. Palat
D. T. Mitchell
RW M. Gatcomb
LW P. Engvall 

(Will take on salary each of the following 2 season once the new 1st round picks come in)

2/3 year rebuild continues 

Opening Day Roster:

C. Graf - M. Celebrini - W. Smith

K. Sherwood - A. Wennberg - T. Toffoli 

P. Engvall - A. Gaudette - O. Palat

B. Goodrow - L. Couture (farewell tour and gets the C back) - P. Regenda

R. Reaves - M. Gatcomb

M. Schaefer - S. Dickinson

D. Orlov - J. Klingberg

N. Leddy - V. Desharnais 

S. Mukhamadullin 

Y. Askarov

A. Nedeljkovic

Year 1, plan to be in the bottom and draft Stenberg + Lin + ?. 

Here is my top 10

1. GM connected
2. NCAA rights (as rumoured)
3. Eras mode (like 2k)
4. 3 team trades
5. Hall of fame
6. Custom draft classes
7. Improved customization across players/league
8. Able to control every team
9. Better/new dialogue
10. Add more features/depth to the mode to make it more immersive and feel like you have more control