ARE FREE ABILITY MSP EVENTS GOOD? | NHL 25 WHO SHOULD YOU CHOOSE EP 65
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- In this video series I go over the prior videos questions and comments and help you with your NHL 25 HUT lineup decisions!
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Icons need to be updated on a more frequent basis. I used just as many resources to make Lidstrom as the guy that made Gretzky for example yet Lidstrom is the same overall he was on release day. 99 and many others have already had 2 new cards released. They should have just kept the old one overall increase per month as that’s exactly the progression we are on currently as I’m assuming a 89-90 Lidstrom is coming out next event.
I know there was a lot of grumbling at the beginning of the year that base power up icons didnt upgrade past 83. In hindsight I guess EA made the right call because they all would have been only 84-85 overall at this point and would have been all but useless.
Iv always thought it would fun if they added chemistry to the game. If you have 3 players from same team on a line they get a small boost. Something to help encourage theme teams and some diversity.
Sale’s goal was in regulation. He also scored in the shootout but those didn’t count.
Lineup question: Sleeves please help me! I have enough to get another Gallery of Greats but i don't know which one fits cause Im leaning to hull but sakics also a beauty. I feel like i have so many leftys so when i stack my PP theres no space.
My forwards are:
87 Marner - 89 Messier - 85 matthews (my team name is laterally Leafs)
87 X-factor Nylander - 89 Thornton - 89 Kuch
87 XP Eichel - 89 Miller - 86 Celebrini
87 Guenther - 87 Barkov - 86 Cristall
I have a really close team
Line-up question
Hey Sleeves, wanted your thoughts on my D pairings. Wondering if you’d switch them around at all. I’ve basically tried to pair a strong offensive card with a slightly more defensive card
ASP - XP Hedman
GOG Blake - GOG Coffey
TB Letang - Holo Orr
Thanks keep up the stellar content!
Hey Sleeves, love what you're doing (Go Sharks!). I haven't really played HUT in years but got into it around the middle of FF and really like what it is. I found your GoG content and it's helped a ton. I could use some advice:
87 FF K. Conner 89 GoG Stevie Y 89 GoG Hull
86 Tikkanen 89 Poulin 88 GoG Gartner
86 GoG Andreychuk 88 FF Reinhart 85 Rust
85 FF Huberdeau 86 Smith 88 GoG Hawerchuk
88 Walman 86 Fox
85 Evans 85 Blake
86 Tabin 84 Fast
88 GoG Lundquist 83 Kochetkov
I feel like I missed a lot early on (like Fantasy players), and I don't fully understand how to make any of the older stuff, if I can, or if I even should (like Power Ups or Team Builders). I don't have a big stash because I worked so hard to get Hull and Yzerman. Only 20k coins. Obviously my team has a lot of holes, and I don't know what I should focus on next or how to do it. (I'm trying to grind out Hedman before time runs out, I'm level 49!).
Any advice on my squad and where I can go from here is appreciated!
(Oh, and for what it's worth I'm having a lot of fun with Yzerman's Off the Rush. Got some sneaky goals that way, by mixing it in on occasion)
Sleeves. Love your take on the GOG players creating diverse teams in the HUT community. They need to have position only events the first two months of the year. That will make everyone choose the right wing they want out of the 5 choices. Example. Right wings only week one. Example msps are Kane, Kucherov, Igilna, Richard, Laine. Everyone would have different teams that way. Chara needs to be something you have to work….maybe a freaks of nature icons set….with just chara and bishop. Make people really work to get those two. This would create more diverse teams.
Yo Sleeves what should I do to prepare for TOTY. What should I be doing with my GoG collectibles if I'm getting ready for TOTY? If there is anything else I should do to prepare please let me know. Love your vids, keep doing what your doing!!
11:00 this is also happening to me. Has only started recently but there was a point where I was kicked from 4 in a row
You need to power cycle your console and I’d recommend doing it before every champs run.
To power cycle you must completely shut down your console and unplug the power cable from the wall for 2-3 min then restart and you should be good.
@@NiftyMitts. did this the other day and first game back it kicked me. Worst part is I’m an offline player only so no rivals or champs for me
Hey sleeves, I have a question as a casually player with a 86 ovr team was wondering if I should make Shane doan. He is my favorite player because I am a coyotes fan but seems out of reach because of the cost of team builders especially with team of the year comming out so soon thoughts?
If you are die hard fan yes but he wont be usable at all in a month. But there will be a better one soon so wait for that!
Line up question.... 1 I have Hull Gretzky mcdavid 2 87 Marner 89 Thomas and 88 Pavel Buchn
3 is Reinhardt barkov zucker fantasy
4 is kyrou jt Miller and Bernie federko. On defense I have fantasy parayko and Wallman
Mkar chara forsling al Macinnis
Goalies are markstrom 86 and Darcy kemper. Can’t decide which gallery of greats card to choose next only can make 1 more. Thanks for your help. I’m a Blues fan obviously.
Line-up question: Sleeves thanks for all the nhl content. My question is around lineup chemistry. When I simply put my highest/best cards in the lineup I tend to not play as desperate and hungry as when I throw some grubs/grinders in there. Ever experience this? Been FYP entire year, played since launch and build many msps. I an at the point where I bench frozen Mcdavid and Kucherov or play them 4th line. Whats your take to keep the fire burning no matter the roster? Fyi sitting in D2 almost D1.
Hey Sleeves! Long time watcher (love the videos), first time commenter, my question is in relation to TOTY, in your opinion what would be the best ovr to stack up on for trade ins, I know we can't expect it to be the same as it has been in previous years, but was wondering what your thoughts were on it, thanks!
The guy who talked about squad battles disconnecting randomly ONLY THE FIRST GAME! This does happen to me. sometimes but not all the time. Always first game though. I think it is a bug as my wifi is fine and it is annoying to lose progress during chores.
Functionality question: Sleeves would love to hear your take on an issue I have been having and wondering if anyone is dealing with this. When I have GOG msps in my lineup and I bring in recent fantasy players it auto enables their abilities and makes sometimes 1 or 2 of my GOG abilities inactive. To fix I have to start a new lineup fresh - its the only way. I think whats happening is since they added more to the 93-92 overall wjc fantasy cards it triggers 2 AB points but leaves 1-2 silver inactive and gunks things up.
Sale was 91 scored a regulation goal they didn’t give him a shootout one😂
I read that the 2000's event will also include players born in the year 2000
It would be nice if captain cards gave your player a +2 in overall and Alternate Captain cards should give your players a +1 in overall, like they used to.
Also I wish the “jersey number” customization cards weren’t assigned to a specific number. Acquiring this collectible should allow you to choose any number you want from numbers 1-99.
I know these are small changes, but I think they’d be great. I feel like EA NHL is just so far behind.
The game feels a lot different after that update this week. I love it. Seeing the computers trying things I’ve never seen before
I didn’t no there was a update but I’ve been enjoying the game more to
All in your head man. Come on, EA is not making changes
@ honestly I thought I was just playing better. I’m free to play for the most part out in like 40 bucks. Just finally got good players and goalie and champs bill guerin just cracked mcd with the agility boost
The same thing happened to be today. I decided to do a squad battles to finish icon dekes for coins and I lost the game. And no objectives completed after I got back in
LINEUP QUESTION.
Hey Sleeves, love your content. Thanks for what you do for the community. Nice to have a Canadian creator at the top.
Sorry for long-winded Q. I’ve got a stacked team… let’s avoid the $ talk haha
I’ve got a vintage hologram choice pack…
I feel like I need RH wingers…. And that’s making me consider Lemieux and even Howe.
66 seems to be touted much higher and is a great player, but 9 had a great/fun card last year… That and his abilities look great this year.
Who should I choose? 66, 99 or 9?
89 Hull 89 Messier 89X McDavid
89 Bédard 92 Dvorak 92 Sale
88 Reinhart 87 Sundin 91 Mateiko
88 Point 89 Miller 89X Kucherov
Hey sleeve, do you think the tb will upgrade before team of the year ?
Lineup Question:
FF Bedard - WJ Dvorsky - XF McDavid
TOTW Point - GOG Yzerman - FF Miller
Icon Sundin - Titans Thornton - TB Backstrom
XP Eichel - PTN Barkov - HT Couture
WJ ASP - XP Hedman
FF Hamilton - CA Hughes
XP montour - OTC bouwmeester
GB Hellebuyck - Woll
Not sure what to do with my lineup. I can make two/three more GOG players and I know I will be making Hull (but not sure if it’s necessary? He would make my top line). Should I use CA Jack Hughes for the trade in because he won’t get a TOTY card but Quinn is probably getting one so I want to keep him just in case. I’m debating if I should level up XF kucherov and XF Nylander to throw in the line up/add to the mix. I also have enough requirements to make another FF player but not sure if it’s worth it to lose the 85 fodder for TOTY. I also have an unopened vintage hologram choice pack.
Taking advice from anyone 🙏
That's hilarious, I was just talking about they always have the same legends every year, but I never seen Bure, Kariya or Fedorov some of my favorites as a kid, but some guy told me EA doesn't have naming rights for a lot of guys. But we def need a change of names for the legends. But the last 2/3 events have been great to my team, go some excellent players from PTN, FF & GoG. I don't have much coins ($159,000) and many cards available over 81+ so I'm just gonna keep banking coins and saving up for TOTY . Completely staying away from 2000s events
Hey yo, just curious if the number 12 on your no sleeve jersey is because you like iginla as a favourite player or something
What do you think I should do Built X factor mcdavid or just save up for team of year. I’m currently at 3 out 4 capitals, also have 4 out of 8 to building mcdavid and 200 players in my collection
Keep up the great content
Hey sleeves, hope youre you're doing well. Had a question regarding what should our approach be for this bext event with TOTY right around the corner. Which cards are you targetting for fodder? How many coins should we look to have? Will they continue on allowing us to make free MSPs for TOTY? Ik everything is up in the air with this new content team but i wanted to see what your plan over the next 3 or so weeks is
EA knew what they were doing with the gallery of greats and 2000s event back to back right before TOTY. Give the portion of the player base that probably has the most money to spend on the game players they watched growing up so they burn their fodder before TOTY then feel the need to spend money.
Any updates on if fleury and the 99 speed is worth building?
Hey sleeves bit of a LINEUP QUESTION
I’m currently 4 83ovr team builders away from my second 89 and I’m 6 X factors away from master mcdavid. My team is as follows
89 Hull 89 Backstrom 85 Mcdavid
87 Barzal 89 Thornton XF Kuch
XF Willy Icon Sundin 89 Miller
87 Eichel 85 Niewendyk 87 Marner
Sandin-Pelikka Ekholm
Zubov 88 Reilly
88 Hamilton 90 Hedman
I’m free to play and a leafs fan so I’d eventually like to add more leafs to the lineup but for the mean time what should I prioritize first and who should I chose for this team builder ? Thanks sleeves and keep up the great work as always
Sleeves, love the content! I made a FF McDavid when I only had 2 XF captains built. I then cashed in a bunch of coins on Xmas packs hoping to hit it big and ended up with a ton of 76-79 fodder. Then, along with all the TB moments had enough to complete my final two captains and get XF McD. I know, not real efficient, but I really wanted that card. Being a first year HUT player, what can I expect to be able to do with FF McD in the future? Will he be able to be traded in for TOTY?
I have a theory with the world jrs event being 83s to trade in 1 for 1 do you think Toty would be 84s 1 for 1 per collectable continuing the trend up?
Last year, I had a robust pool of cards to draw from during sets. However, with the introduction of bound cards this year, I've noticed a significant reduction in my available options. Do you think bound cards will be a permanent feature in future releases of the game?
Hey Sleeves hope you had a good Christmas and new year. My question is do you think that any of the captains X-factor will get TOTY? Considering I'm halfway done with getting X-factor Mcdavid.
They should add a BND set. Like trade in 10 BNDs for a upgradable player choice pack? Or trade in like 20 BNDs for a 90 ovr or something. Atleast that way they aren't just sitting in the binder taking up space and being useless. If they did this, Id feel bad for all the people that just quicksell BND cards lol
I have an 88 GoG Jaromir Jagr card that I have absolutely no intention of using since his skating and shooting stats are pedestrian compared to my other LH fwds… what would you recommend someone to do with this card / in similar situations?
Bonjour Sleeves, comment ca va? Quick fyi, I made Howe’s PUI for my Wings theme team to replace his 87 event card. The team’s AP was maxed out when I added him and his free abilities did not activate. I couldn’t even manually activate them while the team’s AP was maxed. I had to deactivate an ability that cost AP I order to manually activate Howe’s. Also, I got two 75+ from each weekly moment pack this week, including an 86 and two golds. Have you heard of others in the community havingthe same results? Wondering if EA changed the packs.
Lineup question!!
Hello Sleevles from Finland! Big fan
Should I make Gallery of greats player or tank for TOTY.
My line up
HULL 89 -DVORSKY 92-FF Mcdavid 89
DOAN 89-THORTON 89-XF KUCHEROV 89
EICHEL 87-MILLER 89-BACSTROM 89
PANARIN 86 -SUNDIN 87 -TERRANCE 89
ASP 93-HEDMAN 90
LETANG 89-FF WERENSKI 88
FABER 87-FF RIELLY 88
I have to trade in 7X86 3x85 4x84 10x83 30x82
Hey sleeves!
TOTY fodder question
I have a bunch of 84 GoGs and im wondering if i should keep them as TOTY fodder or trade them in to make 86 GoG and use those as TOTY fodder instead. nobody knows the economy for TOTY but what in your opinon would the most collectibles per card. For example is 12 84's gonna give me more TOTY collectibles than 4 86's?
Hey Sleeves thanks for all your daily content its awesome. i have a pretty stacked team and I am free to play. What position do you think i need to upgrade next? right now I have:
STOTM Mack - Holo Gretz - XF Mcdavid
XF Nylander - FH Dvorsky - FF Kucherov
NG Barzal - GG Messier - TB Backstrom
OTC Malgin(87) - FF Miller - PTN Aho
FH Pellika -FH Ekholm
Champs Seabrook(88) - GG Coffey
TB Letang - XP Hedman
Got this team by just doing my chores every week. Malgin is there to activate Acceleration boost for McDavid, which takes him from 95 to 98 accel, and Aho to activate Deffensive boost for Messier and Coffey. Thinking of going for Lemieux next as i'm only 3 icons away from another Holo. Im an Oilers fan so Gretzky stays with Mcdavid and I had to make Messier and Coffey, any new Suggestions could be from any team though.
I goofed.
I started playing at the end of protect the net and have been making modern icons in the hopes of getting Lemieux. I know now he is a vintage holo. I already have 6 modern icons and almost have enough to make the final 6. I'm in desperate need of right handed forwards should I get alfredson, iginla, some other holo, or even just give up and start working towards the vintage icons because I want Lemieux
GG Hull - GG Yzerman - FF McDavid
off the charts Mercer - Titan Thornton - FF Kucherov
GB Scheifele - FFMiller - FF Connor
GB Bratt - GG Hawerchuck - GB Draisaitl
ASP - XP Hedman
GG Blake - Fantasy Muggli
HUT25 Lybushkin - XP Walman
Hey sleeves, Love the content. Lineup question, I have
90 kyrou 89 Stevie Y 89 ff mcdavid
89 hull 89 messier 92 dvorksy
87 barzal 87 aho. 89 miller
87 Eichel 89 thorton 88 leclair
90 headman 93 Asp
87 power. 89 zubov
92 Keller. 88 montour
With 88 otteniger between the pipes.
I have had a lot of luck with the otter and has been by far the best goalie I’ve had on my team. I’m planning on trading in the 92 Keller just because I don’t like the way she plays. I also am debating getting rid of kyrou (as good as he is). However I don’t play much after march due to work and school. Is it worth going all out for toty? Thanks love the content
Hey Sleeves, I’m wondering if it is worth using the 77s i have in the team builders set for them or should I throw them into xfactors. I already have hossa and I’m over half way to making my third captain. thanks have a good one
Owen Nolan MSP would be crazy
Looks like season 3 will be Larkin. Should be good.
Im really struggling to decide if i want 86 cover athlete q hughes on my 3rd pair or 88 walman to play alongside FF Sieder.
It's not that rare, I also get that disconnect. I believe that reloading the game works or at least it does for me. Let the game load, go into hut, then quit out the game and reload it, that should help. Cause i even get kicked out of games when playing Moments and that shit bothers me too. I hope this helps.
Hey Sleeves, bonjour from Germany. I follow you since your early days. That means you do a good Job. So thank you for your dedication.
I have a question.
My Team is stacked and I have enough to make one more 88 msp from the froozen Event and one more 89 msp from the gog Event. But i dont need them for my Team.
So is a 88 worth more than the 5x85s and an 89 more value than the 5 86s in future Sets.
Thank you very much. Take care.😊
Bure used to be in the game what changed?
If you never have ping advantage i don't think quick draw is worth it
Free ability’s sets aren’t the smartest idea it’s ruining it for team builders and grinding X factors. It doesn’t matter who you have at this point I have every card you can get possible and the glitch top shelf goal is all I do now which I’m not telling anyone how lol
Because you're gay 😊
I really hope the guy asking what to do with game of greats reads this. Do not do the 84+ tradable set that is 30 collectibles because if you get an 84 which is the minimum, they go for less than 20k. You should shoot them alllllllll in the 5 coll for 4 76+ untradable cards because you can get great high overalls and will be used for future sets. Even if you get lower rated, you can still use them for sets. But trust me, the value u get for 6 packs of 4x76+ for 30 coll is way better that the tradable 84+ unless u hit big. I have hit at least 10 84-88’s so far. Once you do a couple tou will notice at 5pm when you get 5 free it becomes an automatic pack.
I have done the 4x76 5-collectible set at least ten times and have nothing better than an 80. Others on reddit report the same. Yes, you can get lucky, but it's not the norm.
That is so unlucky but with all u got, i am pretty sure it is better than 20k
yesterdays pack was 2 77’s, an 84 and an 87 Goulet. Who knows, maybe the packs might be getting more juiced now that we are in the last days of this event. I could see EA doing this as I only started these packs 4-5 days ago.
“Welcome back…fml” 😂😂😂
Hey sleeves I have a lineup question I currently have enough to build 2 more off the charts cards I am not saving for TOTY I just don’t see the value.
Hull sakic Mcdavid FF
Barzal Thornton Sale
Suzuki ff Miller ff kucherov ff
88 Guérin barkov ptn 88 Leclair
ASP Hedman
Faber Werenski
Seabrook Wallman Thanks keep up the good work I’m been watching for a couple years now just never had a question until now
Why not quick sell all the bnd cards?
Do I have to use all my XP collectibles before season 2 ends?
Probably
Sale only got +1 for his goal in regulation. If his shootout goals counted he would have gotten +3.
BND that are high rated Thornton, Pan and msp. The weekly 84-86 grind BND useless should be tradable
I miss upgradeable MSPs
My niedamire NEEDS A UPGRADE comeon EA
BND, i have quick sell lower lvl for nothing already.....
By the time I finished this video I come to the conclusion that all your questions about lineups sounds like everyone is bored and lost and have no options . This does not look good for the future of the game . If I can go back I’d just make all power up icons and save everything else for toty . Screw the msps . Glitch goals and the goalies are broken . With all the stats going up the gameplay is going to get more glitchy. Meaning whatever msp you make will not give u an advantage from having holos and waiting for a free upgrade
its good the abilities are free, the restrictions on abilities is just fking stupid. nhl 24 was perfect, it had problems but the cards, the rewards, were all good
NHL 24 was NOT perfect, bro. 25’s gameplay shits all over 24.
@LGD19985 yes like I said the cards and rewards were better than 25s, I agree I like this year's gameplay except the stupid endurance bullshit lol
What up sleeves! Bit of a long one for you, so I apologize…
I havent played since NHL 23 (played since NHL 17 before that) where I was quite good (got 17 wins in Champs and top 100 on PS4 a few times). But this game feels completely different. Got the game 4 days ago after buying the PS5, and my old addiction to HUT is back…Anyhow, just need some general advice on how to move forward with my team and events since a lot seems to have changed since I last played in terms of card value and such. Been watching a lot of your vids in order to catch up, but how do I even get a shit ton of cards and coins this year so I can make MSP and buy my favorite players? Do I just trade collectibles for packs?
I spent my 4600 points I got from buying the game on teambuilder packs and got Backstrom since I am from sweden and just love the guy. Spent FF & GOG collectibles on 87 & 88 BND players to become competative quicker. Been buying up 84-85´s on the market for TOTY, but its hard to tell if it´s the right move. I know I am lacking RHD, but I want to save for TOTY Kuch since I am a tampa fan (he must get one right?). What do I do/think about moving forward in HUT this year? Dont care about XF, icons or TB because of the cost. Got pretty much no coins and limited cards, except 10-15 84-85’s and a few 86’s that I think I will be saving for TOTY (Kuch or MacKinnon if Kuch dont get it). I appreciate the help!
Here is the lineup:
88 Scheifele (XP)- 89 Miller - 89 Backstrom
87 Ritchie (FF) - 87 Wahlberg (FF) - 85 Mantha (budget beast tbh, 6’5 and 91 speed)
86 Mullen (GOG) - 84 Malkin - 86 Svechnikov
84 Mercer - 84 Dionne - 85 Lafreniere
85 Makar (CA) - 89 Coffey (GOG)
87 Montour (XP) - 88 Salming (GOG)
84 Spurgeon - 86 Housley
Hey sleeves
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Hej Sleeves,
It’s hilarious how underfunded these guys are lol like what do you meannnnn they can’t fix the BND set. I understand why they can’t, but man it’s a joke reason.
It’s hilarious how underfunded these guys are lol like what do you meannnnn they can’t fix the BND set. I understand why they can’t, but man it’s a joke reason.