You mentioned putting MSPs in the xp path and I think that's a great idea. I think the best way for EA to time gate it would be instead of giving a choice pack in the xp path, they give a collectible that can be redeemed for a MSP choice pack. Then when an event releases, they put an exchange set. You trade in that collectible and recieve a MSP choice pack. This way, we can play the way we want, players with excessive amounts of time can continue to progress through the xp path and the progression of the game doesn't get thrown out of whack.
Hey Sleeves! Been following you since NHL22. I might be one of the only ones who has actually enjoyed NHL25. I'm usually Div3 online but find myself right now just doing offline objectives to get my groove back since I stopped playing in June. I'm currently working toward my first X-factor captains card. I'm stacked on D with Ekholm, Chara, and McCabe Icon. Willy Nylander is one of my favorite leafs players and I thought about making him. His stats look pretty good also but I'm debating on him and Kuch. Keep up the good work sleeves! P.s. thanks for that strategy video! Behind the net took a bit of work but I've been cycling a lot better. Just need to work more on the 1-4 strategy!
I would really like to see squad battles get a “modifier” or “handicap” feature. I find myself constantly being up by 5 goals before the half way point of the game and putting my controller down for the rest. I’d love to see a feature where we can get a stacking XP amplifier if I start the game down a few goals, randomly pick a few players from my top 6 to be out for the game & or play with an awkward camera angle. Overall I feel squad battles are really tedious once you figure out how to beat the superstar AI. This seems like a fun way to challenge players who don’t find Rivals fun
In terms of coins vs tokens for upgrades, i suggest using coins for the ealier tiers and then topping off the expensive/later tiers with tokens. That way you lose more tokens than coins when you do eventually refund.
G’day mate, only been playing HUT since the very end of NHL 24 and just recorded my first 10 win champs run after using your tactics. Cheers mate. Hopefully the Heatley will be worth the sweat! 😅
I just got the top shelf goals with Panarin on my 5th try (not gloating), what you want to do is give panarin a breakaway and do forehand backhand forehand and shoot high, use the LT boost around the defender and attack Andersen at full speed. I got 2 goals this way then waited for the goalie to get pulled and scored the final as an empty netter
I just finished the XP path and now I don’t know what to do with Hut. I’ve never been the biggest online player and just try to get the best team possible and now I feel like I there’s nothing to do for the next 3 weeks
Sleeves love the content as always. I went a little to hard with the defenseman, CA Makar, BND sanhaim fantasy, BND Seth jones BND, and fantasy paranko, and supernatural chara. What would be the best new chase card I also have nothing left in the collection. Also should I also use my totw collectables or save them
If you are in a rush go for it because getting 16 of any team is expensive. If you are not in a rush this is what you do, before playing go to the market and search for 74’s and snipe anything under 1.4k. Then when you have 4 you do the set that can get you 76-77 and chances are you will start stocking up on nhl payers for cheap. If not you will still get players do put in the xfactor or powerup.
Hi Sleeves, this is more a request than who should choose. Since we have some many Weekly offline work duties. ( Rookie SB ) Can you do a quick strategys video on setting and line strats. It's seem in any difficulty they AI skates all the way back into their zone and does weird breakouts. This would be much appreciated to our offline community. Cheers kept up the good work my man .
Hey Sleeves, greetings from Germany. Normally I am not one to complain a lot but as things stand with HUT I feel the need to say something, since I dont think I will be the only one. At the moment it feels like I am beeing forced to schedule my life around the Hut card releases to not miss any "free" Cards. Last year that was way better since the sets and moments did not go away after only one week (Martin Necas for example) and you could just do these on your own pace. Normally I only like to play Rivals and sometimes weekend league but this year I have only been playing Rivals in the time before the XP-path. Currently I am only grinding the Wildcard mode, and then grinding whatever objectives are out in Squad Battles, while Wildcard is fun at least, I miss having the time to also play rivals etc. I hope this will be better with the new xp path but since it is EA I dont expect it to be, for now I will step away from NHL 24 since it has become a second job I feel like and I am also enjoying COD too much atm.
Hey sleeves, whenever I try to do a set it never autofills the correct amount, like say if I wanted to do 79+ it would do a 79 ovr but not my 80s in the collection, making me manually put in every card
Hey Sleeves do you think there going to bring back the new unlock tier for the top 3 made msp from the earlier on events like they did last year? 99 ovr chara and karlsson would be sick
Idea for videos. Let us know where you are in the XP path and what you played approximately to get the progression you got. For example from level 33-37 by playing this and that X number of hours.
I see so many swapping RD and LD. Why and what is the benifits? Thanks for all you do here. Been playing NHL on PS for years. This is the first year I’ve played HUT and your commentary real helps, and I’m enjoying it because your suggestions are helping me not making horrible decisions 😂
Hey No Sleeves, i have a hot take and wondering what is your thoughts on this possibly gem of a plan. Regarding TOTW players, do you feel 82 will be the standard or will they introduce 83’s this week. I ask because if not and the fact 82’s are going for roughly 35k, why not stock up on this before wednesday at 5pm. With the last 2 weeks being sanderson and stone, one can only imagine this week will be a banger like we got with bedard. Also imagine if 86’s are introduced and one may need 7 TOTW cards to claim them. I am typically top tier at the market and i was hoping to help you guys out since i am already set up in the millions for any new content.
I made Pasta because I’m a bruins fan. Struggling to decide if I should make Crosby or not? I currently have Stamkos, Rod and Sakic at center. Thoughts?
Sleeves always love the content. I listen while playing or while on my daily commute so thanks for what your doing and keep up the great work. We all dislike the XP path and its rewards. I am currently on level 35 and I wonder where should a causal gamer such as myself be on the way to Eichel. I play 4-5 squad battle games a day plus about 2-3 Wildcard games a day. Heavier play on weekends of course. Wondering where you currently are on the journey and what you think a casual should be today to get that Eichel? Thanks!
Bonjour from Québec! I would be okay with a matchmaking in Wildcard, but like I chill in division 4, it would need some adjustments cause facing a D1 player would not be fun. TKS for the good work
Hey Sleeves, love the content and to be honest you have kept me playing this game the last few years. Not a great player and mostly stick to offline now to save my pride…with exception of Wildcard. 2 things - I have 13 panarin collectables and no chance to earn more - should I be burning through collection to get remaining or hold on for future event fodder? With game supposed to be us playing how we want I have put a lot of time into that moment and once the timer goes I have nothing to show for my time- no xp and no option to trade collectables for anything else - not sure why a timer and why not let us make this later in the year? Also for puck interceptions is there a button I should be pressing as pucks go through my guys more often than not and a lot of my passes get picked off which gets frustrating and also how do I win more puck battles? Thanks so much and keep up the great work - content is great and you are entertaining to watch/liaten to.
Hey Sleeves, thanks for your Content, always helpfull. Actualy I like this year gameplay, when you learn to defend D2D it is not so bad, this champs allowed only 2-3 such goals. But thing that annoys the most is passing, when you cant make short passes and pass goes to furthests player in the line. Is anyway to avoid it? (pass assist don't fix that)
My idea for how to fix HUT champs rewards is to make the HUT champs cards account bound, and then provide packs that strictly increase in value as you go up in wins. The HUT champs cards are cool and I think most of the top 1% players like them, but it shouldn't cut into the value you get from playing HUT champs. Getting a high overall card is nice but what people really need is fodder so they can make the cards that THEY choose. I think a large portion of the player base is in that 10-12 win range, and getting basically just the champs card and nothing else (besides some garbage mini pack maybe) is just an absolutely terrible misstep by the content team. Same goes for the 50-100 that getting nothing besides gold champs card.
competitive objectives either need to be 2x for online or complete game, rivals is set for you to go .500. 30 wins in just rivals is 60 games that means, last year rivals cap was 50 games for rivals points. I doubt casual rival players play 60 games a week
Hi Sleeves. Sorry if this runs long but it’s important from what I’m reading it’s that people want most of all is to use the cards they want and not roster the same team as everyone else you need to compete. I know you have influence with EA, as a long time Madden Player they made that hot garbage of a game compared to this beauty fun by introducing team chemistry boosts. So people could run theme teams because of the large stat bonuses to have different levels of players from one team. I don’t know coding, but would that code be easy to just move over to HUT? Plus far less players and stats in HUT vs MUT. Some special players as you get to higher overalls or MSP’s get +2 or even +3 teams chemistry so they count as 2 or 3 players against a teams quota, so you still get flexibility to have 4-5 of your favorite top players form other teams. In Madden, the uniforms counted, but you could still wear a different one, the home stadium counted, head coach, so you could really go 25/25 for a massive boost to only the players with chemistry not your 4-5 “free agents”. Also they made it is so if the player played for multiple teams you could choose him for any team. So Gretzky could count for the Oilers, Kings, Rangers, Blues, etc but only one team at a time, you don’t get credit for all 4 teams at once, you have the ability to change or sometimes it’s locked into only one team due to the event type. To sum it up, you have to pick 1 team and at like 3 players you get a boost on stats nobody cares about, but if you get to like 20/20 or 25/25, you get +3 speed, +2 Accell, and +2 agility or something. Speed has to be the chase for the max Chemistry with a +1 boost halfway along. But for every 3 players along the way you’re getting meaningful boosts to those players. Will completely change how you build your lineup and make it more of a chess match than just plug and play the meta players and you won’t play the same team over and over and you can truly use you favorite team and still be competitive. Such a simple add, flips the game on its head in a good way. This is what I loved about Madden because you had to have a strategy to build the lineup you want to play with. I rarely even played the game, I just enjoyed team building more because the game was so toxic along with the community. I’m done for life with MUT. I agree there are major flaws in NHL, but it’s still night and day better than Madden. NHL 25 is almost a decent simulation coming from a formal professional player of hockey IRL for a Video Game from EA.
Hey sleeves I don’t really know who to pick for my captains X factor I have panarin mackinnon kyrou and Wyatt Johnson I really like nylander for his speed and elite edges but also kucherov looks really good also who should I choose?
Hey sleeves, maybe not necessarily a question more of thoughts and feelings. I have found myself 9 wins in hut champs no matter how hard I try. At this point I feel like it’s just doing it on purpose. Pre order and have stayed fairly relevant with my team with my limited time to play (14month daughter) I’m just wondering if you have any tips or advice or how to maybe break the 10 win curse, last year I was 11-12 wins no problem and it just feels like I have hit a wall when it comes to champs
Hey sleeves. I bought the last few xfactor packs with my preorder bonus. I have 1550 pucks left. Which hasn’t been enough to buy the xfactor packs. What should I spend the rest of my pucks on I think the cheapest xfactor pack In the store was minimum 2k pucks
Morning sleeves I listen to all the time going to work. Do you think jay bo is still worth the make reguardless if u have chara ekholm and guhlie. My defense is kinda stacked I have cover athlete Makar game day Dobson and totw Bowen. Jay Bo stats looks way better than a 86. I don’t want to miss out on a great defender than u can almost use up to December. Do I take out dobson since he is the slowest ? And just have a one line a pair of lefty’s which I’m okay with
Hey sleeves, I have alot of xp cards, but the issue I have is the one xp player I do have is already maxed out to 85 and he is defense, are they coming out with new xp players, because the extra xp players I do have are just sitting in my collection doing nothing and I have no place for them in my current team because of who I have in are better by far hope to hear from you on this
hey Sleeve, since parayko score 2 and is now a 88 ovr ive start to feel bad for choosing Kopitar ove him, do you think my choice was correct since i didnt chose parayko, i keep regretting the fact that i didnt make him. Keep the great content!
Hey sleeves as I am working towards my first ex-factor captain you always say go for the D men which I agree with, but I am already stacked with my D since I’ve been following your guidance for a while now do you think that the X factor season one cards will be able to be used for a season two captain hoping that the next season will be better?
Hey Sleeves piggy backing off your idea to have the event stuff in the XP path, to avoid time gating the main XP path they could change the objectives to an XP objective, for example rather then 30 hits with off the charts player items for a collectable its 10,000 XP. This would allow us to play how we want and avoid the time gating issue. Im really struggling this year as I have limited time to play, I would prefer to only play rivals but I want to be able to build MSPs and stuff so I am being forced to play moments and SB for objectives. If it doesn’t change for season 2 I can’t see myself continuing with HUT which is a shame because I have been having fun with the gameplay (low level div 2) but content has been killing my vibe, not the slow progression I’m actually enjoying that but the way we are being forced to earn it is just brutal.
hey sleeve, bonjour from montreal quebec ! i have a question for you how in the world are we supposed to be having packs without paying a dime. i am already 52 in the xp pass but my collection is pretty sad .. i play all the moments and do all objectives even tho id rather play champs only. shoul i just start give up and stick to eashl ? if yes pull up (:
Hey Sleeves, This is the first time I have played HUT mode in a few years and so far I am loving the experience, thank you for all of your help. Today, I wanted to ask if there are consequences to playing a Card outside of their position. Do I need to play a card at their designated position or can I move them around in my lineup? For instance, I have a base Steve Yzerman Card and I have moved him to right Wing because I already have 3 elite centers. I wanted to ask if this would affect my lineup or if I am OK to do that? I wanted to know before I do more rivals games. Thank You
I was wondering if doing one of the x factor captains is really worth it. I use 4/8 of the base x factors so would it be worth it to submit all of them just for 1 player that doesnt have that significant of an overall boost Love your content keep it up
Hey sleeves just wondering what should I go for next I have garter tb, 86 cover athletes j, Hughes, panarin, fantasy , Zucker, and forsling, X factor kuch, 85 chara and makar
Bonjour Sleeves, what should I do with my 77-79 ovrl? I have 2 xf captain. Should I use this to continue the grind for xf Mcdavid or trying the team builder. Than you for your work!
Hey sleeves , I'm trying to make an all selke theme team , would you be able to find out if Bergeron is going to be added to hut this year . Great content keep up the good work
@lukegallagher3413 thanks been wanting to do this for a while helps that more players are in the game this for it , wish Bergeron and Toews an Datsyuk where in the game
Hey sleeves love the vids first off I already have chara, fantasy ekholm and UCA Hughes and I just made J Bo cuz he looked to goated so should take out ekholm and throw in the 85 Drydale or just play one on there offside? 2nd kinda seems like TOTY is already a lock which is a little disappointing, based on numbers and awards don’t see how McDavid, Reinhart, Mackinnion ,Makar, Quinn Hughes and Hellebuyck don’t get it, was just wondering your thought on that theory/predictikn love the vids!
Hey sleeves do you know when the next X factors are coming out? I really like Mcdavids card but now that sid has the 86 I feel like he will be the next X factor chase card. Either him or Mathews. I’m a pens fan I’m making Crosby and I have malkins fantasy card, I’m gonna make Miro or fox based off who is more likely to get TOTY and have been going back and forth on whether to make Mcdavid, or to wait for Crosby to get an X factor and make Mario and Iggy instead
Hey sleeves, how is it that on any given day the gameplay feels different, i mean speed feels different on different occasions, or very sluggish gameplay. And also why does the cpu sometimes sticks to the puck carrier like magnet no matter the direction we take even if it's we move very erratically. I'm hesitating between sid and jay bo, i have chara, guhle and fantasy ekman Larsson, and on center i have 85 stamkos, forsberg and mathews cover cards and 83 sakic on the 4th, btw hyped up for parayko wbo was one of my week 2 pickups
Hey sleeves just wondering would you make JBo i already made Crosby since he my favorite non avalanche player. I currently have miro (x) makar hughes(cover) colton(fantay) chara(super) guhle shoild I trade in players for the collectibles to get jbo
Hey sleeves during the pre release week for whatever reason I decided to make a team builder 83 , with all the team builders being released in wildcard and the auction house now have 6 team builders at 83. Who should I make ? Also is it crazy to skip on jay b I’m not really a fan of him but I also care about making the best cards my left handed D currently are 85 chara 85 ekholm 84 ghule
Bonjour Sleeves, The Fantasy Hockey event was great, I was able to build 4 cards (Ekholm, Parayko, Mittelstad and Trocheck) in addition to the two random packs (Garland and Haula) as a free to play player. Now that I've spent my entire collection in the event (I literally have no 76ov+ cards in my collection), I would like to have your opinion on what should I focus my attention on for the next few weeks? I don't feel like falling into the pattern of preparing for TOTY and TOTS. For context, I didn't build any xfactor or Icons so far, I only got the free ones. I would like to have McDavid xf because I am an Oilers fan, but I consider his card unattainable. I would also like to have Matt Sundin's card since he wears the most beautiful jersey (Quebec Nordiques), but I am very very far from obtaining is card. Thanks!
I guess that’s the trade off you made. I’m about to make Sundin and can make my third captain (and will have enough for one regular xf choice pack as well), but opted to just get the two free players (Haula and OEL). At least you got some good fantasy players already. The xf Mcdavid is attainable and if you’re a fan I would try and make him. Only takes 75+ players so you can use your 75-78
NHL 25 is disappointing (I know i sound like a broken objective... I mean, record). The XP path was supposed to be the main way to earn rewards but now objectives and moments along with wildcard are the only way to get anywhere. I feel I'm grinding worse than my 38 SB games a week last year but I'm not playing superstar anything, I'm playing semi pro to get more games played and more objective complete in the time I have available to play. I think XP path rewards should be bangers and moments, wild card, and objectives should be supplementary to the current event, and not the only way to play. Definitely won't by the game next year unless this is addressed properly. Sadly, a waste of $130cad when last year was so fun
Sweet. Let's hope i get a reply. Love you Sleeves. Why is it that EA takes three steps forward and one step back year after year. I'm a 50 year old gamer and this nonsense is annoying. I thought getting better in time would be the right choice. Years in pass there was good things in the game. But now it seems worse then the 80s. I love the game, but not the chores we have to do everyday. I know this will butt hurt the people that destroy the market. But EA is going backwards with the cards. The BND cards are the dumbest thing yet. Why can't every card be tradable? I'm going after the meta but can't keep up. It's very discouraging and I don't want to play this game no more.
hey sleeves just curious if you like recording this series more than the actually NMS series. I love both and have been rewatching your NHL 23 NMS series. That feels like yesterday. Have a good one and GO BILLS🦬
You mentioned putting MSPs in the xp path and I think that's a great idea. I think the best way for EA to time gate it would be instead of giving a choice pack in the xp path, they give a collectible that can be redeemed for a MSP choice pack. Then when an event releases, they put an exchange set. You trade in that collectible and recieve a MSP choice pack. This way, we can play the way we want, players with excessive amounts of time can continue to progress through the xp path and the progression of the game doesn't get thrown out of whack.
Hey Sleeves! Been following you since NHL22. I might be one of the only ones who has actually enjoyed NHL25. I'm usually Div3 online but find myself right now just doing offline objectives to get my groove back since I stopped playing in June. I'm currently working toward my first X-factor captains card. I'm stacked on D with Ekholm, Chara, and McCabe Icon. Willy Nylander is one of my favorite leafs players and I thought about making him. His stats look pretty good also but I'm debating on him and Kuch. Keep up the good work sleeves!
P.s. thanks for that strategy video! Behind the net took a bit of work but I've been cycling a lot better. Just need to work more on the 1-4 strategy!
I would really like to see squad battles get a “modifier” or “handicap” feature. I find myself constantly being up by 5 goals before the half way point of the game and putting my controller down for the rest. I’d love to see a feature where we can get a stacking XP amplifier if I start the game down a few goals, randomly pick a few players from my top 6 to be out for the game & or play with an awkward camera angle.
Overall I feel squad battles are really tedious once you figure out how to beat the superstar AI. This seems like a fun way to challenge players who don’t find Rivals fun
In terms of coins vs tokens for upgrades, i suggest using coins for the ealier tiers and then topping off the expensive/later tiers with tokens. That way you lose more tokens than coins when you do eventually refund.
LOVE IT, brother! Great job on all your videos! Keep up the work, Dad!
G’day mate, only been playing HUT since the very end of NHL 24 and just recorded my first 10 win champs run after using your tactics. Cheers mate. Hopefully the Heatley will be worth the sweat! 😅
I just got the top shelf goals with Panarin on my 5th try (not gloating), what you want to do is give panarin a breakaway and do forehand backhand forehand and shoot high, use the LT boost around the defender and attack Andersen at full speed. I got 2 goals this way then waited for the goalie to get pulled and scored the final as an empty netter
I just finished the XP path and now I don’t know what to do with Hut. I’ve never been the biggest online player and just try to get the best team possible and now I feel like I there’s nothing to do for the next 3 weeks
Sleeves love the content as always. I went a little to hard with the defenseman, CA Makar, BND sanhaim fantasy, BND Seth jones BND, and fantasy paranko, and supernatural chara. What would be the best new chase card I also have nothing left in the collection. Also should I also use my totw collectables or save them
hey sleeves, i currently have 4/6 team builders and could really use that koivu, worth it to buy the packs as i have 500k?
I’d do it
If you are in a rush go for it because getting 16 of any team is expensive. If you are not in a rush this is what you do, before playing go to the market and search for 74’s and snipe anything under 1.4k. Then when you have 4 you do the set that can get you 76-77 and chances are you will start stocking up on nhl payers for cheap. If not you will still get players do put in the xfactor or powerup.
I did the same thing.. panic bought Parayko over ekholm. I watched the game am was pumped and hoping for a his hat trick lol. 🙏🏽
Hi Sleeves, this is more a request than who should choose. Since we have some many Weekly offline work duties. ( Rookie SB ) Can you do a quick strategys video on setting and line strats. It's seem in any difficulty they AI skates all the way back into their zone and does weird breakouts. This would be much appreciated to our offline community. Cheers kept up the good work my man .
Dont pressure them back, let them have a small opening on the boards and then when they get close ram them.
Hey Sleeves, greetings from Germany.
Normally I am not one to complain a lot but as things stand with HUT I feel the need to say something, since I dont think I will be the only one. At the moment it feels like I am beeing forced to schedule my life around the Hut card releases to not miss any "free" Cards. Last year that was way better since the sets and moments did not go away after only one week (Martin Necas for example) and you could just do these on your own pace. Normally I only like to play Rivals and sometimes weekend league but this year I have only been playing Rivals in the time before the XP-path. Currently I am only grinding the Wildcard mode, and then grinding whatever objectives are out in Squad Battles, while Wildcard is fun at least, I miss having the time to also play rivals etc.
I hope this will be better with the new xp path but since it is EA I dont expect it to be, for now I will step away from NHL 24 since it has become a second job I feel like and I am also enjoying COD too much atm.
Grüße
Hey sleeves, whenever I try to do a set it never autofills the correct amount, like say if I wanted to do 79+ it would do a 79 ovr but not my 80s in the collection, making me manually put in every card
My last game of hut champs counted as a loss even though I won, it even says win in my recent games. Anyone know what I should do?
Hey Sleeves do you think there going to bring back the new unlock tier for the top 3 made msp from the earlier on events like they did last year? 99 ovr chara and karlsson would be sick
Idea for videos. Let us know where you are in the XP path and what you played approximately to get the progression you got. For example from level 33-37 by playing this and that X number of hours.
I see so many swapping RD and LD. Why and what is the benifits?
Thanks for all you do here. Been playing NHL on PS for years. This is the first year I’ve played HUT and your commentary real helps, and I’m enjoying it because your suggestions are helping me not making horrible decisions 😂
Hey No Sleeves, i have a hot take and wondering what is your thoughts on this possibly gem of a plan. Regarding TOTW players, do you feel 82 will be the standard or will they introduce 83’s this week. I ask because if not and the fact 82’s are going for roughly 35k, why not stock up on this before wednesday at 5pm. With the last 2 weeks being sanderson and stone, one can only imagine this week will be a banger like we got with bedard. Also imagine if 86’s are introduced and one may need 7 TOTW cards to claim them. I am typically top tier at the market and i was hoping to help you guys out since i am already set up in the millions for any new content.
Two weeks in a row it counted my last hc game as a loss when I won.
I made Pasta because I’m a bruins fan. Struggling to decide if I should make Crosby or not? I currently have Stamkos, Rod and Sakic at center. Thoughts?
Haven't even played Champs this year yet but I don't disagree. Just make it points-based (like NHL standings) instead of wins
Sleeves always love the content. I listen while playing or while on my daily commute so thanks for what your doing and keep up the great work. We all dislike the XP path and its rewards. I am currently on level 35 and I wonder where should a causal gamer such as myself be on the way to Eichel. I play 4-5 squad battle games a day plus about 2-3 Wildcard games a day. Heavier play on weekends of course. Wondering where you currently are on the journey and what you think a casual should be today to get that Eichel? Thanks!
Bonjour from Québec! I would be okay with a matchmaking in Wildcard, but like I chill in division 4, it would need some adjustments cause facing a D1 player would not be fun. TKS for the good work
Hey Sleeves, love the content and to be honest you have kept me playing this game the last few years. Not a great player and mostly stick to offline now to save my pride…with exception of Wildcard.
2 things - I have 13 panarin collectables and no chance to earn more - should I be burning through collection to get remaining or hold on for future event fodder? With game supposed to be us playing how we want I have put a lot of time into that moment and once the timer goes I have nothing to show for my time- no xp and no option to trade collectables for anything else - not sure why a timer and why not let us make this later in the year?
Also for puck interceptions is there a button I should be pressing as pucks go through my guys more often than not and a lot of my passes get picked off which gets frustrating and also how do I win more puck battles?
Thanks so much and keep up the great work - content is great and you are entertaining to watch/liaten to.
I also got 85 BOB holyyyy what a beast
Hey Sleeves, thanks for your Content, always helpfull. Actualy I like this year gameplay, when you learn to defend D2D it is not so bad, this champs allowed only 2-3 such goals. But thing that annoys the most is passing, when you cant make short passes and pass goes to furthests player in the line. Is anyway to avoid it? (pass assist don't fix that)
My idea for how to fix HUT champs rewards is to make the HUT champs cards account bound, and then provide packs that strictly increase in value as you go up in wins. The HUT champs cards are cool and I think most of the top 1% players like them, but it shouldn't cut into the value you get from playing HUT champs. Getting a high overall card is nice but what people really need is fodder so they can make the cards that THEY choose. I think a large portion of the player base is in that 10-12 win range, and getting basically just the champs card and nothing else (besides some garbage mini pack maybe) is just an absolutely terrible misstep by the content team. Same goes for the 50-100 that getting nothing besides gold champs card.
I played HUT during pre release. Had fun and stopped. Best decision. I don't miss it and I don't think I'll ever play a UT mode again.
competitive objectives either need to be 2x for online or complete game, rivals is set for you to go .500. 30 wins in just rivals is 60 games that means, last year rivals cap was 50 games for rivals points. I doubt casual rival players play 60 games a week
Hi Sleeves. Sorry if this runs long but it’s important from what I’m reading it’s that people want most of all is to use the cards they want and not roster the same team as everyone else you need to compete.
I know you have influence with EA, as a long time Madden Player they made that hot garbage of a game compared to this beauty fun by introducing team chemistry boosts. So people could run theme teams because of the large stat bonuses to have different levels of players from one team. I don’t know coding, but would that code be easy to just move over to HUT? Plus far less players and stats in HUT vs MUT. Some special players as you get to higher overalls or MSP’s get +2 or even +3 teams chemistry so they count as 2 or 3 players against a teams quota, so you still get flexibility to have 4-5 of your favorite top players form other teams. In Madden, the uniforms counted, but you could still wear a different one, the home stadium counted, head coach, so you could really go 25/25 for a massive boost to only the players with chemistry not your 4-5 “free agents”.
Also they made it is so if the player played for multiple teams you could choose him for any team. So Gretzky could count for the Oilers, Kings, Rangers, Blues, etc but only one team at a time, you don’t get credit for all 4 teams at once, you have the ability to change or sometimes it’s locked into only one team due to the event type.
To sum it up, you have to pick 1 team and at like 3 players you get a boost on stats nobody cares about, but if you get to like 20/20 or 25/25, you get +3 speed, +2 Accell, and +2 agility or something. Speed has to be the chase for the max Chemistry with a +1 boost halfway along. But for every 3 players along the way you’re getting meaningful boosts to those players.
Will completely change how you build your lineup and make it more of a chess match than just plug and play the meta players and you won’t play the same team over and over and you can truly use you favorite team and still be competitive.
Such a simple add, flips the game on its head in a good way. This is what I loved about Madden because you had to have a strategy to build the lineup you want to play with. I rarely even played the game, I just enjoyed team building more because the game was so toxic along with the community. I’m done for life with MUT. I agree there are major flaws in NHL, but it’s still night and day better than Madden. NHL 25 is almost a decent simulation coming from a formal professional player of hockey IRL for a Video Game from EA.
Hey sleeves I don’t really know who to pick for my captains X factor I have panarin mackinnon kyrou and Wyatt Johnson I really like nylander for his speed and elite edges but also kucherov looks really good also who should I choose?
Hey sleeves, maybe not necessarily a question more of thoughts and feelings. I have found myself 9 wins in hut champs no matter how hard I try. At this point I feel like it’s just doing it on purpose. Pre order and have stayed fairly relevant with my team with my limited time to play (14month daughter)
I’m just wondering if you have any tips or advice or how to maybe break the 10 win curse, last year I was 11-12 wins no problem and it just feels like I have hit a wall when it comes to champs
How about a collectible choice pack? You trade 1 expired collectible for 1 current event collectible, totw, game breaker etc
Hey sleeves. I bought the last few xfactor packs with my preorder bonus. I have 1550 pucks left. Which hasn’t been enough to buy the xfactor packs. What should I spend the rest of my pucks on
I think the cheapest xfactor pack In the store was minimum 2k pucks
Morning sleeves I listen to all the time going to work. Do you think jay bo is still worth the make reguardless if u have chara ekholm and guhlie. My defense is kinda stacked I have cover athlete Makar game day Dobson and totw Bowen. Jay Bo stats looks way better than a 86. I don’t want to miss out on a great defender than u can almost use up to December. Do I take out dobson since he is the slowest ? And just have a one line a pair of lefty’s which I’m okay with
Hey sleeves, I have alot of xp cards, but the issue I have is the one xp player I do have is already maxed out to 85 and he is defense, are they coming out with new xp players, because the extra xp players I do have are just sitting in my collection doing nothing and I have no place for them in my current team because of who I have in are better by far hope to hear from you on this
hey Sleeve, since parayko score 2 and is now a 88 ovr ive start to feel bad for choosing Kopitar ove him, do you think my choice was correct since i didnt chose parayko, i keep regretting the fact that i didnt make him. Keep the great content!
Hey sleeves as I am working towards my first ex-factor captain you always say go for the D men which I agree with, but I am already stacked with my D since I’ve been following your guidance for a while now do you think that the X factor season one cards will be able to be used for a season two captain hoping that the next season will be better?
Hey Sleeves piggy backing off your idea to have the event stuff in the XP path, to avoid time gating the main XP path they could change the objectives to an XP objective, for example rather then 30 hits with off the charts player items for a collectable its 10,000 XP. This would allow us to play how we want and avoid the time gating issue. Im really struggling this year as I have limited time to play, I would prefer to only play rivals but I want to be able to build MSPs and stuff so I am being forced to play moments and SB for objectives. If it doesn’t change for season 2 I can’t see myself continuing with HUT which is a shame because I have been having fun with the gameplay (low level div 2) but content has been killing my vibe, not the slow progression I’m actually enjoying that but the way we are being forced to earn it is just brutal.
Gold no one t is almost necessary, I would never play without it
hey sleeve, bonjour from montreal quebec ! i have a question for you how in the world are we supposed to be having packs without paying a dime. i am already 52 in the xp pass but my collection is pretty sad .. i play all the moments and do all objectives even tho id rather play champs only. shoul i just start give up and stick to eashl ? if yes pull up (:
Hey Sleeves,
This is the first time I have played HUT mode in a few years and so far I am loving the experience, thank you for all of your help.
Today, I wanted to ask if there are consequences to playing a Card outside of their position. Do I need to play a card at their designated position or can I move them around in my lineup?
For instance, I have a base Steve Yzerman Card and I have moved him to right Wing because I already have 3 elite centers. I wanted to ask if this would affect my lineup or if I am OK to do that?
I wanted to know before I do more rivals games. Thank You
I was wondering if doing one of the x factor captains is really worth it. I use 4/8 of the base x factors so would it be worth it to submit all of them just for 1 player that doesnt have that significant of an overall boost
Love your content keep it up
Hey sleeves just wondering what should I go for next I have garter tb, 86 cover athletes j, Hughes, panarin, fantasy , Zucker, and forsling, X factor kuch, 85 chara and makar
X factor mcdavid, gretzky, Jaybo or Crosby
Bonjour Sleeves, what should I do with my 77-79 ovrl? I have 2 xf captain. Should I use this to continue the grind for xf Mcdavid or trying the team builder. Than you for your work!
Theme team for me next year, this grind is too much
Hey sleeves , I'm trying to make an all selke theme team , would you be able to find out if Bergeron is going to be added to hut this year . Great content keep up the good work
Awesome team idea
@lukegallagher3413 thanks been wanting to do this for a while helps that more players are in the game this for it , wish Bergeron and Toews an Datsyuk where in the game
Hey sleeves love the vids first off I already have chara, fantasy ekholm and UCA Hughes and I just made J Bo cuz he looked to goated so should take out ekholm and throw in the 85 Drydale or just play one on there offside? 2nd kinda seems like TOTY is already a lock which is a little disappointing, based on numbers and awards don’t see how McDavid, Reinhart, Mackinnion ,Makar, Quinn Hughes and Hellebuyck don’t get it, was just wondering your thought on that theory/predictikn love the vids!
Hey sleeves do you know when the next X factors are coming out? I really like Mcdavids card but now that sid has the 86 I feel like he will be the next X factor chase card. Either him or Mathews. I’m a pens fan I’m making Crosby and I have malkins fantasy card, I’m gonna make Miro or fox based off who is more likely to get TOTY and have been going back and forth on whether to make Mcdavid, or to wait for Crosby to get an X factor and make Mario and Iggy instead
Hey sleeves, how is it that on any given day the gameplay feels different, i mean speed feels different on different occasions, or very sluggish gameplay. And also why does the cpu sometimes sticks to the puck carrier like magnet no matter the direction we take even if it's we move very erratically. I'm hesitating between sid and jay bo, i have chara, guhle and fantasy ekman Larsson, and on center i have 85 stamkos, forsberg and mathews cover cards and 83 sakic on the 4th, btw hyped up for parayko wbo was one of my week 2 pickups
Hey sleeves just wondering would you make JBo i already made Crosby since he my favorite non avalanche player. I currently have miro (x) makar hughes(cover) colton(fantay) chara(super) guhle shoild I trade in players for the collectibles to get jbo
Hey sleeves during the pre release week for whatever reason I decided to make a team builder 83 , with all the team builders being released in wildcard and the auction house now have 6 team builders at 83. Who should I make ? Also is it crazy to skip on jay b I’m not really a fan of him but I also care about making the best cards my left handed D currently are 85 chara 85 ekholm 84 ghule
Watch ea give us Christmas rewards and putting a challenge wall infront of it 😂
Bonjour Sleeves,
The Fantasy Hockey event was great, I was able to build 4 cards (Ekholm, Parayko, Mittelstad and Trocheck) in addition to the two random packs (Garland and Haula) as a free to play player.
Now that I've spent my entire collection in the event (I literally have no 76ov+ cards in my collection), I would like to have your opinion on what should I focus my attention on for the next few weeks?
I don't feel like falling into the pattern of preparing for TOTY and TOTS.
For context, I didn't build any xfactor or Icons so far, I only got the free ones. I would like to have McDavid xf because I am an Oilers fan, but I consider his card unattainable. I would also like to have Matt Sundin's card since he wears the most beautiful jersey (Quebec Nordiques), but I am very very far from obtaining is card.
Thanks!
I guess that’s the trade off you made. I’m about to make Sundin and can make my third captain (and will have enough for one regular xf choice pack as well), but opted to just get the two free players (Haula and OEL). At least you got some good fantasy players already. The xf Mcdavid is attainable and if you’re a fan I would try and make him. Only takes 75+ players so you can use your 75-78
I chose kopitar instead of paranko and kicking myself now
Your welcome for that DNF win sleeves, it was 2-2 and i had to shit... so i left the game LOL
Sleeves i think we need a intro. Its time. Gosh know you stream enough and make enough content. Could do a fun little intro to your videos man
Take objectives out of this damn mode
Just make only the collectables you need. Simple math ppl lol
Just save all your fodder for team of the year all these cards don’t make a difference at all
NHL 25 is disappointing (I know i sound like a broken objective... I mean, record). The XP path was supposed to be the main way to earn rewards but now objectives and moments along with wildcard are the only way to get anywhere. I feel I'm grinding worse than my 38 SB games a week last year but I'm not playing superstar anything, I'm playing semi pro to get more games played and more objective complete in the time I have available to play. I think XP path rewards should be bangers and moments, wild card, and objectives should be supplementary to the current event, and not the only way to play. Definitely won't by the game next year unless this is addressed properly. Sadly, a waste of $130cad when last year was so fun
Sweet. Let's hope i get a reply. Love you Sleeves.
Why is it that EA takes three steps forward and one step back year after year. I'm a 50 year old gamer and this nonsense is annoying. I thought getting better in time would be the right choice. Years in pass there was good things in the game. But now it seems worse then the 80s. I love the game, but not the chores we have to do everyday.
I know this will butt hurt the people that destroy the market.
But EA is going backwards with the cards. The BND cards are the dumbest thing yet. Why can't every card be tradable?
I'm going after the meta but can't keep up. It's very discouraging and I don't want to play this game no more.
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These transactions based games are a joke and have ruined sports gaming.
hey sleeves just curious if you like recording this series more than the actually NMS series. I love both and have been rewatching your NHL 23 NMS series. That feels like yesterday. Have a good one and GO BILLS🦬