![]() This new game mode is a faster, lighter approach to Hockey Ultimate Team, and allows for more of that fantasy draft feel.īe sure to read the official iDigi NHL 17 review as well for our thoughts on this year’s big hockey game. EA Access is not currently available to PS4 gamers.Īs far as major changes to gameplay, this year’s Hockey Ultimate Team will see some big overhauls, including adding a new game mode, Draft Champions. All progress made during the trial can get carried over once you buy a full copy of the game. To do so, you’ll have to sign up for EA Access to get started. If you can’t wait that long, and you have an Xbox One, you can start a 10-hour free trial right now. Make sure you get those hard drives cleared so you’ll have the space. The file size for NHL 17 is 19.65GB on Xbox One and 19.4GB for PS4. If NHL 17 releases anything like Madden 17, then it will be EDT, meaning those on the West Coast can start downloading and playing right at 9 p.m. The listing doesn’t mention if it is EDT or not, however. Lucky you, because NHL 17 unlocks right as the clock strikes midnight.Īccording to the listing on the Xbox Store, NHL 17 will unlock right at 12 a.m. Because he knows that that chop to the arm was only going to result in a slap to the wrist.NHL 17 is releasing tomorrow, and if you bought a copy through Xbox Live or PSN, you might be wondering when you will actually be able to start playing. ![]() And Alex Pietrangelo decides it’s worth it to see if he can break Leon Draisaitl’s arm. The team that’s losing goons it up to “send a message.” The good players that want to just play hockey find themselves in a 1970s time warp being assaulted by the offspring of Dave Schultz. With the goons gone the way of the dinosaurs, it’s up to the league to ensure that there is a strong enough disincentive to stop this mayhem.Įvery game in these playoffs ends the same way. Which didn’t stop them from attacking stars. Then that got silly because it was just a bunch of goons fighting each other. You know … instead of enforcing actual rules to protect stars. Until recently, teams loaded up on the likes of George Parros to “protect” stars. The result is restraint fouls and, especially in the playoffs, physical attacks on the best players. But the NHL thinks I would rather watch some no-talent 4th line guy make life more difficult for Connor McDavid or Mitch Marner. Even hidebound baseball finally decided to change some rules to stimulate offence. The NBA changed rules to increase offence so their stars could shine. Football bends over backwards to protect quarterbacks and receivers. ![]() Notably, they are the only major North American sport that does this. The NHL’s history has been to make life easier for the less talented players to stop the more talented players. Why else would you put a former goon (George Parros) in charge of on-ice discipline? It believes that violence attracts more paying customers. This is the only way to explain the ludicrous one game suspension for Alex Pietrangelo for his Paul Bunyanesque attack on Leon Draisaitl. It would appear that this department’s actual function is to safeguard the players who commit deliberate attempts to injure more so than their intended targets. Surely the players who are the targets of unmistakable attempts to injure cannot feel that they are being safeguarded by this misnamed department. The tall foreheads at the NHL must have been reading the novel “1984” when they decided to name the on-ice disciplinary arm of the NHL the Department of Player Safety. Leafs mailbag: It’s tough to make sense of the NHL’s approach to player safety, May 12
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