NHL 09: Tips for Earning Your Legend Card Online

[Lubey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Qb

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Can I start a beer league?

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lubey

Can I start a beer league?

Can I play?

[LegendX]

Yeah, Defense is definitely the easiest to keep an A-. Position is an easy A, Team play is an easy B+/A if you play smart and Stats just depends on if you can get a point or keep your +/- high during a game.

Had zero points in a game but +/- of four and I finished with A+/A/A-

[Lubey]

Quote: Originally Posted by LegendX

Yeah, Defense is definitely the easiest to keep an A-. Position is an easy A, Team play is an easy B+/A if you play smart and Stats just depends on if you can get a point or keep your +/- high during a game. Had zero points in a game but +/- of four and I finished with A+/A/A-

Jeez. I couldn't keep my team play up (I was a scorer though so I turned it over a lot). I think I finished with A/B+/A+

[LegendX]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lubey

Jeez. I couldn't keep my team play up (I was a scorer though so I turned it over a lot). I think I finished with A/B+/A+

I don't have my legend yet, that was just an example of one game as a defenseman.

[Lubey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Qb

Can I play?

Anyone over 21 can play.

[JMBOO]

Basically, playing in the OTP, you will NEVER EVER EVER be able to obtain your legend card, unless you use the tactics that many consider cheese. NEVER. EVER. EVER. A nice article if we lived in a perfect world, however, once reality sets in, it is quite obvious that unless you play with people you know, preferably in club games, be prepared to get up to a B+ at best, and then watch your rating plummet as the next 4 or 5 games you play, your mates will not play as a team. And quiting only hurts your cause, as you get all F's, even when you are playing with a human goalie on your team that keeps coming out of the net . Not trying to be a negative Nelly, just saying how it is in the pick-up games.

[jyoung]

This is not true at all, as I was able to make the A- grade playing OTP games exclusively with strangers, using a variety of positions including C (first preference), LD (second preference), and LW (third preference).

Yes, your success is always somewhat dependent on the team around you, but of the three rating categories (positioning, team play, and stats), the only one of the three categories your teammates should ever affect is stats, which is a fairly easy category to keep at a high rating so long as you are halfway decent at the game.

I actually found that the times my rating suffered the most was in the club games, but that's just because friends, as much as I like playing with them, just aren't that good at the game; furthermore, because none of us are interested in abusing cheese tactics, we usually get dominated by the midget teams and glitch goalers that run rampant across the EASHL lobbies.

So yes, you can have success in club games if you have a full team of great NHL 09 players, but for the average NHL 09 player, who probably isn't a part of an amazing club, OTP games are likely the easiest route to take for getting that A- grade.