[mattygabe]

So, in addition to a crash (which I've submitted details in a support ticket for it), I've noticed these defects while playing thru my first NHL season:

-When I go to "Discuss trade" after a team has rejected my first proposal, I'd say 50-75% of the time, though I am the Flames GM the screen treats me as if I am the other team. If I'm discussing trade with Penguins, it thinks I'm Ray Shero, and his lead scout says things like, "[The Flames] will almost certainly not accept this!!" even as I add and remove pieces to both sides of the trade

-While simming, the button that tells you "Click or hit ESC to Stop Sim" doesn't work, nor does hitting ESC. The only thing I've found to work to stop the sim is to click the "Play" button above it a few times while the flaming puck is indicating simulation is occurring.

-The Free Agents list is a bit patchy - a few times it's shown me players that were said to be free agents, but were really draftees of other teams (Sam Carrier of the Capitals, for instance) that were not signed to an NHL contract. I was unable to offer him a contract, but he was still in the list of Free Agents (despite having "FA" next to his name)

-Trade news entry subjects are usually wrong - if an NHL player is traded for rights to younger players or draft picks, it says, "Calgary swaps Stempniak with Pittsburgh for Stempniak". Sometimes when the rights to a player are "first" in the trade, the subject line just says "Chicago Trades to Dallas for Jokipakka" (notice three empty spaces)

-Checkboxes in the "News Subscription Settings" box below the Manager News box doesn't update subscriptions. You must do this through some Manager menu

-This is more picky, but the filter dialog is incredibly cumbersome. Checkboxes, can you put those near each other? I shouldn't need to move the mouse ALL the way across the dialog in order to check/uncheck each one. Filtering by position should be easy. Also, the other filter options are very spaced out and the controls to increase/decrease/change those values are tiny on the screen unless you're using a machine with 1024x768 resolution

-Drag and drop from the active roster to the lineups at the bottom of the screen is wonky - sometimes it works, other times it doesnt. No visual indication if you've "grabbed" a player to drop them in. Also I can't "swap" players, can only "copy" them which also becomes cumbersome.

-Also nit-picky, but seems like players complain about not getting enough playing time way too often. Dennis Wideman was my #2 defenseman, and even before he started complaining he was on just about every top line as a defenseman. Two days later after I noticed he wasn't happy, he was injured - because I think I had him out on the ice for close to 30-35 minutes a game.

-Which, is another point. Defenseman get injured like crazy. They might need their own injury algorithm or something because it's not unusual for topline defenseman to play 25-30 minutes a game in certain instances, but I think all of the 8 primary defenseman I used in the season got injured, and at least one of them was injured at all points during the season.