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I want to play in a responsive NHL sandbox too. If I set Ovechkin to max backchecking and tell him to be a shadow I want that reflected in his output. My favourite thing to do in these types of games is create weird players or assemble broken teams and set them loose.
Over the past 10 years, only 1 player has scored over 60 goals in the NHL. Auston Matthews was on pace for around 60 last season.
Over that same span only 5 players have seasons of over 50 goals (Ovechkin is the only player to do it more than once). If we include players on pace for over 50 over the past 2 seasons, we only add 2 names to the list (Auston Matthews, who might have done it twice, and David Pastrnak). 10 years, different coaches, different linemates, etc.
Meanwhile, three of us in this thread are reporting 70 goal seasons - and I assume we are all playing using the default setting for leaguewide scoring (5.94 goals/game). 70 goals in today's scoring environment would be the first or second best goalscoring season in history. Shouldn't that be rarer? For me, it (along with the problems with shots and assists) seems implausible and spoils some of the fun. I want to START within the bounds of reality (however close you can get in a fantasy hockey game) and then diverge from there.
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