Talk to me about EA NHL 17 HUT

1. It is not a huge money sink unless you absolutely NEED to have the best lineup possible

2. I can't remember what I started out with, but up until about 2 weeks ago I was a part of #TeamNoSpend and have since only dropped $20 on packs (none of my pulls were worth keeping on my current lineup)

3. You get anywhere 800-1200 coins just for playing games online in HUT. When you get promoted to higher divisions, you get bonus coins as well, and more bonus coins if you win the division instead of just simply getting promoted.

4. I enjoy it. I am currently in Division 4 and I am still competing.

5. The online community actually is really small for NHL. Not a ton of guys use microphones, and so long as you aren't using your mic to just talk a bunch of shite, some guys will carry on conversations.

6. Their BIG release just happened with Movember cards. These specially marked cards are good because those cards will auto upgrade to a better version of the player if a better version is released. For example, if a Movember card is rated at 88 OVR that means that that particular player has a team of the week (TOTW) card and both cards are the same. Now if that player gets a team of the year card where his OVR is 90, then the Movember card will upgrade to a 90 as well.

Aside from that, you have TOTW and TOTM cards. There may be some other special promo cards, but it's not a huge deal.


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Outside of all that, you could realistically fill all 23 spots with 86-87 OVR players for about 30K coins rather easily. I would focus on figuring out your preferred playstyle and finding out what synergy's work best for your style of play. Then you can start planning your roster build around those synergies. Also, another advantage of having non-base (MOV, TOTW, Player of the game) cards is that some of them carry more than one synergy with them which makes them more valuable, coin wise.

If you need anymore info just let me know.

Thanks yall. Great answers.

Going to need a solid Left Handed Right Defensemen. My entire offense opened up on offline play once I

-put the camera on dynamic high. Is there a better option?

-realized I kept fricking up my one timers because I had a RH right defenseman

It seems Crash the Net and Tight Point are mandatory. frick the neutral zone trap!

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Going to need a solid Left Handed Right Defensemen.

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The beauty of the synergy addition to HUT is that there is no longer a requirement to have certain players playing in certain positions. You could literally trot out an entire team of Centers if they fit your synergy style. You would 100% get absolutely destroyed, but you could theoretically do it. In all actuality, it's one of the most commonly used strategies in NHL games. Traditionally (and I don't know why) Your LW and LD players are left handed, and the RW/RD players are right handed. So just simply swapping them positionally in your lineup screen will work wonders for your team as far as one timers go.

In last years game mode, you had to pay serious coins to have position swaps accomplished. If you played them out of position, they lost a certain percentage off their stats unless you assigned them the position change card. That is no longer the case this year.

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