Monthly Archives: May 2025

EXTREME HOCKEY?

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One of the latest offerings from PLAAY Games is their new XHL hockey league for Hockey Blast.

Described as “an alternate, summertime big-time professional hockey league”, the set comes with 20 teams, and as I have enough trouble trying to find time to play most sports games, I’ve decided to try this set with only 6 teams, representing the NHL’s Original Six.

The 6 teams are from Chicago, Cleveland, Hartford, New York, Quebec, and Toronto.

There were no teams from Boston or Detroit, so I picked the closest teams city-wise (Cleveland and Hartford)

The have a list of suggested team names, with a classic/heritage name and an alternate name.  My initial thoughts for names for this XHL 6 league (from the suggestions):

  • Chicago Bruisers
  • Cleveland Barons
  • Hartford Whalers (think I’d pick this city and not use their classic team name?)
  • New York Gladiators
  • Quebec Nordiques (same here)
  • Toronto Shamrocks

There are some alternate rules that can be added (2 point goals, option to pull the penalized team goalie during a major penalty) that I’ll probably end up trying.

They also included 32 actual NHL players to add to the teams as free agents, which I may or may not do.

I’ll try to get a game or two in soon, as soon as I work out a schedule for the league.

Stay tuned!

Logos

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I’ve never been one to customize print-n-play teams, but I just might if I get around to printing and playing Season Ticket Football.

Their files come in PDF and RTF format, which makes it easy to add appropriate team logos on otherwise text-only team sheets.

Stay tuned!

 

Inside the Net

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I finally got around to trying out the soccer game from Inside Sports Games, Inside the Net.

Of course I played a North London Derby.

I didn’t track stats as I was just learning the game, so all I have is:

TOT 1-0 ARS

Kulusevski (PK) 80′

Yellow cards:

Zinchenko 73′
Hojbjerg 87′

This one flows and feels like watching a soccer game, more like APBA Soccer than Soccer Blast.

I have EPL 2023-24 and Bundesliga 2023-24 to play with, and I hope to get more plays in of this game.

Stay tuned!