1. It doesn't despite the fact that it should exist. Even if most of the players aren't NHL potential, placing in even a handful of NHL potential prospects over the course of a 25 year mode who ALSO are ranked lower in the draft, perhaps below the last 7th round pick even, because no one scouts those areas would make this functional. I can find the one kid from India who has a high top 6F potential and draft them in the 7th round or draft the one elite potentiall goalie in Japan. Now, despite no one scouting these regions, if you put anyone good in ROW everyone knows they're good and they're going in the first round.
But they also need to, then, actually make reasonable draft pools for these areas. We already have players from France, Italy, Poland, etc with American names. The France part is especially disheartening since they could literally get away with using the same name pool as the QMJHL. It's Jean-Jacques Chauvin, not James Sexsmith, being drafted out of Paris.
4. I'm pretty sure those are for the morale system, not the line chemistry system. The guy who has to win all the time is going to be miserable if the team finishes 23rd in the league while the team player might play it cool and not demand a trade to a winning team.
5. I have not noticed that. However, being able to reassign their position is a must even if we cannot change the player type. If my top RW is a 78 and my 4th highest center is an 87, then maybe the center needs to be able to be made a RW and the RW a center so that the assistant coach doesn't place the good guy on the 4th line and the crappy guy on the starting line. You can get SNP and PWF franchise players, but both are left wings and so they never play on the same line. Hell, I have had the Elite D I thought would move up to the first line stuck on the third because they insist on playing LD instead of RD.
6. I definitely have no idea why they think someone is a gem or a bust.
