Strategies in NHL 23

@EA_Aljo I cannot trade for players and cannot build my lines on my team because I don't know how they actually fit onto my team until i trade for them or sign them, and then I still have a team that has no chemistry. This whole thing is a mess. Looks like I just need to start my Franchise mode over again, just to TURN OFF line chemistry. 

no vision...no thought...just changes for changes sake.

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@Caliboy6262_714 wrote:

Not a bug. It’s always been that way since they introduced coaching staffs a few years ago. The strategies never change to the new coach.

the old work around was you had to go into the coach profile, write down their preferences, and change them yourself in the strategies menu.

you can’t do that now 

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So let me get this straight... the 1st coach in your franchise is still auto-generated and not hired by the player?  So basically whatever crap strategies the coach that I don't even get to hire has is what I'm stuck with the entirety of my franchise?  Wow, what a brilliant design decision EA!  LOL this dev team seriously could not be more incompetent... Thank God this is the 1st year I didn't buy into the hype and get the game at launch.

That was my biggest gripe about the change. The CPU will generally draft the best player available also. So a defensive squad can wind up with a bunch of offensive players that will never improve because they’ll be stuck on their coaches 3rd and 4th lines.

it just  doesn’t make any sense. I would actually be fine with not being able to change strategies if the coaching strategies at least updated when hiring a new coach.

@EA_Aljo  of course has gone completely quiet on this after telling us that it was meant to be this way. So it was meant to be broken and not work properly??? Why not just take coaching staffs out completely then? All we really want to know is if the Devs are aware that it’s not updating strategies with new coaching hires, and if they will be fixing this with an update. And if not just let us know so we can move on.

@EvaElfieSimp3 You can, when I enter a match I always lock my controller on CO and watch games CPUvsCPU, having the ability to change strategies on the fly, line match, etc etc. So taking out the team strategy setup (but introducing the pp strategy setup at the same time) makes ZERO sense.

Yeah pretty stupid decision since they just introduced a special teams strategies customization... so I can set pp strategies but can't set the general team strategies! Duh! This is a big problem for me, might ask for a refund since I ONLY play Franchise mode as the gm AND the coach simultaneously, when I enter the match I always lock controller on CO, so I can adjust strategies on the fly, line match etc.. and I always set the team strategies before the game depending on the lineup and opposing team., turning down the slider where the AI coach can change strategies during game to zero. bummer

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@Caliboy6262_714 

I was out of the office the last 2 days. Regardless, I don't have any updates on this.

It seems that strategies are even more bugged than previously thought. See pic below. 

Another pic below.