Line Matchups
Line matchups is a huge thing in the NHL, being the home team having the last line change is key in the playoffs, and can give an advantage. Does EA ever plan to get line matchups into their offline modes.
A way to go about it maybe is using how Madden has where the defense and offense picks there plays.
You could have like a 15 second window for the away team to pick there line that they want to send out on the ice before the face-off starts, after the away team has chosen there line, then the offense has a 15 second window. There’s probably more in depth you could go about it, with quick substitution say for a certain lines Center you want to sub out your 4th line center for your top center cause you need to win this face-off. I think it would be an awesome feature to the game, and add more realism to the game. One more thing to add on to it, what about bringing back where it shows what line the AI is changing to on the fly. In older games, you would see on the bottom left corner that the AI was changing to line 2 so now you know when you have a line change opportunity what line you want to match up against it