Ideas for BAP and Franchise

I like your ideas!

Anything that brings an extra touch of realism. Career ending injuries would be a great option, from a realism point of view. Of course not something for everyone, but to have it as an option to turn on I think would be great (even in Franchise mode). Just injuries that last longer would be welcome.

Also suspensions, both in BAP and Franchise. I'm one of those who get frustrated during bad games and deliver stupid hits, and to get a two minute boarding (or checking from behind) for it. I have sometimes changed the settings to increase the risk of injury, and increased penalties such as boarding, checking from behind so, that a bad hit usually means 5 minutes and a game misconduct (and that the player get injured for getting completely crushed). But being tossed from one game doesn't really do the thing justice either, compared to the action. I want a proper reason to stop doing those things...

All sorts of negotiations are welcome, and certainly the contract in BAP. These last couple of years I feel that contract negotiations for players have become a different animal and there is more focus on it than it has been in the past. I would even want to see some flexibility in Franchise in this regard. Like Toronto's Thornton-signing this off-season. It would be nice to be able to approach a player nearing the end of his career with something extra. Not sure how it would work, but some kind of risk/reward approach, that either you get the player cheap because he believes in your approach, or close the door and won't sign with you at all. It could be something for any player really, but a risk/reward approach in some way, as an option to the traditional amount they ask for.

Definitely more variation with the draft in BAP. Currently there's no point doing good before the draft, unless you want to go NYR or LA. I myself created an enforcer d-man, fought twice in two games in CHL (game misconduct for fighting there) and got drafted 129th in the 5th round by the Ducks. But now the games before the draft just feels like games to * up in different ways, and see if you get drafted to different team. A friend of min got drafted by Vancouver in the 2nd round once, but the system isn't good as it is, that's for sure.

@TobbishYeah I've seen over the past years with aged contracts on franchise players who are 37-40 years old with overalls between 75-77 with AHL top 6 potential wanting contracts between 1-5 Mil over a 1-3 year term.. and don't lower even after the season starts

I also will like to add that I would be playing with all AHL players as all my players would be suspended haha! Meanwhile my rival team would also be playing with AHL players as all their team would be on the LTR lol

Thanks for the post, @DeMiGoD1988!

Going to pin this at the top to gather a list/feedback of what others would like to see added. No promises on features mentioned in this thread for this year, if we find out any updates we'll share them along. This information will be passed along to the team to consider for future updates and NHL titles. 

There are a lot of good ideas here for franchise mode so far, especially for the owner mode portion. This is just my personal opinion but I do not want them to focus a lot of time adding things that aren't really part of a GM's job. I think they need to focus on contract negotiations (both RFA and UFA), adding more adjustable options, improving scouting, coaches and trading among other things as more of a priority.

May I add in BAP to have more than 1 freaking team interested in obtaining you after your first 3 seasons? The fact that only 1 team out of 31 is interested in signing you is pathetic. They should at least have 5-6 teams, or that's too much, at least 1 team from each division making you an offer. 

Personally, I would like to see forced trades be an option for franchise mode. It seems like an easy thing to add, and as more of a sandbox player, it gives a lot of creativity and flexibility when playing franchise mode.