Bug in Season Mode Trades?

sulky_spoon

In season mode I like to try to keep the rosters as up-to-date as possible. This year and last, I've encountered an issue where I cannot make player movements in some circumstances. The game will tell me that the trade is not allowed because team x will have less than two playable goalies.

This occurs when goalies aren't even involved in the transaction. For example, Seth Griffith just got claimed by Toronto and I cannot move him because of this error.

Is a fix possible?

FreneticEnigma

I do the same thing in Season Mode and have encountered this problem...I found the error can be avoided by simply dropping a player to free agency from team x (not necessarily a goalie). Typically, there's a player on the minor league roster that won't be needed for Season mode.

sulky_spoon

I just tried that. It worked for moving Matt Nietto from San Jose to Colorado. Not for moving Brad Hunt from St. Louis to Nashville.

Seriously though, for $80 I'd expect a lot more especially when it Is two years in a row this same error has existed.

Needs an actual fix from EA not a workaround.

FreneticEnigma

I agree - hopefully, this will not be in NHL18 (I don't expect this to be fixed in NHL 17).

For Brad Hunt, I was able to move him from Chicago (AHL) to Milwaukee - I think I dropped Matt Carle from Milwaukee to free agency since he's retired. Don't know if that will help; the workaround has always worked for me by dropping a player, and I always try to make it an AHL to AHL move.

DeejNYLV

I cannot make a trade in my current franchise mode at all. It just says I have too many injured players, even though nobody is injured. Anybody have a solution?

sulky_spoon

So any chance that this bug is fixed in NHL21? It has been an issue now in at least 5 iterations of the game!

sulky_spoon

So, once again NHL21 has the not enough goalies bug when making trades in season mode. Oh, and it also still crashes if you make any trades or signings inside a season and don't have full roster control of every team. It seems like once a transaction is made all of the lines become empty and then when you try to play a game the entire game freezes. Very frustrating for a game that costs almost $100 new.
Come on EA. This needs to be addressed.