Below is a list of the players I am currently working on. Please be patient as I promise they will all be finished as soon as humanly possible! Trust me, I want my game accurate too!

This is a rough list. I'll be adding/subtracting from it as I go along.

LEGEND
* = Goaltender
^ = AHL Contract



ROOKIE CAPs I AM WORKING ON (By Team)

ANAHEIM
Rob Bordson
Josh Brittain
Matt Clark
*Marco Cousineau
Nicolas Deschamps
Brandon McMillan
Kyle Palmieri

ATLANTA
*Chris Carrozzi
Patrice Cormier
Eric O'Dell
Danick Paquette
*Edward Pasquale
Mike Siklenka

BOSTON
Matt Bartkowski
Jordan Caron
*Adam Courchaine
*Michael Hutchinson

BUFFALO
Alex Biega
Nick Crawford
Jacob Lagace
Corey Tropp

CALGARY
Lance Bouma
Chris Breen
Greg Nemisz
Mitch Wahl

CAROLINA
Michal Jordan
Riley Nash

CHICAGO
Igor Makarov
Ben Smith
Ryan Stanton

COLORADO
Cameron Gaunce

COLUMBUS
Matt Calvert
Steven Delisle
Cody Goloubef
John Moore
Theo Ruth
David Savard

DALLAS
Sean Backman
*Tyler Beskorowany
Tristan King
Ondrej Roman
Tomas Vincour

DETROIT
Willie Coetzee
Brent Raedeke
Brendan Smith

EDMONTON
Philippe Cornet
Teemu Hartikainen

FLORIDA
*Marc Cheverie
AJ Jenks
Colby Robak
Eric Selleck
Scott Timmins

LOS ANGELES
*Martin Jones
Ray Kaunisto
Brandon Kozun
Jacob Muzzin
Brayden Schenn
Colten Teubert

MINNSOTA
Joel Broda
Tyler Cuma
*Matthew Hackett
Jarod Palmer
Marco Scandella

MONTREAL
Alexander Avtsin
Gabriel Dumont
Brendon Nash
Ian Schultz

NASHVILLE
Gabriel Bourque
Ryan Ellis
Michael Latta
Charles-Olivier Roussel

NEW JERSEY
Jean-Sebastien Berube
Mark Fayne
Adam Henrique
Dan Kelly
Harry Young

NY ISLANDERS
*Kevin Poulin

NY RANGERS
Jyri Niemi

OTTAWA
Jared Cowen
Corey Cowick
David Dziurzynski
Colin Greening
Mike Hoffman
Patrick Wiercioch

PHILADELPHIA
Luke Pither
Zac Rinaldo
Andrew Rowe
*Brian Stewart
Mike Testwuide
Eric Wellwood

PHOENIX
Mathieu Brodeur
Maxim Goncharov
Michael Stone

PITTSBURGH
*Patrick Killeen
Nicholas Petersen

ST. LOUIS
*Jake Allen
Mark Cundari
Stefan Della Rovere
Philip McRae
Anthony Nigro
Nikita Nikitin
Tyler Shattock

SAN JOSE
*Thomas Heemskerk
Marek Viedensky
Tommy Wingels

TAMPA BAY
Mark Barberio

TORONTO
*Ben Scrivens

VANCOUVER
Dan Gendur

WASHINGTON
Dmitry Kugryshev
Dustin Stevenson


AHL CONTRACTS

ALBANY
*Bobby Goepfert
Mike McKenzie (signed with Charlotte)

BRIDGEPORT
Corey Syvret
Justin Taylor (Not the one currently in the game)

CHICAGO
Michael Davies
Matt Krug

HARTFORD
Trevor Glass
Blake Parlett
Dan Ringwald

HERSHEY
*Jared DeMichel
*Todd Ford

ROCKFORD
Andy Bohmbach
Scott Fletcher
Kyle Hagel
Zack Torquato

SYRACUSE
Chris Francis (Signed with Springfield for 2010-2011)
Tyler Murovich (Signed with Springfield for 2010-2011)

DUCKS AFFILIATE AHL CONTRACTS
Eric Lampe (Signed with Syracuse for 2010-2011)
Brian Lebler (Signed with Syracuse for 2010-2011)
John Mitchell (Not one currently in the game - signed with Syracuse for 2010-2011)

Here's a list of what I think EA should fix in NHL 11. Feel free to leave your own comments about it.


Free Agents List - Make it sortable, at least by position. Or perhaps (if you have a chatpad) be able to press a letter and jump to it (i.e. type Q and land on Deron Quint). Or even make it searchable, where pressing a button on the chatpad brings up a searchbox in which you can type a player's last name and have it find him. Right now, my Free Agents List takes nearly 3 full minutes to go from top to bottom.

Goaltender Equipment - Logo colors should be editable as if they were any other part of the equipment. And please make the equipment sections the right way! This is the second straight NHL installment where the RX9 color palette doesn't change the proper section of the equipment - and fix the white stick glitch, where it becomes gray. Goalie helmets are ridiculous this year - go back to having the options of Bauer, Cage, etc. instead of one big mess of useless helmets. And please give us templates such as a webbed design, an eagle logo, a "Cujo" mask, etc. with the options to change the colors in them. And give us more than two masks per team, or at least make the masks relatively usable. Why don't the Euro Leagues have mask options?

Create-A-Player - Why in the world is equipment before a player's name and vital information? Fix that... Also, they need to not limit the number of letters in a name to 11 characters, instead make it 20 so guys like Pierro-Zabotel & Lalonde-McNicoll can have their actual names in the game! And allow for a first & last name play-by-play option - when a goal is announced its not "Rangers goal scored by Chris" its "Rangers goal scored by Chris Drury" so why can't we allow our player to have first and last names called during a goal? And why isn't everyone's first & last name in the Name Database? They call it out during the game, so why can't I assign Drummond to my player, if there is Rob Drummond in the game?! It is so annoying! Along with John H, I too agree that they need some serious revamping of the on-screen keyboard options, as _!@#$%^&*()>
Downloadable Updates - I don't see why you couldn't provide us with downloadable game add-ons for new equipment (Bauer One100, Vaughn Epic, GDI Evo, Brian's Zero G, Brian's Razor). I know you'd need a license from the company to use their equipment in-game - but you already have one with them, so you could try ammending it.

skrody's thoughts
Jersey Selection - Don't get me wrong, I love the options that we have but there has to be more. Especially if you're not going to allow custom jerseys in EASHL, adding some of the following could really expand the jersey database. Old Mighty Ducks jerseys, Bruins yellow 'bear logo' 3rd, the black and red Sabres jerseys,, 93-98 Dallas home and away, Islanders fisherman logo jerseys, Penguins letter mark and streaky jerseys, Gretzky era Blues Jersey, these classic Sharks jerseys, these other ugly Canucks jerseys and finally these classic Caps jerseys. I mean if 2k can get the Whalers jersey then these should be reachable too. It's not just about EASHL either, I love playing hockey with old jerseys. When I use the 94' Canucks jerseys I try to re-do classic moves and goals and so on and so forth. Its good fun.

Create-A-Team/Expansion Mode - Let us have every current NHL Jersey as a template. Or make a hugely in depth Create-A-Jersey that we can use for our teams. Instead of replacing an NHL team, let us make our own and take it into the season and see how we can do. Let there be an expansion mode. Would be an EXCELLENT addition for BE-A-GM.

RFA'S/More CBA rules - I hate that in my first offseason, I was able to sign coverboy Patrick Kane as a free agent. There should be RFA's which can be poached aswell! I think that too would be an excellent addition to BE-A-Gm.

All-Star Format/Skills competition - I think EA has done something incredible by making the trade deadline and the draft EVENTS opposed to just days on the calendar. I'd love to see the All-Star weekend be next event. First off, there should be All-Star voting, hands down. They could EASILY do every event that takes place minus the shootout/deke competition. It'd be hard to pull off without getting gimmicky (see NBA Live series). I'd also like to see different All-Star formats. East vs West, North America vs World, Stanley Cup Champs vs All-Stars? hey just a thought ;)