A couple of things I noticed from last night was the changes in style both teams had made from last season.

The 'Hawks after last years success seem to have become more of a puck possesion team. I guess that was an area they felt they could improve on after playing 2 possesion teams, Wings and Sharks, in the play offs. The Avs in the play off games against The Sharks were expected to give problems with quick breaks, this did not happen but it did last night, even on the PP the Avs were close to scoring 3 short handers.

To be successful with puck possesion a team has to bring its defence men over the blue line and if there is a breakdown its a long way back to defending the goal.

Got a link for Game Centre this side of the Atlantic?

I've not got it yet but if you go on nhl.com you can sign up for it on there.On the HF Boards forum there's a discussion about the european sign up for nhl gamecentre and some people are having problems with it so i'm waiting for the season to start before getting it so i know it works properly for us over here.

Who do you post as under HF Boards mate? I posted, then tried to re-register as my log in details didn't work and they told me I had to email so I did, never got a reply. Now I've just tried to log in and it's worked. I post under "EnglishRanger".

Not posted in a while,used to use DRG.I don't know if that still works as i just go on these days and look at what everybody else is posting.It's good that people from all over the world post on that site.I remember a couple of years ago having an argument with a frenchman about the premier league being the strongest football league in europe

I might start posting again now the season has started.

Slightly off topic, anyone who bought NHL 12 played it recently since the 1.03 update? The game freezes when I try to load my season at 100% progress. Deleted the update and it works fine afterwards. Is this a common problem?