Stratégie EHM (en anglais)

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Setting Up Your 5 on 5 Lines

Line strategies are important. The strategies you use directly affect how your team will perform in the
game, but the type of players that you have should drive the strategies that you use. Here’s a
breakdown of each line strategy and some advice on when to use them.

Passing Plays
This tactic is reliable for offensively gifted teams. This means that your defenseman should be
offensively talented too. This strategy uses passes until someone is open for a shot. It makes you
slightly more susceptible to giveaways when playing against good checking defensemen.

Run &Gun
This tactic will only work if your opponent is no match for you. Use it only against a weak team. This pushes all of your players into the attacking zone, and makes you susceptible to odd man rushes and breakaways from the other team. When you play this against a team that is evenly matched to yours, it’s pretty certain that your team will allow more goals than they score.


Dump & Chase
This tactic is pretty much a 4th line tactic for unskilled players. You’ll need players who are at least a little fast to get to the puck before the other team’s defenders if you want to create scoring chances. This is a good tactic to use when you want to create chances against a better team and maybe steal a game.

Hit & Grind
This is by far the most reliable and productive tactic in the game. Your players hit and battle to create
turnovers and counter attack. It works well with players who can hit and are fast. Be sure to pair the hitting players with a playmaker and a shooter for the best results.


Neutral Zone Trap
If your team is particularly gifted defensively, this can be a great tactic. You will need some defensive
forwards to make this work. If you are up against an offensive powerhouse, you can use this tactic to
slow down the game and keep the score down, though it is likely that you will still give up a goal or two.






It’s a good idea to mix and match line tactics based upon the types of players that you have on your
roster. Here are a few scenarios to help you put together team strategies based on your team’s
makeup.

A One Line Team

If your team is a little top heavy and you have a drop off in talent after your first line, you will want to
roll that line out there as much as possible. You will be hoping to score goals from this line. If the
players are more offensively gifted, you will want to try a "Passing Plays" strategy, along with a shift
length of 70 seconds (shifts are in seconds for your 5 on 5 lines but they are in percentages on your
special teams lines). If they are defensively minded, a "Hit and Grind" combination with a shift length of
70 will help them exceed.

Line 2 should be the support for these players, and you want to have them add some zip to your lineup
and take some minutes away from your tired first line. No matter what kind of line you put out, the 2nd
line must produce for your team to be successful. Try to find a good shooter, a decent playmaker, and
someone who can hit. These players should be decent skaters too. Play the "Dump and Chase" tactic
with a shift length of 40 seconds.

It’s likely that the talent drop off from your first line is now significant. Line 3 should be a trap line.
Hitting is not important here. You need defensive players. Good positioning and checking attributes are
a must. It’s important to remember that a check is not a hit. In EHM a check is a poke check or marking
– it’s more of a positional attribute. Play the "Neutral Zone Trap" tactic, with a 30 second shift length.

Your 4th line is probably terrible, but you still have to throw them out there. At this point a tactic or
strategy doesn’t matter. Set the remaining players to “Hit & Grind” with a shift length of 30 seconds and
hope for the best.


A Two Line Team

For a team like this, pay attention to the OV rating of your players. It’s a bad idea to simply put your
three best players all on the first line since it may weaken the scoring on your second line. Spread out
your talent a bit. Put your two best players on the first line. Put your 2ndbest player for the remaining
position on the first line with them. Then make your second line and include the player that you left off
the first line. Each line can be set to "Passing Plays" and each can have a shift that ranges between 50 or
60 seconds.

Your third line should again be a trap line. Good defense ratings are what you are looking for, and
hitting is not so important. "Neutral Zone Trap" is the strategy, with a shift length of 30 seconds.
Your fourth line should be your grind line. Get some big enforcers and hitters on this line. Defense
should come above all. Play "Hit & Grind" as the line strategy with a shift length of 30 seconds.


A Team that’s All Offense, All the Time!

An ideal all offense team will use the "Passing Plays" tactic all the way down. Compare yourself to the
teams you are playing against to be sure that your players are offensively superior. Your shift lengths
should go 60-50-40-30 from your first line to your fourth. Remember to spread out your talent. If you
have a good goalie you will win a lot, but don’t expect him to win the Vezina with all of those 5-4 wins.
And expect your fans to be addicted to heartburn medication. This is a fun way to pad your offensive
stats, but it’s also very risky.


Defense, Defense, Defense!

They say defense wins championships, but who wants to watch that? If you don’t have a lot of offense,
well, you should get some! But if you can’t acquire it right away, this strategy can help you win some
games. Your first two lines should be “Hit & Grind”, set to 50 second shifts. Remember to spread out
your talent. For your third and fourth lines, again spread out the talent, but play the “Neutral Zone
Trap” tactic with 30 second shifts. Prepare to be dazzled by the number of 1-0 wins you get!


All Rookies – AKA, Edmonton

In a few years I’ll regret naming this section the way I did. In most cases this will be a team in a
rebuilding process. You are likely playing a bunch of rookies or AHL talent before they are developed.
You can make this work and win games. For this team, forget about the OV rating. Set all four lines to
40 second shifts. Your first line needs the best players with offense (not OV) on it. Make this line
strategy "Passing Plays". Line two will be your best defense players, with a "Neutral Zone Trap" tactic.
For line three, find your largest players. This should be a "Hit & Grind" line. The fourth line can be your
best remaining players by overall. This should be a "Dump and Chase" line or another “Hit and Grind”
line if the players left are still big. Prepare to win your opponents respect after they underestimate you!






For the power play, you want your best offensive players out there. Make sure that you have 3 shooters along with a playmaker, and at least one offensively gifted defender. It’s okay to put a forward on as a defender. If your first line is way better than your second line, and 70-30 split for shift length will return
the best results. Don’t ever split the shift length evenly, even if you feel that your two lines are equally
talented. For tactics, be sure to mix it up. Don’t use the same strategy on both lines.


Shooting

This tactic works similarly to the Passing Plays tactic on the regular lines. The only difference is that its
focus is on the attacking zone, not the whole rink.


Screen & Shoot

Do you have any huge, tough forwards that can get in front and screen the goalie? Do you have a
defender with a nice hard shot? This setting should work nicely for your line.


Passing Plays

Your players will cycle the puck back and forth until someone has a shot. If you have good playmakers
this will work nicely.


Crash the Net

This one is not as reliable, but it will work if your line is very big and you make sure that you keep two
defensively aware defensemen on the points instead of adding that extra forward.


Shot from the Point

This one doesn’t seem to work very well. If you want to use your point shots, use the Screen & Shoot
tactic.







For the penalty kill, the players that you select become more important. You may have players with a
high PK rating, but this does not necessarily mean that they are the best players to put out on the
penalty kill. A good formula to use is penalty kill rating (PK) + checking rating (CH) + positioning rating
(PO) all divided by 3 ((PK+CH+PO)/3). This formula will get you a more accurate rating of how a player
will do on the penalty kill. You may be surprised to find out that a player that you weren’t even thinking
about will do better than the players that you were considering throwing out there.

It’s okay to play a third defender as a forward. The only thing you should be careful about is ensuring
that the player in the first forward slot, the one on the left, is a good faceoff man. Winning those
penalty kill faceoffs is important. For shift lengths, the same rules apply. Go 70-30 if your first penalty kill line is better than your second one. Don’t ever even them out at 50-50. For tactics, don’t use the same strategy on both lines.


Aggressive
If you have players with very high rankings and think they can outplay the opposing power play, use this tactic. Your players will try to get shorthand chances, but there is a risk that they will get caught out of
position.


Loose Box
This one only works well against the Passing Plays strategy. Your players won’t stick to a formation as
they try to get in the passing lanes to disrupt the other team.


Passive Box
This seems to be the most reliable tactic. It will adjust to all tactics from your opponent and will keep
you around an 80% kill rate.

Small Box
This puts your players closer to the goalie. If your opponent is trying Crash the Net or Screen & Shoot,
won’t have as much success against this tactic.


Tight Box
Very similar to the Small Box, but puts your players even tighter to the goalie. A Passing Plays strategy
from the opponent will beat this every time.