General Updates:
- Re-balanced DB based on research done in Pivot for all players under a max of 160 CA/PA to allow for more variation of players and not use set random attributes.
- Completely re-tiered entire database! Several background leagues have been disabled and cleaned up.
- Players have been re-rated on playable leagues, rosters updated as of June 30th.
- Staff updated in most tier-1 leagues and major juniors, staff quality should be greatly improved long term, many coaches/GMs should become NHL viable over time.
- Cleaned up over 10k duplicate/non-existent/retired players/staff.
- Real-life schedules announced so far added for most leagues, NHL schedule will be patched in when announced.
- Several leagues use generated dates instead of a real-life schedule due to game limitations.
- Records_config file updated and expanded, the game will take longer to get started, but with a lot more detail!
- CHL Import Draft to be patched in once completed.
- All NHL transactions/signings as of right before 12 PM ET.
- Certain leagues have been removed from being human playable, we need more time to make updates.

International Updates: -- thanks filip85 and Vik3tbotselektor!!
- Updated nation details, updating IIHF scores, hockey importance and other details
- Updated all levels of World Championships, we fused 2B and 3 to bring in the teams from real-life D3 and D4 divisions, we cannot add D4 due to game limitations.
- Updated World Cup and Olympics

Too many more little updates to post here!

Updates to Broberg and Halloway contracts -- thanks raimo!

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- Increased and re-organized reputation across all active junior, major junior and domestic college leagues based on PG testing and researcher feedback -- thanks Mark!!

Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- Now includes ~4700 staff at game start
- Re-balancing of PA distribution to match long term game demands
- Re-balancing of starting CA to match game distribution without PG
- Reduced player heights, more so for finesse players
- Reintroduced player weight settings to match irl data
- Introduced 2 new player archetypes, defensive specialist and dedicated scorer
- Lowered prospect physical attributes across the board
- Reset of offensive and defensive role attribute generation to make less high-end two-way players

** Outstanding issues
-- There will still be a large gap in the first 10-15 years of a save due to the way the game wants to run and what happens irl. I don’t think this is fixable but we’ll keep trying
-- Still working on refining “middle 6” NHL ability generation. Might still be a bit high, it’ll be corrected if needed

NHL Updates:
- Updated goalie Important Matches based on new research scale
- Re-tired scouts starting CA
- Updated notable NCAA free agents (https://www.eliteprospects.com/news/nhl-prospects/the-elite-prospects-2025-ncaa-free-agency-guide)
- Updated 2026 Entry Draft class notables: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6195407/2025/04/01/2026-nhl-draft-prospects-gavin-mckenna/
- Completed all remaining organization re-rates:
-- ANA
-- BUF
-- CLB
-- DET
-- MIN
-- MTL
-- SEA
-- SJS
-- UTA

Swedish Updates:
- Cleaned up free agents -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!!

Small fixes, folder cleanup.

Fixed Oscar Back extension -- thanks raimo!

Added PG non-players missed during staging.

Small fixes to HockeyTvaan stage names

Fixed Gourde to TBL

General Updates:
- Latest notable transactions and contract extensions for playable leagues
- We no longer recommend disabling "Starting Financial Adjustments" to enable the game to determine and set initial starting team budgets. We hope this will make some playable leagues more sustainable and healthy financially instead of using the DBs set theoretical maximums which might be overkill. More testing and feedback needed from non-NHL EHM GMs!
- Set Natural Fitness to 0 for most players based on researcher consensus, this will enable more randomness with the length of careers for players, impact NHL prospects (161+ PA) should be able to overcome a low roll and be productive into their 30s. Natural Fitness has been manually set for 35+ year old players in top leagues.
- Many attributes have been set to 0 for all players under 161+ PA or potential PA roll based on researcher consensus and testing. Based on our research what the game was setting when set to 0 (let game decide) vs what we had a previous consensus of setting them to manually was not in alignment, we decided to let the game handle this going forward.
-- This includes mentals, as a result players have much more varied personalities
-- Existing NHL stars and notable players will be manually updated as appropriate
-- The intention here is for Current Ability to be the major driver of quality of players instead of static attributes, how I had been doing ratings did not produce enough unique players.
- Ensured starting Morale was set to 0 for all players/staff
- Fixed and refreshed club histories for playable leagues - how did no one notice 2023-24 stats were missing?!
- Started adding notable European future transfers for 2025-26 season, will continue to update rest of the year for top leagues only.

Prospect Generator Updates -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
= Change notes to be updated

NHL Updates:
- Cap expanded to 95.5m upper/70.6m lower limits, the 2025-26 projected numbers to allow teams to be compliant without end of season LTIR (https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-nhlpa-announce-team-payroll-ranges-for-next-3-seasons)
- Updated all players/staff involved in the Four Nations Faceoff
- Expanded goalie CA to 190 max, set min/max limits for Consistency based on scaled max PA
- Updated notable Euro/NCAA/CHL free agents who may get NHL contracts
- I've started adding more "favorite teams" to players, specifically home clubs for European players and junior/college teams (where the player captained or played multiple years) for others. Should add some more personality to the DB, this is being done for teams I've more recently re-rated in this release.
- Organization re-rates completed in this update:
-- CAL
-- CAR
-- COL
-- EDM
-- LAK
-- NJD
-- OTT
-- PHI
-- PIT
-- TBL
-- TOR
-- VAN
-- VGK
-- WAS
-- WPG

Chinese Updates:
- Updated new Chinese Ice Hockey League and added clubs and affiliation for Kunlun RS -- thanks Vik3tbotselektor!

Swedish Updates:
- HockeyTvaan has finally been added as a playable league! Big thank you to the multiple people that helped but especially Vik3tbotselektor and Aahlstroem along with many others who spent months trying to figure out how to make it work! It's a massive 80 club 18 stage monster of a league structure! This needs extensive testing, due to the low reputation of the league it may be difficult to play long term but should be a fun starting point!
- Updated HockeyTvaan and Swedish HockeyTrean clubs
- Various detail updates in SHL/HockeyAllsvenskan -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Fixed SHL so winner is now properly promoted to Champions Hockey League -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

TBD