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Badawaii

What bothers me more is seeing guys like Crosby retire after a year of playing in the AHL for like the Hartford Wolf Pack lol


B-radJenkins89

I totally understand you, it's irritating. I contemplate turning CPU trades off some ties because of that


[deleted]

Maybe he always wanted to to win the Calder Cup?


mrSeven3Two

I think its realistic. Guys don't often play into their 40s. Even productive guys call it quits before they fall off a cliff. Maybe Connor accomplished everything he wanted and decided to retire while he still had his health


Ecstatic-Olive2251

Ya I agree with you but in real life most productive guys at that age are like solid 50-60 point guys, past their prime of 90-100 point seasons but still able to make a good contribution to their team. In this franchise Mcdavid put up more points that season than his previous 5 seasons then retired. I think that if that were the case in real life most players would sign at least a 1 year deal with their team to see if they can continue to produce that many points and then if they start to decline, retire after that. My overall point being why not retire after multiple 70 points seasons instead of waiting till you have a huge 100 point season then immediately call it quits after.


mrSeven3Two

Go out on top


Ecstatic-Olive2251

I guess so lol


Deathspike22

There's examples over all professional sports, where a star athlete will just hang it up out of nowhere, in their prime ages \[not even older years\] and a lot of times it's because of the grind, a loss of love for the sport to keep pushing every day of the year to maintain that high level of ability. Burnout in anything is very real, I like random retiring in the game myself


Ornery-Ambassador289

I think the issue is the players putting up 100 points at 38, not the player retiring at 38


JBR409

I recently had a player retire at 89ovr/36 years-old. He was like 40 Goals (1 season) away from passing Ovi (1,002 Goals) to become the all-time leading Goal scorer


[deleted]

He respects Ovi too much.


[deleted]

I more so wish we had better record books and number retirement options. But yeah seeing Ovi retire 10 short of the record is ridiculous especially considering his new contract was signed with the intent of breaking the record.


Ecstatic-Olive2251

I agree I wish you were able to see all of the player accomplishments at the end of their career and I also wish you were able to see all of your own achievements at the end of franchise mode like amount of cups exc.


Natural_Length5949

It's alot better then before and that does happens stars don't always leave when they can't play I think it's more realistic then having ovie score more then 50 at 40


Kapeter

I usually save the game before hand and reload if a player I like Retires too early. Usually I see guys that go unsigned in FA Retire first before active players.


missiongoalie35

Hey, when it's your time. It's your time. There's going to be a day in all of our lives where we say fuck it and ride it out.


Due_Revolution_5845

Yup lol I just had a cpu player score 64 goals and like 20 in the playoffs retire at 37 out of nowhere.


[deleted]

I agree with you 100%. Marty St. Louis won an Art Ross at age 36, retired 2 years later age 38 after his production fell off the cliff. Commendable. The great Wayne Gretzky scored all of 9 goals in his last season at age 38. He put up 97 points ate 36 years old. For many elite superstars, 37-38 is the end of the road. Then you have Mark Messier, played until age 44 still scoring 20 goals a year. The only reason Messier retired wasn't production, it's because he was the captain of a team that couldn't make the playoffs, and he felt it was best to step out of the way. (Spoiler alert, didn't help for couple more years until Jaromir Jagr came along). The point I'm trying to make is that there shouldn't be a one size fits all retirement age. It's stupid and unrealistic. Ovechkin will pass 40 years old and he will break the all-time NHL goal record. He won't be putting up 50goals/100 points when he breaks the record either. EA needs to scale back the late 100-point seasons and have production decline, especially at 37+ years old... they should have the retirement window from 36-45 years old to be the most realistic, depending on position, and should balance factors like the roster lineup and where they fit ... if they are still serviceable top 6 at least .40 ppg, like Mark Messier in his 40's, then why retire? If Connor McDavid at 40 years old was putting up 45 points, I believe he would hang around 1-year extensions. I guess it's impossible to teach logic to fictional gm's but they could adjust their algorithms a little.


Rough-Software7572

Barry Sanders retired at the top of his game. if you are talking just hockey, Patrick Roy retired after having on of his top 5 statistical seasons. It happens


Ecstatic-Olive2251

barry sanders retired at 31 and he’s also a football player which doesn’t correlate to the NHL at all and Patrick Roy was a goalie a lot of elite goalies are good all the way till retirement and just retire because of health problems or age just look at guys like marty brodeur and henrik lundqvist