Keep firing and hiring until your staff matches the quality bar you’re seeking. Each subsequent year, you’ll see more talented scouts appear in the free agent pool. If you aren’t playing owner mode, clean house and replace all the D-rated scouts. Why are good scouts important? They take less time to perform evaluations, deliver full scouting reports much faster, and identify more gems and busts. Each year, a flood of new talent rushes into the free agency pool (some of them being retired NHLers), so there should always be a couple A or B-rated scouts to add. In that case, fire the bad scouts with a year left on their contract and start planning for which scouts you intend to sack in subsequent years. If you’re playing owner mode, this may be a multi-year process because you don’t want to eat too many contracts while also trying to sign new scouts. Purging the ranks of weak talent evaluators should be your first order of business. Regardless of which organization you take over, expect to find some bad apples on your scouting staff. Here are some simple tips to get you ahead of the game. I’ve spent dozens of hours poking and prodding the new system trying to maximize my returns both in free agency and during the draft. With 20 scouts at your disposal and hundreds of prospects to research, keeping tabs on all the activities can be dizzying. Keeping tabs on your rivals can now spell the difference between making savvy trades that put your team on a Stanley Cup trajectory and being the next Marc Bergevin, making a series of questionable decisions that inevitably set your franchise back. The longer you go without scouting pro teams, the less likely you are to have reliable information when it comes to making trades and signing free agents. Your duties as general manager extend beyond draft day as well thanks to the new Fog of War mechanic. The new scouting system has been rebuilt from the ground up to give GMs the flexibility they need to identify and evaluate talent prior to turning in that pick card before the draft timer expires. Gone is the inflexible system that gave you little information to go on when making draft-day selections. After years of neglect, EA Vancouver finally gave one of the older franchise mode components a much-needed overhaul in NHL 19.

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