OT : Help With NHL 09 for XBOX 360

[TomWaitsCanKillJesus]

Hey Guys,
i need your help to explain me the meaning of each stat in BE A PRO mode. Some are pretty obvious but some others are questionnable. I red in other forum that defensive and offensive awareness are useless stats It's true?

Thk in advance for the helps guys, it's appreciate

Offensive Awareness
Wrist Shot Accuracy
Slap Shot Accuracy
Aggression
Checking
Toughness
Acceleration
Agility
Balance
Defensive Awareness
Deflections
Deking
Discipline
Durability
Endurance
Face-offs
Passing
Puck Control
Shot Blocking
Slap Shot Power
Speed
Wrist Shot Power

[StlRams514]

Originally Posted by TomWaitsCanKillJesus

Hey Guys,
i need your help to explain me the meaning of each stat in BE A PRO mode. Some are pretty obvious but some others are questionnable. I red in other forum that defensive and offensive awareness are useless stats It's true?

Thk in advance for the helps guys, it's appreciate

Offensive Awareness - Useless
Wrist Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Slap Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Aggression - Stupid to spend points on
Checking - If you check a lot, eliminates some cross checking and elbowing calls
Toughness - Prevents injury, kinda useless
Acceleration - Better breakout speed
Agility - Better turning and cutting
Balance - Able to stay standing after a check or trip
Defensive Awareness - Useless
Deflections - Very good for online Be a Pro
Deking - Good for danglers
Discipline - Eliminates high sticking slashing etc
Durability - Doesn't get worn out easily
Endurance - Doesn't tire as easily
Face-offs - ...
Passing - ...
Puck Control - Keeps puck more often when poked
Shot Blocking - Good for dmen
Slap Shot Power - Obvious
Speed - Obvious
Wrist Shot Power - Also obvious

[TomWaitsCanKillJesus]

Originally Posted by StlRams514

Offensive Awareness - Useless
Wrist Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Slap Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Aggression - Stupid to spend points on
Checking - If you check a lot, eliminates some cross checking and elbowing calls
Toughness - Prevents injury, kinda useless
Acceleration - Better breakout speed
Agility - Better turning and cutting
Balance - Able to stay standing after a check or trip
Defensive Awareness - Useless
Deflections - Very good for online Be a Pro
Deking - Good for danglers
Discipline - Eliminates high sticking slashing etc
Durability - Doesn't get worn out easily
Endurance - Doesn't tire as easily
Face-offs - ...
Passing - ...
Puck Control - Keeps puck more often when poked
Shot Blocking - Good for dmen
Slap Shot Power - Obvious
Speed - Obvious
Wrist Shot Power - Also obvious

thk a lot dude

[Ashe]

actually; Defensive awareness involves grabbing the puck in the air or on your stick on dumps
Offensive is keeping it in and knocking the puck down on clears or in front of the net

[TomWaitsCanKillJesus]

Originally Posted by Ashe

actually; Defensive awareness involves grabbing the puck in the air or on your stick on dumps
Offensive is keeping it in and knocking the puck down on clears or in front of the net

ok nice

[Vicarious]

Offensive Awareness - Ability to pick up lose pucks
Wrist Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Slap Shot Accuracy - Obvious
Aggression - Good for fighting, nothing much else.
Checking - Bigger hits
Toughness - Fighting mostly
Acceleration - Obvious
Agility - Quick movements, fast turns, etc.
Balance - Ability to not get knocked down.
Defensive Awareness - Ability to make succesful pokechecks and stick checks.
Deflections - Obvious
Deking - Increases your deke speed, ability to fool opponents.
Discipline - Higher the Disc. less penalties you take.
Durability - Useless.
Endurance - Useless.
Face-offs - Obvious
Passing - Obvious, more passing ability, the harder and more accurate your passes are.
Puck Control - Ability to maintain puck control, I have a 99 PC and can shrug off checks and still have the puck.
Shot Blocking - Obvious
Slap Shot Power - Obvious
Speed - Obvious, max you can have is 88 with a dangler.
Wrist Shot Power - Obvious

[deanosaur]

I thought Acceleration was reaching top speed faster?
AND face-offs actually helps you win them better.
And passing as someone already mentioned obvious, and when you do sauce passes they look awesome.

[Staalwart]

durability is not useless, lower durability means higher likelihood of being injured.

[Gooch]

Originally Posted by Staalwart

durability is not useless, lower durability means higher likelihood of being injured.

have you been injured in be a pro mode?

[Ashe]

Yes; lost 45 games with a concussion as a goalie

[Valic]

Originally Posted by Ashe

Yes; lost 45 games with a concussion as a goalie

Ahahaha... haha... ah... ...ha..... only could happen to you Ashe.

[Ashe]

wasnt my fault..
HOssa hit me in the head with a puck and i fell down

[AyVee]

Unless you're entire team is comprised entirely of human players, most of those stats are useful. I've found out that, unless you're controlling them, they all matter when you're playing single player like in Dynasty Mode and controlling a team in game. While you're controlling one guy, the computer is obviously gonna control the other 4 players on the ice (plus goalie).

I do have a question though:
What does Poise mean in all this? I can guess, but I don't like guessing.

[Ronnie Coleman]

Tougness actually help. I've found that when I start and have low toughness, I get pushed around easily when going to the next.