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Originally Posted by vtmx
Even though the game is becoming better and better every year, there are some things which break my immersion really easily. I can think of a few things off the top of my head:
1) Transfers to the VHL
Most of the time, I play with teams from either the Czech or the Slovak Extraliga. One thing that bugs me endlessly is the way how teams from these leagues give up their youngest, brightest stars and send them to the VHL, which is just unrealistic. An 18 year old kid who has NHL potential would never sign in the Russian minors. I don't know if there's a way to fix this, but if there is, please make it harder for VHL teams to sign players. I'm asking a lot, I know, but it really breaks my immersion into the game.
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I have seen this myself. Maybe it's not as dramatic as you write, but it does indeed happen. And it of course makes no sense. I would consider most of these moves very unrealistic if they signed in the KHL, let alone in the VHL.
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3) Players gaining new nationalities
While this is a cool feature to but in the game, some of these are just unrealistic. Sidney Crosby gaining an American citizenship and then going on to play for the USA at the Olympics literally made me stop playing for a few weeks, just because of how stupid it is. If it would be possible, I'd make it impossible for Canadian players to gain American citizenship or vice versa. Or, I'd make it impossible for European players playing in the NHL to gain the citizenship of the country they are playing in. I'd hate to see, say, Petr Mrázek getting an American citizenship and then representing the US, just because he spent a few seasons in Detroit.
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Well, while this does go on to an extreme in the game, IRL the Americans are "cheating" a lot with this. Every year at the WJC U18 americans squads are full of Russians, swedish, etc. players. Galchenyuk, Pastujov, Lodnia, Wahlstrom
And in the future it will be even "worse" with all of those sons of NHL players