Own NHL team players don't get to IIHF World Championship games

TurboJ · 03-20-2025, 11:05 AM

Standard game, year is 2039 at the moment.

My players never get to IIHF World Championship Games.

There are some who definitely should be elected. And indeed, they do always get picked for the Olympics and the World Cup, where the national teams are of even higher quality than in the World Championships. So the issue is not that the players wouldn't get chosen because they're "not good enough".

None of my players have ever seen the IIHF WC.

The issue is there even when my NHL team isn't even in the playoffs.
And it's the same when they lose the playoffs in the first round. Looking at the WC teams, they do have AI team players from NHL teams that either weren't in the playoffs or lost in the first round.

So something is not right in how IIHF World Championships are handled with human player NHL teams.

TurboJ · 03-26-2025, 04:41 PM

In a later season, I became the GM/Coach of the Canadian national team. I have a couple of Canadian star players who would normally get chosen to the Olympics and the World Cup. But no player from any country, on my NHL roster, ever has gone to the IIHF World Championship. Being the GM this time, I can see that none of my players even appear on the national team's 'possible players' list. So that's why they don't get picked since they aren't even on the list where they could be picked.

However, this year had both the Olympics and the World Championship. I was indeed able to pick these players for the Olympics - they were on that list as they should, able to be picked. Not so for the WC.

But, since these players had already played in the Olympics, they were remaining on the stats page of Team Canada when I entered the WC. From that list I was able to pick these players for the WC team and they ended up playing there.

Clearly something wrong with the 'possible players' list. For the WC it seems to exclude everyone from a human player's team.

03-20-2025, 11:05 AM	#1
TurboJ Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2022 Posts: 56	Own NHL team players don't get to IIHF World Championship games Standard game, year is 2039 at the moment. My players never get to IIHF World Championship Games. There are some who definitely should be elected. And indeed, they do always get picked for the Olympics and the World Cup, where the national teams are of even higher quality than in the World Championships. So the issue is not that the players wouldn't get chosen because they're "not good enough". None of my players have ever seen the IIHF WC. The issue is there even when my NHL team isn't even in the playoffs. And it's the same when they lose the playoffs in the first round. Looking at the WC teams, they do have AI team players from NHL teams that either weren't in the playoffs or lost in the first round. So something is not right in how IIHF World Championships are handled with human player NHL teams.

03-26-2025, 04:41 PM	#2
TurboJ Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2022 Posts: 56	In a later season, I became the GM/Coach of the Canadian national team. I have a couple of Canadian star players who would normally get chosen to the Olympics and the World Cup. But no player from any country, on my NHL roster, ever has gone to the IIHF World Championship. Being the GM this time, I can see that none of my players even appear on the national team's 'possible players' list. So that's why they don't get picked since they aren't even on the list where they could be picked. However, this year had both the Olympics and the World Championship. I was indeed able to pick these players for the Olympics - they were on that list as they should, able to be picked. Not so for the WC. But, since these players had already played in the Olympics, they were remaining on the stats page of Team Canada when I entered the WC. From that list I was able to pick these players for the WC team and they ended up playing there. Clearly something wrong with the 'possible players' list. For the WC it seems to exclude everyone from a human player's team.