Now that the daily feature reveal is over, it's time to announce the complete list of new features coming to HLM22.
HLM22 will be available in September 2021.
Waivers
- Eligible players must pass waivers before being assigned to the minor league
- Setting to enable or disable waivers
- Setting to set minimum overall and potential for waivers alert
League Expansion
- Can set any number of teams, from 6 to 64, for a new career or ongoing career (through expansions and folds)
- Can set the number of divisions and conferences
- Can set the names of divisions and conferences
- Can change the minor league divisions configuration
- Can set the number of games per season, from 8 to 82
- Can set the number of draft rounds
- Can set the number of playoff participating teams in (from 2 to 32)
- Can set the playoff seeding (wildcard, division, conference, league)
- Can set the playoffs best of
- Can add multiple expansion draft at any time in your career
- Can set your protection list for an expansion draft
Junior League
- Added three junior leagues (Quebec Junior League, Ontario Junior League, Western Junior League)
- Junior teams can be followed (lineups, games, stats, trophies, season records)
- Each rookies is assigned to a junior league
- Can disable the junior leagues
Battle Royale
- Each season, the 5 worst teams are eliminated until only one remains
- Can set the number of teams eliminated per season (1 to 5)
History Mode
- Start a career in 1917, 1942, 1960, 1980, 2000 or 2010.
- Existing and created players are generated as rookies if they are too young to play in the major league
Draft
- Rank of prospects fluctuates troughout the year
- Prospect's rank variation is visible from its profile
- You can unlock the real rank of a prospect at tier 4 of scouting
- You can view prospects for the next three drafts
- New interface with timer, news feed, in-draft trades
- Can force the use of original draft pick ownership
- Can set the rookie generation odds by country
Minor League
- Added minor league trophies
- Added minor league season records
Stats
- Points per game
- Shooting percentage
- Blocked shots
- Faceoff wins
- Faceoff losses
- Faceoff percentage
- Corsi for
- Corsi against
- Corsi percentage
- Game score
- Win and loss streak for teams
Play by play
- Can edit lineup during a game
- Can change the goalie during a game
- Multiple overtimes during playoffs
Injuries
- Injuries can cause a player lose overall points
- Career ending injuries
- Season injury history and summary
- Injury history on player profile
- Severity of injuries (minor, moderate, major)
Draft lottery
- Can disable the draft lottery
- Can set the number of teams eligible for the draft lottery (from one to all)
- Can set the number of pick drawn
- Can set a limit on the number of picks a team can jump
- Can edit the odds of winning the lottery for each pick
Tournaments
- The world cup has an effect on the nationality of future prospects
- Can set the tournament frequency
- Can control a world cup team
- Can select a world cup team roster
- Division changes after each tournament
Settings
- Can customize which stats are displayed
- Can hide players overall
- Can set the player salary influence to be overall or performance oriented
General
- Championship notification for each league
- All-star game
- Older draft history available
- Secondary positions
- Search bar
- Can watch any game from any team with the new boxscore page
- New season page showing championship results, stat leaders, expansion teams, folded teams and relocations
- New season records (win streak, loss streak, playoffs streak, playoffs drought, cup streak)
- Improved coaches and ice time impact on player overall (viewable from the player progression page)
- Players can retire as scouts
Contracts
- Players now show interest in signing with your team
- Players can accept qualifying offers
- Entry level contract can slide if the player has not reached the required number of major league games.
Rosters
- Can assign a player to a junior league team
- Can set a player overall, team and contract for any history mode season
- Can create retired players
- Can add player stats
- Can create scouts
- Can view what is included in a community roster (number of players, teams, etc)
- Added team jerseys
- Can set player injury