Buy Franchise Hockey Manager 9 PC key

Franchise Hockey Manager 9 is a hockey management game for the 2022–23 season. You choose a team from dozens of leagues around the world and manage its finances, tactics, staff, trades, free-agent signings and drafts as you work toward building a championship team and a dynasty. The game is licensed by the NHL, so you can manage an NHL franchise and pursue the Stanley Cup, or take charge of a national team and aim for international success.

Leagues and seasons

You can manage one of over 60 American Division I college teams, play a historical season beginning in any year of NHL history from 1917 onward, enter a legendary international tournament, or create a customized league. Historical international play includes World Junior Championships tournaments dating back to 1974. You can also import a save from Franchise Hockey Manager 8 and continue with the new features in FHM 9.

College management has its own recruitment system and mechanics for scholarships, academic eligibility and qualification for the postseason tournament. Historical mode adds pre-set injuries and suspensions, so players affected at the start of your first season begin in those conditions. It also includes older NHL All-Star Game formats, such as the defending champion playing against the rest of the league’s all-stars. All-Star Games in multiple formats are available in leagues outside the NHL as well.

Team management

You oversee your roster and staff while balancing the demands of the team and its owner. The redesigned team harmony system can bring problems from off-ice incidents, player conflicts and divisive factions, with morale potentially falling as a result. Owner expectations include a longer-term outlook, while AI-run teams can adopt more aggressive Win-Now or Rebuild approaches.

You can defer treatment for some injuries until after the season, keeping an injured player in the lineup with reduced performance and a risk of worsening the injury. Serious injuries have a greater potential effect on a player’s ratings and career. Player contracts can include bonuses using real NHL bonus mechanics.

Trades and contracts

A “Make this Work” trade option identifies players you could add to a deal to get the opposing general manager to accept it. Players with No Trade or No Movement clauses have individual lists of teams they would waive their clause for. You can give traded draft picks protected status, deferring a pick to the following season if it falls above a specified level; protected picks are worth less than regular picks.

The AI is more active in trying to trade players who are holding out for new contracts, and it weighs off-ice attributes more heavily when assessing trade value. Newly acquired players have a 60-day cooldown before you can use the “shop player” option. KHL players can buy out their own contracts if they receive an NHL offer, making them easier, but potentially more expensive, for NHL teams to sign.

Games and information

The 2D mode adds set-play mechanics, particularly for power plays, so you can see offensive tactics unfold, alongside changes intended to make player movement look smoother and more natural. The Tactics screen gives clearer feedback on how well your lineup or individual lines suit your chosen tactics. Player screens have interface changes to make data easier to find, and player histories now show career seasonal averages while popups display current-season stat projections.

Historical mode includes injuries and suspensions set at the start of a season. World Championships roster AI accounts for the many Canadian and American players who choose not to participate, so those teams do not automatically dominate with NHL all-star lineups. You can release all staff in a league at once from the League Edit screen, and an option lets you deactivate the temporary no-movement clauses attached to players acquired through waivers.