Houston .....you cant be looking at the right site !!!  This game is quick and filled with whatever stats you need to produce , results are true. Check out you tube for Shootout hockey table game , LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ON THE SHOOTOUT FORUM (i host it) 

I will take a look at the YouTube video(s) for Shootout Hockey to see if my first impression (from looking at the cards) holds up.  I'm willing to look at a video or two to see if I was mistaken.  

--Marty Klestadt

I looked at a couple of YouTube videos of Shootout Hockey, and confirmed that it is NOT the game for me.  No offense to you or Frank, but I found it to be much less simple and not nearly as much fun as Strat or Hockey Blast Express.   

I left my impressions on your forum, as you suggested.

I'm sticking with Hockey Blast Express.  Thanks anyway for the suggestion. 

Wow.  Just wow.  My poor 1975 Aeros were never in this one against the 1975 Vancouver Blazers in Hockey Blast Express.  

Aeros fell behind 3-0 early, then got a goal later in the first period, only to have the Blazers score again and it was 4-1 Vancouver after one.

Second period, Vancouver upped the lead to 6-1 (including a power play goal following a penalty on Gordie Howe), and then the Aeros cut it to 6-2 by the second intermission.

 Not much scoring in the third period.  Aeros got another goal late in the game, but it really didn't matter at that point.

  Vancouver Blazers win this one 6-3.  Aeros will try again in Game 2 of this best-of-three exhibition series.

YOU CANT GO WRONG WITH EXPRESS , I PLAAY THAT AND SHOOTOUT ...............IF YOU ENJOY AND LIKE THE RESULTS ..YOU ALREADY WON !!!!

Ah, good question.  Here's the answer.

It's not that I didn't care for Second Season Express per se, I just decided that I would rather use a combination of the Instant Results chart and the Fab Four chart to get each game down to the last four to seven minutes, and then play it out play-by-play if it's close.  SSX is another way to get there, but it's just not my preference.

As for Hockey Blast Express, I love it so far.  I couldn't bring my previous hockey game (from a different company) down with me when I moved here to Mexico, because I only brought what would fit in my luggage and had to leave a lot behind.  And it is difficult to order packages here unless they are already in the country--customs issues, etc.  

But Hockey Blast Express comes in an envelope, so I could get it sent to my PMB in Laredo and then have it forwarded here like regular mail.  Easy peasy.  

Plus, I love the gameplay of Hockey Blast Express, even more so than what I've seen from the videos of Hockey Blast.  

Another very fun game but with a frustrating result for my 1975 Aeros against the 1975 Vancouver Blazers in Hockey Blast Express.  

Basically, the luck just wasn't with the Aeros.  Ron Grahame couldn't make very many saves that he would normally make, and the Aeros lost this second game to Vancouver, 7-2.  

Next series will be the 1996 Red Wings hosting the 1996 Ottawa Senators.  

--Marty Klestadt

Here's the Instant Results preview of the 1996 Ottawa Senators-Detroit Red Wings best-of-three:

Red Wings take it in two games, by scores of 5-2 in Game One, and 5-4 in overtime for Game Two.

I'll be playing these out with Hockey Blast Express soon.

--Marty Klestadt

Another fun one with Hockey Blast Express, this one pitting the 1996 Ottawa Senators vs. the Detroit Red Wings in Houston.

The Senators are not a great team, and the Red Wings were an amazing team that season, and the player cards show that.  But the Ottawa goalie is pretty tough on PLAY saves, and he made some in this game (he also failed to save one of those).  Detroit's goalie couldn't make a couple of important saves.

After some back and forth, it was tied at 2 with five minutes left in regulation and looked like it might go to overtime.  But then came a late flurry of goals.  Ottawa succeeded on two scoring chances in the last several minutes, but then Detroit was able to create a scoring chance and got it to within 4-3.  They pulled the goalie but could not get the tying goal.

So Ottawa takes Game One of this best-of-three 4-3.  Red Wings will try again in Game Two.

--Marty Klestadt