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OVERVIEW
Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10
Offline: (20) 17 ,2 , 1
Online: (21) 10 , 8 , 3
Approximate Amount of Time to platinum: 40+
Missable trophies: None
Glitched trophies: Possibly “Grade A”
Do cheat codes disable trophies? No cheat codes
Does Difficulty Affect Trophies? No

Introduction:
The best sports game on the market returns for another round of intense hockey fun. You can play as any one of the teams from the National Hockey League, or even play as international teams in quick exhibition matches, or the Battle for the Cup mode, where you play to win the Stanley Cup. Create your own pro in the famed Be A Pro mode, get drafted, and weave your own legendary hockey career. Likewise, in the new Be A GM mode, you can control every aspect of a team from salaries and trades, to draftees and free agents.

You can then test your skills online in ranked versus matches, online leagues, and the critically acclaimed EA Sports Hockey League, where the competition from teams around the world is fierce but rewarding. Really, there is so much to do in this game, both online and offline, that it should give you months of good fun with lots of replayability.

The trophies in this game are mostly somewhat easy to obtain, especially the offline ones. Once you get down to the last few online trophies though, it can get pretty tricky.

The only real “glitchy” trophy you should worry about is “Grade A” where your Be A Pro character has to receive an overall grade of A in a game. It hasn’t happened to a lot of people, but if this doesn’t unlock after the first few games, then you need to create a new save file.

Step 1: Tutorial, Battle for the Cup, and Be A Pro
When you first start up the game, you will play through a tutorial that teaches you the basics of the game. This should get you “Eager To Learn” your first trophy. After this, you will be taken the main screen, where you should the select Battle For The Cup mode, in which you play in the Stanley Cup Final in a 7-game series. Make sure you choose to play as an Elite League team (one from the German Leagues) so you can get the trophy. Since you have to win 4 games to win the series, you will get a lot of the easy single-player trophies along the way. You can adjust the sliders if things get a little too hard. Make sure you change the controls during one of the games to NHL 94 controls so you don’t miss the “New Beginnings” trophy. You should try to go for the “Hardcore Superstar” trophy during this time as well, but since it can get really hard if you don’t boost it with a 2nd controller, you don’t have to. Please refer to the trophy guide to see how many trophies you want to go for during this mode. These should be trophies like “Dump It”, “Line Juggler”, “Board Play”, etc.

After finishing up Battle for The Cup, you should have a pretty good amount of trophies. Now you should play Be A Pro mode, which is probably the most fun single-player mode in the game. Create your own player and make him a sniper with his position being Wing or Center ( this will ensure that he will have the most opportunities to score goals). Make sure to adjust the sliders to make it VERY easy for you to score goals and make assists during games. If done right, you can average 5-7 goals per game, or even more! As you progress through Be A Pro, you will unlock various equipment for your Pro, which will in turn, unlock the”Unlock Gloves” and “Unlock Skates” trophies. Most of the other Be A Pro trophies are pretty easy, but some may take a little time. Remember to be on the lookout if “Grade A” glitches for you. Please refer to the trophy guide for information on all the other various Be A Pro trophies.

Step 2: Online Trophies
There’s a lot of online trophies to get in this game, and there’s a few of them that can be pretty tough to get on your own. In order to make this as painless as possible, you will definitely need a boosting partner for many of these trophies. Please refer to the boosting thread to find a boosting partner.

You should first get both of the Online Shootout trophies out of the way; this shouldn’t take long at all with a boosting partner. After that you need to focus on Online Verus Play. There are many trophies to get here and again, with boosting, it shouldn’t take you too long to get trophies like “No Offsides”, “No Icing”, and “Fighting Major”. The only real challenge here is grinding out 100 goals for “Century Play”. This trophy only took me 2 games to get though, because my boosting partner just pulled his goalie after every face off, which let me have an easy open-net shot. I was able to score 50 goals exactly for each game. Just follow this strategy when going for this trophy and shouldn’t take long. Lastly, remember that you need to have 4 controllers for the “All Play” trophy, so borrow some if you can or use Rock Band Instruments; I have heard people say though that pretty much any usb controller will work for this.

Next up is the Online League trophies. There are many leagues being set up in the boosting thread, so refer to that thread to join one. These shouldn’t take you too long, since everybody takes turns winning and quitting out of a game will still have it count. When I did this, all 4 of us were able to get both trophies in the matter of 2 hours, we just took turns on who would win the league until everyone had it. As a side note, make sure you DO NOT quit out of the final playoff game, or else you will not get “It’s The Playoffs”.

Finally to acquire in the online trophy-hunt are the EASHL trophies, which happen to contain the hardest trophies in the game. Fortunately, Pesico has made an amazing thread that will help you get most of the EASHL with little trouble. Please refer to that thread and sign up for the team, the link to it can be found at the bottom of this paragraph. After joining, games will be set up where you will get “Party Animal” and “It’s A Challenge”. For “Trophy Case” make sure you go to the awards section for it to unlock. You will have to refer to Pesico’s “Gold Team for Free!” thread to look for a team that will help you with this trophy. This might take a while, so be patient. When one opens up, just kindly ask to temporarily join. When you join, just go to the awards section and go to the medals section to get all 3 of the“Gold/Silver/Bronze Team” trophies.

Link to Pesico's EASHL Thread:EASHL - PS3T Team

Link to Gold Team Thread:https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/nhl...ophy-free.html

Step 3: Be A GM and Trophy Clean Up
After you have gotten the online trophies, go back to the main screen and start up a Be A GM profile. Beforehand, make sure you pick a good team (like the Penguins or the Red Wings) and stack their team with all good 90+ players by adding them to the roster from the main menu. Then just start Be A GM, choose that same stacked team, and sim through the whole season doing small things to gain xp like trades and scouting. You will then reach the playoffs, which you should just sim through until you reach the Stanley Cup. I suggest you just play through the Cup so it’s guaranteed you win. After winning the Cup, your 3rd phone should unlock.

After this, check your trophy list to see which trophies you still have left to unlock. There shouldn’t be too many left, and they should mostly just be easier single player trophies. Check the trophy guide and ask questions if you need any help. Luckily, you can still boost most of these trophies online, or with a 2nd controller. After cleaning up these last few straggler trophies, you should have yourself a shiny Platinum trophy!

Conclusion:
So that’s pretty much all there is to NHL 10. This game is pretty fun to platinum, and there’s only a few online trophies that should really pose you any real problem. Just keep at it though and before you know it, you will have the coveted Platinum trophy in your collection and more than likely, you will still keep wanting to play even after you get all the trophies. Good Luck! Now go out there and prove you’re tough enough!

[PS3T would like to thank spikey654 for this Road Map]

NHL 10 Trophy Guide

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41 trophies ( 10  26  )

  • Acquire all Bronze, Silver, and Gold Trophies

    No longer possible due to server closure.

    Collect all the other trophies to get the Platinum.

  • Be a member of an EA SPORTS Hockey League team that has won a Gold Medal

    No longer possible due to server closure.

    To get this one, you have to be part of an EASHL team, and the team have to have at least one gold medal. Getting this trophy automatically nets you Silver Team and Bronze Team . This is the most difficult trophy in the game. Your team will have to be in the very top percentage of your league as the season comes to an end (monthly). To get this trophy to unlock, go to your team, then go into the Awards menu. When you push circle button to get out, you will unlock this and the Silver and Bronze team trophies after a short pause.

    Check this thread on how to get this trophy: https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/nhl-10/25165-gold-team-trophy-free.html

  • Be a member of an EA SPORTS Hockey League team that has won a Silver Medal

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    See "Gold Team"

  • Be a member of an EA SPORTS Hockey League team that has won a Bronze Medal

    No longer possible due to server closure.

    See "Gold Team"

  • Complete an EA SPORTS Hockey League match with 6 human controlled players on your team.

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    This is easiest if done in the EASHL league that Pesico has set up for all of us. The link is here. Wait until there are 6 people in the same lobby, including yourself and then start up the game. You will receive this at the end of the game as long as no one leaves or quits the game.

  • Challenge and beat another EA SPORTS Hockey League team

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    This one will come easy if you regularly play in the EASHL league. It helps if you challenge a bad team rather than a good team. This is also easier if you only have 2-3 people in the game including yourself. It takes less coordination this way and should produce an easier way for you to win. If you don’t win your first few games, don’t worry keep at it and you will get this.

  • Be a member of a team that has won all the EA SPORTS Hockey League team trophies

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    • Win a game
    • Win 10 games
    • Win 30 games
    • Play 60 games
    • Score 5 goals in a game
    • Score 50 goals total
    • Earn 7 assists in a game
    • Get a shutout
    • Play a game with 6 human controlled players

    Once your EASHL team earns all these, the trophy will unlock. To get this trophy to unlock, go to your team, then go into the Awards menu. When you push circle button to get out, you will unlock this and the Silver and Bronze team trophies after a short pause.

    PS3T.org's own EASHL team has this trophy. Sign up in this thread to get this trophy.

  • Get an overall A rating in a match with your Be A Pro character

    This trophy has been very buggy for many people. To get this, you will need to earn an overall A for your players grade. Make sure that you pass the puck, score at least one goal, and get no penalties. If you get a penalty, make sure that the other team does not score and make sure you intercept some passes from the other team and block some shots. You can set the game to Rookie difficulty and adjust sliders in your favor to make it easier.

    *Tip* If you don't get this trophy after meeting the requirements, you have to start a new BAP save. No need to delete any saves. *Tip*

  • Get the first star in a match with your Be A Pro character

    An easy way to get this is to go into the gameplay section and turn the difficulty all the way down to rookie and adjust all the sliders so that the AI’s is at 0 and yours is at 100. This will make it extremely easy to score goals and get assists. If you get a hatrick (score 3 goals in a single game) then you are almost guaranteed to get this trophy!

  • Get 25 goals with your Be A Pro character

    Very, very easy trophy if you turn the difficulty all the way down along with the sliders. Right now I average 5 goals a game so if you even average one goal a game, which you should, you will get this very quickly. I would recommend to deke out your opponent so that the goalie allows more room in the net for you to score.

    *Tip* Turn your teams shot to automatic. *Tip*

  • Get 35 assists with your Be A Pro character

    This one is slightly harder than the goal trophy. When you are playing with your BaP character, make sure you press the R2 button and aim it towards the guy closest and to the opposite side of the goal. This will eventually unlock as long as you continue to pass the puck.

    *Tip* If you see a teammate in a good scoring position, pass it to him with the R2 button, then press R1 when he gets the pass to force him to shoot. *Tip*

  • Get 60 points with your Be A Pro character

    Play in Be a Pro mode and get 60 points with your Be a Pro character. This can be done over several seasons if needed. Pointcount is goals and assists added together.

  • Win 5 matches with your Be A Pro character playing as a goalie

    Play in Be a Pro mode as a goalie and win 5 games. If you struggle, make sure you turn down the difficulty level and adjust all the sliders so that the AI’s is at 0 and yours is at 100.. Before going after this trophy, I advise you to play the Goalie Tutorial.

  • Complete an Online Versus Play ranked match without getting a penalty

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    If you are careful and don't mind a loss, this trophy should be very easy. Just don't use sticklift and pokecheck while also avoiding to hit the opponent. If you play against a friend, you can just chill behind the net until the game is over and try to avoid doing anything that would make it a penalty. This will unlock when the game is over.

  • Score a total of 100 goals in Online Versus Play ranked matches over your career

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    There are two ways to go about getting this trophy. You can boost this or play this legit. If you are boosting this, get a friend in the trophy boosting thread, located here. Once you have a partner, get in a ranked game and choose which of you are going to be going for this first. Once that is done, have your boosting partner pull his goalie by hitting L1+Select buttons. Skate past the blue line and shoot towards the net and you should score. With this method you should easily score 70+ goals per game.

  • Complete and win an Online Versus Play ranked match with three or more guests on the same PS3 system

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    There is no way around the controller issue here. You simply need 4 controllers. This can be done without friends though, as you can organize a ranked match and boost it. Refer to the boosting thread to find a boosting partner. You can use Rock Band controllers for this but not the microphone.

  • Beat a NHL team using an AHL team in an Online Versus Play ranked match

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    When you are in the game lobby before the game hit the R1 button to go to the AHL teams and make sure that the person you are playing with is an NHL team. Beat your opponent and you will unlock the trophy.

  • Win 80% of the faceoffs in an Online Versus Play ranked match.

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    You have to win 80% of the faceoffs in an Online Versus Play ranked match. This is easily boosted since you can create a ranked match with someone on your friend list. Refer to the boosting thread to find a boosting partner.

  • Complete an Online Versus Play ranked match without being called for an offside

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    This one should come naturally while working towards the Century Play trophy. If you struggle with this one, make sure you play extra careful, and don't care to much about the outcome of the game. An offside occurs when you have a player in the offensive zone before the puck is passed over the offensive blueline.

  • Complete an Online Versus ranked match without being called for icing

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    Like the No Offsides trophy, this one should also come naturally while working towards the Century Play trophy and is even easier. An icing occurs when you clear the puck from your own half and over to the far side behind the opposing teams red line while at the same time, the opposing team gets the puck first (NHL rules). Just don't clear the puck from your own half for one game and you should easily get this trophy.

  • Win an Online Shootout ranked match without being scored on

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    See "Shootout Master"

  • Score three goals in a row in an Online Shootout ranked match

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    This will be easiest with a boosting partner. Both of you should go into the Shootout lobby and one of you have to invite the other to a ranked Shootout match. The game should be set so that each team will have 5 opportunities to shoot. Simply score on the 3 first penalty shots, and have your boosting partner skate backwards so he doesn't get the chance to score. Then repeat so that the other person gets the trophies.

  • Complete an Online League playoff match

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    This should come when you are going for "League Champion"

  • Win an Online League that has at least 4 members

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    You have to take part in an online league that has at least 4 members, and finish the league in first place. Refer to the boosting thread to get help on this one.

  • Unlock 3 phones in Be a GM mode

    An easy way to unlock 3 phones in Be A GM mode is to edit the roster in the main menu. Just add all 90+ players to a team of your choosing. Just remember the teams you pick from cant have less than 18 players or less than 2 goalies. Then just sim the entire season and in between do some other things to gain xp points like scouting players. I had a 59 win season and I got lucky and even won the cup in my first season (even swept!). If you really want to ensure the wins just bring up crappy players from the AHL or national teams to the NHL teams that you will be playing.

  • Pull your goalie and score a goal against the CPU or an online opponent in a ranked match

    This trophy can either be done offline against the CPU, or in an online ranked match. No matter what type of game you choose, you have to pull your goalie and score a goal. If you play a lot of games, this should come normally, but can be easily boosted. Set up a game against a friend and make sure it's ranked. Both of you should then pull the goalie, and score a goal. After that, repeat so that the other person also gets this trophy.

  • Score four unanswered goals against the CPU or an online opponent in a ranked match

    This trophy can either be done offline against the CPU, or in an online ranked match. No matter what type of game you choose, you have to score four goals in a row, without the opposing team scoring on you. For offline play, set it to Rookie difficulty and set the gameplay type to casual. This should make it rather easy. Even easier would be to organize a ranked online match with a friend where both of you can get this in the same match. One of you can pull the goalie, while the second one scores. Repeat this three more times, then change roles so both get the trophy.

  • Keep the pass completion % for CPU or online opponent in ranked match under 40%

    This trophy can either be done offline against the CPU, or in an online ranked match. No matter what type of game you choose, you have to hold the opposition to a pass completion percentage of less than 40%. The best tip I have for this one is to play a ranked online match with a friend where you set the gametype to Hardcore. This makes passing much more harder. Simply, make sure that both teams have a passing percentage of less than 40% and both of you should get the trophy.
  • Dump the puck outside the offensive blue line 10 times in one match

    Very easy. Just skate past the middle line of the rink, and hold the R1 button and push the right stick up before crossing the blue line. The skater will then dump the puck into the offensive zone. Repeat 9 more times and this trophy will unlock on the 10th dump.

  • Score two break away goals in one match

    You can easily use the same method as you did for "Century Play". Just have your boosting partner move all his guys back to the other end of the rink and make sure to have your partners goalie pulled. Listen to the announcers, they will say something about you being on a breakaway. If you are boosting the 100 goals trophy, then make sure your boosting partner has his goalie pulled and have him move his guys away from you when you have the puck. Do this twice and you will unlock this trophy.

    *This trophy will unlock at the end of the game.

  • Do five manual line changes in one match

    Simple enough. Make sure you have default controls on before you do this. Turn on manual line changes and press the square/circle button. Do this 5 times and the trophy will pop up.

  • Pin a player using board play and gain possession of the puck

    This was explained in the tutorial so you should know how to do it. Pin your boosting partner against the boards and press the R1 button to start poking the puck lose. When you gain possession, the trophy will unlock.

  • Perform a loose puck deke and score a goal

    This is easiest when done on a break away. Hit the L1 button+X then skate towards the puck and score. This is easiest done if you have a boosting partner. Have him pull his goalie then do the loose puck deke and score.

  • Accept and win a fight against a human controlled opponent

    Not a tough trophy at all. Simply go online and keep hitting the triangle button until your opponent accepts the fight and win it. Make sure to dodge and use power punches. It also helps if you use a defensemen against a center or one of the wings. I would recommend just hitting the right stick as fast as you can.

  • Score a goal with an injured player

    Do this in season mode so that you have more to work with. Wait until one of your teammates gets hurt. When the player is injured, dress him and put him in the game. Pass the puck to the injured player and make sure you score with him in that game.

    *Tip* Make sure to turn all the sliders down so that they are in your favor. *Tip*

  • Play and win a match on Hardcore Superstar settings against the CPU

    From the main menu go to My NHL 10 --> settings ---> Gameplay settings. Now change the skill level to superstar. You CANNOT adjust the sliders. I would also recommend you choose the Eastern Conference All Stars vs a AHL team to make it even easier. You can also edit the players so that everyone on your team has a 99 rating and the opposing team has a rating of 50.

  • Earn a pair of 2 slot gloves

    To get this trophy, you must unlock one of the three 2 slot gloves.

    -Camo Gloves: Play and complete an offline game with each Swiss league team.
    -Maori Gloves: With your created sniper character get all As in a Be a Pro game.*
    -Burnout Gloves: Play and complete an offline game with each Swedish League team

    *By adjusting sliders in your favor, and putting the game on rookie difficulty, it should be easy to do this in one game.

  • Earn a pair of 2 slot skates

    Unlock one of the following skates to earn this trophy. Look in the menu for how to unlock them. Most of them include scoring a certain amount of goals or assists in a season.

    -Camo Skates: With your created Be a Pro skater get promoted to the first line of your NHL team
    as a forward*
    -Burnout Skates: Play and complete an offline game with each NHL team

    *If you go for the Camo Skates, you can set the game to rookie difficulty and adjust sliders in your favor. Do not sim to many games in a row as it will demote you down, rather than promote you to better lines. To get this faster, you can sim and push intervene right after the score for the third period shows up. This will make you play the last 5 minutes of the game, and if you score a goal, you should get high enough ratings.

  • Win a Battle for the Cup series with an Elite league team in a 7 game series against the CPU

    Set up a 7 game series in Battle for the Cup mode and win it with an Elite league team. To make it easier, you can play on the easiest difficulty setting and in casual gameplay mode. To get this, you need to choose an elite team however; not a NHL team. Go over to the German or Swedish league and there will be a list of teams. Choose one of them and beat another team that is controlled by the CPU. You can sweep them as long as the series is set to 7 games, meaning you will need to win 4 games before the other team does.

  • Complete the Boot Flow Interactive Tutorial

    This will be the first trophy you will earn when you get the game. Simply complete the tutorial and the trophy will unlock. If you decided to exit the tutorial, you can still do access it from the menu system.

  • Complete a match using NHL 94 Control settings

    Before you start the game go to settings and set it to NHL 94 Control settings then just complete the match, there's no need to win it. I would advise you put the settings back to normal afterwards.

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