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The Most Comprehensive Stat-based Hockey Game

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2025 Manual Entry
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Opening Dashboard

Database

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Modify Player

Player History

Scheduled Games

Box Score

Encyclopedia

Rules

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Action! PC Hockey

Whether you play games head-to-head, over the internet, or against the computer,
you'll love the statistical accuracy and strategy of Action! PC Hockey.
Loaded with strategy, extensive statistical reports and internet features,
Action! PC Hockey is the most comprehensive stat-based hockey game on the market.

Play Action! PC Hockey with our many available seasons. Choose from many past pro and Olympic seasons from 1954 to present!

2025 Hockey Enhancements

Video Chalkboard: The 2025 edition features the biggest video chalkboard upgrade since the first edition published in 2010! View players skating through the zones up and down the ice, creating new setups, breakouts, dumps, and more.

Manual Play Result Entry: Do you like to occasionally play hockey board games? Now you can play games on your favorite board game and use the 2025 Hockey game to enter play results on the game screen. Action! PC Hockey handles all the game timing and statistic tracking for you!

Manual Play Result - Action! PC Hockey

Coach & GM Dashboard: Use the new dashboard to specify human or computer coaches and general managers for each team, set max or active rosters, depth charts, and much more. All in one convenient location!

Game Screen Updates: New player icons have been added. Fonts, displays, and colors have also been updated.

Playoff Module: Quick play an entire series, round or bracket with one click!

League Rules: New league rules are available for both maximum and active roster sizes. We’ve also added a new rule to allow specific players to be marked exempt from injuries.

Computer Drafting: The computer GM has received a major upgrade and is much improved at building competitive rosters and valuing rookies and up and coming players.

Scheduler: A new tool is available to create a schedule based on your existing schedule. The new schedule maintains your league balance of divisional and conference games.

Deluxe and Super-Deluxe game packages include the 2024-05 Hockey Season and more!

Action! PC Hockey Game Packages

2025 Deluxe Game Package

Complete 2025 Action! PC Hockey Game

2024-25 Season

1996-97 Season

1975-76 Season

1955-56 Season

Great Teams Collection (see below)

2025 Super-Deluxe Game Package

Complete 2025 Action! PC Hockey Game

2024-25 Season

2023-24 Season

2022-23 Season

2021-22 Season

2005-06 Season

2001-02 Season

1996-97 Season

1975-76 Season

1955-56 Season

Great Teams Collection (see below)

2025 Basic Game Package

Complete 2025 Action! PC Hockey game

1975-76 Season

Great Teams Collection (see below)

2025 Great Teams Collection

24 of the greatest teams of all time! Play with teams as a league or import them to your own leagues. Included with all game packages!

1950 Toronto, 1958 Montreal, 1967 Montreal, 1969 Boston, 1970 Chicago, 1973 Philadelphia

1975 Montreal, 1977 Montreal, 1980 New York I, 1984 Edmonton, 1985 Montreal, 1987 Edmonton

1990 Pittsburgh, 1992 Montreal 1997 Detroit, 2002 New Jersey, 2003 Tampa Bay, 2005 Carolina

2006 Anaheim, 2010 Boston, 2014 Chicago, 2015 Pittsburgh, 2022 Vegas, 2023 Florida

About Action! PC Hockey

Play Potential

Action! PC Hockey uses a system of "play potential" to represent the flow of a hockey game. After each change of possession, a number is assigned that represents the chance of the play being successful. High potential means that the play is more likely to result in a scoring opportunity, and low potential is more likely to result in dangerous turnovers. Play potential is determined by previous play calls and results, team strategies and strength, line changes, intimidation levels, ice quality, random factors and more. As a result, each play has a unique feel, and no two games will ever be alike.

Play Calling

For plays beginning in the defensive or neutral zones, choose to proceed aggressively, safely, with a balanced attack, or to clear the puck. Each option has strengths and weaknesses. Playing aggressively will generate more scoring chances, but at the risk of dangerous turnovers, while playing safely will rarely give up bad turnovers, but will also not create many scoring opportunities. When the play potential is low or your team is over-matched, it may be best to simply clear the puck. In general, these play call opportunities occur every two or three changes of possession.

When a team has control of the puck in its offensive zone, there are several different play calling scenarios that may occur. These include:

Setup Plays - Shoot the puck, attempt to pass to a specific open player for a shot, or cycle for a new setup. Taking advantage of screens, getting the puck to the net for a rebound, or setting up safe turnovers by clearing the puck in deep are just a few ways to use these scenarios. Setup plays occur often on powerplays, and occasionally during even strength play.

Match-up Plays - An offensive player has the puck with a scoring opportunity, defended by an opposing player. Do you shoot, attempt to penetrate for a better shot, pass, or send the puck deep for a safe turnover?

Other play calling opportunities occur according to game situations. When shorthanded, attempt to ice the puck, or take chances to try to create shorthanded goals. Attempt to shoot for an empty net with the chance of icing, clear the puck back to the neutral zone, or try to cross center ice before shooting. Make an odd man rush, try to set up in the offensive zone, or dump the puck in for a safe turnover. These situations and more create an exciting and diverse game experience.

Line Changes

Making timely and efficient line changes is an important element of success in hockey, and that holds true in Action PC Hockey. In most situations when your team has the puck, you have the option to make a line change. When a change is called for, potential for that play decreases according to how many players are being changed. As a result, it is often best to play safe or to clear the puck when attempting to make a change. Trying to make a change in a low potential situation may result in a dangerous turnover.

Line management is made simple by an easy-to-use line change interface. Put an entire line or individual players on the ice with a single click. Player strength on a zero to 100 scale makes it clear who is ready to play and who needs more rest. Lines are automatically adjusted when injuries and penalties occur. Double shifting star players is easy to accomplish. The simple yet powerful interface ensures that line management is never a hassle.

Strategies

Action PC Hockey includes a wealth of strategy options. Strategies include forecheckers used, defensive zone aggressiveness and depth, offensive zone entry method, and offensive zone system. Strategies may be set for the team as a whole, as well as for specific line combinations and game situations. A programmable computer coach is also available for each team including line usage, offensive and defensive styles, late game strategy adjustments, and preferences for when to change or pull goalies. Individual players also have usage preferences that may be set including how often to pass or shoot from different ice locations, how often to attempt to deflect shots, join in odd man rushes, and attempt to penetrate past defenders. To help in understanding the influence each strategy has on the game, an in depth strategy guide is available free from this site.

League / Roster Management

A complete set of general manager functions makes it easy to operate your league. Create, modify, draft and trade players and teams. Design depth charts and set line combinations with all stats and ratings easily available. Save up to five complete sets of line combinations for each team. Create and assign ice graphics, team logos, and player photos. Customize league rules including roster limits, overtime and shootout rules, penalties, suspensions, player usage rules, icing and offsides rules, and many miscellaneous rules such as video review of goals and automatic TV timeouts.

Statistics and Reports

Action! PC Hockey is loaded with player, team and league statistical reports. Customize database reports using hundreds of available statistics. All of the standard statistics such as goals, assists, penalty minutes, and plus/minus are included. The game also tracks hits, blocked shots, takeaways, giveaways, faceoffs, time on ice breakdowns, types of penalties, and much more. You can view raw statistics or stats based on game averages, home or road averages, high games and more.

Player Ratings

Player ratings are based on every available published statistic, as well as expert subjective analysis. Player ratings include overall offensive ability, passing, inside and outside scoring, skating, penalty shot/breakaway ability, faceoffs, overall defensive ability, takeaways, shot blocking, hitting, penalty killing, enforcer status, goalie ability, sportsmanship, and durability.

Play-By-Play

Extensive and exiting play-by-play makes playing a hockey game an immersive experience. Thousands of lines of text may also be edited by the user.

Schedules and Transactions

Seasons include full real life schedules. Schedules may be modified or automatically generated. Player transactions are monitored by date, so you can replay a season using the actual trades and signings as they occurred in real life.

Internet Play

Action! PC Hockey offers complete support for internet play. Hook-up and play one game or an entire series in one sitting. Zip and email league files with just a few mouse clicks. Email box scores to league members with one mouse click.

Utilities

Action! PC Hockey includes a useful set of utilities to run any face-to-face, email, or internet league. Export/import games, export/import coaches and many other features help make your league play simple and enjoyable.

Past Seasons / Historical Adjustments

Many past seasons are available for purchase. These include pro, Olympic, and college seasons. The staff at Dave Koch Sports is continually adding to the lineup of available past seasons. Action PC Hockey includes complete league data for every past season, allowing the game engine to make comparisons between players from different eras. This makes it possible to play a game between a team from the 1960s and a team from the 1990s, for example. Leagues can also be set to play in any era. For example, it is possible to put modern teams in the high scoring era of the 1980s.