I’d say it depends on what they are planning on doing. If the user plans on creating a forward, then puckhandling is probably the best overall attribute in the game. This is because no matter what role you have, puckhandling is always important because it is the best way to keep control of the puck and avoid turning it over to the opposition’s checking. Even if you want to build a defensive forward, having high puckhandling will greatly help your team.

If they are creating a defenseman, I would say that strength is the best overall attribute they can have. As a defenseman, your main job is to deny the opposition chances at scoring, which often requires pushing players off the puck in order to create turnovers and keeping screeners away from the net. But, also defensemen need to transition the puck from defense to offense and strength combined with some other attributes is a great way to outwork players who are trying to knock you off the puck.

If you are just brand new to the site, maybe know very little about hockey, and haven’t even made the decision what skater you want to try out, I would say checking is a nice overall important attribute because of how FHM describes it in game. It does not mean hitting like many users initially believe because of how several other hockey games have combined the terms checking and hitting, but what it does do is the higher checking a player has, the more successful a player will be able to prevent the opposition from doing what it is they are trying to do.

But, really my best answer is that a user should begin by being mostly a balanced player and then grow into what they want to do later. There is no one single most important attribute in this game and that is one of my favorite things about this simulator.