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Hockey Legacy Manager · Published by Hockey Legacy Manager · Official site ↗
Positive — 94% positive (31 reviews) · 32 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A full hockey season simulates in under a minute. Draft, trade, scout and build a dynasty across decades, from junior and college hockey to the pros, starting anywhere from 1917 to today. The only hockey GM sim you can play on your PC and on your phone.
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Simulation, Strategy, Sports · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
About this game
Hockey Legacy Manager 27 puts you in charge of a hockey team's front office. You draft, trade, negotiate contracts, hire your coaching staff, set your lines and then live with the results, season after season, for as long as you want to keep going.
What sets it apart from other games in the genre is how fast it moves. A full season, playoffs included, simulates in well under a minute on an ordinary computer. That changes what a career can be. You can run a club for thirty or fifty years across a few evenings and still see every trade, every draft class and every player who came up through your system.
You can begin in 1917 and manage a franchise through the whole history of the sport, or start in the present day and go forward from there. There is no end date and nothing is scripted. Teams rise and fall, records get broken, and the prospect you built your rebuild around sometimes turns out to be ordinary.
If you would rather build your own hockey world, the editors are open. Change teams, players, coaches and leagues, run an expansion draft, or put together a league structure that has never existed.
New in HLM27
If you played HLM26, this is what has changed.
Trade trees. Follow any trade forward to see where a player came from, what he was moved for later, and how the deal looks years on.
College hockey. Six conferences ship in the default roster, and you can build your own. Recruiting runs against every other program in the country, where a prestige rating that moves with your results decides which players will listen, and commitments run freshman through senior until a player leaves early or loses his eligibility.
Eleven new starting years. 1930, 1950, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2003, 2014, 2016 and 2025, each with the salary cap and contract rules of its era. Minor leagues are playable in history mode now too.
Minor league control. Trades, contracts, free agency and roster assignment for your minor league club, and you can disable a minor league without disabling the one below it. You can also start a career managing in the minors.
Post-season tournaments. Junior and college champions meet in a round robin that leads into a semifinal and a final, each with its own page for the bracket, standings, scoring leaders and past winners.
Also on iOS and Android
HLM runs on phones as well as on PC, which as far as I know makes it the only hockey management game you can play on both. The mobile version is free to download, so if you are not sure the genre is for you, that is a cheap way to find out before buying anything.
Nine years, one developer
I have been building Hockey Legacy Manager on my own since 2019, and HLM27 is the ninth edition. HLM26 sits at 92% positive on Steam. Most of what is in this year's version, college hockey and the extra history starts especially, came out of what players asked for on Reddit and in the forums over the past year.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 - 64 bit
- Processor: 64-bit Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 - 64 bit
- Processor: 64-bit Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Release 27.1.13
Fixed training emails not respecting the selected inbox settingFixed minor team coaches leaving before you could offer them a new contractFixed the Select Top button on the Scout Assignment pageFixed issues with minor league assignmentsFixed league award names not being editable during a careerFixed players being unable to be called up from a minor teamFixed the Draft Position Distribution setting being unavailable during a careerFixed post-season tournament awards showing the wrong team statsFixed post-season tournament award names not updating after editing a tournamentIncreased the maximum league abbreviation length to 8 charactersRead full article on Community Announcements (Hockey Legacy Manager)Patch NotesOfficial
Release 27.1.12
Updated the main menu UIAdded an Unselect All button to the Scout Assignment pageFixed an issue preventing major league offers to players on minor league contractsFixed AI teams not calling up players after injuriesFixed an issue preventing minor league players from being sent downFixed an issue when switching teams on the Trade page with minor leagues enabledFixed league logos not updating in the League EditorFixed Trade Trees displaying incorrect tradesImproved Career Mode contract offer logic for lower-tier leaguesTeams generated for leagues without locations will now use cities from around the worldFixed players gaining up to 20 overall points in a single seasonFixed hidden potentials being visible in Free AgencyFixed players appearing on both teams in the All-Star GameFixed the Can Only Draft From League settingFixed league nationality distributions not updatingRead full article on Community Announcements (Hockey Legacy Manager)Patch NotesOfficial
Release 27.1.10
Fixed Stars of the Month being calculated incorrectlyFixed a crash when opening college tournament pagesFixed a crash on the Salary Retention pageFixed the Quick Call Up popup not appearingFixed a crash when sorting players on the World Cup selection pageFixed some players being unable to be sent down to the minor leagueFixed the Women’s World Cup not selecting the best available playersFixed 90+ overall players having their potential lowered to Top 6Updated Buffalo, Calgary, and Edmonton jerseys in the default rosterFixed Michigan State and Michigan State University abbreviationsFixed the mouse back button closing the Fantasy Draft pageRead full article on Community Announcements (Hockey Legacy Manager)Patch NotesOfficial
Release 27.1.8
Fixed long-term careers not generating enough major-league talentFixed teams exceeding the salary capFixed a crash when planning an expansion draftFixed a crash when adding player statsFixed a crash during the trade deadlineFixed a crash when sorting asking contracts on the Recruitment pageFixed career objectives not appearingFixed the trade block not savingFixed All-Star Game awards missing from player profilesFixed players not entering free agency when their team is removedExpansion Draft searches now ignore accentsRead full article on Community Announcements (Hockey Legacy Manager)Patch NotesOfficial
Release 27.1.7
* Added an option when importing an HLM26 roster to import missing assets from the default HLM27 roster* Fixed prospects being generated with negative ages when a league had no minimum age* Fixed Commissioner Mode preventing players from being selected in expansion drafts* Fixed an issue preventing simulation* Fixed Balanced Prospect Generation turning back on after loading a career* Fixed long-pressing the league logo not opening your minor team* Fixed the Draft Projection dropdown missing when editing prospects* Fixed auto-signing staff causing teams to exceed the staff cap* Fixed an issue with the scorebug expanding* Fixed expansion draft recap emails showing the wrong previous team* Fixed a crash when viewing previous playoff brackets* Fixed the contract filter being hidden on the Lineup page* Fixed retained and bought-out contracts missing from the contract list* Fixed a crash during the draft lottery* Fixed monthly progression when Relative Ratings is enabled* Fixed team logos becoming blank after editing them during a career* Fixed teams not signing enough players* Improved simulation speed when using Relative Ratings* Fixed search bar text not being visibleRead full article on Community Announcements (Hockey Legacy Manager)
