NHL 2001 Cheats - PlayStation 2

Super defenseman
Enter the create-a-player screen and enter "Sandis Ozolinsh", "Chris Pronger", or "Scott Hannan" as a name. Answer "Yes" to use his ratings, then adjust them as needed.

Super forward
Enter the create-a-player screen and enter "Peter Forsberg", "Jaromir Jagr", "Keith Tkachuk", "Pavel Bure", "Steve Yzerman", "Owen Nolan", "Rob Blake", "Eric Lindros", or "Nicklas Lidstrom" as a name. Answer "Yes" to use his ratings, then adjust them as needed.

Super goalie
Enter the create-a-player screen and enter "Patrick Roy", "Dominik Hasek", "Ed Belfour", or "Olaf Kolzig" as a name. Answer "Yes" to use his ratings, then adjust them as needed.

Jersey number 99
Enter the create-a-player screen and enter "Wayne Gretzky" as a name. The game will automatically assign him jersey number 99.

The Dude player
Enter the create-a-player screen and enter "Dude" as a name. The announcers will refer to the character during game play as "The Dude".

Name announcements
Create a player and enter "Hammer", "Animal", "Mario", "Bill", "Spanky", or any other common name as his first name. The announcer will refer to him by that first name during game play.

Also, entering any current NHL players name will allow you to use their stats.

Taunts
Hold [Triangle] after scoring a goal, winning a fight, winning a game, or when the opposing team gets a penalty.

Easy trades
If you want a trade for a player, but the other team declines, make the team you want the player from a user controlled team. You can now easily trade for the player. Change the team back to CPU controlled afterwards.

Eliminate opposition's goalie
Press [Start] to pause game play, select "Controller Setup", then choose the opposing team. After entering the team's menu, change the goalie status to "Pull", then press [Start]. Wait a moment, then press [Start] and return to the control selection screen. Move back to your original team and press [Start]. After entering your menu press [Start] and the opposing goalie will be gone.

Note: The previous steps must be repeated after every face off. To avoid this, use a second controller. Place that player on the opposing team, then pull their goalie. Now you do not have repeat the trick at all. Every time the opposing team gets the puck, it gets controlled by the second controller. You can check him, get the puck, and score on the empty net. This trick also helps the "Shorter penalties" trick, because you can make the other controller fight, instead of your own.

Shorter penalties
When in a fight, let the opposing player punch you without fighting back. Your opponent will get a five minute penalty, while your penalty will only be two minutes.

Easy goals
Get a big shooter (a player with a little stick blade icon) to shoot on net. If you shot hard enough, the goalie will get knocked down. Shoot into the "empty" net for an easy goal.

This trick takes about ten seconds. Go around the opposing team's net two times. Pass the puck to a nearby player and shoot quickly. Make sure auto-shot aim is on (default). 95% of the time this results in an easy goal.

When your momentum is up and you have a faceoff at center ice, pass the puck back to the right defenseman. Have him pass straight to the right wing, then skate the right wing straight along the boards. When you get to about the next faceoff circle, pass across to the left wing (on manual shoot) and this should score most of the time. If done correctly, you can score four or five goals in under a minute.

This trick usually works best on a powerplay, but when you have the puck in the opponents zone, have who ever is playing the point get the puck and take a slap shot. If someone on your team is in front of the puck when shot, most likely it will deflect off of them and past the goalie.

Once a face off is won in the middle of the rink, pass back to a shooter. Dribble the puck to the middle circle in the rink, and face the goal. Press [Square], and the puck should go right over the goalie and into the goal. This works best when manual shot is on; aim must be on net; and you are going up in the "action" camera view.

Bring two players down to the other teams goalie. One must be a big shooter and the other can be anyone. Give the puck to the big shooter and hold [Square] until the shot power meter is in the blue section, then release. This should knock down the goalie. Switch to the other player that is near the goalie, get the puck very quickly, and shoot fast. This results in an easy goal about 85% of the time, because the goalie will still be on his back from the first shot.

Get a team of five players that are all big shooters. Put them all on the ice at once. Set your offensive strategy to "Crash The Net". Get the puck to your C, RW, or LW. Go behind your opponent's goal, and start passing the puck a lot. Do not hold speed burst or your players will get out of position. Also, do not move your players too much. Try to pass to a defensemen -- they usually stay near the blue line. If he is open and has a good shot angle, wind up all the way and shoot it in with a powerful slap shot. If done correctly, you should score about eight out of ten times.

Get a break away. Just before you reach the net, pass the puck to the player behind you, and have him one-time it in.

On a break away, wind up for a slap shot. When the meter gets full, press [Triangle] to deke. This will confuse the goalie. Immediately after you deke, tap [Square] to easily wrist-shot it in.

Press "Passback", then fire a one timer to the net. This should work 80% of the time.

Get a good shooter and go to your own blue line. Flick a quick wrist shot and the puck should fly over the opposing goalies head for a goal. If done correctly, you should score every time.

When playing in season mode, if you want your team to win the Stanley Cup, play multi-team mode and make your division rivals lose key games intentionally.

Free player
During the season you can create a group of super players using the "name" cheats. Trade them to a team for one player (because the CPU teams want half your team to get anyone). Then go back and delete the created super players who are now on the other teams roster. If effect, you will get a player for free.

Trade up to super team
You can stack your team by trading someone who is for example a 70, and keep going through the list of CPU teams until you find a team that will take him for a player who is a 72. Do the same to trade that 72 for a 74, and so on. Eventually by doing this you can trade "up" until you have gotten an entire team of players who are 85-95.

Fights
When you fight, do not let the other team win. If that happens, you will have four men on the ice and the other team will have five.