NHL 23

This one can be done in about 20-30 minutes. So what you want to do is load a new franchise and select the 33rd expansion mode, create your new team it really doesn’t matter what they’re called/what they look like (unless you’re planning on playing on after this achievement) in the settings then you want to turn off salary cap and auto save.

Then you’ll have to complete the expansion draft, just draft good players that’s fairly simple, then you’ll have to go through signing free agents, this is where the salary cap being turn off will help, just offer the best free agents an insane amount of money to guarantee they join your team.

Now sim your way to the start of the season, sim pre season and manually save here. Sim month by month and if you’ve had a positive months ie: lots of wins then manually save the game, if you had a particularly bad month don’t save but instead quit the game and reload from the start of the month, do this until the end of the season or until you clinch the playoffs and save again at the end of the season.

Same rules apply for the playoffs, sim the series and if you progress to the next round manually save and repeat, if not, don’t save, back out and try again, do this all the way until the Stanley cup final and until you win. Luckily for me I did it first try without having to back out at all, perks of the expansion draft and no salary cap is you can make your team as good as you want really!