Mike Dudolevitch

Puck retrieval is non-existent. Poke check knocks it to a comp teammate > half the time, body-checking is useless (unless it’s against you, after you have absolute body position on the defender checking you- you will absolutely needlessly fumble the puck away). And as has been said a ton before, stick lifting is 90% a penalty. Why take an already kind of broken mechanic from the previous games, and just make it inarguably worse? Then there’s that pointless clutch and grab thing a defender can do to you 1/2 a mile from the boards. Ya think your teammate AI is ever going to give you a passing option on the dasher? Guess you havent been playing the previous NHLs Pitifully moronic goalie AI was almost forgivable 4 years ago- ya know, where a puck trickles towards your tender on a chip in and he emphatically kick saves it to a forechecker? Or where on a hard-around he just waddles behind the net, makes no attempt to cut it off, and gets stuck? I just wish a programmer had watched a hockey game in the last decade and maybe updated some of the behaviors to be, like hockey.