The passing can get pretty frustrating at times. Like, I've got Bouwmeester skating out of my zone along the left-hand boards, with Bourque directly in front of him. I hit the blue line, he hits the red line, I pass the puck and it goes right passed him all the way down the ice for an icing call.
They win the face off... tic-tac-toe, they score the game-winning goal with 8 seconds on the clock.
Or, other times, I'm coming out of my zone with two of my guys in front of me... the closest one is in the middle of the ice, just barely ahead of me to my right and he's wide open... the other guy is straight ahead but almost two lines away and has a guy on him... so I press up and (i think anyway) to the right, and hit pass... and it goes off to the wrong guy and gets intercepted.
Or... (and this one pisses me off the most)... I come breaking into the zone on the left side, watching my center head for the net, I press up and to the right and then hit pass, but instead of passing to my center, the puck goes flying in behind the net. Not like around the boards and behind the net, it's like the game thinks my center is standing behind the net or something, because the puck goes right there and then bounces off the back boards and comes out the other side, onto their defenceman's stick.
Sometimes I'll try to over-compensate on that exact play by pressing more right than up... then the puck literally shoots straight out to the right... right into the middle of the ice. If I'm lucky, one of my D will get it back, but then the one-timer is already lost.
I dunno... maybe I just suck all of a sudden. All I know, is I haven't had trouble passing the puck like this before. I'm not even using that hardcore setting. It's crazy.
Also, the commentating blows. Like, almost every 4th save is "right off the goalie's mask!!1!1!oneone!1!" .... but then they show the replay and they're talking about "using your head to make the save" and you clearly see the puck being shot right into the goalie's chest... there's a bunch of other things about the commentating that irritate me, but that stands out the most.
Oh and the "Be A GM" thing... is it just me or is it just the same old dynasty mode but with a blackberry interface for making trades instead of the old menu?
Ok, sorry. /whine done.
