my initial reaction was kind of like "oh, sweet...it's more of what I love, with some minor changes"
...after spending all last night playing the demo, I'm officially blown away by how many new scenarios pop up thanks to the new mechanics. The game flows just so much better. The new puck and bodycheck phsyics are freaking amazing.
New experiences I've had so far:
Goal waived off due to it going in off of Hartnell's skate, only for it to get reviewed and overturned.
Goal waived off due to what was a clear high stick by Carter, the call on the ice stood - No goal.
Goal waived off due to what looked like a borderline high-stick, but was eventually called a good goal.
Having Hossa school me on more than one occasion after going for a hip check only for him to pull off some of the new toe-drag/off the skate LB dekes that are in the game - also the fact that it's not as easy to just guide the oppositions forwards down the boards into a tunnel of death is refreshing, it creates a lot more varying situations defensively.
Hip-checking a guy only for him to now flip over me, but kind of stall on my back and then fall down right ontop of the puck only for him to play the puck from the ice.
More realistic deflections, I've noticed that the goalies seem to collapse a bit more to their goal line when they lose track of the puck with high-traffic in front of them, which has lead to some nice tip-ins.
Hardcore passing seems to actually work like they wanted it to last season.
...I'm clearly just way too excited for this game, but I can't get enough of the demo.
Also, having Hnat Domenchelli put on my ultimate team almost everytime I've done it is worth a good laugh.
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