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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Here is my problem with defending:
I am very good at it, I understand how to keep an appropriate distance, when some moves will work and when they won't, how to read the players moves through the neutral zone etc etc etc.
Playing defence isn't a problem for me. Having fun while playing defence is another aspect of the game altogether.
You see, they develop so much of the game to satisfy the scorers and virtually nothing to defend against it. It's not that I mind playing defence, or that I'm no good at it, my problem is, there is only one way to effectively play the position: be positionally sound and don't attempt to do anything to get particularly involved in the play.
I can hear the guys on the other end raging at me when I stifle their cross crease/cheese dangle moves, but, contrary to their abilities, I'm not really afforded a different way to play the game.
There are all kinds of different and effective ways to play defense in the national hockey league. There are all kinds of different and effective ways to score in the national hockey league. In NHL 10,11,12, there has been one effective way to defend and multiple ways to score.
That's what is frustrating. When everyone joins a game and there are no forward positions left, I'm relegated to playing D, and that means a super boring game, OR hearing about my lack of D from teammates.
There's no room to be a Brent Seabrook, Duncan Keith, Dion Phaneuf or Shea Weber. You can only be Nik Lidstrom or Jay Bouwmeester, and if you don't like it, you're going to get scored on when some guy decides to stickhandle through a group of 4 players and you don't block the shot.
From that aspect, it's a ####ty game.
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The new team systems will more or less address your feelings regarding your "only one way to defend" stance. Defensive strategies will force players into different situations where you can act like Keith, Weber and Seabrook.
...well, at least in theory that's what the new defensive strategies are going to do.
Also, you can always play like Dion Phaneuf. Go for the big check, miss it, get scored on. It's pretty easy to do
