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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
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Same. Dood on our team always got them *cough* Diemenz *cough* in 12. He still is keeping his 1 interference call per game average in 13.
They are still there, just not the cheap ones like before. To many times in EASHL if there was a human goalie he would skate into you and you'd end up in the box, it was rather annoying.
And the short side is there still, but if your playing EASHL it's pretty much all people try so it's pretty easy to defend if you know it's coming.
Some opinions so far.
I like the effectiveness of the poke check this year, mostly cause there is no stick on stick collision, and sticks still being able to go through bodies, so the powered stick check makes up for it and cause a looser puck and more randomness.
One gripe I have is the super goalies on cross crease plays. Our team had some sexy cycles to a cross crease shot and the goalie more often then not beat the puck to the outside post, but I learned that you need to hold on to the puck for a split second longer and not one time it. Hold it, collect yourself then pick the open spot, or shoot against the grain. And I found that one timers work best if the receiver is standing still, or gliding. But I am glad that they did make it harder to score. Also noticed it's harder to roof the puck on a one timer this year too, probably why the goalies save them more often the not.
All in all this is probably the most fun I've had playing NHL since they first changed the gameplay and skating in 08.