[vektor]

I played it a ton, won the EASHL playoffs with my team. I've quit it entirely now though, I really didn't like the positioning system of the d-man.

the AI isn't smart enough to make your guy recognize the way he should be standing, a simple button to trap the puck on the boards with the side of the skate when a pass is coming would make it so much easier to not let the puck fly by you if your stick is magically teleporting through half the boards. The whole defense system needs a work over in my opinion, I really wanted to be a Chara like bruiser that could muscle everyone out of the front of the net but it was impossible.

Problem is I only liked playing D and they made it so hard to do that enjoyably to the point that it became skating back and forth with the odd poke check and a hit here or there if the opposing offense really sucked. They have to figure a way to balance out the poke checking with actual defensive ability, if you're 260 pounds it should be a lot easier to stop a 170 pounder from skating directly to the net. It'll have to wait until next gen when they can improve the physics of the balance of the players because now it's clearly flawed, hell half the time people get checked they bounce around like bowling pins. It'd be cool if they had a system for the defense like the goalie has with a purple arrow so you can focus on controlling the forwards positioning. The way it is now you want to stay lined up with a guy and your player turns around when you don't want him to, even worse is when you need to turn around to stop an odd man rush but there's no button to do that and you're screwed.