I enjoy/dislike this game all at once.
Where it really fails, and has for years is many of the nuances.
1. The blue line - players are to stupid to adjust their stick in order to keep the puck in the zone if you're near the line.
2. There is no space between defence and offence, which is why players do stupid things like not retrieve a puck that's close to them.
3. Assessment system has no middle ground either. I get penalized for badly aiming a shot because it assumes that every shot is intended to score. Sometimes that writer from the blue line is taken to create a rebound, not to straight out score. There are so many other things with the assessment system that are brutal too (this is in Be a Pro).
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