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Re: Rise of Hip Checks? (or Hip Checks > Defending)

@Statt09 wrote:
Something I've noticed over the past few days in EASHL and HUT (the latter especially) is the rise of "Hip Check" only teams.
It seems the primary mode of defending is hitting is the hip check. It's rare to find teams hitting normally (or what I assume is normally).
Hip checks are faster, easier to hit, and have less of a threshold for tripping/interference penalties. Going into the corner? Might as well hold hip check cause if your opponent clips the user, they fall over.
Obviously not intentional or real hockey. Am I the only one to find this annoying?

I find it annoying only because yet again it's a single button that makes someone better than they are. They made hitting more difficult to do yet make the hip check a single button. Makes no sense.

That being said, it's very easy to get around it so I don't care too much, it just looks stupid

2 Replies

Statt09
Rising Rookie
2 years ago
There are plenty of situations where it's not possible to "easily" go around it.
Suffice to say, you can be 5"8, and hip check someone. The truth is, its made Unstoppable Force and Truculence abilities, and the body checking attribute don't really matter because its safer for me to always load up a hip check, then a regular hit and be caught out of position.
Regardless, I'd argue that we see hip checks maybe once a game in the NHL. Not, as the default defending position when going into a corner for example.
KlariskraysNHL
Hero+
2 years ago
Sadly it's one of those features you wonder who thought it was a good idea to make it be so dominant. It literally gets used in ways that would result in suspensions to players clipping players from behind.