Goalies

@Greyinsi 

Yep and unfortunately that’s why the series is always going to be a mess

@EA_Aljo 

Instead of uploading the whole 20+ minute game I broke it down into a bunch of shorter videos. Keep in mind all of these clips are from a single game, except for the very last one which is from our immediate rematch against them. I hope you and everyone else watch all these clips, because they get progressively worse as we go.

Heres our first good chances of the game. Wide open one tee saved followed by a wide open wrister from the same spot and another chance in tight

Heres there counter a few moments later:

Not great D by our wing but the dman had a clean poke that failed entirely and then our goalie cant get over to make a save, which would be fine if theirs didnt go on to stop 24 shots. 

Bonus clip of blatant interference that goes uncalled:

Later on in the game I get a clean lane to the net when one dude is shot out of a cannon on the backcheck but i still get off a pretty good chance that is stuffed. Again not awful, but when the other team is scoring on every look they get, its annoying.

More robbery from their goalie

More of the same

By the way, to this point both of our goals are from penalty shots. Which shouldnt even be in the game and I would still love someone to tell me why were forced to play with made up rules in a competitive game mode but no one ever can answer that.

Heres some more robbery from their goalie followed by our goalie being entirely useless

More saves from their goalie

I get a clean break in against the goalie but cant get a shot off because of the goalies stick

Me getting stoned on a break again and then immediately getting robbed on a cross crease

Again, not my best moves or anything but another clean look thats stopped followed by an insane save on the second chance play.

Heres a shooting gallery of shots that start off a little clunky at first but capped off by the desperation save on the backdoor manual sauce over the defender, which leads to a break out where they score of course. Sorry for cutting the clip short by a second

More dumb saves

We continue to pressure and naturally get caught giving up a 2-0, our goalie fails to make a save where their goalie has stopped a bunch of these exact looks, if not even better ones

Second bonus clip from our rematch against them. More insane saves followed by them just stumbling around and scoring on accident

As you see, in a vacuum, some of these arent that bad, and you'd almost expect 1-2 of these in a game, but this happened over and over again all game. The outcome of the game was totally taken out of our control by AI goalies. Theirs made incredible saves all game long and ours couldnt do anything. This shouldnt be happening. Giving one team Dominik Hasek, and the other a beer league goalie ruins the game.

This is not a game for people who:

A-Understand real hockey and want a somewhat remotely similar experience. 

B-Plays Defense

C-Plays Goalie. 

This game is targeting very blatantly: 

-Racists (black guys blonde beards and racists names rampant, especially from Qc players) 

-Kids who want to "danglez snipez" and have as little resistance as possible to doing whatever they want with the puck. 

Its pretty sad. 

Happening a ton in 3's and 6's right now, along the offsides in 3's. Had a guy over the blueline before the puck crossed the line. I was on D and they got behind me scoring. My buddy was streaming on Twitch when it happened. NHL 23 definitely needs some focused attention! NHL 24 can wait until this is at least fixed. In HUT the main thing right now is LT by the top circle then go down low breaking the defense to cycle around and then shoot glove side from the top of the hashmarks. Or it's bump the goalie slightly and aim for the right bottom corner. Kind of why everyone is trying to stack their teams with players that have good hand eye. 

Goalies are also horrible at dealing with loose pucks.  These are all from a ten game span.

This one was an OT winner.  Yay.  

@NAVergy
Give players more tools to defend against cross crease that's what we said in the last few years, not by making goalies almost invicible in 2-0. Cant you see that something is wrong when goalies are moving sideways in 23? They're like instant moving to make the save... They're kinda broken just to move too fast even on rookie. Meanwhile, they are completly stupid against loose puck and rebound since forever!