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It looks like you're hitting the stick instead of the puck. It also looks like DSS might be engaged with the stick sweeping from outside in. I regular poke may have targeted the puck better. In this case, a hit would have probably stopped this play instead.
You are completely missing the point and the forward should lose the puck in that situation 10 out of 10 times. Just because we are good at D does not mean we get to ignore the problems at hand. Also I would not be throwing open ice hits in this game because a lot of times that will leave you out of position. Lets think about this for a moment. This is a 1 on 1 situation in relative open ice. Now ask yourself did the forward make any type of deke move, protect puck move, or anything to avoid getting the puck poked off their stick? Simply put the offensive player skated into a poke check. The poke check should have knocked the puck away. The forward was rewarded for skating into a poke check.
Now I play defense just like you do and in this situation i would NOT have gone for the hit. I would've done a more controlled poke standing still rather than skating fast and then poking. That still doesn't change the fact that the game mechanics are off. If a forward can just skate directly into a poke check and not lose the puck easily then something is wrong with the game.
In all reality what should happen there is that the D man should simply strip the puck while the forward falls behind the D man for skating the puck into traffic and then the D man skates the other way. The forward should be punished for making a BAD decision. The forward should've dumped the puck or passed back to restart the rush.
This is a core problem in the game right now. Why is it that this defenseman has to be make an absolute perfect move but the forward can just skate into a straight line with no move and keep the puck? This is why more people choose to play offense.
@TasteofChicago91 wrote:You are completely missing the point and the forward should lose the puck in that situation 10 out of 10 times.
He did. Defender overcomitted while skating and couldn't pick it up
Well yeah if someone is skating at me I shouldn’t have to hit or skate back and hope the poke check works. I’m telling you this is what needs to be fixed. If a forward skates into me and I have high d awareness my guy should skate and take the puck or the poke check there should’ve jarred it loose and then the team would have a transition play.
I see it all the time in real Games. Instead of dumping the puck the team tries to force it in and it’s easy to strip the puck and go the other way.. but for some reason in this game you have to do a a precise move on defense. Overskate or underskate it shouldn’t matter. The player should be able to pick that puck up and make contact I would think? Otherwise teams can just force every play.
I just still don’t understand why the game is so forgiving to offense but do unforgiving to defense. I guess that’s my main point. Why should it be hard to dump the puck? Why should it be hard to take the puck? Why does the game have to be harder than it should be. I shouldn’t have to compensate and play conservative on that play with it’s the forward who was too aggressive.
i dunno. Maybe I’m just crazy but you have to admit there should’ve been more of a collision with the puck there
@TasteofChicago91 wrote:Well yeah if someone is skating at me I shouldn’t have to hit or skate back and hope the poke check works. I’m telling you this is what needs to be fixed. If a forward skates into me and I have high d awareness my guy should skate and take the puck or the poke check there should’ve jarred it loose and then the team would have a transition play.
I see it all the time in real Games. Instead of dumping the puck the team tries to force it in and it’s easy to strip the puck and go the other way.. but for some reason in this game you have to do a a precise move on defense. Overskate or underskate it shouldn’t matter. The player should be able to pick that puck up and make contact I would think? Otherwise teams can just force every play.
I just still don’t understand why the game is so forgiving to offense but do unforgiving to defense. I guess that’s my main point. Why should it be hard to dump the puck? Why should it be hard to take the puck? Why does the game have to be harder than it should be. I shouldn’t have to compensate and play conservative on that play with it’s the forward who was too aggressive.
i dunno. Maybe I’m just crazy but you have to admit there should’ve been more of a collision with the puck there
No you're not crazy at all. the offense is completely handheld while the defense requires absolute mastery of all the game mechanics to put themselves in the best spot to not get beat.
the lack of low-speed hitting and incidental contact makes defense that much harder and that much farther away from real hockey and real positioning...everything about this game is so passive and about getting an auto interception....which again passive defense isnt a thing you see in high-level hockey when players have stamina and auto interceptions arent what id consider a skilled play from a video game perspective so im not sure why we keep going to the route of 900 mph passes and auto intercepts when we have the tuners and sliders to take a more skilled and manual approach to this game without removing too much aaccessibility
