Looks like hockey to me...
@TheUnusedCrayonSee, crap like this is why I kind of roll my eyes when people say, "I would've hit here and not poke."
When it's all said and done, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO. Offensive skill or defensive skill doesn't matter in this game. It's come down to whatever the game wants to do at that moment in time, but it's especially frustrating to people that play defense. The poke is garbage. Hitting is garbage (unless you've mastered the buttcheck). Interceptions and puck pickups are garbage. Again, it's no skill in this game. It's just a stats dice roll of whoever wins an action like I'm playing D&D.
The forward knows he's about to get hit but doesn't get rid of the puck. Why would he? It's NHL 24. He takes a straight on hit and recovers faster than you because your avatar loves to follow through on hits like that and it takes out of the play. The hit player picks up the puck and STILL doesn't feel like passing as he skates through a poke check like the other player isn't there. The puck is dislodged and guess what happens? The puck continues south. The game forgets it has physics when poking from any one direction. Just to preface here, I have poked players coming at me so many times that I know instead of the possibility of the puck being poked the other way, it's going to go behind me where the player that got poked can skate right by me while I drown in quick-sand poke slowdown, so it's an easy pickup for that player again. In any case, back to the clip. Good on the poking center for not chasing the puck and going back to cover the center of the ice. The puck "surprisingly" ends up on the stick of another one of their teammates, the bot stick lifts another bot and the player who had the puck poked picks up the puck again (as yet another defensive play ends up on the offense's sticks) because his momentum had carried him south... right where the puck is. When this player finally does pass, it's through one player and off the stick of another before it magically reaches his partner. When it does, the guy does an immediate fade away backhand shot from the TOP of the circle that winds up as a five-hole goal for a goalie that's STANDING STILL, on a pressure meter that's less than halfway full.
However, "Online play is in a good place" some say.
Haha.
No.
Thank you for continuing to post things like this that prove plays like this, in this game, aren't just a one off, but it's literally how it always is.
