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the reason why online games appear to move so fast is that 90% of players are always instructing every player they control to skate with 100% acceleration at any given moment. Whereas, realistic players such as myself., understand that pushing Ls to 100% while controlling the puck is something you should NOT be doing very often at all. This gives you higher pass acc, shot acc, agility, balance, etc.
Every top 6s player skates 90% of the game with hustle. This isn't even an exaggeration. You can watch a pro player like Hxndry (LW) multiple nights a week and his stamina is lucky to be over half empty.
The only reason you see it less frequently in HUT or VS is because you can only control one player at a time. In 6s anybody that's any good is spamming it all game long inconsequentially because you don't ever get fatigued enough from sprinting literally the whole game.
LOL.

Add in full pressure and what do you get... 😃
- rsandersr472 years agoSeasoned Ace@Jammalammalam There were grown adults working at a gaming studio who went to work and tested this game. They played this and thought "yep, this looks good!"
At least EA dropped the line "if it's in the game, it's in the game" because THIS.. is not in the NHL haha! If ANY goalie did this they would have lost their chance to play anymore.
I cannot be convinced these devs watch hockey or like the NHL. I truly beleive they take a position at EA Vancouver simply to build a resume, market themselves, and find a better position elsewhere. Unfortunately we have to deal with it. I had some higher hopes when I found out there were new devs this year but it might be worse. I credit them for taking chances and trying to make things better but they did a very poor job. They made everything they touched worse somehow. Have they even opened up this communication they promised months ago? Just sad.. if EA hires again I hope they can find devs that WANT to make a good hockey game.