Community ManagerThese changes are wonderful for human goalies however, there is still the glaring issue of not respecting the goaltenders right to the ice in the crease.
Players are still able to smash into the goalie and rarely get called with a penalty or even with a waved off goal. A skater should under no circumstance be allowed to run into the goaltender in the crease, lose the puck due to smashing into the goalie's 5 hole, and then as a result push the goalie into the net along with the puck for a good goal. I have video evidence of this if that is helpful.
In years past there was more respect given to goaltenders and ice that "belongs" to them with tighter goalie interference and penalties given to skaters when making contact. We need to go back to this to better balance this game to what a real life experience should be.
No, that animation only happens when you're fatigued and/or making a desperation save. If you're square and controlled that doesn't really happen in most games.
in my prior comment, I'm talking about getting straight line run into by an opposing player, not initiating any contact through a save animation or anything like that.
