NHL 24 Patch 1.5.0 Feedback

@KidShowtime1867  What an interesting take from your first post about muti button and single button presses on offense vs defense. Sorry, im not sure how to properly tag/quote. Im still figuring this site out. I'm not sure I understand the logic where it's appreciated that a defender must go through a multistep process to deliver a body check, which every nhl player can perform on any given shift, in any game they play in, and if they miss they put themselves way out of position, yet an offensive player only has to press a single button to perform an obnoxious deke that less than 1% of the nhl can perform successfully and not even on a regular basis all while that said player doesn't lose momentum with the puck. Imo that kind of logic is the exact reason the game is in the state it is in. There is no balance between offense and defense. The game rewards selfish players and rewards poor decisions with the puck.

You can be in perfect position to make a simple defense play and the game will still find a way to punish you. Too often bad hockey/selfish plays get rewarded. It's astonishing someone thought that making a defender lose skating momentum while poke checking would be a good idea. It's unrealistic and handicaps the player controlling the skater. The average weight of a hockey stick is 14-21 ounces while a puck weight between 5.5-6 ounces. I'm curious as to why a player extending their stick would be cause for slowing down or stopping but a player making exaggerated movements while trying to control additional weight doesn't warrant any sort of physical limitations. It defies basic physics. 

It also makes no sense that an offensive player, who is in possession of added weight to his stick (puck) regains possession of the addition weight (puck) when if by chance the puck is dislodged from his stick by a defending player skating/facing either directly towards the puck carrier or at an angle from which the puck carrier would realistically just skate past the puck or be off balance trying to regain possession. Is that because puck physics are atrocious or the sliders/tuners are being poorly managed? 

The hitting mechanics should be reverted back but if you are constantly being body checked, it's the puck carriers fault for not making a timely hockey play. If stick checking and puck intercepts worked as they should, there would be less body checking so it goes back on the programming once again. 

As consumers, we need to stop accepting excuses and start demanding accountability. I'm sure there's enough profit margin to hire a consultant that has had actual high level pro hockey playing experience or someone in pro management that understands the basic fundamentals of the sport instead of relying on these influencers for direction who have no inclination of real high level hockey. There also needs to be some transparency as to what works and what doesnt. What attributes actually do, how they interact with each other and the true effect they have on the game. The attribute system has been in place for over 15 years and there is always a debate on the subject.