@Statt09 wrote:Something I've noticed over the past few days in EASHL and HUT (the latter especially) is the rise of "Hip Check" only teams.
It seems the primary mode of defending is hitting is the hip check. It's rare to find teams hitting normally (or what I assume is normally).
Hip checks are faster, easier to hit, and have less of a threshold for tripping/interference penalties. Going into the corner? Might as well hold hip check cause if your opponent clips the user, they fall over.
Obviously not intentional or real hockey. Am I the only one to find this annoying?
All of the years they wait to get it right and put it back into the game and this is the OP mess we get?
Why hit when you can hip check?
Agreed 100%. How many hip checks do you actually see each year on tv? 5? You see 30 a game this year.
90% of the hip checks in the game should actually be tripping or boarding penalties.
It is also somehow a good way of cutting passes which makes no sense.
The whole thing needs to be dumped. It's just a ridiculously OP gimmick.
Hip checks still need to be aimed so at least there's a tiny bit of skill involved - they're in a much better state than regular truculence shoulder checks last year.
In any case, I think they're hilarious and need to stay as is
