Rise of Hip Checks? (or Hip Checks > Defending)

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@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? 

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I find it annoying only because yet again it's a single button that makes someone better than they are. They made hitting more difficult to do yet make the hip check a single button. Makes no sense. 

That being said, it's very easy to get around it so I don't care too much, it just looks stupid 

I've been seeing the same thing over the last couple of days.  Don't get me wrong, a well-timed hip check is a thing of beauty.  But the way hip checks are working currently in NHL 24 could use some tuning.

As it stands now the skill gap EA wanted to create with the changes to the way checking works is gone because there's no need to use anything but the hip check.  Hip checks are just as if not more effective than normal checks.  They don't seem to be limited by the checking attribute, height or weight of the checker and also seem to completely disregard the size, and strength of the player being checked.  Reverse-hitting also seems to be useless against the hip check.  And as an added bonus there's no follow through animation so even if you miss you're not taken out of the play.

I love a good hip check, but this shouldn't happen:

There are plenty of situations where it's not possible to "easily" go around it. 

Suffice to say, you can be 5"8, and hip check someone. The truth is, its made Unstoppable Force and Truculence abilities, and the body checking attribute don't really matter because its safer for me to always load up a hip check, then a regular hit and be caught out of position. 

Regardless, I'd argue that we see hip checks maybe once a game in the NHL. Not, as the default defending position when going into a corner for example. 

Sadly it's one of those features you wonder who thought it was a good idea to make it be so dominant.  It literally gets used in ways that would result in suspensions to players clipping players from behind.

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@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? 

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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.

@Treatmentworke66 

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

@Treatmentworke66 

I mean, there is very little skill involved with a lot of things the game has to offer