HUT 87 goaltending?
Need to relook goaltending in this game. I put the effort in to get the 87 Shesterkin and he is a sieve. So many short side goals are being given up on top of bad decision making and goals going in a...
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If the defense covers the short side it leaves a one timer open instead, which is the easiest way to score in this game. And regardless of having a step, that’s a basic save for a goalie of any level. That’s not a reasonable response. I’ll start downloading clips for you because goalie gave up three goals that were infuriating. Defense can’t block every shot.
You can't use a short goalie in NHL. It has to be 6ft5 and up. Every HUT you can use some 6ft8 silver goalie till the end of the year. It's pathetic and it's never been addressed. That's why it's frustrating to hear our community manager reply back to a well known community issue like its somehow the result of ur poor defense. The minute an opponent sees you have a short goalie you are getting spammed with short side shots.
Considering the defense is dead in the game this year the only way we can defend is sit back and wait for them to stop spinning in circles and shoot because if you bring your guy out to take the body from the puck it's an easy tap in most of the time.
All this game is Spinning in circles waiting for the green bullseye to light up for these so called skil based one timers that take zero absolutely zero skill to take ,and as for the goalies they are horrible, and mind you they guy who developed this game supposably plays goalie
I quit playing in November. There is only so much cheesy spinning in a circle I can take. This game is literally puck ragg as much as you can in the opponent's zone. When I won I never felt like I deserve it because of someone awful goal animation or me having 15min TOA of puck ragging One Tee shots. I hate Playing like a rat but you had to in this NHL to win because they apparently forgot to give us any defensive tools to stop this toxic META form of offense. Terrible HUT rewards concept that never kept you engaged. Watching the global competition will be hilarious this year though!
It's NHL 25 but you can load up NHL 09 and get a more realistic hockey experience.... Let that sink in.
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
I'm not saying goalies shouldn't be better. I'd love to see smaller goalies be more usable. I'm also not saying they should stop everything and always bail out bad defense though. A pro team with bad defense is probably going to see a lot of goals go in even with the best in net. That's the job of defense. To stop the puck from reaching their net. Better defense is going to mean less goals scored against you. I wasn't saying goalies are fine and there are no issues.
