What do I have to do to intercept passes this year? In previous years intercepting passes worked very well. intercepting passes needs to be fixed. I have ninety-two defensive awareness and this happens to me. I am in perfect position between the puck carrier and receiver of the puck, but my stick doesn't go down onto the ice to intercept the puck. I was facing the puck carrier as well
i agree with you EA_Aljo . but the problem is I rarely get interceptions while holding LT near the receiver of the puck. Interceptions happened way more often in past nhl games while holding LT. I really wish NHL25 could address this. LT is important for getting yourself to face the right way but for some reason in NHL25 it rarely lets me intercept anything while holding LT, even if I position myself super close to the receiver of the pass. The blade of my stick doesn't touch the ice while holding LT and the puck goes right through me almost all of the time. I just feel like trying to anticipate a pass while gliding is really difficult when passes are very hard/fast in NHL25 and the receiver of the pass is moving very quickly back and forth. Gliding is very slow too and it is difficult to get yourself to face the puck while gliding and not using LT, especially when the receiver of the pass is moving back and forth quickly.
I am even using a puck moving defenseman with 91 defensive awareness. no quick pick. 95 speed 95 agility and 95 acceleration and 95 endurance.
body on body contact does work but it's pretty much impossible to sustain that when covering a small, fast winger that is moving back and forth trying to get open for a one tee. I just feel like if I am in between the puck carrier and the receiver of the puck while holding LT with enough time to react, that I should be able to make the interception..........That's how it worked in previous years like in NHL 19 20 21 and 22 and 23.
I've also noticed that using quick pick or using high defensive awareness doesn't help with this LT issue.
This wasn't an issue before NHL24. This has been a major issue in NHL25.
Im hoping you can bring this up to the game developers
Thank you so much.
Honestly, teams don’t back check and clog the neutral zone enough. If you have 3 forwards fully pressing on offense the defense is going to have a bad time against any competent team. It should be this way. Defenders shouldn’t be making unrealistic crazy reaction interceptions all the time against odd mans etc. The best defense in this game is to stack your blue line and make teams chip the puck in. Most of them won’t do it and will just turn the puck over all day. This years game is way more about team play, space, and puck movement. Outside of the arcade hitting it plays way more like hockey than a lot of the prior iterations.
? EA_Aljo please answer asap thank you
true. its totally ridiculous this year. I am probably done with this game
true less and less people are buying their game which means they have less money to fix it and make their games better. hence why they added battle pass and more things to buy in NHL25. Also the real NHL barely advertises and tries to grow the game. NBA and football surpass them by far. there is so much less talk about the nhl currently
I agree about the neutral zone stuff and stacking blue line and back checking. but you have to admit there is issues with intercepting in this game. people could still score in previous years of NHL when intercepting actually worked. Its just not fun to play defense in NHL25 if there is not any kind of consistency when intercepting pucks. meanwhile hitting is very nerfed, covering people that LT speeed glitch is very annoying, and poke checking with gold stick em up often doesnt poke the puck in the correct direction, or the poke check barely even moves the puck anywhere and the puck carrier can just easily get it back immediately.
Also why does icon passing have to be turned on before the start of every game. I always have to pause or press the start button at the beginning of every eashl club game to turn on icon passing
C'mon man, you didn't prove anything. From my experiences and from all your posted videos there is an evidence that it slows you down. Just watch your own videos. What are you talking about?
"There absolutely are times as a defender that you're going to match the direction of the puck carrier in order to execute an affective action. " - yes, I fully agree, this is correct, BUT what I wanted to say is, that in NHL25 you have to do it too way often, much more then in previous years. That was the point.
C'mon man, you didn't prove anything. From my experiences and from all your posted videos there is an evidence that it slows you down. Just watch your own videos. What are you talking about?
What are you talking about? I posted GIFs literally showing me extending my stick without slowing down. Maybe take a closer look.
in NHL25 you have to do it too way often, much more then in previous years. That was the point.
This has more to do with the level of competition you're facing and your neutral zone play than it does with 'the game'.
So many people disregard how O-Zone turnovers and your neutral zone setup directly impact the speed of a puck carrier as they enter your zone.
People hardly describe adjustments in those areas and insist it's "handicapping defense". The people who think defending is handicapped versus offense really need to look at all elements that go into how a play develops.
Community ManagerCan you get me some video of the passes you felt should have been intercepted?
