I 110% agree with you on this one. I remember years back in the games when the CPU barely ever hit, you'd be lucky to see five hits throughout the game from them. Now the moment you touch, pass, or take a shot your player is getting absolutely laid out by the CPU. The hitting animation is still absolutely God awful looking in this game. I've never seen a hit in hockey where a player goes down almost on one knee to make a hit with their shoulder. All the hitting animation clips you seen in the trailers for the game just aren't there when you play the actual game. It's the same with passing, the pass you make are these long, stiff, fully extended, straight armed passes. Nothing like what you see in trailers where there quick, short, snappy passes.
