Why is the push shove so useless?
I know there are threads on hitting already but I wanted to touch specifically on the push shove (pushing up on the RS or pressing B on total controls). Last year I actually thought it was balanced pretty well and maybe could have been toned down a bit in effectiveness but this year it has basically zero utility as even in situations where you are in good position and have momentum on your side you just bounce off of the puck carrier and barely even disrupt them. It's gotten to the point where I have trained myself to not use it at all and just go for stick lifts and poke checks instead. I would love to see it bumped up to be somewhere between the current iteration and what we saw last year. Currently people are nearly invincible when they are protecting the puck because the push shove is not a real threat to knock them off the puck.
