FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: FIX THE POKE CHECKS AND TONE DOWN THE HITTING

I lined up a guy with a hipcheck at full speed and he just continued skating right through me - that kinda force should be causing a black hole, not killing me and allowing him to effortlessly score on my goalie.

First game back after taking 25 off and we're already contemplating just calling this a wash too haha. Apparently truculence allows you to get a free hit off the faceoff :(

As long as you don't spam the pokes are fine I guess

Poke check is in an okay place.  I think it could be buffed on a sliding scale (so that defensive builds that really raise it high get more of ab adjustment than your average player. )

With you on the hitting.  Truculence in particular is way overpowered.  Games just devolve into hit fests.  Its real bad.

Yeah I reported that issue last year I guess the reverse hit off the dot is still in play. As for hitting your forced to run warrior to combat the hitting. Instead of actually taking the last 2 years and fixing and addressing issues they just use xfactors to cover up there laziness. The franchise is done nhl series is dead. I won't be purchasing next year or anything further as long as Ea is making it. The game is awful all the community does is exsploit the game. There not going to fix it they never have in the last 8 years because they don't care.  THE ONLY WAY WE WILL GET A BETTER GAME IS BLAST THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA.