RIP NHL it was fun…. But it’s not anymore.

NEWFIEEE wrote:

the LT move

I’ll probably get blasted for this, but I honestly don’t care. LT was fixed in NHL 26. In NHL 25 you could do the LT move by simply pressing LT at the right time. That’s it. That was removed in 26, whether people want to believe it or not.

However, the reality is the community has a lot of insanely skilled gamers who spend hours figuring out patterns and ways to gain an advantage. This is a video game after all, not real hockey.

Since NHL 26 launched, players figured out how to re-introduce the LT move by chaining together other mechanics in sequence. I’m not going to explain how because it’s cheesy, but it definitely takes more than just pressing LT now. It involves manipulating multiple mechanics, and once someone learns it, it becomes muscle memory.

So although the 'LT move' is still happening, EA did remove the ability to execute it by a simple LT press. I honestly don't think they anticipated people figuring out how to re-engage skating backwards by way of utilizing other mechanics in succession to LT. Chances are the limited QA team would not have been able to find the sequence that would re-introduce the move. Thus, the community did and now here we are.

I actually understand EA’s challenge here. Because the move now relies on several mechanics, fixing it (again) risks breaking a bunch of useful gameplay systems and creating way more frustration than the current LT situation.

I'm not defending EA here, just trying to provide important details that explain why the 'LT' move has come back and was seemingly not 'fixed' as promised and why EA has a challenge in fixing it. Personally, I'd wager the engineering under the hood to fix this is a major adjustment being saved for a full release in '27, but we'll have to wait and see.  Back to my cave.