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I experience a 1–2 second delay after a face-off when controlling a defenseman; the player doesn’t take a slap shot immediately upon receiving the puck—let alone a one-timer straight off the draw—but instead hesitates for a moment before even raising his stick. I’ve brought this up and even shared a video here previously, but it seems we players just aren’t being listened to...
I showed that video of yours to a former NHL player, and he said that he has done the same thing on the power play—it’s a perfectly normal situation to take a shot from there when there’s space and a screen in front. That’s just part of the NHL.
The only way to take a one timer off the face off now is the center has to have the quck draw xfactor it's stupid and yes a one timer off the face when I play not professionally but in leagues was done on the pp ...