Something must be done about the ballerina spins, now or in the future
January 31, 2019 8:17PM
edited January 2019
I hate, my teammates hate it and you probably do too. I don’t why I’ve been encountering this so much lately in EASHL 3s. Every so often we run into teams that just spin and spin and spin.
I played my short HUT career I ran into this guys on this mode too. They skate backwards into the zone hoping for a trip then spin into the corner and rag and rag until you chase them for a one timer or short side attempt.
Here’s a team I played against in EASHL
https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/epicxowned/video/68473802
All game they did that. What’s funny in the clip is how he picks up speed and never blows a tire. You never see that in the real world. They would circle in the corners all game and only go for back spot or short side. We were playing good defense, but good defense has trouble people who abuse game mechanics which unfortunately there are no consequences for raging, spins around and around for clowns that skate or play like this.
This a big nuisance I keep running into. There definitely has to be a way they lose the puck or blow an edge. Remember NHL 12, the game before TPS when you kept doing circles after circle especially when dealing with great pressure for a dman? You blow a tire and lost the puck. Sure some may say this is “unrealistic” as were supposed to be playing as NHL players, but it balanced. Didn’t want to blow an edge, pass. Now, you can do this all game long without consequences.
I hope combating this a huge priority, it just isn’t fun when you play teams like this in any mode.
I played my short HUT career I ran into this guys on this mode too. They skate backwards into the zone hoping for a trip then spin into the corner and rag and rag until you chase them for a one timer or short side attempt.
Here’s a team I played against in EASHL
https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/epicxowned/video/68473802
All game they did that. What’s funny in the clip is how he picks up speed and never blows a tire. You never see that in the real world. They would circle in the corners all game and only go for back spot or short side. We were playing good defense, but good defense has trouble people who abuse game mechanics which unfortunately there are no consequences for raging, spins around and around for clowns that skate or play like this.
This a big nuisance I keep running into. There definitely has to be a way they lose the puck or blow an edge. Remember NHL 12, the game before TPS when you kept doing circles after circle especially when dealing with great pressure for a dman? You blow a tire and lost the puck. Sure some may say this is “unrealistic” as were supposed to be playing as NHL players, but it balanced. Didn’t want to blow an edge, pass. Now, you can do this all game long without consequences.
I hope combating this a huge priority, it just isn’t fun when you play teams like this in any mode.
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Quick fix would be that a tap or full press results in a complete 180.
We do a mix of man to man/zone. It’s a lot more difficult when your tied or trailing in a game and they have no intention of moving the puck.
Stumble, fall or the lose puck. Somethings gotta happen. I believe it was you who said “there wouldn’t be enough ambulances available for a one game”. There’s a reason we don’t see that in the real NHL.
Lol, yea that was me with the ambulance comment.
It’s terrible in any mode. Absolutely kills the fun factor.
I don’t the mind the typical Spin o Rama you see. That’s fine. But continuously skating backwards and half spins again and again without any sort consequence makes my blood boil when I play people like this. What doesn’t make sense is in the video he appears to keep his speed and even get faster. That should not be the case.
I should have recorded more of them doing exactly what I said. Next time I play a team like this I will.
In your video, the centre pivots too aggressively to the outside instead of holding the middle of the ice. That is why he got burned and it makes it look like the puck carrier gained speed.
It’s easy to dissect videos like but when your in a game and this guy is doing this all game you have no idea where he is gonna go. You kind of gotta hope he messes up because one poke it’s a penalty and as you said, there is too much bubble around them when do this that makes hitting them off the puck hard. So you just gotta hope he messes up.
Mitch Marner skates backwards into the zone when he has the puck?
I’ve watched this before so I’m not going to watch it again, I almost puked last time I watched it. These are the supposedly elite players.
Players keeping the puck with NO counter to is is unrealistic!
The video i posted was from yesterday.
Good clip btw. Dude should have been knocked off the puck.
I noticed a lot of far side garbage going in. But I know what you mean about the blocker side. Seems like the goalie gives way too much blocker side now.
https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/epicxowned/video/68489585
That was from today. No screen in front. Complete miss.