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MaddenGAF's EASHL Thread: What's a Little Frost Among Friends?
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you'll probably be yelling back at me
Please tell me you won at least.
Nope.
I dont feel bad about it though cause we outplayed them by a decent margin in those OT periods. They just got lucky and got one to go in.
Yep. We outplayed them definitely.
Now this is going to sound silly coming from me, but we definitely need to work on passing on the offensive end. I need to work on passing in general (but it really hasn't been as bad as last year so far) but when we get on their end, we rarely pass the puck across or anything. I noticed that all of the teams we played today did that on the regular.
Now this is going to sound silly coming from me, but we definitely need to work on passing on the offensive end. I need to work on passing in general (but it really hasn't been as bad as last year so far) but when we get on their end, we rarely pass the puck across or anything. I noticed that all of the teams we played today did that on the regular.
This is part of what I was referring to in my earlier post. I'm not sure how many of you are hockey fans or watch a lot of hockey, but breakaways aren't quite as common IRL as they are in the video game. More often than not, to enter the offensive zone a team will do one of two things:
1. Dump and chase
2. Carry the puck in with teammates waiting on the blue line to follow (the puck of course must enter first otherwise it's offsides)
Once possession in the offensive zone is established, it's important to create passing opportunities and take advantage of all of the space on the ice. Defensemen stay on the blue line at all times, unless during the cycling of the puck they can join in for a scrum on the boards while a center or winger slides over to cover their spot. Worst case scenario at least 1 person ALWAYS has to be at the blue line ready to skate backwards to cover an attacker leaving the zone with the puck or trying to dump it out of their zone.
Once we get good at cycling the puck and positioning ourselves, things like this will happen regularly for us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96unXLe44U
It's one of the first attributes in the "athletic/physical" section when you spend your points. I believe it's strength or balance. The help menu in NHL actually tells you what the stats do... I wish NFL adopted that.
Alright I'll take a look later.
BTW, here's our club page: http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/clubs/NHL14XBX/1088/overview
Half the stats in NHL don't do anything. Balance is one of them.
Really? It seemed like they did last year. I guess not.
dota tourny?
But what if you end up in a 4 OT game? lol
Then I enjoy the ride and eventual let down.
I will be on at some point. Tomorrow morning/early afternoon as well.
yeah it felt good to dominate and basically shut everyone out
http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/170914240
we're in division 7 now getting closer to mediocre!!
we're in division 7 now getting closer to mediocre!!
It really is. There's zero balance to the game now. Defensive players are at an amazing disadvantage because none of the defensive tools work anymore (poke check, pass interceptions) and the skating engine was tuned to allow figure skaters to run the show again. Nerfing goalies brought back several cheese goals from previous years again too.
The demo played fine. I'm not sure what the hell happened between then and release but this game needs a huge set of tuners released in a hurry.