NHL 10 Blog: EASHL Championships - Purple Cobraz vs The Regulators w/ Lots of Videos

[TeamLogo]

Things that would be nice to see next year:

hitting
forechecking/defensemen handling the puck
an organized crash, not dumps against numbers
more defensive alignments aside from 0-0-5
slap shots people fear enough to come out and defend against
a wrist shot saved
people not diving against wrist shots

The Regulators forwards looked overaggressive a lot of the time while the Cobraz mechanically surrounded the puck carrier. This wasn't a pretty match up.

[tgalv]

lack of a forecheck is a major problem in the game. the good teams realize that unless you're right on top of the puck initially, forechecking is pointless barring a dumb mistake by a defenseman.

strange coincidence that the only 2 periods they didn't post videos for were the periods where 60% of the goals in the series were scored.

[VeryEvilAsh]

I've noticed more and more that if there is an human controlled goalie the quick shot against the post is a "go to" goal for glitchers. For some reason the goalie (even hugging the post) can't seem to stop the puck. It kinda goes right through the pads.

[swirvin]

that was some UGLY hockey if i ever saw it.


i skipped '09 but if that is the level of online play, someone sign me quick to their team, i will destroy that, lol

[tgalv]

no you wouldn't. good team defense makes the game look ugly, although i thought both teams didn't shoot the puck enough. plus i'm not convinced the nhl regs would have even been a top100 team on the xbox.

[VeryEvilAsh]

Tgalv is right. One thing both of these teams did was play really good D. It seemed there were hardly any good shot opportunities.

[kerosene31]

Quote: Originally Posted by centauris

lol how would they fix that?

Easily by eliminating the cheese goals (cross crease and side net cheese).

[kerosene31]

Quote: Originally Posted by tgalv

lack of a forecheck is a major problem in the game. the good teams realize that unless you're right on top of the puck initially, forechecking is pointless barring a dumb mistake by a defenseman. strange coincidence that the only 2 periods they didn't post videos for were the periods where 60% of the goals in the series were scored.

Hopefully with board play in NHL10 the dump and chase works. That team had a tough 5 man formation at the blueline. So many teams in the EASHL did that and it was really tough to get through consistently.