NHL 10 Blog: More Gameplay Refinements w/ 3 New Videos

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruffy

Breakouts yes i agree as well. Which the 1st vid showed a bit with the attempt to clear it. ...but I was talking about hard dump ins too....see mostly on the powerplay. You ring one in off the glass from center on one side...it goes hard around so the goalie cant stop it behind the net. Winger on other side hopefully wins race to the puck or pressures the Dman quickly.

Ahh yeah I see what you mean, I agree. Would love to see it as well. Good post Ruffy.

[Eldebrink]

Quote: Originally Posted by sportmats

Well you can have a point there. I know that Pat Jablonski, Manny Fernandez, Jose Theodore and Tim Thomas was very much critisised for making way too many rebounds when they were playing here in Sweden. Thomas had a GAA of 2.48 and 91,7 in saving percentage when playing here and he would have much better stats if he wasnt letting so much rebounds instead of catching the puck. Even Johan Holmqvist that come back from some years in NHL last season was very much critisised for the way he played with much rebounds that resulted in goal for the opponent teams. It took about 15-20 games before he stopped doing those rebounds and catch the puck instead. Here in Sweden, goalies tries to stop the puck and blocking after a shot to make a faceoff instead of letting a rebound out in the "slot" and if they do makes a rebound they often puts the rebound down the corners, not right out to the slot, that Thomas, Theodore and Fernandez did.

Jesus Christ, sportsmats, who do you think you're fooling? I've been watching Swedish elite hockey games live for a couple of decades and still follow it closely, live and via TV. While I enjoy it a lot and the games often are great, you know perfectly well that there ain't no comparison with NHL games, and that the best goalie in Sweden right now may or may not succeed in the NHL; of course, most don't. They're not good enough. The NHL games are so much faster, so much more goal focused, there are so many many more snipers in those games, the real test for any goalie in Sweden is the NHL: Make it or break it. Please stop trying to paint a picture of Swedish hockey that's simply not true. It's embarrasing to the other hockey fans here. Jesus.

That aside, the vids are great. Thanks EA NHL team for making the effort.

[sportmats]

Quote: Originally Posted by Eldebrink

Jesus Christ, sportsmats, who do you think you're fooling? I've been watching Swedish elite hockey games live for a couple of decades and still follow it closely, live and via TV. While I enjoy it a lot and the games often are great, you know perfectly well that there ain't no comparison with NHL games, and that the best goalie in Sweden right now may or may not succeed in the NHL; of course, most don't. They're not good enough. The NHL games are so much faster, so much more goal focused, there are so many many more snipers in those games, the real test for any goalie in Sweden is the NHL: Make it or break it. Please stop trying to paint a picture of Swedish hockey that's simply not true. It's embarrasing to the other hockey fans here. Jesus. That aside, the vids are great. Thanks EA NHL team for making the effort.

Well if you mostly following Södertälje, you wouldnt know much about hockey will be played. See you in Kvalserien.

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by sportmats

Well if you mostly following Södertälje, you wouldnt know much about hockey will be played. See you in Kvalserien.

LOL this coming from the guy that thinks the swedish league is more important than the actual NHL. You sir are comedy gold.

[Scottdau]

I will say this if the Europeans only played in the Europeans league the NHL would be a hell of a lot weaker. That said we still have Canada.

[Eldebrink]

Quote: Originally Posted by sportmats

Well if you mostly following Södertälje, you wouldnt know much about hockey will be played. See you in Kvalserien.

Do you really think a post like this will elevate you into a believable guy...? That the hockey fans who read this will think: "Oh, Eldebrink's home team hasn't performed well for years, he can't have clue what he's talking about when discussing the game of hockey." I don't know what you're mental age is, but seriously, it is way below the avarage of this forum, so please stop being such an embarrassment to other Swedish hockey fans.

And to not make a bigger fool out of myself in debating with this character, I will not respond to any post by sportsmats ever again on this forum.

(To you other guys: Sorry for the civil war, I mean hijack.)

[sroz39]

I'm very VERY curious to see how all these additions make the EASHL play. True enough, they say that they have fixed all the glitches from last year. That's fine, but only if you were releasing last year's game with an updated roster.

With every new gameplay addition, you open up a potential can of worms aka a glitch. I pray to God it doesn't but it's inevitable. Having played almost exclusively Div 1 in last year's game, I can tell you with every patch to fix a glitch came two new ones. The children (on my team and others) couldn't help themselves. If a glitch allowed them to be better than they actually were, they were all over it. It's sad but a reality of any online game.

I still have hope, however, because alot of the glitches existed because of severely sub-standard goalie A.I. They were exposed over and over again, and to a lesser extent so were the D-men controlled by the A.I. It seems like those were two of the bigger focuses this year so I'm very cautiously optimistic.

As for offline play, this game looks BEAST!