he could never play like himself in this game, he'd give up 30 goals a game hehe. Thomas is all about angles and coming out to challenge to cut down on any potentiol target for the shooter.
As we all know with this skating engine (and AI defense), players would just be going right around him and lay it in for an easy goal every time. heck, they do that to goalies that don't come out of the gaol. like the poster mentioned in the goalie thread, playing angles in this game is almost meaningless for goalies.. goalies REALLY need to be redone from scratch, of course the skating/passing/shooting gameplay would need to be dirtied up and sloppier to match up with more realistic goalies..