NHL 14 Available Now - Post Your Impressions Here

[bad_philanthropy]

First pre-season game St. Louis takes back to back 5:00 charging penalties. Scored 4 PP goals in that span. Felt good.

[jyoung]

Death comes for us all, Twigs 69, but something much worse comes for you.

For when you die, it will be...

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...without honor.

[CanuckJ]

I was at the flames habs game last night, saw at least 5 promos on the big screen. The Calgary Flames 3rd Jersey will be unveiled October 27th.

[havoc00]

did they put a update for the icing? being no touch now?

[Money99]

Just had another enjoyable Play Now game as the Panthers against the Lightning for the battle of Florida.

I ended up winning 6-3.
I don't know if the tuner has anything to do with what I saw today. I don't play a lot (maybe 3 or 4 games a week), but the Lightning got called for a lot of interference and slashing penalties.
I went 2-for-5 on the PP, while the Lightning went 1-2 on theres.

It was a very enjoyable game and I've really noticed a big difference between premier netminders. Lindback let in a lot of soft ones. Especially from the side of the net.

Barkov was cool to control and Huberdeau was threading needles all game.

Every game feels different and I love how a player like Duchesne feels compared to a Mathias.

[shogunofharlem3]

I've enjoyed this game so far. Really disliked 13, not sure what it is about 14 but I am really enjoying it.

Few minor things wearing me out like the cpu pinning me when I'm skating full speed behind the net and they can stop me dead nuts but I seem to bumble behind them trying to pin them.

I just played a Be a GM Game. I use the Bruins and when my Thornton line came out I decided to try to work the corners.....+2 for those guys tonight! I do think the tuner helped as I used to play the same with them as I would with Bergeron and be fine. Big difference betweek Rask and Khudobin too.

Like I said, few irksome things, one big one is that whenever I put Chara on the RW on the Powerplay, once the puck drops he skates out of the zone to the bench and keeps skating into it. Wears me out.

Too easy to hit open nets when goalie gets pulled.

All in all, played a lot, really enjoying it. Looking forward to playing later on in my Be a GM.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by shogunofharlem3

Few minor things wearing me out like the cpu pinning me when I'm skating full speed behind the net and they can stop me dead nuts but I seem to bumble behind them trying to pin them.

That's bothered me since they introduced pinning in this game.
I've gotten frustrated going into the corner with speed, have the angle on the defender, and I get sucked into a pin animation.

I've learned to live with it, but for next-gen, I really hope they make this more realistic.

[shogunofharlem3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

That's bothered me since they introduced pinning in this game. I've gotten frustrated going into the corner with speed, have the angle on the defender, and I get sucked into a pin animation. I've learned to live with it, but for next-gen, I really hope they make this more realistic.

I agree. I figured out that holding puck protect "A" on 360 sometimes helps you slide by without being pinned. But I rarely think of it when I'm at Mach 3 taking the corner and the dman is flat-footed.......but he gets me. "A" helps though.

All in all, enjoying myself. I put broken sticks way up to add variety to the game......very stressful when you're facing Ovi and your stick breaks on a clearing attempt in the dzone. Now we're talking.

Just happened last game. Chara clearing attempt on the PK, broke his stick, Seguin gives him his but not for about 5 stressful seconds, but they have possession and the top of my pk box stickless.............FUN (we did kill thanks to Khudobin's big save.....oh ya, like the assistant coach playing my backup because I never think of it)