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Quote: Originally Posted by StormJH1

In FIFA, there isn't a "steal" or "poke check button", it's an "apply pressure" button that you hold down to engage the guy with the ball. In NHL, I feel like you're still penalized for using the poke check as opposed to trying to cream guys with checks. I'm not overly agressive with the poke check, but still take probably 4 penalties or more per game tripping guys, even from face-to-face angles. If I can't even try to knock the puck away without risking a penalty, what am I actually doing on defense?

This is one thing from FIFA I hope never gets into NHL. The "apply pressure" method that automatically locks the user defender onto the attacker is not a good thing IMO. It allows people to tackle without respect to proper positioning, momentum, and timing. I was happy to see them make it more of a standing tackle button this year, as now we can at least see some poorly timing standing challenges (which cause a large % of fouls in real soccer). I think FIFA needs to scrap the whole thing and rely on the user properly executing a standing tackle.

Now the apply pressure/2nd defender command I can see a better argument for, but I have my previously stated concerns about that as well -- the AI won't do anything unless you tell them to -- but it's a good concept.