[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by ianlast

I feel like the biggest problem is that you (and the CPU) aren't really forced to do much to trigger penalties. Spamming the poke check button used to mean tripping calls, but they seem to have done away with that. Body checking infractions are rarely called. Hooking and slashing only seems to be called when you press stick lift from behind the player. Holding only gets called if you pin against the boards for too long. It's really a problem in all EA Sports games. I wouldn't mind seeing some canned penalty/foul animations being triggered through some combination of player ratings and context, but perhaps I'm in the minority there.

But the thing though is that before NHL12, this wasn't even a problem, it suddenly became a problem in NHL12 and has still happened in 13 and 14 and EA just ignores it as if hockey rarely has penalties or something