[bigwill33]

Also, if you aren’t sure it’s occurring, watch your players as they are at full energy and skating a straight line with speed burst held down through the neutral zone. When the algorithms are at work you will literally see a chugging slowdown of the players who are getting ice tilted against them. Their legs will be churning and their player will literally slug their way through the zone while carrying the puck.

And all of the what we call “ticking”. Where you constantly jar the puck loose from a puck carrier, only for the to instantly regain it. It makes the stick ticking noise. Or hitting someone with a super check, only to have the puck instantly shoot to their other players. Better than a tape-to-tape pass would work.

This is how you end up seeing all of the dominant stats for one team, shots, zone time, face off percentage, hits, passing percentage, but then see that team lose. Nothing like having someone step foot into the zone, panic and throw a wrister on net at 42 mph and have it roll in on your goalie. They’ll score 3 goals on 5 pathetic shots. Meanwhile you’re setting up power plays like the ‘84 Oilers and cannot concert cause your shots are going all over and when you do connect the goalie is super human.