Thoughts about a "Brace for Impact" button while accustomed the puck? You are attainable to massive hits while accustomed the puck, but your abandoned advantage is to contrivance them or achievement for the best. Anyone who has played hockey knows that you allegation to accumulate your arch up buy NHL 19 Coins. The point of befitting your arch up is not so that you can try and skate about anyone that's lining you up (Crosby style).

The point is that you can be attainable to crop the hit, or even bead a acquire and bear your own hit (Ovechkin style). My admired affair to watch is if anyone tries to band up Ovechkin and he steamrolls them while advancement ascendancy of the puck.

I noticed this while arena one's and three's, breadth hits are aerial everywhere. If two players are skating appear a bogie in the bend and get there at the aforementioned time, but both try to hit eachother instead of go for the puck, the amateur that "accidentally" grabs the bogie is traveling to get laid out.

We should be able to grab a bogie and "Brace for Impact", acquisitive that our amateur has what it takes to break on their feet. Agnate to the "Protect Puck" button, your amateur would crop their focus abroad from stickhandling, the bogie would coast in the endure administration that it was traveling (uncontrolled by the player), and the amateur would adapt to be hit.

If your amateur is an apache type, they would adapt to bear their own hit. If anyone hits you while you're anchored for impact, the hit would be abundant beneath able (depending on amateur admeasurement and stats). I anticipate this would change how the bold is played and the bold would crop a huge footfall in realism.

In a agnate vein, I wish something like the Jostling artisan from FIFA. Breadth 2 players are skating for a lose puck. A way to appoint physically for physique accession with the added amateur in an advance to win advantage above-mentioned to acrimonious up the puck.

Right now you're at the benevolence of the physique you pick. But I will say if you get the bogie with a little time you can bend your aback adjoin the amateur to brace for contact. Your physique + the hitters build+ acceleration play factors, but I acquire apparent some "rolling off" hits as able-bodied as gotten in actuality destroyed(but kept the bogie under/in foreground of me.) Abnormally in ones.

But you're right, there's so abounding little nuances in complete hockey that aren't or difficult to represent in EA NHL.

The hitting arrangement is in actuality great. You in actuality allegation to band up a acceptable hit to put anyone down. If its not a complete hit, sometimes you can animation off and accumulate the puck. My botheration is that it's all on the hitter to band it up right.

The abandoned affair the bogie carrier can do is contrivance it completely, or contrivance abundant to achieve it an amiss hit that they can hopefully animation off of. If I play a best height/weight apache and skate abounding acceleration in a beeline line, the aboriginal attainable height/weight amateur will lay me out if they skate the adverse way on that aforementioned beeline line. They annual for admeasurement and accomplishment differences in the hitting system, but we allegation added options as a bogie carrier.