This game is not worth smashing controllers, don’t get mad at a game that’s not perfect my dude, this is by far one of the most frustrating nhl games I have ever played.. too many glitches, phantom penalty’s, own goals do to not being able to pick up the puck. I’ve been playing since the sega days…. You will lose games that you deserve to win! Good lucky and have fun

@@clownconyo8126 it’s been maddening lmao, the amount of Times the puck has sat on my goal line and my goalies blocked by the invis wall is ridiculous, only for 3 min game time to go by and your goalie finally touches it knocking it into your net 😂😩😩😩 nhl 23 will be a new year lmao

@@mystritzii4495 it’s a new year but don’t think that the game will get any better lol setting yourself up

@@clownconyo8126 nah it’s ea, definitely won’t improve by much if at all. Just some hopeful thinking is all 😅🤣

The main thing that good players are looking for is behind the net wraparround goal. And if you chase they will go for one timer.

Maybe adjust your ping settings? I have mine at 40 ms and I find games hella fast in alberta Canada. Hut Champs could be because everyone already played there games...

Skill and speed is the name of the game in hockey lots of pokechecking. Hitting is non-existent. Speed is everything because they want to get back on defense.

yeah right , buy more packs dude

Vision control is made to turn body when you have the puck that you control

Yeah. My smith is way better than my gibson.

83 Merzlikens was a demon for me

Yes they are really annoying with this daily challenges. Like buy item from market. Why???? I dont want to buy, why EA is forcing. OR play boring hut rush game or the worst one is play totally useless challenge for 200 coins.

@@uroskuzmanovic3317 and those freaking games where you need to score only 1 goal? But spend twice as much time in the menus getting ready? Stupid! I also don’t understand why they did not allow us to receive our leftover coins we earned from NHL 21.. it doesn’t cost EA a cent!

@@uroskuzmanovic3317 yea, they have that objective every year. I think it's to artificially stimulate the market.

@@mattyork7625 it also seems that their goal is to force us to access three to four areas of the game and spend at least two hours a day playing their game for little reward!

I think so assuming you have a decent team already and can be patient with buying the players off the auction house at good/fair prices. Don't bother with the prices of the set players that are price locked unless you can snipe them for a reasonable price.

Don't like that strategy in my opinion. I rather do full forecheck (2 guys getting after puck carrier in offensive zone) the puck is your best friend must find way to score goals. Not having puck can lead to opponents wasting time for top and increased penalties because you are going to be impatient.

I try not to chase with my D in my own zone. I use the centre or winger. This means, if the defensemens D awareness is high enough, they should be in a position to stop those cross crease passes. You also have to look at their abilities, some have better def abilities than others. Always try to use defencemen who are defensive over guys who are offensive defencemen. Also set the strategy to protect the net/collapsing. That should keep the D in better spots. But the real key is not to run around in your zone with the D men at all. Unlike what the video poster says, its not a good idea. So let the A.I control you D when you don't have control in your zone. So if the puck is in your corner, let the ai def chase it and park your center or winger in front of you net to intercept the pass. The poke check will also deflect passes and shots so spam that too when the pass is going cross crease. I've saved tons of goals by doing that and timing the lay down/block pass.. I've watched my brother play this game, he's not bad at it but he always takes control of his D men and he ends up giving up a ton of cross crease goals like that because he is way out of position. Since I've told him what I tried telling you here, he isn't losing by 5 goals online anymore. The games are much closer. My personal problem with this game is I can't seem to protect the puck and have a hard time getting time on attack. It seems most guys I play have perfect poke checking and I can't seem to knock them off the puck or pick up lose pucks. I don't know what Im doing wrong. Even breaking out of my zone, I tend to lose the puck constantly at their blue line. I just can't seem to out skate them or get by their D very easy, yet I see guys doing some weird toe drag moves and burning my D all the time. But for some reason I can't do it back to them. It almost like if they come near my pick carrier, they pick the puck off with ease or bump him off it easy. Yet when I do it, I can't even knock the puck off them after hitting them or if I do, they somehow pick up the puck right away and keep going with it. It drives me crazy.. I absolutely hate the poke check spam in human games.. It way too overpowered

Use zone you see the net better for better look at accuracy

@@steveho7366 thank you

Dude as I was doing it, I was like I wonder if there is any eashl boys out there that would be rattled by the colours. Damn, I knew I should haha

Yea man. I had the same problem. Sleeves method here works infinitely better. I always defended with the defensive skill stick and closed the gap but simply just poking works a million times better.

@@mattyork7625 yep exactly, I've been playing much better since this vid

@@dylandavies3634 takes a little bit of rewiring eh? Playing like this in the last 3 games or so would put you in the penalty box the entire game.

If you want buttons and stick skills use hybrid, skill stick is used if you want realism. Nhl 94 should be used if you like simple controls. But practice makes perfect, use skill stick for all dekes. Hit the practice gym in nhl 21 on the ice and go to training, you will receive results, it's the same concept controls as nhl 22, guaranteed. Better idea if you have ea play nhl 21 is at the vault download that it's free no money needed. Controls are the same for nhl 22 as last year.

I'm free to play and ranked good on ps4. You just need all the time to play and grind if your f2p

It's very hard to be f2p, but rarely have success with few players here. If you prefer to have a hard hitting lineup, then f2p is for you because high priced players are skill and speed, especially Connor mcjesus (oh my mcjesus!)