Congrats to EA Sports for having absolutely no competition and releasing yet another annual hockey game that plays very little like actual hockey.

Gotta love that the goal variety. /s

99% of these goals: Dangle, dangle, never pass, wait for ai teammate to get into position, pass, one timer, goal. Whatever these guys are playing, it isnt remotely anything like real hockey. EA is to blame aswell because they have no competition. The only reason people still buy this game is probably because it has the official player names, teams and photos. EA said they stopped making the PC version back in the day because of reduced sales - yeah well, what do you think it does to PC sales when you put the next gen version on console only on purpose? I used to be a diehard NHL fan on PC (since NHL96 - i bought NHL 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), i even bought a few console versions 10-15 years ago. After that i quit on the NHL franchise. EA hasnt done anything innovative or interesting with the NHL game franchise all these years. Let alone make a PC version. And they get away with it because people keep buying it. Ive given up hope on playing a decent NHL game on PC. And if this video, what im seeing here, is the creme de la creme in terms of World Championship skill and quality and NHL play on the highest level, i think ive made a good decision on not buying any EA NHL game all these years and wont for the foreseeable future. A shame, but such is life.

Really gotta work on the cpu AI. So many wide open one timers.

im glad I made my presence at 2:50 inviting him to a party ahah

I like that the commentary is there trying to lift the game up between competitors. The AI is absolutely god awful to watch. Watching the games play out you could see the goals before they happened, just had to watch for the AI controlled character on their own. I'd say it's a shame but it is more than a shame it's a joke that EA still releases the same game each year with a couple of new buzz words thrown out to act as if it is a change. The best thing the NHL can do is to can this exclusive agreement with EA and open it up to others being able to make the game. They have zero competition at this point so they can just phone it in every single year.

Just sweaty goals.

What is the grand prize? $100,000 worth of HUT packs….bring back 2k Sports Hockey please…

These matches are pretty cool and I had no idea that these were going on. I have NHL 18-22 on Xbox one and we r huge Predators fans here and we always play offline matches by recreating their season for each video game. Like we will recreate the 2017-18 season with NHL 18 and play every game for that season, which goalie was used in the game and what uniform (alternate or reverse retro jersey) they wore. It’s pretty fun.

Ovie in the intro! Let's go! 💥 👍

You take cross crease goals out of the picture that jos kid doesn’t score a single goal lol

33:54 he did a perfectly good poke check and it didnt even work

Sign my petition to rename esports the "Virgin Olympics"

This should be 6v6 eashl not pay to win hut. So lame

glitch goal.. glitch goal… another glitch goal.. yawn.

Good lord the AI D is horrible

Not seeing much real goals, most are the cheese goals or passes across the net.

Literally says "Finally" before he even passes the puck for the one timer goal. This game is embarassing.

Literally all cross creases

Ill say this, the commentators arent bad

Dudes are crushing water.

EA could make this game so much better. Remove all unnatural moves, like dangling with high speed, between the leg back hand passes that fly like slap shots, the spinning on a dime switching direction with 5 G force etc. That would make the game look, feel and play a LOT more like real hockey. It would also serve to slow the game down A LOT. Introduce more skill when it comes to aim, meaning, no auto aim for passes, or make the auto aim SIGNIFICANTLY reduced. This game has all the chances in the world to actually become good. But instead it looks like a soccer game or basket ball game, where all the players are dressed in Hockey gear.

Out of all the esports games hockey is more interesting over 2K and madden

One question for everyone blaming the game: Would the game really be more fun if it played like „real hockey“?? I mean it isnt real hockey but its fun isnt it?

Use the real teams and not HUT

The majority of these goals are bunk.... Hold LT/L2 skate around, wait for a one tee. They've perfected exploiting EA'S flaws. This game and it's players are a dumpster fire.

Never seen people drink so much water. Must be thirsty

how can these guys call themselves pro but just constantly shoot one-timers

Wow

Finally a sportsnet video featuring premium athletes.

Trying to get a game of CHEL going on PS5 is like cancer

One day we get PC release, one day...

This game is gross. Pure arcade nonsense.

Cmon ea. terrible job on the cpu

The most non looking hockey game a company can make . That skating backwards nonsense has to stop.

This should be 6 on 6 eashl games… Also ea blows. No idea how they call this a well developed product… it’s arcade bs, which nobody wants. A poke check is a poke check…how is the goalie poke check one dimensional? Etc.etc.etc. Shameful.

the one timer meta is mad annoying and repetitive

Dude playing as Dallas complains alot. Doesn't deserve to be there

These guys are terrible I’ve played guys ten times better than this

I'd smoke both these guys 😂 go look me up in leader boards elite 37000rp

43 minutes?!?! No thanks. I have way better things to do than to watch this garbage game, let alone want to play it.