![]() Now, losing the puck causes you to think about the positioning of your defensemen and how you can protect your own goalie. ![]() When you didn’t have the puck, you were often simply thinking about how to get the puck back so you could get back to taking potshots at the keeper. Previous titles have felt as if all the focus has been on offensive play. What this means, on the whole, is that you have to think about what you’re doing. ![]() It isn’t like there aren’t enough offensive approaches and moves that you can’t find a way through. Some may say that the poke check is a shade overpowered this year as a result of the defensive overhaul, but that’s going to be down to the approach of the player. Whether they’re blocking your rasping shot into the top corner with their butt-cheek or artfully flailing their stick out to prevent a dead-eye pass from getting through to your sniper, they’re certainly in the way a lot more than last year. Defending players seem more alert and – powered by the new “Defensive Skill Stick” – can break up play far easier than they could in the past. Even the acts of playing simple passes and taking a shot on goal require more concentration than they did before. Individual battles, such as those between defensemen and a center who is trying to screen the goalie in front of the net, are more pronounced. Matches feel somewhat slower in the main, requiring something of a more tactical approach. With NHL 18, even though the general back-of-the-box improvements are present (and I’ll get to those later), there seems to be something of a shift in the core gameplay.
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