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I'm not sure if I'm a fan of this or not... I think it's great that we at least try to see how the game feels without these abilities. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I love to see Truculence banned tbh because it will (probably) make the gameplay experience much more enjoyable for the skaters. Big Tipper is just a mess and you can still score on deflections so that's fine for me. Close Quarters - I don't think that it should be banned after NHL 23 because when you are close to the net I think it should be tougher as a goalie to stop pucks - Just as in real life. But I voted for it to be banned to see what the game would look like without it. (Sorry) Unstoppable Force - It was good to ban it to create a balance with banning Truculence. Ban goalie abilities? I don't mind. I still use the same stance/abilities and I'm not even sure if it helps me or not. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Moving forward - I understand that a poll is an easy thing to begin with taking a step to ban abilities but I would suggest to the release of NHL 24 that SportsGamer create a group for Elite/Pro (also a group with the Lite and lower divisions) representives from each team to evaluate eHSM/SCL/ECL. To create a fair view of how it feels as a player and work together to be onboard with directions of where we are heading into the future. With that being said - Good luck to everyone participating in eHSM, SCL and ECL!

Thats actually not true... You have to have different kind of ability to make different kind of desperation save animation... If u dont have contortionist perk added you cant make for example behind the back save animation or jumping on your side save animation , also you have to use your right stick to make those saves... So you want goalies to be just standing still casually moving left right and to the butterfly stance. Also you have to use points to actually have enough speed to get to those saves. If you ban abilities why do even bother to play as a goalie when everything is just moving left to right , without any chance to make different kind of saves , we arent just bot's u know

WHAT I FEEL ABOUT BANNING ABILITIES First of all i have to say that my opinions comes fully from goalie perspective. Ok lets start with the easy question , did all/some abilities need to be banned? My opinion to that question is yes. CQ , Tru , BT , and UF are way too OP in this game. As a goalie , specially BT is absolutely unfair towards goalie , and also CQ is unfair in my opinion. Banning these abilities hopefully take away some of the "meta" builds , and forces teams to make builds suitable to their own playstyle. So what about goalie abilities , should they be banned also? When i think about it , i think only banned ability should be the tipper. Goalies are really underrated as making different builds already , only 3 starting builds , and to be honest , maybe only 4-5 abilities what we use. Nobody uses any kind of skating abilities or stamina boost abilities ,or if someone do , they are in like 10% out of 90. If they ban Goalie abilities , it takes big slice out from the goalie builds. So what about the effect of banning abilities? My opinion is that banning these abilities will change the game positively. If you want to tackle or bumb you need to put points in to the strength and tackles , with cost of something else , if you want to snipe , you need to put the points to accuracy and shooting strength... Are goalies going to be OP without the BT and CQ? I think not. Actually i hope they are going to be much more balanced now. If you are below average goalkeeper against good puck moving team , i think it wont make difference if u have abilities on or not , they will find the way to score. Two good teams against eachother ---> games will be much more interesting to watch when you actually see that it wont be so easy to score with CQ , or BT. There will be allways bounces , but i think this well decrease those bouncybounce goals. Hopefully this will raise some conversation , without any hate or etc. Put some thoughts , but dont judge without playing with these rules !