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I agree with this, gameplay without abilities also seems to decrease overall tempo of the game since there is not as much threats😅 Also, one thing I want to mention that I have seen more passes and weak shots straight to logo go in in two days than the whole year combined, no one wants to see those🙄 Lets keep ECL like it was in this winter season when almost no one was complaining about garbage goals for the first time in many years🙏

After practicing few days without abilities, i feel like this is exactly what its doing. So much more boring gameplay imo. +1, For me last seasons ECL had maybe one of the most fun 6s meta ever. No need to change anything

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This new gameplay without abilities is so boring and it makes game so slow atm. Now nearly everyone is just shooting puck from blueline and make force passes like in older versions. Now when there is no fear about onetimers without traits, defending is mainly looking like this...

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The gamplay without traits is so nice! No gold truc for people who can't hit on a regular basis, less Ovechkins on the ice, and less bs close quarters goals, sist men inte minst, less golden stick em up bs aswell. You actually get rewarded for great defense now, haven't enjoyed 6s gameplay in a while, but this is so smooth and nice. Huge W!

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Without Xfactor abilites Fun 👍

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I'm going to give my opinion. First of all, I don't think it will change the difference in skill levels between the players. The only thing it will change is that we won't have a magic Puck-check. Players blowing on us and we're going to lose the puck systematically. But I've done some tests and I'm clearly going to give my opinion. It's crap. It's boring. So yes, those who don't touch a puck are happy, they take fewer one timers from the blue line. But despite that yesterday, that didn't stop the players I was with from scoring between 7-10 goals a game. We've been sold a game with ability. Now, as soon as some of them can't win they call BAN thinking that tomorrow they'll be champions when that will never be the case. We just need to BAN the cheated abilities. The advantage is that with the abilities, at least as soon as we saw the golden one timer we knew we had to defend 100 per cent for backdoor passes. that the players who use brutality in defence should rather play by giving the puck away quickly. Now we want to take everything away and go back to the way we played 10 years ago, it's stupid. I've spent €80 on a game where I'm not allowed to build the way I want to for my style of play... just because there are 10 guys doing nothing but crying. and let's not forget that in every team there's a boosted player in every match. Yesterday I had an ability that allowed me to shoot very accurately and very powerfully when I was pushed at the moment of a shot. I scored 4 goals like that. So tell me what we're doing? We take the goals away from the guys? I say we take away the next best thing: Close quarters Truculence Unstoppable Force Stick Em Up Big tipper

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Yeah, I have to say, after playing quite a few games completely without traits: damn, what an improvement in terms of gameplay! No more unrealistic pokes, no more unrealistic hits... you actually have to make an effort to play proper defense now. Less relying on ability-driven RNG, more relying on proper body- and stick positioning. To me, the game feels a lot better now. Since teams can't line up on the blueline as effectively with the "five-man Stick 'Em-stack" now, the game has opened up as well. Tons of more penalties now as well due to errant pokes, leading to more powerplays and more goals. My team is trying to combat the increase in penalties by adding a "PIM Tax", might be something others want to try as well? 😁

Fair enough I have no Idea what happened in that boxplay tho. I took a 2min break and watched Illusion-Nightbot at Twitch.

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This was far the best decision since NHL game was invented.

Totally agree, lets keep big tipper banned and others like allowed. Tipper is only factor what is really breaking gameplay. Last ECL was good and fun so there shouldn't be any need for changes

I have played the game since the first iteration of EASHL in NHL 09, and I can honestly say the EASHL side of things, gameplay wise, is the best it has been in a long time. I would even go as far as saying it's the best it has been in the PS4/PS5 era. We have finally moved away from the god awful pakota vaan (force) meta, and can score from plays farther out from the net. When someone scores a golden one-tee goal against us, I feel like we have made a mistake in our coverage, as opposed to a forced pass getting through in front of the net, which can go through even if it's "covered". I think teams should be punished for breakdowns in coverage and the game feels rewarding both offensively and defensively that way. Obviously I have dropped down divisions this year, moved to the wing and use golden 1T, so my opinion might be a bit biased, but I've played with and against Elite teams enough in this version as well to confidently say the meta is way better than it used to be. I am 100% in favor of leaving things as they are with only Big Tipper being banned. I fear an XF ban would move the meta back towards forcing, net scrambles and broken plays in front of the net, which is both boring to play and boring to watch. Even with sniper builds on wings. EDIT: Another thing to note is having to cover the 1T/CQ makes the defence more active and opens up space in other areas of the ice, as teams can't just collapse to the slot and play passively on defence.

these results from the vote shows it all. imo this is the best nhl since 2020 if you think only chel so why would change something what is working.

I asked from 6s draft channel what people think about ability bans and here are results.