I totally get why people want to ban Truculence. But what I find ironic is that some of the same people who scream for this to be banned, have no problrm running around with "Unstoppable", exploiting a clearly broken game mechanic to reverse hit anyone even close - straight into oblivion.
In NHL26, all tools for defencemen have been radically nerfed, so what are we supposed to do?
Poke-checking is a joke. You can literally have your stick go straight through the puck without disrupting it, despite having high stats in poke-checking. Lifting the stick is even more broken, regardless if you are in a perfect position or not. It's totally random.
And even if you have 90 defensive awareness AND quick pick ability, passes more often than not go straight through you despite being in the passing lane. I even see saucer passes go right through me when facing opponent from 10-15 metres away. Laying down or kneeling also only works half the time.
As if the defensive part of a defenceman's job isn't ruined enough, they managed to ruin the one-timers from the blue line too. And you could argue that my shooting is bad, which would be totally fair. But everyone I talk to and watching high-end defencemen in the game, they also struggle mightily with getting clean shots off.
This game is just becoming forward's soft dream more and more every version.
Like a friend of mine said: "This game is made for forwards".
I never use Truc, but if forwards have all these tools, we at least deserve one. Allow the golden Truc.
That's my take, unless they patch this abortion of a game and make the defensive tools more effective.
/ whiny defenceman