u/Exotic_Telephone_941

Someone comes in turns there back and you can’t poke check them because it’s removed and they can just glitch goal all day.

Stick checking is removed and poke checking is removed.

Esports runs gaming they complain to the developers to remove things they don’t like and since poke checking countered all of their exploits they told the devs to remove it.

It’s similar to ninja asking for things to be removed in Fortnite telling the developers to make a private NDA discord telling them to remove all the things he doesn’t like.

Poke checking is what the sport is about in real life but because we live in an esport world these e sport players can complain to the devs to remove the most basic things from the game that are at the heart of the sport. It was a drastic drop off from nhl25 to the point where poke checking is completely removed so the players can do their esport exploits without a counter.

Esports accounts for 0.001% of the player base but always get in the ear of the developers to make the game not about fun or about the sport in general but what helps them do more exploit goals.

NHL25 has poke checking that balanced out the game. It was real hockey poke checking wise. NHL26 has zero poke checking and is tailored to fake hockey and “esports”.

If this is a hockey game why haven’t they added poke checking back into the game.

Whose idea also was it to remove poke checking from a hockey game and what esports players advocated for it? Why does esports have any influence on a dead game in the first place?