McLurking
Registered User
Corey Crawford seriously needs to be upgraded. I remember back in 2012 in my NHL 12 League the Blackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup Final, Crawford was SO AWFUL in that series he gave up some of easiest goals I'd ever seen a goalie give up deep in the playoffs. Hawks literally couldn't keep a lead that series because Crawford would give up a cheap deflating goal EVERYTIME. I mean dude has looked like a peewee junior hockey goalie in previous EA NHL games.
His technical ability as a goalie was on the level of a backup in NHL 12 and 13. Especially NHL 12 where the ratings seemed to actually matter. I recall seeing pucks go through him repeatedly like swiss cheese, he has this bad habit of leaving space between his arms and his body pucks would go through him every day, he also never got low quick enough and pucks routinely went underneath his pads, he also would make the initial save then not control it and it'd slid behind him, then he also had this habit of clearing the puck right behind his net before any Hawk player could reach the puck off boards before an opposing player. NHL 14 needs to fix Crawford's mechanics because he made rudimentary mistakes that I didn't see guys like Tim Thomas, Jonathan Quick, Pekka Rinne, etc making.
His technical ability as a goalie was on the level of a backup in NHL 12 and 13. Especially NHL 12 where the ratings seemed to actually matter. I recall seeing pucks go through him repeatedly like swiss cheese, he has this bad habit of leaving space between his arms and his body pucks would go through him every day, he also never got low quick enough and pucks routinely went underneath his pads, he also would make the initial save then not control it and it'd slid behind him, then he also had this habit of clearing the puck right behind his net before any Hawk player could reach the puck off boards before an opposing player. NHL 14 needs to fix Crawford's mechanics because he made rudimentary mistakes that I didn't see guys like Tim Thomas, Jonathan Quick, Pekka Rinne, etc making.