I hate NHL 11. Total piece of @#*&(Q#$ Yet, simply because it's hockey I have this need to play it and can't bring myself to trade it in. I picked this up around last Christmas. Was super excited to have a decent hockey game again. Especially one that got such great reviews. Played a bit here and there over the year, but only now, after having been playing the Be A GM mode consistently (against the computer) and constantly fiddling with the gameplay settings have I discovered that this game absolutely blows. I can pretty much guarantee anyone that feels otherwise spends most of their time playing online against real people. Or are content to play on lower difficulty settings. The passing is just horrendous, A.I. teammates are morons, or how it's nigh impossible for the A.I. opponents to lose control of the puck despite getting knocked to the ground or having the puck poked away. Teammates will bunch up in clusters or randomly change directions instead of moving into position to set up a play and they simply will not pursue the puck - and when they do it's along with the player your controlling and the rest of your team, leaving the opposition completely open. Opponents will intercept at will yet your teammates will just watch the puck glide by. How the hell did this get the go ahead and how the hell did it get such good reviews?! Even after countless hours of micromanaging the game settings its impossible to get a reasonable game out of this. And by reasonable I mean one where the puck isn't passed directly to the opposition I effing hate this game. My wife hates this game because I turn into a raging cursing megaphone. I'm sure my neighbors hate this game as well.