This video guide is designed for users using skill stick controls.

This is the guide I’ve been waiting for someone to make for years now. Thank you!! Now... can you just take it down so nobody else but me has this info? Lol

This vid is extremely well-made. Simple, effective and easy to follow. Thank you so much for all the work you've put into it. Subscribed.

Very well done video. I will be watching all your nhl videos in my quest to be a better player. Thanks for this!

Helped me beat that challenge for the monthly collectible, thank u!

I’ve always struggled w faceoffs, this helped a lot

Thank you. I much appreciate this. Explains why I'm only winning 9 face offs, and they have 50 something. This will help

Just what I needed. Thanks bro 😎

Oh my god thank you so much for making this so simple.

Cheers Naveed, that chart made all the difference. Went from 47% to 56.2% in 2 weeks. Killing it!!

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

Ayyy congrats

@joelstromberg2392

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol hah! I still suck though lol

@joelstromberg2392

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol all solved, but for a game I just played. How do you combat an opponent that doesn't go to forehand or backhand? He never did a tie up or anything, just won the puck straight back, some even looked like a backhand win. Won only 9 of 23 against that

amazing video. thanks

Thank you so much for the tips it works

Awesome!

very good channel. It is the second nhl that I play and this channel helps me a lot

Thanks👍

I play Center a lot in WOC. Humans are pretty easy to win against if you just pay attention to how they play. As for a CPU opponent I find that the backhand works a lot against them most of the time. Forehand in the my teams defensive zone. I have no luck with tie ups against CPUs though. I can't figure out how a CPU wins a face off to the wingers. Any idea how they do it?

Great video dude! Is the forehand tie-up the exact same thing as the backhand tie-up then? For example, do the forehand tie-up and the back-hand tie-up both lose to a backhand stick lift?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes both tie ups are the same

@dfsacematt3906

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol I could be wrong, but doesn’t the forehand tie-up beat a forehand stick lift?

@DrHoodie59

2 жыл бұрын

@@dfsacematt3906 i dont think so, because the stick lift is like the counter for the tie up

Does this also work with hybrid controls?

My teammates are pissed at me because I keep losing faceoffs lmao, thank you

What camera is on the intro segment? Action?

Thanks for the video bro

Why not switching from Basic Backhand to Basic Forehand. I know that Backhand Sticklift have one more win and one less neutral, but the 2 matchups you lose with Basic Forehand are the matchups you win with your Basic Backhand. It gives you more chance to win when you get back to Basic Backhand no ?

BRO, My first great goal was a Faceoff shot goal in nhl 21! NO ONE HAS EVERY DONE THAT, IT WAS IN ONLINE VS TOO BTW! It was a buzzer beater too.

@SmokeUandMaBlunt

3 жыл бұрын

🧢

@NCSnostalgia

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeUandMaBlunt Bro, I have a clip. I could share it to ya to prove

How can you do the faceoff shot?

You deserve more views

@naveedgol

2 жыл бұрын

Thank u 🙏🏼

How to you win the draw to your wingers?

Something is off im doing all of this and i have yet to win a single face off. Just switching to classic i have little patience for mechanics that are annoying rather than challenging.

How do you choose who you pass to off the face off? I try using the left joystick as well and that only works if I try going straight around the opposing center

@felixlantagne2677

2 жыл бұрын

It depends if hes a righty or lefty, but it doesn’t matter because of the forehand back hand

Finally, a guide that isn't all jargon...

Bro, I was playing someone online just now who was not selecting a grip and was beating me every time and I'm not bad in the face-off circle... Any ideas what that might be?

@ithomas7788

2 жыл бұрын

Hybrid or 94 controls

This is my first nhl game and just played my first online game and could not win a face off. How am I suppose to hit x and press the right stick to control my grip?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

This video is designed for users using skill stick controls. If you're using hybrid or '94 controls just press X when the puck drops.

Is there a faceoffs bug since the last update, i was 57,7% out of like 5000 faceoffs in eashl before the update. and now i literally can't win a single faceoff i can even get constantly beat by the faceoff deke.

@bigchris54321

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. According to that chart the F/O Deke should hardly ever win. But it's rampant in EASHL, beating all the basic/lift/tie up counters.

Back when playing NHL 13 all I did was spam flick the stick and pray I got it😭

Basic Forehand beat Basic Backhand, thats why you use Backhand Sticklift against Basic Forehand.

It's like paper rock scissors

It’s like when I play drop in I play vs the legit worst Center but they do one thing the whole game and I legit can’t win. I do not understand how a tie up can counter a basic backhand because when I go to tie them up I legit don’t move at all and I lose the draw. It’s like it doesn’t register what I’m doing

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

Could be a poor connection is messing up the timing

@bfudge18

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol it is. I live in Newfoundland so the lowest possible ping is like 50ms

How did you not get called for offsides in the first clip??

@saggydubey3319

Жыл бұрын

Dude I immediately started searching for this comment. Lol. He must have had it turned off. Wild

I like hokey

Anyone go up against someone who doesnt grip and yet wins 95% faceoff?. I play eashl centre and im a pretty good faceoff guy winning usually arouns 65-75% on the draws. But on 2 occasions in nhl 21 ive gone up against another centre who doesnt grip at all and wins about 95% of the draws. Anyone know how to counter?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

What I think is happening is that the opposing center is using hybrid controls. Hybrid controls allow you to take a faceoff without a grip by simply pressing X on PlayStation or A on Xbox. Not sure why EA made their control scheme give them such an advantage.

@daluz1310

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol yes hybrid and 94 controls require just a button, found this out after some research. These controls give them such a major advantage on the draws

@ofmannotmachine3012

3 жыл бұрын

That really sucks. Shouldn't be allowed in online play. I've encountered this often

No offsides In the beginning of the video ?? 🤣🤣

Does size matter on draws?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

I don't believe so.

@crackerjackrappr

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol Yeah someone brought it up and it makes sense but I've been killing it with a small guy. I was having a bad night and came to see if I was just dumb or what. I will say the counter for the basic backhand is not the stick lifts. Idk about for you but I've never won it with stick lift. I either win with basic forehand or forehand push. Some games it seems like they'll let a guy go backhand all game and win every draw though.

How do you beat the tie up? The computer just makes me lose 50% of my face off by doing that unbeatable bullshit, my team is too derpy to get it a single time

@frenchk4nuck

2 жыл бұрын

Both sticklift if im right

You know what bro all these questions can be answered by going a Christian Peca's Channel. Best Sports KZreadr in the game Ea hockey's anyway.

Does anyone know how to shoot off the faceoff?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

2:16

@jordo480

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgolthanks hopefully it helps at the end of my games!

Man I can’t win face offs at all compared to 20. It seems you have to set yourself otherwise you don’t have a chance. In 20 you didn’t have to. You could just pull the sticks on puck drop in 20. 🤔

Uhmmm how wasn’t the offsides right in that first clip?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

Correct

Why is this so complicated

Bro I’ve beaten every from soft game many times over. This game is so Fucking hard to me lol wtf Hockey.

00:15 so you like playing with offside off eh?

@naveedgol

2 жыл бұрын

Eh

So none of that works against computer?

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just unclear how the game decides who wins when facing off against the AI. The grip and action controls are the same though.

@jordo480

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol ok thanks

Oh..so don’t mash the x button.. 👌

Lol first clip offsides off???

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

Lol yup good eye

I’m so bad at this

no offsides wtf that threw me off

This is how you win face offs in NHL 21......you don't

Bullshit i lose every time vs people who dont even go down in a grip

This doesn’t work they nerf it completely it’s nearly impossible to win this game sucks

Faceoffs are bullshit in this game

How did you discover this? Was it trial and error with a friend? Im just curious. @naveedgol

@naveedgol

3 жыл бұрын

I think the old games had a tutorial that broke it down. Also from in game experience

@stlbluesfan1967

3 жыл бұрын

@@naveedgol Thanks man