very different from demo, extra gameplay changes are more noticeable.
1. Retaliation penalties, if your checked to the ground-players may swing sticks on the ground and get tripping etc.
2. Be careful with goalie control....They have more movement and crappy passing. I scored twice on my own net in the first 5 mins of my first game. But not since.
3. Passing is right on. The nailed it this year.
4. In HUT I did not realize how much of a pain it could be to keep a full active roster. When guys have 4-6 contract games-they may expire mid tournament or something. You then need to edit lines, or evern back out to the store to buy some players with your PUCKS. This CAN be annoying at times becuase all line changes are manual. There is no "best lines" or Autofill in HUT.
5. Trading and such in HUT looks well done, there are tons of cards on the block now...Courtesy of "EALOADTEST". I guess they are testing servers, which tells me we should see a reset in a few days. You can browse or do specific searches based on card type, leauge, position, etc.