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Cheese goals have been as common in hockey games as fighting has. What is a cheese goal you ask? Well it's basically a play that players will use to score goals on a very common basis that are a slight glitch in the game. For example going to spot knowing good and well the goalie will dive out of position. Here are a few common cheese goals that I have experienced while playing online.
1) The most common cheese goal in NHL 09 for the PS3 is when the offensive player will skate across your blue line, cut across the middle and do a brief stick handling move and shoot to the opposite corner of the goal. So if the player comes down the left side of the ice he'll cut across the ice to the right and then with the goalie hinting toward that side, the shooter will put one in the far left corner of the goal. This is one of the most frustrating goals because it is used so often with such a high success rate. The only real way to defend it is to keep a defense men back and have them take away the center part of the ice. Make sure to be close to the blue line and watch for the player to come in, cut off the angle and their shot is snubbed.
2) The next cheese goal and one that isn't used as often as the shot above is the shot that gets the goalie to dive across the crease and the puck can then be put in top shelf. This is done by the shooter skating in, often times on a computer defense, and juking to the outside of the defense, then moving in the side of the net. The goalie many times will dive down thinking the shooter is coming across the crease, but instead the player shoots and puts it right over the goalie.
