Re: Who did it better, NHL 09 (2008, PS3) vs NHL 23 (2022, PS5)

Part 2:  AI puck management

In NHL 23, Offensive AI players seem content with skating themselves into bad situations with the puck and then doing nothing once they get there and giving up the puck very easily (and often getting destroyed by hits in the process):

All those were from the beginning of one game, I could have captured many more.

In NHL 09, the Offensive AI often either dumps the puck in, finds a passing option, or goes off the glass and out when he has no good options with the puck and feels pressured:

Maybe not perfect, but all better options than skating with blinders on into a pokecheck or a big hit.  And these "imperfect" plays with dump ins, pucks off the glass result in more loose pucks and less robotic, structured play, like hockey. not the Harlem Globetrotters on ice like EA wants for NHL 23. 

Again, this is NHL 09 (2008, PS3)  compared to NHL 23 (2022, PS5).  According to a website I just looked up, the PS5 is THIRTY times more powerful than the PS3, and we have WORSE AI (in many ways) on the hockey game on PS5.