@BoredJason13 Nobody can explain anything hahahha! They will let the devs know and they might look into it in 3-5 years. They only have 9 more months to make more chel clothes for next year's game! What I have found is that typically the offense always has the advantage with puck possesion and you REALLY have to do something on defense to change that. Simply poking often times means your guy plants himself into the ground and if the poke doesn't have the correct amount of power then they just regain possesion and skate past you as you have to start skating again. However, randomly on some passes it does seem the game WANTS to pass it to a defender. I've noticed (I use analog passing still) that when I try to pass to someone (maybe) I'm a TINY bit off in my pass but it seems the pass directs itself straight to a defender and they pick it off clean. It's not often, and seems to happen more in the offensive zone or near the blue line heading into the zone. It's the worst when your guy is in perfect position for the pass heading into the offensive zone and it just targets them on a breakaway. I mean if I missaimed by a foot in the game.. that's what 1/10 of a centimeter on the controller? The game didn't recognize who I intended to pass it to? It seems like they want people to use button passing. Personally I like the analog passing more and to me it helped create the skill gap but it seems EA wants to limit that as much as possible and create artificial parody.