Full Pressure System needs to change...
Let me first start by saying that I loved the idea of the Full Pressure System when it was first introduced. It's a great way to mimic those crowd cheering moments when your team is hemming the opposing team in their own zone and getting line changes while they are stuck exhausted begging for a whistle. That being said however, the functionality of it needs to change if the goal was to experience this type of feeling. The biggest issue I find with it is in HOW the meter is depleted over time. What I saw in 25 was that shots were being fired as soon as you crossed the blue line for the sake of filling the meter and draining the goalie stamina. When you got the puck back and entered their zone, that meter didn't deplete much. In fact, I did a test in game to see just how much is lost below:
Full Pressure issue
You can see that after nearly 30 seconds in their zone, that meter only was reduced by 40% of its total or 2 bars worth, which is just about how much one shot or hit even fills up. There should be no reason this meter doesn't decrease fully after about 5 to maybe 10 seconds out of the zone or just emptied the second you enter the attacking zone. This is what caused a lot of confusion at times with players going "oh one shot and they get full pressure" when the truth was "oh one shot" (plus the hit on me and shot they took from a minute ago) "and they get full pressure". The other thing I will say is that if a whistle does happen (that is not due to Icing), the full pressure should then be removed completely as well.
The idea of this system should be for rewarding good pressure in the opposing teams zone and perhaps neutral zone while denying the opposing team the chance to change lines (or in EASHL just get some pressure off and stamina back).
Feel free to add anything you think? I am hoping 26 addressed this a little bit.
