Well let's start with the Ai....have you ever seen a defensive player in the NHL skate the puck to the red line and then for no reason turn around and skate all the way back to the defensive zone and then hug up on the boards when an opposing player approaches them? I haven't. Been watching hockey for 40 years and haven't ever seen that play lol.
NEXT, why can't the AI players clear the puck on a penalty kill? Is there some reason they flip the puck 10 feet in the air and 10 feet forward everytime? Not sure if you guys have ever been to an actual game or not but the player usually tries to dump the puck out of the defensive zone to prevent being scored on shorthanded....makes sense right lol?
NEXt, why haven't you fixed the goalie deke exploit? Ok i get that a person has to be able to score once in a while otherwise why play the game right? But if a person can skate in on the goalie, puck handle back and forth and then just tuck the puck in EVERY SINGLE TIME then why even have a goalie in the net? You could tape the stick across the net and it would probably do a better job.
NEXT, the horrendous momentum swings in the game. The ai programming is so broken until that momentum swing kicks in and then they seem to actually do what they are supposed to. Pinch players at the blue line, make passes, throw hits on players entering the defensive zones. Why are they unable to do this the entire game? The bottom line is the game should be based on player skill not EA dictating the flow of the game.
These are just some of the problems with your game. And believe me there are plenty more. My friends and myself have been buying and playing your game for many years and we, as the rest of the community probably agrees , think you haven't put out a fairly playable game since NHL 16 or 17. Sure, you get praise from all the exploiters about how good the game is because they take advantage and why not? Take the level glitch when the game first came out for instance. All those guys glitches the game and maxed their levels and you did nothing lol. They clearly exploited the game and that in itself in any other game would result in a ban of some sort. Not with you guys though. Anyway I'm not looking for any response from you guys. If you cared you would have respomded by fixing the issues in your game and listening to the community years ago. But continue to crank out those stupid money grabbing gimmicks and putting out sub standard games and any true hockey fan that enjoys playing a real hockey game will just abandon the EA franchise.