Scoring

"The reason this goal works is because the defending team has completely collapsed"

Sure.. you can always blame the defense, thats easy to do in any game.. it doesnt mean its not a goalie issue as well.. we dont see goalies play this poorly in the NHL and thats the problem I'm getting at. Poor argument imo.

"99% of the players in this game keep trying the same goals over and over - not because they find success with them"

No, it's because it's successful. Not many were spamming D2D 1T in older games in HUT, now they do. Not many were looking for backhand over 1T when 1T had higher success. Not many went backhand over forehand when that had success. When the short side wrister worked people used that. It's because of the success.. there's no way you're arguing in good faith at this point. People use what has high % to score. Being creative is not winning games at the highest rate. Sure it's more fun but people use the same things that get them wins. You're just being untruthful here.

"Literally thousands"

🤣  do you understand what "Literally means" *looks up monthly top 100 goalies" 33 games played for #100* *looks up centers and sorts top 100 by games played, 90* I mean... lets try to be fair here. You've suggested you can be critical of the game.. try to show SOME truth in that statement.

"Strongly disagree"

I mean nhl stats are viewable to the public bud. Out of curiosity I looked it up. Looking at the last day/ week of 3s and threes respectively to get a fair comparison shooting % for 3's is averaged out to 35.27 for top 10 weekly 3's and 27.67 for threes. That's the lowest amount of time I could search for either to adjust for updates. So disagree but everyone I've played with between the modes has a similar experience. Threes goalies are somewhat better at stopping a backhand and make better acrobatic saves vs 1T. It's not by a ton but when EASHL goalies are having worse numbers that's not a good look. If I'm being fair, I understand some numbers could be inflated by human goalies playing poorly. However, everyone I know vs cpu goalies have pretty consistently performed better vs 3's CPU than threes. They are more likely to use desperation saves. 

Your coke and Pepsi thought.. just threw logic out the window 🤣 it only works if coke gives you far more energy (if that's what you're looking for) than pepsi. Sure I could get the Pepsi and get less energy for the same price because I like the taste (i dont drink any pop) but I'd rather reach out to Pepsi and ask them to add more caffeine to the pepsi. That's what I'm doing here. It would also be dependant on the fact that pepsi was deliberately lowering their caffeine despite the outcries for more. I'm not sure if you watch any NHL but if 2 players had a 2 on 0 you would never see 1 pull off because going 1v0 on goalie was better.. you just entirely missed every point I made, seemingly on purpose. However, you've shown to do this plenty of times. I strongly suggest a logic course.

I guess I'm here to ask for better goalies. I understand your job is to defend the title to no end. I just want a better product. The game has potential it's just lacking some things. I can praise the games for what it does well but you're allowed to be critical and offer suggestions for improvements.