Scoring

I agree that it could be. Personally I would have made 1T harder to pull off, you would have to time them to get a good shot off. They did something like this but just improved the 1T rather than making an ill timed one worse. I think icon passing has also lowered the difficulty in pulling one off. 1T 3-4 years ago was in a bad place as far as being too easy, now goalies are a bit too good at reacting and making EXTREMELY fast movements to save some of them. I wouldn't lower their reaction a TON but the super speed saves/ desperation saves would be lowered a bit if I was on the dev team. I think it's better now than before they just went a hair too far imo.

On one hand the 1T is probably the single biggest threat in real hockey. It's the main goal in an odd man situation and power play. On the other it can't be as easy as some of the older games. I think with my suggestion you could have your goalie play the pass or play the puck carrier better and as a defender on that team you would choose to defend the guy your goalie would then struggle to defend.

All that being said I think the 1T has actually become much easier to defend with updates to interceptions and stick lifts. I usually feel better about giving up a well put together 1T than I do a backhand from the goal line. When I try to take away the 1T and they go solo backhand I just shake my head. If I take the guy with the puck I have a better chance to stop a goal, just feels wrong. Just gotta hope my cpu goalie has the awareness to take the pitch man and defend the 1T after a pass and that's a 50/50. A 1T you really just gotta worry about a stick lift not getting the animation due to some wonky stick physics or them being in an animation that prevents a bump or something. Sometimes a pass going through that otherwise shouldn't is also possible but it's become more rare.