Scoring

I do think incentivizing goalie would be nice. But as someone who mains goalie, the only thing that really would do that for me personally is give the goalies a complete 10% bump. In theory if everything goalie was bumped 10% all sv% should bump up 10% as well. This would place the best goalies in the game at around .900-.920 which would be quite realistic for statistics. The issue is that with proper defense you could probably accomplish this now, however too many people puck chase, puck watch, forwards not helping out on defense or leaving the zone too early, also on the rush defense take themselves out of the play by trying to hold a blue line without support behind them. All of this contribute to low save%. So if EA were to bump goalies 10% there are probably a handful that would see .980 and above because they only play with the same group of guys who play exceptional defense. We’re kind of caught between the casual competition and the “pro team”. Maybe a 5% bump would be a happy medium but at this point I am unsure. 

Update: as a very very small sample size, I played 12 games with a very competent group of guys and I’m holding a .912 save%. 

Was thinking about this some more as well, because of the attention given to defense and goalie, it would be nice to add an additional statistic to the intermission screen such as High Danger Chance %. Basically if there are 10 shots and 8 of them are within the High Danger Chance area, this statistic would be 80%, similar to the faceoff and pass % statistic. This will at least give some information and attention that could be brought to whether or not the defense is doing an adequate job of protecting the center of the ice.