I have already seen your montages. I could do the same thing. It does not prove a thing about consistency. You are quite literally the only person I have seen say that D is in a good spot this year. I play with and against some of the best. Not one person has echoed your sentiments.
I suppose you would also say the lobbies work great for ya too, and the reverse hitting is totally realistic and makes sense, and the jittery side skate exploit is just awesome true hockey and also in a good spot!
I could collect some montages exactly like yours, looks like some are from the same game against the same players trying the same thing. Or on the contrary, a million montages of the 9/10 times that those exact plays do not work at all.
Also those fwds do not look very good. I can play great D against crappy forwards all day even with the lack of functioning tools. Of course even then some forced cross creases will inevitably get by despite how good my position is etc.
So in short: I'm glad it's somehow worked out for you, but you are one of very few who feel this way.
Have you ever lined up for what should be a nice easy poke and somebody reverse hits a POKE CHECK? I suppose that's just working fine for ya and you see that the NHL all day eh? Or you like the new fighting noises?
No offense but you have no credibility here because you are a contrarian. If I told you the sky was blue you would argue its green. I've seen your posts and responses to others. Sometimes I wonder if what others say is true and you are somehow directly involved with EA or something.