Get Rid of Elite Edges/Wheels in EASHL

45-50% of NHL goals are scored on the rush. It might be true that 80% of goals in NHL 26 are scored on the rush, I don't really know. It does feel weighted a little heavily. Most of the issue for me is (and always has been) how easy it is to get rewarded for bad play i.e. leaving the zone early. When my job as a defenseman just becomes stopping the same tired exploit 60 times a game, it ceases to be dynamic or enjoyable. 

It probably sounds like I'm being hyperbolic or sensational when I say the cross-crease rush play borders on mental illness. I'm not. I firmly believe that if they made goalies unbeatable on the cross-crease, these people would just keep on doing it. You can see it in game. You stop it 40 times, you can bet the 41st time is coming. Four guys piled up in the slot, they try to force a pass through even if there's nobody there. They cannot stop themselves, and I doubt they'd want to if they could. It was the same deal a decade ago with the short side drag wrister. The whole game was tailored around it, and the official line then was the same: play "better" defense. Have your center hold the blue line so your Dmen can stand in the neutral zone and wait for the inevitable tap tap tap fast break. It's been 15 years and the meta is the same. That's how I know the meta needs a strong, serious change, because it took us a decade and a half to get here and they have been unwilling or unable to change it.