I would rather have the stick checking and poke checking how it is rather than them buffing it too strongly. Goalies are also a lot more realistic and have better animations that can be chained together so they are not stuck doing an animation while the puck trickles in. For the people complaining about the 'forhand-backhand-forhand' and 'backhand-forhand-backhand' going in the net a lot, it's pretty true to real life. How about you don't let an opponent get such an easy scoring chance?. Sure, it goes in the net more times than it should, but most times in the IRL a player gets a breakaway and is able to pull that move off that quick, it is a goal. We are expecting the goalies to just speed slide without pushing off the post?
I am all for a realistic gameplay experience and overall, besides the LT glitch and such, the gameplay is pretty solid.