This game is horrible - save your money

This game is laughably bad. I promise you it is not worth your money. EVERY SINGLE GAME MODE HAS MULTIPLE BUGS. First, the menus still consistently have issues, going on 6 years now without a proper fix. More importantly, the gameplay is absolutely horrendous, first, in EASHL: THE AI IS GOD AWFUL, consistently causing turnovers, goalie flopping around in the crease like a beached whale, it’s truly impressive how bad the AI is, just when you think you have seen it all, your goalie makes a simple blocker save and immediately follows it up with a bicycle kick that would make Christiano Ronaldo jealous to launch the puck in your own net. Continuing on the topic of EASHL, the puck is a bouncy ball; it never simply lands on a stick, 37 bounces off of the AI stick, followed by countless off every skate on the ice, it is as if I am watching Timbits instructional hockey, simply UNREAL. I don’t play HUT, but to my understanding, these issues persist for every online game mode. Be a pro, the REVOLUTIONARY update to NHL 26, it’s the same as every Be a pro ever, just they finally listened to the community and halved the amount of cut scenes, the only actual improvement in this garbage EA sports calls a video game; everything else is the exact same. Quite simply, if you have ever played or watched hockey in real life, simply playing this game is near impossible. Save your money until EA hires people who actually have at least some idea how the sport works.