Figure skating game, not hockey game.

Players that abuse this move a lot of times they’re coming down the side of the net and they do this, cause the goalies confused they should lose their strength for this, but they don’t. It’s a horrible, horrible glitch that should’ve been fixed or punished for using it so often.

Exactly. I mean how hard is to set the players balance to -80% when L2 is used? That would solve the problem.

If bumping and hitting actually worked on this game it wouldn't be as much of a problem. The problem is these dudes will skate right into your AI and they will do nothing about it. 

Sadly it's not an easy fix even though they had stated it would be fixed before the game launched.  Instead it feels worse to defend at times.  I'm gonna be honest and say I don't have any hope it gets fixed for NHL 26.  But I'm gonna try my hardest to push for it to be fixed in 27 by some method but of course they will do as they want.

NHL 13 if you tried to make a sharp turn at top speed you would lose an edge. If they can't implement something similar or have stats tank while in a prolonged L2 state, it's time for them to move on.