@Neolink78 Awesome suggestions! I 100% agree with the AI teammates for sure. I have messed with the gameplayer sliders some and I do believe it's a *tad* better this year but it's still pretty bad. I was drafted by the Blue Jackets and you'd think with a winger of Patrick Laine I'd have a decent skater with me on the top line. Nope. He is about as bad as our worst player haha constant turnovers and maybe shoots the puck 2 times a game...unrealistic. I would love each team to have it's own "identity" and the AI to play to that strategy.
Your idea for free skate would totally work too. Like you, I want to practice my deking with MY player and his skillset. I'm horrible at deking to begin with (I can't remember the thousands of different combinations) so I would like to be able to practice it with my players abilities.
Off ice activities is a MUST. I like how they at least added some off-ice stuff but as I said a BIG part of a players life is off-ice activities. Hopefully this get more broad as the years come.
As much as it would infuriate me to make BAP a micro transactional mode I would likely break down and buy add on's IF they made the mode that much better. Most games I play now do that anyway so it would just be the norm. BAP also isn't the most popular mode so I understand why they don't sink alot of time into it, but it could be a more popular mode IF they did. Great suggestions though!