Copy and Paste last years game again. What a waste of money.

In CHEL team play The defensive AI is **bleep**. Your D partner skates into you cutting you off when there’s a wide break towards your net instead of taking the guy without the puck going to the net. They do the same poke check that they’ve been doing since NHL 24 and let the player just walk around them to the outside and only now it’s worse this year. The goalies are also the same as last year. I paid for the deluxe edition of this game and am completely disappointed and dissatisfied. I’ve owned ever version of this game from when there wasn’t even NHL licensing in 93 until this version 25.  I don’t know if I can waste my money going forward.