The ability to select best location is missing. We find plenty of matches with 90-110ms. We have to back out and keep searching until we get a good connection.
Ideas
We are still having terrible matchups due to the missing "Best Location option" and the missing "Club Size Match Settings" (Central Europe, PS5). It all worked well in NHL 24 so I still don't why this was changed. Usually we are connected to the Northern (Scandinavian) Servers which gives us a disadvantage (opponent outskates us, AI fat-man lag, terrible goalies), it even gets worse when you play with Crossplay enabled (we have one Xbox Player on our team), the Xbox teams all have a huge advantage against PS5 teams.
Eagerly waiting for those options to be patched in again.