I would have to agree with everyone here, over the years games kind of became stale and emotionless players on the ice, sometimes I think AI CPUs show no mercy, meaning they run up the score lots, that is so not true, some teams maybe 3-5 goals, but to hold the lead, they shut it down and play a defensive game and try to prevent other teams from scoring or trying to pull a comeback team or sometimes they will dump the puck in to kill time off clock or rope a dope little bit or on purposely play and play and in-tell no time runs off score clock kind of troll other teams a little bit.
this aspect what's missing from the game right now or where's the player who will put the team on his back and try to get an equalizer or make teammates work together, where's the goalie who will shut down the game and not let any more goals in, or where's teammate compitablitie or teammate leadership or teammate teamwork play, or defensive defensemen shut down play who are defensive defensemen who actually block shots or smothers, other opposition teams.
we shouldn't be seeing 1 player taking shots or scoring goals, in the end, it's a team effort, team play is number 1.
