For as much as I love my adjusted sliders for a bit better gameplay experience I always find myself going back to as close to default as possible. I just feel from the games I've played that the CPU teams play so much more aggressive on default settings than they do with adjusted sliders.
I just played one play now game on NHL 25 default sliders, 3 min periods, legit out of the box settings no changes at all Pens 3 Rangers 2 Final! Pens with 17 shots, Rangers 19 shots. 43 combined hits. 1 power play for each team.
I've went through the leaky goalies prior to the patch and seemed to point to AE being at 10. Really no issues when set to 5 and or 7 max.
By far this is the most frustrating sports game slider wise. Don't know what works, if anything actually works.. UGH