On a two on one,....the Dman should be taking out the open player,.....and letting the goalie shut down the shooter.
That`s how goalies want it,.....we don`t want the puck carrier to even think about passing to the open guy,.....we want the puck carrier to be forced to shoot,.....it`s our job to stop the puck.
By playing the middle,the passing lane,......you don`t accomplish very much of anything,...the odds of stopping a pass is very low,the open guy is left open...going for the back door play that is the goalie`s worst nightmare,......and if the pass doesn`t come,the open guy is still there as a threat/decoy,...and that means the goalie has to respect that threat,...so that means hes got the shooter to worry about,and the backdoor guy,...and possibly a guy coming in late.
Dmen that play the middle on 2 on 1`s aren`t doing their goalies any favours at all,.......and when told how to play it,if they continue their evil ways,....they are despised by goalies one and all.
I haven`t seen the 2nd goal yet.....but I have seen some issues with defensive AI.
To my knowledge,the settings used for these games is at least AllStar,could be Super Star,....with default hardcore settings.
The hardcore settings aren`t hardcore enough for me,so I already know that I`ll be doing sliders again.
Another thing I might do,as I plan on doing some roster editing too.....is to increase defensive awareness,.....an across the board bump.
Of course I will be trying to use this category to achieve some separation between top NHL players,avg NHL players,AHL,CHL.......as well as some other tweaks/rollbacks/adjustments in other categories.
It`s a big task,.....general game play sliders,passing speeds,shot speeds,shot accuracy(which might not be as bad this year),goalie reaction speeds etc,fine tuning AI settings,....then roster editing,then evaluation of all the previous steps,and making adjustments if necessary,.....till I get what I should be getting,almost,right from the box.