These games just keep getting worse and worse every year EA Sports has no idea what hockey fans want so they just keep turning out the same garbage!! The penalties are ridiculous the faceoff are ridiculous they gave you a defensive skill stick but every time you try to really use it you get a penalty for tripping! And whatever happened to the little things that made hockey games good that used to be put in them for instance when you won the cup skating around with a cup not just some cutscene.or the All-Star game when your in franchise mode or team introductions along with that teams particular song or at least give us the ability to program in the music you did that for one year and then stopped! And why is the Winter Classic Stadium not in this? It's one of hockey's biggest event and you just leave it out and why can't you make the Winter Classic part of franchise mode random teams play the Winter Classic every year??!! It's like EA concentrated on all the things that don't matter!! There doesn't need to be 500 million goal celebrations in the game I'd rather sacrifice all those and have the Winter Classic in the game and the little details that made it realistic like a real hockey game!!! And the announcers in this game oh my God they are terrible these guys are the worst announcers in hockey always have been always will be there are so many better people out there you could use!!what ea needs to do is go back an ay so.e of there old games and also take a look at nhl 2k cuz they made some gems too! And start listening to your fans in the things we want again Winter Classic more presentation tailored two teams like music and so on like you used to and in franchise in GM mode an All-Star game also teams make counter-offers when you propose a trade and the Winter Classic thrown in there both for quick match games and in GM and season mode random teams play Outdoors what's wrong with that?!?! And honestly there are way more problems I can go on and on ... and for the love of God simplify faceoffs and tone down the penalties and make deking a little easier especially with people who are good at it it's impossible to do with anybody it's ridiculous.and the passing idk what you were thinking when you came up with that every single time you try to pass it's deflected or bounces off somebody skate or block or something or goes in the completely wrong direction you want it too!!!!!zero stars for this game smfh!!fix this pile of dog dirt of a game!! I am not buying any more wasting my time or money until you make a decent product!!! What you need is some competition like you used to have that's the problem you have a monopoly on it now and you don't care to make a good game