I'm going to give my opinion.
First of all, I don't think it will change the difference in skill levels between the players. The only thing it will change is that we won't have a magic Puck-check. Players blowing on us and we're going to lose the puck systematically.
But I've done some tests and I'm clearly going to give my opinion. It's crap. It's boring. So yes, those who don't touch a puck are happy, they take fewer one timers from the blue line. But despite that yesterday, that didn't stop the players I was with from scoring between 7-10 goals a game.
We've been sold a game with ability. Now, as soon as some of them can't win they call BAN thinking that tomorrow they'll be champions when that will never be the case. We just need to BAN the cheated abilities.
The advantage is that with the abilities, at least as soon as we saw the golden one timer we knew we had to defend 100 per cent for backdoor passes. that the players who use brutality in defence should rather play by giving the puck away quickly. Now we want to take everything away and go back to the way we played 10 years ago, it's stupid. I've spent €80 on a game where I'm not allowed to build the way I want to for my style of play... just because there are 10 guys doing nothing but crying.
and let's not forget that in every team there's a boosted player in every match. Yesterday I had an ability that allowed me to shoot very accurately and very powerfully when I was pushed at the moment of a shot. I scored 4 goals like that. So tell me what we're doing? We take the goals away from the guys?
I say we take away the next best thing:
Close quarters
Truculence
Unstoppable Force
Stick Em Up
Big tipper