Sorry about the quote build-up, I didn't know until now that that's frowned upon (not sure why because sometimes it helps for people to be able to read an entire convo between two people without having to scroll all the way up and look for pieces of it individually)
@JayP: I think maybe you misunderstood me. When I was talking about my own play, I meant that I myself and other people in the league actually pull off those moves during games, not just by ourselves when we're alone practicing. Thus, I believe without a doubt that most NHL players would be capable of pulling them off in a game as well. Sure you don't see it all the time, but my point was if you use the deke-stick in moderation then I think it's a good part of the game, that's all.
Either way, you don't *have* to use it, so I don't see that as being any sort of a drawback or negative to the game, because like I mentioned the CPU hardly does any of those moves against me anyway.