I use the 2-3 offensive zone forecheck, alternate neutral zone forechecks until one seems to annoy them, collapsing defensive strategy, puck side attack.

I prefer to control the center. If the puck is down low, you try to clog the crease and keep the puck out of there. Any passes or puckhandlers through there you poke, just being in the way doesn't work as well as actively poking it. I seldom try to hit people as its just too easy to miss. If they try to cycle the puck up high, you can go out and pressure them. Just always try to keep your body between the player with the puck and the net, and you'll often block those point shots and you can get good odd-man rushes.

This strategy really only lets me down when the other guy has some player who is impossible to knock the puck from and who cannot be hit and they skate a circle behind the net and back around in front. The dmen sometimes get twisted up in the net trying to follow him behind the net, or are just left back there because the (failed) hit they put on him took them out of the play. It still works most of the time, but if this is all they do, they will likely score at least once.

All that being said, my best defense is cycling the puck on offense. The more time you have the puck, the less chances they have to score. I've won many a game with only 10 shots but 9+ minutes of offensive possession. Also, if I manage to get a breakaway (or near breakaway) or two, I'll often switch to Leave Zone Early because it usually indicates they're bringing their dmen too far forward leaving them open to fast breaks where they will inevitably dive and trip you and 80% of the time you get a penalty shot. The other 20%, you're just fucked and they get the puck back. Sometimes you have to utilize a dump as a pass over the defense, which takes some practice but its really satisfying when well executed.