Thats because the harder the difficulty the more perfect the AI is. You to change sliders 1> marking tighter both 2> pass error for AI 3>1st touch error for AI LONGER GAME TIME Nhl solved this problem with sliders years ago . imo the NHl dev are better and listen to us
this is all we can do. Also up shot error and passing for AI along with 1st touch this also will bring more fouls and less goals ( for high end difficultly only