Let me start off by NHL 24 is MILES ahead of 23,22,21,20,19... you pick the year...
This is the important part. The game will reward you if you play it with the correct sliders. I know many people will argue that having to change the sliders makes the game broken or incomplete, but that's not what sliders are designed for.
I suggest PKs sliders in the slider section of this forum. There is a catch.. you MUST play position lock!!!!
IMO if you play by controlling every position is messes up the game logic of the CPU. Pick a position and learn to play it.
a long explanation but NHL24 is awesome and anyone that thinks it's not doesn't know how to play hockey in REAL LIFE and only plays ARCADE DEKE fest garbage like EASHL!!!