Because EA has the game setup for that crap to work. You could waste your time like we do trying all these pretty plays and hard work setting up in the zone stuff, but why bother when you can gain the zone every single time and then dangle, snipe, celly, bro? Ha, there is no incentive to play hockey with this game. None. It doesn't reward it if you do and it certainly won't do it back to you in return.