I've remember that I've also lowered some human hitting sliders - it was too easy for me to knock a cpu player off the puck. It seems for me that I have to keep the cpu booster slider (whatever it's called - can't remember off the top of my head) at zero - even by raising it to 1, the cpu just seems to get leverage on me that seems unreasonable. But this is still THE BEST NHL game that EA Sports has made...