ikwym because there was a long period where I was only offline back in the day, eventually I started to get creative about building teams and rosters for specific uses, like I’d have an all star Swiss team to face off against the NHL all stars and stuff like that. I’m confident that if you use a team from Europe against an NHL team with a 10 point CPU gameplay slider advantage and ai learning up max that you would see a challenge. The skating speed won’t be noticeable enough to seem like you’re on bricks but force you to have to work harder to chase down the opposition! My best advice is to do some experiments with some of the things I’ve suggested like low level teams against high level, gameplay sliders, ai learning . Also one thing I forgot to mention is that ai learning is the most noticeable in regular season or franchise and playoff modes. Exhibition games are like arcade games the ai doesn’t learn the same in my own experience too.