Being down on the ice and energy level

Try to avoid the hit. Taking a big risk of being deked to make a big hit and knocking someone down should reward you with a little getup time. i think this is fine. Stop just running up the ice or at least tell your teammates to stop sui passing it to you.

Hits really punish you this year, but I agree it takes WAY too long to get up from a hit, especially when you're not winded.   There's also an issue with players not playing to their attributes.

Nothing wrong with stamina, you have to be strategic with how you are using it. Exactly how hockey is. 

Energy is great !!   Avoids the Diamond and above speed scammers to race up and down ice all day.   It's not realistic at all.  

Stamina and regroup are fine for the most part... hip checking is still completely broke and you can still lb when your hurt which is dumb.  But you this is supposed to be a siumulation game, for the first time they got a lot of things right.  Stick em up needs to be nerfed and the manual one tee wasnt needed... if you put that in the game you might as well have removed the one tee trait from the game.