Sadly, it's not usually the best experience to get when you don't. I know that feeling of games that make no logical sense - back in NHL 22 when there was games I would outshoot the AI team 37-7 and lose 4-3. It was around that time I started to change the sliders around to try and make it closer to how it is now for me. I also changed how I play the game and adjusted to a more real game style, try to figure what the AI will do and use that in my favor, which has also seemed to help.
I still can't figure out the penalties, not well enough to not break the rest of the flow of the game. So for now I live with 1 or 2 a game by the AI on average.