How to learn to play better NHL 25?

Holy macaroni! 😎 I switched to NHL 26 in the meantime. Still not too much progress. But I found out, that it is just me being way too slow in everything. I still struggle to get all the essential moves and buttons and sticks together. For example using RT on Xbox to set up a pass to a specific player (A,B,X,Y). The time I need to find out to which one I want to pass has me either getting hammered or the pass lane being cut off by the opponents. 😂 It's freaking annoying, but I wont give up. The other thing that seems impossible to me is defense. I mean I do just not get how to switch to the correct player. But enough of complaining. Still I am no longer losing with 10 or 15 goals on semi-professional setting and I even win a game from time to time shows, you can make progress even when old and slow. 😎 The low point was yesterday, when someone in HUT Ranked took out the goalie for the whole 2. and 3. period I was still not able to score a single one. 😂😂😂 Well there is something in the water at my place but I still like that silly game.