Nhl 26 CPU doesn't take any penalties

I'm playing on 11 minutes now with MAX penalty setting/sliders and the most I've gotten was  3 penalties for each team (with me being extra aggressive). In general on 11 min periods  usually 1-2 each team.

 This is the biggest issue right now about the game. Lack of stick fouls is the cause. Most people play under 10 mins a period, so it will create the severe lack of penalties per game.

The bad thing is, most penalties are the hitting kind (boarding, cross check, elbow). So there is no risk reward for using the pokecheck and stick lift. You can use it with no fear. The stick doesn't make proper contact with players feet/head, so even though both user/cpu use stick check/lift, very very rare you get trip calls and I haven't had ANY high stick/slash penalties.

This is also being discussed in another sim sports forum so hopefully EA come out with a release day patch to address it. Without penalties, the quality of the game will suffer bigtime.