Why doesn’t a Be A PRO have any ability to pick up a puck?

Okay I think I have tried this before! How does a PC in be a pro pick up a puck? You can be ahead of a NPC but somehow they just miraculously pick up the puck! Oh I know I can maybe poke it ahead or slash it ahead. I just wonder why I can’t just pick it up?  I mean I am supposed to be the up and comer. You play with all those sliders before completing your PC and yet once in the game the PC just skates by a puck or a NPC just picks it up before you do. If you’re supposed to be a Crosby or whoever let me be that guy and pick up the puck