Why do my players lose the puck so easily?

In HUT so many times the other team will just skate beside my players and take the puck so easily, especially their ai players, and my ai cant do anything. Stick lifts are also busted, they'll lift when my players is nowhere near them but my guy still loses the puck. It's infuriating when I feel like I'm doing the same thing but I can't for the life of me get the puck back. It's either a penalty or it goes right through their stick and does nothing. Poke checks also don't work for me, they just bounce of the puck/stick. Also worth mentioning I have a good team with decent awareness stats.