franchise mode, is this normal?

[bradusketch]

just got the game a week or so, and I'm playing my first franchise. A number of things I'm seeing strike me as odd.

*through about 30 games, only 3 players had modified 1 point each. That seemed incredible low. I was very concerned about this, but I'm now exactly halfway through the season (played 41 games) and a lot more changes have happened through the last 10 games. 2 of my minor leaguers got called up and they have increased the most, 9 and 16 points. Of my NHLer, I have about 5 players who've changed between 1 and maybe 5 points.

I started the injury slider at I think 60/60, might have been 65/65. Through 30 games there had been ZERO injuries. I bumped it up to 90, and 2 games in a row I had major injures, and within a few games I had multiple injuries. I guess this just means the slider needs to sit somewhere between, but at 60+ I thought I'd see occasional injuries at least.

*this one must be a glitch...my goalie got injured. I wanted to pick up a FA goalie, but it immediately locked me into the screen to call up a goalie from the minors. So I did. I then signed the FA goalie I wanted. I tried to bring him up or bring the other guy down, but it won't let me do either. I NEED 2 NHL goalies. As soon as I try to bring a guy up or down it tells me this violates the roster. limits. Isn't there a way to swap them? This seems absurd.

*I'm tracking the fights in my simmed games (I'm simming 90% of the time...I jump in in the 3rd period and play if it's a close game.) In the first 10 games or so, fights were prevalent. I had 15 fights through November 15, I didn't count how many games that was but it was 15-20 I think. Then, from November 15 to Dec 28, there was not ONE single fight. What in the heck? I FINALLY had a fight on the 28th, and then a couple more games without. Is there some sort of weird glitch that causes fights to be really common early in the season but basically extinct during the middle part of the season?