Newbie

Hello, I have followed this community for a long time and now i would like to know thing or two from veteran eashl players. Well ive watched several ecl games on twitch, youtube etc. and theres always a question in my head, how they became that good? Well for example players like Joukki, Vsilenttio, Patzlav, pleemaker, sadapoika etc. seem to have no ps4 controller between their brain and game. They seem to do whatever they want on virtual ice and i want to know how to become a player who can dominate the whole ice.First of all, I play myself in a small eashl team filled with workmates. We are not playing for winning, just enjoying the game but its not fun when you keep losing all the games and cant do anyhting about it. My biggest issue is protecting the puck and playing smart on offensive zone. For example, look at this offense. All those little fast moves and shit. So any tips for playing like that? Is it all about reactionskill to avoid pokechecks and how you basicly keep the puck on your blade? Elite players seem not to use l1 dekes much or do they? Are they useless? I think my biggest issue is to keep my speed up. When im trying to do something on right stick my speed usually drops and then opponent makes sticklift or check and i lose the puck. So i need something to help me getting the puck on offensive zone and keeping it there. My motivation is high, I would love to practice this gamemode but i cant find a smart way to do it. Offline and online versus are so much different, Drop in games are made by devil and my teammates are tired of seeing me trying to do those little moves like joukki or some LW did there. So, I would love to hear any tips about eashl from u guys. Anything. How u guys became that good? how did u practice? Any useful info playing smart and protecting puck? How to score against human goalie? Also i would like to see in the future that elite players would join on low skilled teams aswell. Seems like all elite players are cycling to team to other with all same players. It would be good challenge to trying to get random teams on top. One major problem about my playing is that theres noone who could teach all this shit. Rock on!