EHM The Blue Line

I've just started encountering something I've never seen in almost 100 years of playing.

Two players that are going FA that are star players (one being the team captain) keep getting scratched and not inserted into the lineup when I'm simming auto simming games (I don't coach myself).

Does anyone know why this is happening? I've already tried changing coaches and the only time i get them to insert into lineup is if I manually coach games.

Thanks.

Can you do a few screen caps and post them?

Is there cap issues? Health issues (are they not 100%?)