I am same as some have said previously, I bought a ps4 just to play nhl15 with a friend on my console against online opponents. I take it another level though where i also bought nhl15 for ps3 and it was sp broken that we haven't really even played it (freezes often, commentary/sound drop). So now got played by EA again, bought nhl15 for ps4, only for it not to have the mode that i bought it for!!!
I switched over to 2k sports games (nba2k15) and gave up on EA in November and I will certainly be soured in the future towards any further easports games if this is not fixed in the short term or at least explained to me.
I spent greater than 250$ in packs on each of nhl13 and 14, feel free to verify that EA, and had planned same this year.
Seems like a pretty simple fix, you can already obviously play coop against cpu, and the second controller select is populated in the online team select screen.
Letting me (us) know either way will go a long way to start the mending process between easports and my wallet.