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This has been very heavily discussed over the last few years. The TLDR is that, contrary to popular belief, there just isn't a big enough audience for it. Yes, we fully understand you and your friends would play. That's awesome, but we would need a much higher amount of PC hockey players to warrant the very high cost of this. Porting the game to PC is probably the easier part. Combine that with building an infrastructure to support it and those costs skyrocket. Not to mention, all that work that goes in to this means the far more popular console versions wouldn't get the attention they need with all those resources devoted to a PC version.
We all are die hard hockey fans, but it also doesn't have the worldwide fandom of a sport like soccer. This is reflected as well in the amount of PC video game hockey players. It would take a pretty extraordinary amount of them to make the very big job of bring the game to PC not be a loss.
On console I would only play through EA pass so with that monthly price being spread out over all your games that about 30c a month for NHL games per person so what's that $3.60 per year. but if you put NHL on pc, I would pay full price for the game and then add Ons and in game purchases so probably more like $120+ on the game within the first year alone seems like pc would be a lot more profitable.
Also, it was NHL 2000 on PC back in the day that cemented my love for the sport just saying bring it back please.