Online Co-Op Vs. Computer

Hi. My best friend and I grew up playing NHL, we started playing on my Dad's desktop in the living room on NHL 04'. Yeah. When we grew up and moved to seperate states, our favorite thing to do was get in the same lobby online and play against a computer team. We didn't like playing against each other and didn't like playing other online players. We'd go through all the teams until we beat them on the highest difficulty. It was always an absolute blast and this feature always made me purchase the game. The last time we got do this was NHL 18', 6 years ago. 6 years. Time flies. I haven't bought an NHL game since then because this simple, (so simple, it hurts) feature was taken away and hasn't been implemented since. Please, please escalate this if you're able to. I miss playing NHL man. I miss playing it with my best friend. Any online co op mode vs the computer and I'll be happy and dig into my wallet, connected franchise, 3's, I don't care. Just SOMETHING. I figured these forums are the only way to maybe get my voice heard. I don't understand why it was ever removed. When the new NHL comes out, I look online to see if a co-op mode like this is available. Every year it isn't. My heart hurts man. I love hockey and used to love this game. I hope soon I'll get to enjoy it again. If you made it this far thanks for reading.