I do have a question about this too. I get the immersion into NHL at the draft. It is a bummer that the rosters are not accurate. I would have expected the rosters to be accurate when you get to the team at training camp. I dont care who was on the team during the draft. It's disappointing. I was not playing NHL25 when it came out last year to notice this. Is this consistent? Meaning in NHL25, the rosters were locked at the draft and did not change all year? (trying to determine if I should have hope that it will change ;) )
I do note for all that when you skip juniors/memorial/european cup and go straight to an NHL team (undrafted), the game uses whatever the active roster is. This is consistent to how it worked in NHL25. The Sep 3 rosters that are provided with the game are accurate (i.e. Marner in Vegas.) Unfortunately, the default modes of BAP ignore those.