Mike Inglehart and the current dev team.

EAs contract with the NHL runs until 2030. The contract with the NHLPA is an ongoing contract with no definitive end date. Hope that helps. Regarding your displeasure with this franchise. You are obviously not alone. The last sales output had the franchise down 15% in sales from previous years. And i do agree. In order to have a viable, worthwhile product. You have to address the problems first, and correct that which can be. And if not fixable. Eliminated. Only then will your product be market ready. What also needs to be in place is. A recognition of problems vented by the buyers of this game, and the willingness to correct that which is not functioning accordingly. EA has been negligent of both of these. Not properly testing the game to make sure its fully ready. And the failure to address and fix problems as they arise. We all know the game cant be perfect. But it can be a lot better than what it is, if time is injected to make it so.