“Play now” crashes game & other issues

Whenever I attempt to hit play now, my game immediately crashes. I’ve also noticed that the announcers no longer talk during my be a pro games. There could be other issues but that’s what I’ve noticed so far.

Are you using a custom roster?

I use the play now mode frequently so this is a pretty significant issue for me. The announcers not talking also gets kind of annoying as they’ll chime in for one or two sentences after a goal and then disappear again.

Are you deep into a BaP career? Can you get a video where we can hear the commentators stopping?

I noticed it after I lost power with my console booted up so I figure it’s probably a corruption issue, but I’m unsure how to fix it. I play on PlayStation and I’ve already tried rebuilding my database and reinstalling my game. 

Try deleting the personal saved data for NHL 26. It's possible you could lose any offline saves and changes to settings. Normally, those will download from the cloud, but I can't guarantee that will happen. Go to Settings/Storage/System. Locate NHL 26 and delete the saved data.