The 2026-27 season started last week and will finish with the NCAA Frozen Four championship game at Capital One Arena in Washington on April 10.
A record 326 NHL draft picks are expected to play college hockey this season, including 30 first-round selections, according to College Hockey, Inc. That’s an increase from 258 NHL picks and 18 first-rounders last season.
NCAA rights would also bring the added benefit of being able to start "Be a Pro" there and play a full season, rather than just a couple of games before the draft...
The numbers of NHL drafted players and draft prospects are huge. See top draft number one pick Landon DuPont. EA had one year time to react.
It's probably too expensive to get the license. Hopefully one of these years.
It is also possible to buy college league player rights from each player directly by law. I guess many players will give it for free. Where a will, there is a way. It was predictable that many important players go to play NCAA. The EA roster is a disaster and füll of this silhouettes. A solution would be to upload headshot pics for our self created players. If it is alowed to create exact same player data like we have now, would not be a big problem to let us upload pics for our self created players too.
