Wow thats an amazing list and very well worded. I agree with everything your saying.
I'm hoping for a update or patch for NHL 22 to have these, if not fingers crossed for NHL 23.
I especially don't like the playoffs and tournament mode because of the less customization and the fact that there's no injuries. During a long playoff run injuries are a huge storyline and should be included. When you start a season mode and get to the playoffs, injuries are included. But unfortunately when you start a playoff mode its not for some reason.
As far as creating players and teams we have a Discord group that has a great database for all former Alumni players.
We also make players that are in the game, but have a completely off looking faceted make them look as real as possible. There's some for Alumni that are created almost perfect sometimes.
Here's a quick video of kinda what I'm taking about.
https://youtu.be/6GKTbkBMp2E
We all hope that 1 day EA is able to fix the many wrong faces in Alumni players. We've already wrote down formulas for the many players that we created a fixed. I also have a USB full of a roster of created players that look more real than the games models.
As for creation wishlist. My main wish is to hopefully be able to create helmetless players for offline modes in NHL 22. Maybe a game update or a patch. But when your creating Alumni players its MANDORTORY that we can create players with or without helmets. Bobby Orr isn't in the game and it doesn't look or feel accurate when you have to out a helmet on him.