No. As I said in my initial message, the team that I select has nothing to do with this.
I did try with the official roster and it did not crash, but it was not fun either as I do not get the list of custom teams.
I will tell you that the custom roster that I used was downloaded on March 9 and it is called Deadline Roster. Now, maybe you could download it and try to replicate what I did. If you find out that it is that particular roster that has a problem, then I will try something else.
But as I said, that roster works with the regular franchise, but it crashes with the expansion. That alone shows that there is a problem, and not necessarily with the roster.