It happens with any team i use with the updated rosters ( I have used Montreal, LA and Vancouver). The loading circle spins and then it just freezes/stops. It happens right before you resign your players for the upcoming season. So as soon as the draft ends it goes to a off day then boom it freezes going to the next day. I end up having to manually turn off my PS3. I tried saving the game different ways ect.... but if i save on that off day before the resign phase i cannot even load the saved game it just freezes. I have the super slim PS3 and i do not play online and have internet turned off on my PS3.
It also happened on the update before the most recent one as well. I thought maybe the newest update would fix it but it has not.