[jyoung]

To answer why more people weren't playing GM Connected like EA anticipated when they put it in NHL 13:

-- Extremely slow menus and even slower schedule advance speeds made navigation a nuisance.

-- Not many people have the time or patience to complete a full 82-game season, plus another 15 to 20 games in the playoffs. There needed to be an option for shorter seasons.

-- You could not make your own draft picks, since the CPU automated the draft process ala NHL 15 on PS4/Xbox One.

-- You could not pick a single set of custom gameplay sliders for every game that's played in your league. For people wanting a hockey game that is close to a simulation experience, EA's NHL series hasn't been much fun to play on the default settings.

-- It was too easy for a commissioner to sabotage a league if things weren't going his/her way. I was in a league that got 60 games into the first year until the commissioner rage-quit on us and deleted the entire league, wiping out everyone else's progress.