Ah, the good ol' "Dump Just Because They Do In Hockey". I know it's early, but I'm already losing faith in NHL16. It's going to take a lot of positive user reviews to even get me considering NHL16 at this point. They haven't announced anything that sounds that monumental (the player emotion aspect of Be a GM sounds nice, but it could easily turn into a micromanagement annoyance when I have a 4th line player expecting 1st line minutes) and it doesn't really sound like much outside of EASHL is changing.
I'm going to keep following it, but EA dropped the ball pretty hard with NHL15, and I don't see a lot of positive signs that they've picked it back up. As always, i really hope I'm wrong. I'm just not impressed with the progress EA's made.