I already thought about this two years ago: why do the dev teams of Madden and NHL are not working together to create something that's even better, I mean it's both EA Sports? As I said, Madden has a deeeeeep franchise mode. It's great to play this while the NHL Be A GM is pretty lame for a long time now. They are trying to replicate stuff now it seems, but wow it's effin' slow.
When they are finally bringing us the option for roster sharing (which I still hope for), there will be new console generations shortly after. And I hope they won't cut this again to present it two years later as "new feature" aka front net battles. Those were in already in the game years ago... NHL 14 or what?