- Ability to fully edit the name, data and stats of EVERY player in the game to let people create historical scenarios. Have an export / import player feature that lets you overwrite players as is done in MLB The Show. Maybe, get an offline editor?
- Create a roster / player / sliders vault.
- Let users start seasons with less than 30 teams / using historical division & conferences.
- Get stand-in KHL / US College teams if they can't get the licenses. Using my first point, let US put the real deal in.
- Expansion Mode: Be NHL Franchise #31! Compete with your rival expansion team for players in the expansion draft and then compare yourself comparably to them as you build your legacy!
- Make some important days in a season semi-real time events. For exemple, the day of the openings of the free agents is a 30 minutes real time event: as the timer ticks down, players get signed, agents phone you offering you their guys and you make offers. Same could be done with the trade deadline, and the entry draft, as well as the expansion draft of my Expansion mode.
-Authentic Arena pre-game lighting, goal celebrations.
- Make the careers in Live A Life less linear: You shouldn't be able to be a superstar at will and make it to the NHL every time. You should be able to go out in the 5th round, play 3 years in the AHL, and then look for work in Europe, make your way back to the AHL, catch on fire and have yourself 4-5 years in the sun on the 3rd line in Columbus or something.
- Bring back Career lenghts in HUT. Make super rare cards that make players' Career reset if you must, but bring back the careers!