That video is good stuff! The clip of NHL '97 brings back the feeling that it had lost the magic it once held. That was about the time I got out, as the on-ice product became what I called 'rod hockey', where the players just rushed end to end in straight lines. Back and forth race-track stuff. It wasn't until NHL2K5 that the slide was reversed. Here was a game with actual scrums along the boards and i thought it was great. but they only made this one for a couple seasons and then it was back to EA, and I was done then.

I tried a few more through the years, but I just didn't feel like it was real hockey, it was something else, like a X-games version of it or something.