It is now only sad what EA has done on the PC from its sports game series.
NHL06 was a joke.
NHL07 was a bad joke.
NHL08 was no longer funny.
NHL09 is the joke of the day. Why EA makes, even a year to design a new packaging design bother, no one knows. But that no longer cares. The PC games magazine not dig deeper, because the editors anyway in the back room playing the PS3 version and advertising revenues include. But there will also do in the future is not much.
One can only hope that the competitors such as Take 2 (NBA) or Konami (PES) continues to gnaw at the sports cake and present on the PC once a reasonable Hockey at the level of NBA 2K9.