I'm excited for this, I'm glad more sports titles are finally coming out for Wii. Better yet, this game has Wii-specific controls that actually use motion sensing.
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/sports/nhl2k9/news.html?sid=6195406The controls seem intuitive, swinging the stick to shoot, holding B while swinging for a slapshot. This is a definite improvement on last year's controls which made the game hard to play. Can't wait to give this a try.