I think that Blades of Steel, a hockey game centered aroud over the top-presentation and 70s style hockey violence including a more nuanced hockey fight system than grab/jab/haymaker, and a whole bunch of other perks that regular hockey sims don't have, things like player reputations, press coverage, goon squads, and a stat for player bloodlust, would be a sort of timeless hockey sim to match the one that came out for the NES all those many years ago.