http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34440
--- Comment #8 from Erich Hoover erich.e.hoover@gmail.com --- (In reply to Erich Hoover from comment #7)
PSA: You can work around this issue by downloading the 2010 DirectX redistributable ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 ), using cabextract to pull out the files, and replacing the game's version with the redist version.
You can also work around the issue by slightly upping the version number in the registry (easier!): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/195059/wine/nhl2007.reg