In the popular Hockey Ultimate Team (HUT) mode, the World Cup will be leveraged as player and item cards that will be a part of HUT’s new dynamic sets feature. “So the fact that we have the authentic represented in the game is something we’re extremely proud of.”
More specifically, some of the Russian players that are playing in the KHL, we have the rights to those players as well, which is unique to the World Cup of Hockey mode,” he explained. “So even the players who are not part of the NHL, or part of the PA right now. “We have the authentic uniforms for use in the World Cup of Hockey mode, we have the authentic players as well. “The fact that this year, because we’re working closely with the NHL and the –we’re partners–we’re driving the World Cup of Hockey,” Ramjagsingh said. The player and uniform rights specific to the game’s World Cup mode is something the EA development team is very excited about. He will be featured on Team Finland at the game’s launch and will need to play a shift with the Jets before he can be put onto the roster within the game officially.
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“Typically what we’ll do is once the season has started, and all the rookies have kind of played their first games and we see what the lines look like as well, we’ll do a roster update just to get everything represented as accurately as possible,” EA Sports NHL lead producer Sean Ramjagsingh told Sportsnet.įor Winnipeg Jets fans wondering about second overall pick Patrik Laine, the same applies to him. So while fans will be able to play as Matthews on Team North America, they will have to wait for the roster update after he plays his first shift with Toronto to get a chance to play as him on the Maple Leafs.
But thanks to a special agreement with the NHL and the players’ association specifically around this September’s World Cup of Hockey, the developers have access to all the players’ rights on every World Cup team. Normally, a player needs to have played one regular season shift before the EA Sports NHL development team has the rights to leverage them in their NHL sweaters.
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