EA has updated NHL 13’s roster to relocate players to European leagues. Players are migrating as the result of the continuing real-life NHL lockout, and EA’s new title update will reflect those changes in NHL 13.
As explained by EA, “An online roster update was released today for NHL 13. The update adds a duplicate version of NHL players who are playing in the following European leagues to their current team: Czech Extraliga (ELH), SM-Liiga, Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), Elitserien (SEL), National League A (NLA). This means that a player like Claude Giroux will remain on the Philadelphia Flyers roster, but will also be available on the Eisbaren Berlin (DEL) roster for online play.”
EA added that “Hockey is a global game and within NHL 13 there are five European leagues, 66 European teams and over 2100 players representing 26 countries across Europe. By adding NHL players who have joined those leagues to their respective team rosters, we are able to create an authentic experience for fans of those leagues and the NHL, worldwide. For fans of a specific NHL team, those players will still be available on their NHL rosters, which could make for some interesting matchups online.”
Earlier this month, EA Sports executive vice president Andrew Wilson commented on the lockout, telling IGN “We’re all NHL fans. We’re all sports fans, but we’re definitely NHL fans. I spent six years in Vancouver, which is a hardcore hockey town. We hope that they all get to play soon, but in the meantime, I can tell you right now [NHL 13] is where I’m getting my hockey.”
A full list of player changes, as well as instructions for how to manually move NHL players to their current European teams for offline play, is available on EA’s official site.
Andrew Goldfarb is IGN’s associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he’s been eating by following @garfep on Twitter or garfep on IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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