NHL 23 alumni teams
Does anyone know yet if alumni teams will return on NHL 23? If so, which alumni would you like to see added into the current pool of players?
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- @Nosida98 I would be very surprised (and extremely disappointed) if they took them out.
Hopefully we see 100 or so added players like last year. A few more years of that and we won't even need duplicates anymore to fill out the teams.
Also I would like to see the alumni teams using old school logos and color schemes instead of the modern ones. Like Winnipeg for example using the old 80's logo in menu graphics. Would be fun as well to add alumni teams for the California Seals/Barons and Colorado Rockies as their jerseys are in the game already and several alumni players available in the game played for those teams.
It will be interesting to see who they add this year, but hopefully some of the missing big names will be added and with their real faces. That would be awesome. I hope, that EA Sports publish soon list of new alumni players. I would like to see as new alumni players forexample:
Goalies:
Dominik Hasek (CZE)
Arturs Irbe (LAT)
Miikka Kiprusoff (FIN)
Pekka Rinne (FIN)
Tuukka Rask (FIN)
Tomas Vokoun (CZE)
Roberto Luongo (CAN)
Rick DiPietro (USA)
Mike Dunham (USA)
John Vanbiesbrouck (USA)
Henrik Lundqvist (SWE)Defencemans:
Kimmo Timonen (FIN)Frantisek Kaberle (CZE)
Tomas Kaberle (CZE)
Scott Stevens (CAN)
Éric Desjardins (CAN)
Sandis Ozolins (LAT)
Zdeno Chara (SVK)Forwards:
Ruslan Fedontenko (UKR)
Alexei Ponikarovsky (UKR)
Mikko Koivu (FIN)
Henrik Zetterberg (SWE)
Daniel Alfredsson (SWE)
Peter Bondra (SVK)
Marian Gaborik (SVK)
Marco Sturm (GER)
Paul Kariya (CAN)
Robert Reichel (CZE)
Espen Knutsen (NOR)
Mariusz Czerkawski (POL)
Tony Amonte (USA)
Anson Carter (CAN)
Rob Zamuner (CAN)
Hopefully EA Sports will add the following players back to alumni teams.
Jaromir Jagr (CZE)
Bobby Hull (CAN)
Guy Lafleur (CAN)I belive, that in the current world situation EA Sports not come add new russian or belarussian players to alumni teams.
I'd like to see a bunch of helmetless players from the 70's added. Since we likely won't get the option to create players without helmets added alumni players without helmets could really help improve the vintage experience we are looking for.
I'd like to see this kind of alumni teams in game:
Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, NY Rangers and Toronto of the Original Six era.
Los Angeles, Minnesota North Stars, Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis of the late 1960s.
Atlanta, Buffalo, Colorado Rockies, NY Islanders, Vancouver and Washington of the 1970s.
Calgary, Edmonton, Hartford, New Jersey, Quebec and Winnipeg of the 1980s.
Anaheim, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas, Florida, Ottawa, Phoenix, San Jose and Tampa Bay of the 1990s.
Carolina, Columbus, Minnesota Wild and Nashville of the 2000s.
With how the NHL works it is sadly hard to get an alumni team together because they would have to work out deals with pretty much of the former players/families.
@KlariskraysNHLWhat they could and should do is to fill the alumni teams with generic made up players that can be edited. Just name them defenseman 1, defenseman 2, right wing 1 etc. NHL 2K did that for their classic teams, and then the users could rename those players themselves.
I think that definitely beats having all those duplicates. Also they could make a lot of these generic guys helmetless, that way they wouldn't need to add the helmetless option for created players which for some reason we can't have.
All in all, there are very simple ways around all these licensing/rules obstacles that EA always uses as excuses to not give us the customization options that we want.
Also, in respons to Olavi4 above, alumni teams for more defunct teams like Colorado Rockies, the Seals etc would be awesome. They already got the jerseys in the game so why not add them as alumni teams. Not enough players would probably be the answer. But again, using my solution above that wouldn't be a problem. There are also around 15 or so alumni players in the game who played for the Seals for example, so they could fill them with duplicates like they did with other teams.How does the alumni team work? Like how come the lightning don’t have Leacavlier or Khabibulin?
- @PlataOPlomoPablo EA don't have the rights to use them. I think they can only use retired players who are in the NHL alumni association.
- @SvenArne123 i thought this as well but I know that guys like Leacavlier and Garon are in the alumni association so it’s confusing. ESP because Garon was in the game last year
- @Nosida98 The Alumni are the main reason I even would buy the game. I doubt they take it out
