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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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.
