I dived world of alumni players and found lot of interesting facts. Officially alumni players arrived to NHL 19, but in this post I process time since from NHL20 forward. As we all know, all NHL teams except Vegas and Seattle got their own alumni team to the game in NHL 20. Also three former NHL teams Hartford Whalers, Minnesota North Stars and Quebec Nordiques got their own alumni team to the game.
We have had total 669 players in alumni teams. Of these players EA Sports has remove 13 players from alumni teams and three of these players Kyle Brodziak, Jaromír Jágr and Jason Pominville has been added back to the game. Brodziak not been in NHL 21, but EA Sports added him back to the NHL 22. Jágr not been in NHL 21 and NHL 22, but EA Sports added him back to NHL 23. Pominville not been in NHL 23, but EA Sports added him back to NHL 24. Here is players, which EA Sports has not added back to the alumni teams, after they are removed from alumni teams.In parentheses are the games where the player has been in the alumni teams.
Jason Spezza (NHL 20)
Patric Hörnqvist (NHL 20)
Pavel Datsyuk (NHL 20)
Tyler Weiman (NHL 20 - NHL 21)
Wendell Young (NHL 20 - NHL 21)
Guy Lafleur (NHL 20 - NHL 21)
Ryan Johansen (NHL 20 - NHL 21)
Mike Condon (NHL 20 - NHL 22)
Cam Neely (NHL 20 - NHL 22)
James Neal ( NHL 20 - NHL 23)
These 669 players represent fourteen different nationality. We have players from Austria, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine and USA on alumni teams. It's strange, that we have alumni players from Lithuania and Ukraine, but not any alumni players from Latvia or Belarus. When we looking NHL players, which come from Latvia, there is names like Artūrs Irbe and Sandis Ozoliņš. Irbe has played 619 games in NHL and Ozoliņš has played 1012 games. The reason may be in licences, why this latvian duo hasn't been yet in the game.
