Missing Slovak NHL Alumni players
I don’t understand what you have against Slovakia but the Alumni are very poorly represented in NHL24. Just for comparison, It’s interesting how many Czech players from the 90s/2000s are in the Alumni group (14) - Jagr, Hasek, Elias, Hejduk, Kron, Zidlicky, Pivonka, Holik, Hemsky, Neckar, Slegr, Hrdina, Michalek, Kuba. 9 of 14 Czech alumni received high rated, usable cards in HUT (86-94 OVR)
For Slovak players, the story is unfortunately different. Where is Washington’s top goal scorer Peter Bondra with his 503 NHL goals and 892 points? Where are the playoff heroes Zigmund Palffy, Pavol Demitra (STL Blues Hall of fame), Miroslav Satan, Jozef Stumpel, Richard Zednik, Robert Svehla, Lubomir Visnovsky, Ladislav Nagy, Andrej Meszaros, Zdeno Ciger, Tomas Kopecky, Marek Svatos, Lubomir Bartecko, and many others? Some of these names have 700+ points in NHL.
Slovakia has only 2 barely usable alumni players which are repeated every single year as PUI - Mikita from the 60s and Stastny from the 80s. Both were born in Slovakia but represented team Canada on the world stage. Why not give Stastny STL card in NHL94 anniversary event? Instead we got 4 Czech Alumni (94 Hejduk, 94 Elias, 88 Pivonka, 94 Kron). Then there are two additional Slovak alumni - Handzus and Budaj 70 OVR base icons, which have not been usable at any point in the game.
In NHL24 we also got Hossa and Chara back, because they were removed in NHL23. I don’t consider those recent players retiring after 2020 to be true alumni though. That said, I hope Gaborik is also coming back in NHL25.
And you know what is the cherry on top and a testament of EA not caring at all? Reading in every single intro sequence “SLOVENIA” on the boards when I use logo of team Slovakia when playing HUT. You may as well just write Anze Kopitar on the boards because he’s the only Slovenian player to play in NHL and score some points.
Slovakia, it’s NOT in the game.
@EA_Aljo please forward this to the licensing team.
