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NCAA Prospects In Next Roster Update?
Anyone have information if the next roster update will include NCAA Prospects who recently signed NHL contacts. IE: Lane Hutson (MTL), Frank Nazar (CHI), Cutter Gauthier (ANA), Luke Tuch (MTL).
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EA_Aljo
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@Beauts90 wrote:
@EA_Aljo wrote:
Licensing is always an issue. We cannot put players in the game we don't have the rights for. As far as an update goes, we'll have to wait and see if another is released.
My understanding is once a player takes their first official shift in the NHL, you have the licensing for that player.
Hutson and Nazar have already played a game this week and Gauthier is scheduled to tomorrow night.
These little things like not committing one way or another to something as simple as a future roster update are part of the reasons this team gets so much flack for poor communication.
That's not how it works. We still need individual players to authorize their right to be represented in our game. When we have the necessary paperwork done, signatures, etc, then they have to play their first NHL shift before they can be added to a roster. They all aren't just automatically included based on playing.
We normally announce patches a day before they're released. Roster updates sometimes get announced early, but normally don't. I have to wait until there's either approval to announce it on the forums or until it's already announced on our Twitter account. Which is why I can't confirm if there's going to be another update. In the past, as far as I know, we have still done roster updates this late in the season.
Newest Roster update includes at least some of the NCAA players like Nazar (CHI), Graf (SJS) and Hutson (MTL).
There are still some missing, though.
