Pls Update International Sweden,Finland,Czechia, Swiss, Slovakia, Latvia -NHL25
*** DON'T NEED TO CREATE NEW PLAYERS; JUST COPY AND PASTE THEM TO INTERNATIONAL TEAMS ***
Below is half the work for you … in brackets are EA NHL 24 overall ratings of players.
Canada & USA need to be updated as well. (for example Sam Reinhart, Evan Bouchard and Adin Hill to Canada)
Sweden:
add Adrian Kempe (87) of the LA Kings, Gustav Forsling d-man of Florida, Filip Gustavsson (84) of the Minnesota Wild and Leo Carlsson (82) of Anaheim.
Finland:
add Mattias Maccelli (84) of the Coyotes, Eetu Luoistarinen (81), Niko Mikkola (80 – should be higher) of the Panthers and Buffalo goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (85), Colorado goalie Justus Annunen and Urho Vaakanainen (78) of the Anaheim Ducks.
Czechia:
add David Jiricek (81) of Columbus, Lukas Dostal the Anaheim goalie, Jiri Kulich (75) of AHL Rochester, Vadim Zahorna (78) of Pittsburgh, former NHLer center Roman Cervenka (78) of NL Papperswill, and AHL D-men Stanislav Svozil (74) of Cleveland Monsters and David Spacek (67) of AHL Iowa Wild while removing lower players like Martin Beranek, Michal Moravcik and Gabriel Szturc.
Switzerland:
Add NJ Devils goalie Akira Schmid (81) and Columbus D-man Tim Berni (78) (who played 59 NHL games last season & now with NL HC Geneve-Servette). Maybe add the AHL goalie of Charlotte Checkers Ludovic Waeber (71). One can add former NHLer Calvin Thurkauf (74) of HC Lugano in the NL who is presently leading the league in points. Remove Gilles Senn, Raphael Diaz Tristan Scherwey & Yannick Weber.
Slovakia:
add Samuel Knazko (73) of AHL Cleveland Monsters who played 2 NHL games last season, Milos Kelemen (72) of Coyotes, Pavol Regenda (73) of Ducks now with AHL SD Gulls, Martin Chromiak (68) of the AHL Ontario Reign, OHLer Dalibor Dvorsky (70), former NHLers Marek Hrivik (70) and Peter Cehlarik (74) who both plays for Leksands of the SHL. (Hrivik was Slovakia’s Captain) Patrik Koch a d-man for AHL Tuscon (who doesn’t appear on the AHL roster but has played in all the AHL games this season and 1 NHL game (formerly of HC Vitkovice of Czech league) and long-term veteran/Olympian Libor Hudacek (67) of HC Trinec and his line-mate and former NHLer Marko Dano (74) of the Czech league as well. One can remove Mario Hunter & Villiam Cacho.
Latvia:
add Eduards Tralmak (72) of the Czech League Kladno. Latvian defensemen Janis Jaks (68) and Kristaps Zile (65) playing for Czech HC Litvinov were among the top Latvian d-men and Latvian Captain Miks Indrasis (68) plays for Brynas of Allsvenskan and is among the top-10 scorers in the league and his Latvian teammate d-man Karlis Cukste (62-too low). Also, Oskar Batna (58 should be higher he was Latvia’s tournament MVP) of Jukurit of Liiga and Rihards Bukarts (62---too low … he was highest scored the 2023 world’s championship) of NL Biel-Bienne. One can also add youngsters Niks Fenenko (65) of QMJHL Baie-Comeau and Sandis Vilmanis (66) of OHL North Battalion (both top WJC players for Latvia)
Germany:
add D-men Kai Wissmann (66) who played in AHL for Providence just months ago (now with DEL Eisbaren Berlin) and Maksymillian Szuber (66) who presently has 14pts in 32 AHL for the Tucson Roadrunners.
Denmark:
add multi-Olympian Frederik Storm (70) of DEL Kolner and Mikkel Aagaard (64) of SHL MoDo who is among the SHL scoring leaders so his 64 should go up by at least 8. REMOVE Mikkel Bodker as he just retired from hockey.
France:
Add Pierre Dube (68 – too low) who played 3 NHL games for the Washington Capitals, and add Justin Addamo (61---too low) of ECHL Wheeling Nailers who also played 9 AHL games. I can add goalie Julian Junca (60) of ECHL Tulsa Oilers to France.
Austria:
Add Marco Kasper (75) of Grand Rapids of AHL and Konstantin Komarek (66 – should be higher) of Vasteras of Allsvenskan league (who is among the top scorers in the league). Team Austria should also have John Hughes (69) and d-man Phillipp Lindner (65) of Villacher they are among the top scorers in the ICE league for forwards and d-men. One should also add d-man Clemens Unterweger (64) of KAC and d-man Alexander Pallestrang (64) of Pioneers Voroarlberg and especially young scoring forward Seena Peeters of HC Innsbruck. Forwards Benjamin Nissner (68) and Mario Huber (68) both of HC Salzburg (ICEHL) are among Austria’s finest.
Italy:
Add Anthony Salinitri (70) of the Graz99ers, forward Alex Petan (67), Daniel Catenacci (66), Anthony Bardaro and d-man Nick Plastino of HC Pustertal. Please add center Giordano Finoro, d-man Randy Gazzola (69) and goalie Gianluca Vallini of Asiago of the ICEHL.
Norway:
Add Tampa Bay defenseman Emil Lilleberg who played 37 NHL games this season, add AHL d-man Ole Bjorvik Holm of the Cleveland Monsters, add Markus Vikingstad (64) of the DEL’s Fischtown Pinguins and D-man Ole Einar Engeland Andersen (64 – too low) of AIK of Allsvenskan after scoring over a point/game in the Norway league last year. And especially add the 2024 1st rounder Michael Brandsegg-Nygard (70) of the Allsvenskan league Mora IK and hopefully fellow rookie D-man and 2024 second-rounder Stian Solberg.
PS: Japan, Korea, Ukraine, Kazakstan, Poland and the UK are made up of 90% fictional players some are now in their LATE 40s in the game … can’t we add real players who played in the IIHF National teams to those teams
