NHL 27: Player creation and team creation

Player creation has taken a step back in NHL 27, as EA Sports updated the selection of player heads. For years, there were the same heads available to choose from for created players, making it easy to create missing players in NHL 26. For example, if you wanted to create Spencer Foo for NHL 26, who played for the Henderson Silver Knights in the 2022-23 season. When you created Foo in the game, you could take a screenshot of Spencer Foo's head and use it to select the correct head for Spencer Foo in NHL 26.

Now that EA Sports has added the Connected Franchise mode to NHL 27, I see that EA Sports should now update the creation suite for both player and team creation in NHL 28. Here are some things that would improve player and team creation.

- The same face creation tool as we have in EAFC27. I have been requesting this feature for NHL video games for years. Now, when we create players, we have to choose faces from pre-made options, which prevents us from creating realistic-looking players. When we create players in EAFC, we can customize even the smallest details of the face, allowing us to make players look like their real-life counterparts. I would be grateful if we could get this feature in NHL 28, for example, if we want to create Bobby Hull or Pavel Datsyuk in the game, it would be great if the created player looked like Datsyuk or Hull.

- Ability to add custom logos to the game. EA Sports launched the Team Builder feature for Madden and EA Sports College Football games a few years ago, where players can upload custom logos for teams. Especially now that EA Sports has added the Connected Franchise mode to the game, getting this feature for team creation would be timely. This would give players the opportunity to create old NHL teams like the Cleveland Barons, Atlanta Thrashers, or Phoenix Coyotes in the game, so that the teams would have their correct logos.

- Old player and goalie equipment. NHL 27 has a wide selection of player and goalie equipment, but it would be great if we could get older equipment like CCM Heaton pads and equipment that has been removed from the game. If we could get old removed equipment in the game, we could give created players like Pavel Datsyuk authentic equipment.