Well, I guessed that it was a license problem.
Sadly the one in EA who made the deal with IIHF have never played offline.... ☹️
The IIHF licence should be about using the jerseys and the right to use logos and name of the offical tournaments, not about locking players and making the modes unplayable...
in FIFA you can create Champions League tournament of your own with teams that you choose and mostly you can edit the lineups before the tournament.
So please make it right and playable to NHL 23!! (and you are of course welcome to surprise us with the change in NHL 22 too...)
I understand if we can't use real national team logos or jersey styles but , why use of players is also forbidden. Dear EA Sports we want use players which are in IIHF men's or junior world championships in the team creation. There is many players which can be found only IIHF world championship or junior world championship line-up's. For example we can't choice Owen Power or Stephane Da Costa to our own teams. EA Sports can you do something that , in future we could use out own teams players which found from IIHF men's-, womens- and junior world championships. Also same problem is in Spengler Cup , we could use all other teams players in team creation but not players of Team Canada. EA Sports your have a lot of offline players, which like teams- and players creation. Listen to these players !!
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