Next, we selected ten players who are currently enjoying a hot start to the season, and would thus be most likely to have received a bump in their stats. For our comparison we decided to roll back the active rosters to September 9th, which was the update that came before the game launched (September 13th). Seeing as we are now more than 33.3% of the way through the season, we thought it was finally fair to see which players have enjoyed a healthy boost to their stats. Thursday, the newest roster update was released online. However, some merely wish to wait on EA Sports to release a new roster update to see how 28+ games played has impacted player ratings. Some people take time to reflect upon the standings, stats leaderboards and look ahead on the schedule to see what key match-ups lie ahead for their team. Jim Hughson remained as play-by-play announcer throughout the series.Mark it down people, we're officially just over a third of the way into the 2016-17 NHL season. Online leagues of the game also became more organized.ĭaryl Reaugh left the series as color commentator in this game and was replaced by Bill Clement. The game has a total of 28 NHL teams, including the new expansion Atlanta Thrashers, which was the only team in the game that didn't exist in the 1998-99 season. There is also a third place match for the losers of the semi-finals. Eventually, a winner is crowned gold in the championship match. After the round robin, eight teams are eliminated and then the remaining eight have a "playoff," but instead of it being out of seven games it was single-elimination. NHL 2000 kept features from NHL 99 for example, created players can use any photo for their face, which is textured onto the head.Īnother mode in NHL 2000 is the Tournament mode, in which the user chooses 16 countries (only 18 countries were available in the game) to play a round robin.
The game is based on the 1999–2000 international ice hockey season.Ī season mode (later developed into a Franchise mode) with a retirement feature, drafting, and player trades were added to the series in NHL 99, and similar gameplay was used in this version, as well.
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