Sonny Milano's goal was set up by a circus pass byTrevor Zegras. There is a time and a place for it.
Sarah Nurse is the first women's hockey player to grace the cover of an NHL video game, according to the announcement.
Nurse starred in Canada's dominant gold-medal win at the Beijing Olympics. I didn't think I'd be on it. It speaks for where women's hockey is right now, the visibility and the value that people see in women's hockey.
There have been discussions about putting a female hockey player on the cover. Women's national team rosters were added to NHL 22 late last year, marking the first time women's players could be selected in the game.
We were looking for athletes that were on the biggest stage when we looked at the short list. Nurse is a pioneer in inclusion and diversity in the sport.
Zegras had a lot of highlight-reel goals in his first season with theDucks. Zegras lifted the puck on his stick behind the Buffalo Sabres net and passed it to Sonny Milano for a goal.
The Zegras was recreated in NHL 22.
Zegras said he saw a lot of videos of kids trying to create it. It was pretty cool to see a glitch over the net.
The Zegras is an official part of the franchise because of the way programmers created a way for players to execute that over-the-net pass.
Zegras is seen as the face of a generation of players who are pulling off video game moves in the NHL.
They're doing stuff where you're saying, "That should be in a video game first and in the NHL second." I don't know where it goes. We're not even thinking about what happens in NHL 24 at the moment.
The game will be available on all platforms on October 14. Information about new features will be released later this week.
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