This yr’s version of EA Sports activities’ “NHL” collection will make historical past, with not solely with two cowl athletes, however with feminine illustration as nicely.
EA Sports activities introduced Wednesday Anaheim Geese middle Trevor Zegras and Workforce Canada ahead Sarah Nurse shall be on the duvet of “NHL 23.” Nurse is an Olympic gold medalist and a world champion, and she or he is now the primary feminine hockey participant to be on an “EA NHL” cowl. EA Sports activities introduced on Twitter the complete reveal of the sport shall be proven Thursday.
Zegras additionally gives New England illustration because the 21-year-old performed his school hockey at Boston College, the place he was a finalist for Hockey East Rookie of the Yr. Zegras was chosen by the Geese with the ninth general decide within the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
Nurse gained her gold medal within the 2022 Beijing Olympics after Workforce Canada beat Workforce USA, 3-2, within the closing. Workforce Canada’s gold medal run was a historic one as the ultimate averaged 3.54 million viewers, greater than any NHL recreation at that time within the 2021-22 season. It was the second most-watched hockey recreation in the US since 2019.
Nurse is an impartial member of the the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey Gamers Affiliation, and her announcement as a canopy athlete comes after “NHL 22” added ladies’s nationwide hockey groups to the sport for the primary time.
Hockey followers will hope these milestones will assist contribute to the expansion of the ladies’s recreation, boosting the profiles of gamers like Nurse and groups just like the Boston Satisfaction of the Premier Hockey Federation.
