![]() Now the two-time Olympic and two-time World champion will be digitally immortalized in NHL 22, along with her teammates who affectionately call Poulin “Captain Clutch.” Adding the women’s national teams to the videogame will be a positive representation of women in sports, similar to EA Sports PGA Tour’s partnership with the LPGA for next year’s installment in the series. Poulin’s game-winning goal gave Team Canada its first gold medal since 2012. Superstar team captain and forward Marie-Philip Poulin was responsible for scoring the goal shot during the first overtime period of the championship game. A trailer for the update, uploaded to the EA SPORTS NHL YouTube channel, shows the significance of this update, and reveals the character models of some of the new competitors. The championship game will also be included in the game, allowing players to relive Team Canada’s 3-2 win over Team USA. All ten IIHF women’s national teams will be available in the game, including the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship winners, Team Canada. Soon to add to the growing list of the game’s features, NHL 22 will finally include playable women’s teams in January 2022. Related: NHL 22 Gameplay Shows Off Graphical Upgrades & New Seattle Kraken Arena At the time of this writing, cross-platform play is still not supported in the game, but a one-time Hockey Ultimate Team migration is permissible for PS4 and Xbox players who have not started Hockey Ultimate Teams on the next-gen consoles. Adding to existing features like NHL 22’s X-Factor game mode, EA has also made the men’s and world’s junior teams available today with all federations, logos, and uniforms included in the Ultimate Team and World of Chel modes. The content includes a Matthews Team USA Hockey Ultimate Team item, an IIHF Ultimate Team uniform pack, and an IIHF World of Chel uniform bag. The inclusion of women players in NHL 22 is a significant step to allowing young players, especially girls, to experience a more diverse representation of women in sports.Today also marks the first day that owners of NHL 22 will have access to exclusive IIHF content until January 31, 2022. These teams will be available to play in various game modes, such as Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now, and Offline/Online Shootouts. Players can also lead any of the available IIHF women’s teams to win the Women’s World Championships in Championship mode, which features an authentic tournament structure, official visuals and rules, and much more. Which IIHF Women’s Team are you playing as first? □□ #NHL22 /btsNYaaJwQĪccording to NHL 22‘s website, the ten women’s teams that are available to play include teams from Canada, Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and USA. VP and GM at EA Sports Sean Ramjagsingh also commented in the press release, where he said, “The introduction of this latest IIHF content to NHL 22 continues the franchise’s evolution to reflect the growing diversity of its fanbase.” IIHF president Luc Tardif shared his optimism for the future of women’s representation in hockey and video games, saying, “We have taken a positive step today to ensure stronger representation for women in ice hockey’s digital landscape.” ![]() Representation matters, and I’m thrilled that every young girl who picks up a controller to play NHL 22 can feel like hockey is a sport for her, too.” ![]() IIHF also shared a press release regarding their collaboration with EA, where Team Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin expressed her gratitude for being a part of the update and the impact that’ll result from the inclusion of women’s teams in NHL 22, “It has been such a privilege to lace up my digital skates for the very first time in NHL 22, and to get to do so while playing for my country makes it all the more surreal. ![]() Today, EA announced on Twitter that the update was live, and players can now play as iconic players like Team USA’s Hilary Knight, Team Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin, and many more players from ten different international women’s teams.Īlong with the announcement, EA also released a promotional video for the update on YouTube, shown below, which featured several prominent women hockey players from Team USA and Team Canada speaking about their experiences growing up with a lack of representation of women’s hockey in video games and how the inclusion of women hockey players will have a significant impact on young girls and boys. However, the biggest addition that came with the new update is the inclusion of International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) women’s teams due to a partnership between EA and IIHF.
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