Per week earlier than the Winter Olympics get underway, EA has added ladies’s groups to its NHL video games for the primary time. You can now choose certainly one of 10 ladies’s International Ice Hockey Federation nationwide squads in : Canada, Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and, after all, Team USA.

EA has additionally launched IIHF Men’s and World Juniors groups to NHL 22. Along with competing in IIHF World Championship tournaments, the Men’s and Women’s groups are playable within the Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now and Offline/Online Shootouts modes. EA final month.

NHL 12 (which was launched in 2011) was the primary sport within the sequence by which gamers might take to the digital ice as a lady, so long as they created one themselves. The following yr, Canadian hockey pioneer Hayley Wickenheiser and American protection participant Angela Ruggiero (who might be a part of any crew in NHL 13) the primary actual playable ladies hockey gamers within the franchise, nevertheless it’s taken nearly one other decade for EA so as to add full ladies’s squads.

The NHL sequence is following different main sports activities video games franchises in including ladies’s groups. EA introduced them to its FIFA video games , whereas 2K Games launched the WNBA to NBA 2K .