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2 unusual facts about NHL Hockey


NHL Hockey

It was developed by Park Place Productions, North America's largest independent development company owned by Michael Knox and Troy Lyndon.

Richard Hilleman

An avid hockey player during his youth in Minnesota, Hilleman was Executive Producer or Producer for other successful EA Sports titles in the 1990s as well, including NHL Hockey, NHLPA Hockey, PGA Tour Golf and Tiger Woods Golf.



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Craven, Saskatchewan

Craven is the hometown of NHL hockey player Tanner Glass formerly of the Winnipeg Jets and now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and of runner Kendra Schaaf.

Dave Feldman

Feldman was hired by CSN Bay Area to serve as anchor/reporter for the network's San Francisco 49ers programming and the network's regular studio show SportsNet Central, including pre- and post-game shows for Major League Baseball, NBA basketball and NHL hockey broadcasts.

Dodge Avenger

In the US, the Avenger was launched with a 30 second television ad, "Tuned Up," that debuted Sunday, March 4, 2007 during NHL hockey, an ad in which a lab technician discovers he can play Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple on the Avenger's transmission.

Eric Cairns

Eric is still being featured in EA Sports' yearly NHL hockey game; he was featured in NHL 10 despite being retired for a number of years.

Fairchild 24

Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey player Bill Barilko and his dentist Henry Hudson disappeared on August 26, 1951, aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane, flying from Seal River, Quebec.

Lexi Peters

Lexi Peters (a native of Buffalo, New York) became the first female ice hockey player to appear in an EA Sports NHL Hockey video game.

Morley Drury

In 2010, Morley Drury joined his late brother, former NHL hockey player and United States Olympian Herb Drury, as an inductee of the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame, in the Athlete category.

Robbinsdale Cooper High School

Former NHL Hockey player Lance Pitlick, a defenseman who played between 1994 and 2002 for the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers.

St. Stephen, New Brunswick

Don Sweeney, former NHL hockey player with the Boston Bruins and Dallas Stars

Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute

Dan McGillis - Retired NHL Hockey Player (Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins, San Jose Sharks, New Jersey Devils)as well as Adler Mannheim of the German DEL