The Flames' alumni roster in NHL 20 is terrible

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Jay Feaster told me this was the best roster of virtual players currently not in the NHL

And Sutter said this team has more 20 goals scorers than any other team.

And where is Kotalik?

How about Martin St Louis?

[bax]

Definitely some licensing issues going on here- it sounds like lots of teams are terrible

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by zukes

Gelinas and Conroy also missing

I was thinking Gelinas wasn't there because he was mostly not a Flames but then I see guys like McCarty, Housely, etc.

[Robbob]

How can you leave Loob off that roster. Still the only Swede to score 50 goals..but Hagman?! Hagman played in more games for all the other teams he played for than he did in Calgary (except Anaheim which was his last season in the NHL). Might as well have Fuhr and Smith on our team since it seems you just have to play on the team. Hell, might as well add Cujo.

[flamesgod]

Wow that’s terrible, so many good players missing

[GioforPM]

I can't imagine that licencing was an issue to keep guys like Loob out.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I was thinking Gelinas wasn't there because he was mostly not a Flames but then I see guys like McCarty, Housely, etc.

Housley isn't a great example for that, he played more games for Calgary in his five years here than he did for any other team not in Buffalo. He was much less of a Jet, Blue, Blackhawk, Maple Leaf, Devil, or Capital than he was a Flame.

The weirdest inclusions have to be Hagman, who was absolutely awful here and only played 106 games as a Flame before being unceremoniously waived in October, and Jones, who had one decent year but was never even close to being the best on the team or even his line.

[northcrunk]

Did EA move their head office to Edmonton recently?

Because this is no good

[868904]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Did EA move their head office to Edmonton recently?

Because this is no good

I think their head office is in Vancouver, so just as no good.

[jlh2640]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

So as I understand it, EA Sports has decided to include alumni teams for every franchise in NHL 20. It's a neat idea. I'm a sucker for hockey history and it'd be really cool to face-off in historical best-on-best matchups.

Well... about the best-on-best part...

According to this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/CalgaryFlam...medium=ios_app), this is the Flames' alumni team in the new game. Tell me if you think anyone is missing.

F - Andrew Cassels
F - Chris Clark
F - Theo Fleury
F - Doug Gilmour
F - Curtis Glencross
F - Niklas Hagman
F - Tim Hunter
F - Olli Jokinen
F - David Jones
F - Chuck Kobasew
F - Bob MacMillan
F - Sandy McCarthy
F - Darren McCarty
F - Lanny McDonald
F - Brian McGrattan
F - Joey Mullen
F - Joe Nieuwendyk
F - Kent Nilsson
F - Joel Otto
F - Colin Patterson
F - Dan Quinn
F - Gary Roberts
F - Stephane Yelle

D - Tommy Albelin
D - Phil Housley
D - Cale Hulse
D - Steve Konroyd
D - Al MacInnis
D - Dana Murzyn
D - Rob Ramage
D - Robyn Regehr
D - Phil Russell
D - Todd Simpson

G - Trevor Kidd
G - Reggie Lemelin
G - Mike Vernon

I'd wonder if there were licensing issues on Iginla but he was literally on the cover of one of their games! And it's not like he hasn't been retired long enough, David Jones is on the team (?????? I mean I'm not mad but what) and he played his last game after Iginla did.

No Iginla and Kipper has me saying I dont care and wont use it then

[Hanna Sniper]

No Leeman, how the hell is this team going to score any goals, thats it, I'm saving my money and not accepting anymore of EA's crap

unless he's on Toronto's roster and I can still trade Gilmour for him

[Rhettzky]

Would this be close to best alumni roster?

Gary Roberts - Joe Nieuwendyk - Jarome Iginla
Hakan Loob - Joel Otto - Theoren Fleury
Jim Peplinski - Kent Nilsson - Lanny McDonald
Robert Reichel - Doug Gilmour - Joe Mullen

Extra's: Sergei Makarov, Alex Tanguay, Tim Hunter, Valeri Bure

Al MacInnis - Gary Suter
Paul Reinhart - Jamie McCoun
Phil Housley - Robyn Regehr

Extra's: Pekka Rautakallio, Dion Phaneuf

Mike Vernon
Miikka Kiprusoff

Extra: Reggie Lemelin

[TheScorpion]

Cammalleri and McCrimmon should be on there somewhere, IMO.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Andrew Cassels may have been the softest player ever to wear the Flaming C.

[Poe969]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Andrew Cassels may have been the softest player ever to wear the Flaming C.

You just hurt his feelings....and gave him a lower body injury.

[agulati]

They might have populated the alumni teams with players created for a specific team, who has played with other teams too. So Jokinen was created for Florida, but once created, was added to Calgary and Toronto as well.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by agulati

They might have populated the alumni teams with players created for a specific team, who has played with other teams too. So Jokinen was created for Florida, but once created, was added to Calgary and Toronto as well.

Iginla’s absence is baffling. He’s in last year’s game ffs.

...this roster is literally just them trolling us.

[dobbles]

I would imagine they are having to do individual licensing for this unlike the leagues where they can get all players with one agreement. They used to struggle (they may still I havent gotten the game in years) with AHL players not being in the game for launch each year due to players not having their forms signed. I think once they played a game it would kick in automatically and they would get patched in.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by flamesgod

Wow that’s terrible, so many good players missing

It's not even so much as to good players missing as there are some terrible players that are included. Hulse, Jones, Hagman? Really? I'm surprised they left other Flames greats like Dustin Boyd, Aaron Gavey, and Nigel Dawes (just to name a few) off that list.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Housley isn't a great example for that, he played more games for Calgary in his five years here than he did for any other team not in Buffalo. He was much less of a Jet, Blue, Blackhawk, Maple Leaf, Devil, or Capital than he was a Flame.

The weirdest inclusions have to be Hagman, who was absolutely awful here and only played 106 games as a Flame before being unceremoniously waived in October, and Jones, who had one decent year but was never even close to being the best on the team or even his line.

I never knew that about Housely. But still, you'd think each team would have individual alumni so he'd be on Buffalo.

I'm shocked at your Jones comment.