NHL 98 (Game)

NHL 98

GAME » on September 30, 1997

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The 7th game of the NHL franchise from EA Sports. It was the last to be released on 16-bit systems.

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Overview

NHL 98 is EA's yearly NHL franchised hockey game for the 1997 season. For the first time, the series includes National Teams. Although the developers were unable to get the official Nagano Olympic license, they were able to have national teams with corresponding rosters.

EA also introduced for the first time in their NHL series 3Dfx Glide support which dramatically changed their graphics from previous years (although the SNES and Genesis versions of the game continued to look like the previous 2D games). The game was the last NHL game to be released on SNES and Genesis.

Peter Forsberg of the Colorado Avalanche is the game's cover athlete. Mario Lemiuex appears in the Saturn version of the game, although he had already retired at the end of the 1996-97 NHL Season.

Gameplay

Game Modes

Exhibition: Single game, pick a team and one for the opponent and face against the computer or a friend.
Season: Play all 82 games of the 1997-98 NHL season, trade players, sign free agents and go through the ups and down of a full season.
Practice: Try situations like penalty kills, power plays, odd man rushes. Select how many players desired versus how many players the opposing teams have.
Skill Challenge: Try some of the challenges that have been made popular with the NHL's All Star game, such as faster skater, accuracy shooting, skating around cones and 2 on 0 goalie scenarios.
Shoot Out: One on One, goalie versus a skater on a breakaway.

Teams & Rankings

In addition to the then 26 NHL Teams (before Atlanta Thrashers, Nashville Predators, Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild), two All Star Teams and only 3 National Teams (United States, Canada, Europe).

Here are the default NHL Team Rankings:

Team	Even Strength	Power Play	Penalty Killing	Goaltending
Anahiem Mighty Ducks	9th	6th	22nd	11th
Boston Bruins (Concept)	26th	16th	21st	26th
Buffalo Sabres (Concept)	6th	26th	13th	6th
Calgary Flames (Concept)	21st	8th	17th	13th
Carolina Hurricanes (Concept)	19th	4th	10th	19th
Chicago Blackhawks (Concept)	14th	17th	11th	7th
Colorado Avalanche (Concept)	1st	3rd	2nd	5th
Dallas Stars (Concept)	2nd	19th	16th	3rd
Detroit Red Wings (Concept)	5th	7th	4th	2nd
Edmonton Oilers (Concept)	13th	6th	18th	16th
Florida Panthers (Concept)	7th	21st	7th	4th
Los Angeles Kings (Concept)	24th	25th	3rd	20th
Montreal Canadians	17th	13th	26th	23rd
New Jersey Devils (Concept)	3rd	23rd	1st	1st
New York Islanders (Concept)	22nd	22nd	15th	18th
New York Rangers (Concept)	8th	1st	25th	1th
Ottawa Senators (Concept)	16th	11th	20th	12th
Philadelphia Flyers (Concept)	4th	18th	6th	8th
Phoenix Coyotes	11th	5th	5th	15th
Pittsburgh Penguins (Concept)	10th	2nd	23rd	25th
San Jose Sharks (Concept)	25th	20th	12th	24th
St. Louis Blues	12th	15th	14th	14th
Tampa Bay Lightning (Concept)	20th	24th	8th	17th
Toronto Maple Leafs (Concept)	23rd	14th	19th	22nd
Vancouver Canucks (Concept)	15th	10th	24th	21st
Washington Capitals (Concept)	18th	12th	9th	9th

Players with 100 Rating

There are several players in the game that are by default rated 100, they are:

Name	Team	Position
Paul Kariya	Anahiem Mighty Ducks	Left Wing
Dominik Hasek	Buffalo Sabres (Concept)	Goaltender
Peter Forsberg	Colorado Avalanche (Concept)	Center
Sergei Fedorov	Detroit Red Wings (Concept)	Center
Rod Brind'Amour	Phildelphia Flyers	Left Wing
Eric Lindros	Philadelphia Flyers (Concept)
Jaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins (Concept)	Right Wing
Keith Tkachuk	Phoenix Coyotes	Left Wing
Paul Coffey	Philadelphia Flyers (Concept)	Right Defense
Ray Bourque	Boston Bruins (Concept)	Left Defense

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