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EA Gives Hockey Fans a Virtual Season

Posted by Zonk on from the better-then-nothin'-aye? dept.

se2schul writes "Although there is no NHL hockey this year because of the labour dispute, you can still look up scores. EA is simulating the 2004-05 NHL season using NHL 2005, made in the company's Vancouver studio. The irony won't be lost on long-suffering Maple Leafs fans: It's taken a lockout for Toronto to top the league."

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  1. Reminds me of the Olympics by sgant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just this past Olympics, here in Chicago channel 7's sport's guy Mark Giangreco would use a Sony PS2 to playing an Olympic summer game on it, as to simulate the games going on in Athens.

    Since it was ABC and they couldn't show any footage at all of the games due to copyright, they had the footage from the PS2 and Giangreco would do the voice over saying the scores and winners and losers.

    It was pretty funny and I'm sure not the only place it happened in the country, but I only saw it in Chicago.

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    "Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
  2. For the last quarter century by LordOfYourPants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The hockey season in Toronto has been the following:

    The Leafs getting off to a good start early in the season. Hockey fans saying "The Leafs are gonna win it this year!"

    The Leafs going on to a mediocre mid-season. Hockey fans saying "The Leafs are gonna win it this year!"

    The Leafs picking it up big time toward the end of the season. Hockey fans saying "The Leafs are gonna win it this year!"

    The Leafs win the first playoff game. Hockey fans saying "The Leafs are gonna win it this year!!"

    The Leafs lose the second playoff game brutally. Hockey fans say "The Leafs could have won it this year if it weren't for that call by referee X in period Y."

    It has been this way since 1967. Everyone here seems to ignore the fact that the last time the Leafs won the cup the NHL only had 6 teams.

    If ever there were a real-life city-wide reality distortion field, it would be in Toronto when dealing with the Leafs.

    I love this city so much, but the Leafs fans are something else :)

    Strangely enough, the Blue Jays seem to get bashed all the time despite winning two world series in a row about a decade ago.

    -- Speaking as neither a baseball nor a hockey fan. Take it as you will.