- Year: 1997
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer: Electronic Arts Canada
- Theme: Hockey
Pundits may say that hockey is now a "world game", but Canadians know that it’s still their game at heart. EA Sports knows that too, and has developed the NHL series of games exclusively at EA Canada since its inception oh so many years ago. Unfortunately, for both Canadian hockey fans and PC sports game fans, the homegrown product has been more than a little disappointing of late. On the ice last fall, Team Canada lost the inaugural World Cup (didn’t the soccer people have some kind of claim on that one, Mr. Bettman?). At the same time, on the screen, EA Canada released NHL 97, an eye-candy showpiece that was all style, no substance, and jam-packed with just about every sort of bug known to man. Coincidence? I think not.