NHL 2004 brings professional hockey to life like never before, with crisp passes, searing slap-shots, and a variety of new ways to check your opponent to regain control of the puck.

NHL 2004Its been called the fastest sport on Earth--and the faster the players, the tougher the contact.

NHL 2004 is the hockey fans dream come true, with the addition of international leagues, Bruise Control fighting system, online play, and a Dynasty Mode that lets you build a powerhouse.

Joe Thornton was the original choice but after he was brought up on assault charges, he was removed and replaced by Dany Heatley for the games first shipments.

The game adds 3 European Elite Leagues - Germanys Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Swedens Elitserien and Finlands SM-liiga.

This is not the first time that European teams are included in an EA game; EA released both Elitserien 95 and Elitserien 96 for the Mega Drive in Sweden only and Elitserien and SM-liiga 2001 as an expansion pack for PC in Sweden and Finland which included those teams).

The ratings of the teams in the Elitserien and SM-liiga were comparable to the NHL rosters, however future installments had the league teams inferior to the NHL.

In addition to the gameplay improvements, one particular non-gameplay improvement was added.

When a team wins the Stanley Cup Finals, a large-scale celebration ensues.

It included players skating around the ice holding the Cup over their heads.

This then led to the common snapshot of the team and the coaches that holds true in the NHL.

A secret song ( Shatterday by Vendetta Red ) plays while the animation shows the stats of the players in the picture, ending with the captain.

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Because of these additions, it was praised as one of the best games in the series to date.

Template:Citation needed The Dynasty Mode, regarded by many gamers, still has its flaws - trades were very difficult to accept, and only allows the player to manage the team at the maximum of 20 seasons.

When two players names flashed onto the bottom of the screen, accompanied by the word Fight and a bell sounding, the person playing the game could push a button to begin a fight, or hold off until a later time.

Furthermore, goaltenders were able to fight however, goalie fights appear to be completely random, as the names of other players are shown at the bottom of the screen, however, a goalie fight can be triggered by beginning the fight while the goalie has control of the puck; also, goalies are not thrown out of a game for fighting; in real life, goaltenders who fight are given both a major for fighting and a minor for leaving the crease, resulting in game misconducts for both combatants.

On breakaway plays a player can maneuver the deke analog stick for an automatic goal.

By the time EA Sports heard news of the glitch hundreds of thousands of units had been shipped around the world.

The Create a team feature allowed the player to create a new NHL team and put it in the game and the player could choose between NHL jerseys as the teams uniform.

Though not very noticeable at times, NHL 2004 included all new graphics.

For those playing the game for the PC, the template for creating new jerseys, masks, gloves, pants, players faces, basically everything you can edit were all changed.

One exciting feature in NHL 2004 (PC) is the interface which has been completely rebuilt by members.

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These updates include major improvements like dramatically expanded statistics, GameCast, team reports, full box scores, ingame gameclock selectors, etc.

All is possible because the interface of NHL 2004 was entirely written in Javascript and html, and thus easily modifiable.

Many veteran EA hockey players consider the AI in NHL 2004 (PC version) unique, which is the main reason for its long, passionate and loyal cult following.

This has led to the development of several new mods such as a mod to rebuild the game for the 1996-97 season, an AHL modification, and a classics mod, and seasonal updates to rosters, gameplay, faces and game clock (like ESPN, NBC, Versus and etc.).

The NEHL has been around for 12 years hosting various incarnations in the EA NHL series.

They decided to go with the Flyermania modded NHL2004 after plans for NHL10 for the PC were cancelled.

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