Subban, Kessel, Karlsson among players up for EA Sports’ hockey video game cover
TORONTO – Montreal’s P.K. Subban, Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson and Toronto’s Phil Kessel are among the eight players up for the cover for EA Sports’ new hockey video game.
The other cover athlete candidates for “NHL 15” are Boston’s Patrice Bergeron, San Jose’s Logan Couture, Los Angeles’ Drew Doughty, Colorado’s Matt Duchene and St. Louis’ T.J. Oshie.
The winner will be decided via a fan vote starting today on covervote.nhl.com/#/ballot. Fans can also use specific Twitter hashtags on Thursdays to advance their player’s cause.
The player vote is in a head-to-head format.
Quarter-final pairings pit Subban against Kessel, Bergeron against Karlsson, Couture against Doughty, and Duchene against Oshie. Voting for this round runs through May 18.
The cover athlete winner will be announced June 24 at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas.
The made-in-Vancouver video game comes out this fall for Xbox 360 and One and PlayStation 3 and 4.
Veteran Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils edged fellow goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the fan vote for the “NHL 14” cover.
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