EA: first-week NHL 12 sales break franchise record

I am American, and I will throw a party the day NHL overtakes the NFL in popularity

Penguins for life

FYI: Canada is part of America. North America to be specific.

Anyways, I love watching Ice Hockey but I live Super HOTT, Summer All Year, Florida.

Congrats to NHL. Amazing Sport.

Alexander I am surprised you used a Tim Hortons reference with the Canadians ( Is Canadian ) and it's true ( not saying everyone loves it or likes it. ) But I Love Tim Hortons.

and about the real topic at hand. I figure NHL games would have sold more then that in the opening week of retail, well i guess you learn something new everyday.

P.S. I Love Tim Hortons more then I Love my Hockey .... but just by a bit

Whats a "Hockey"?

Oh God Tim Horton's....

Tim Horton's has one thing going for it, the price. You can buy an extra large coffee for under $3... but it definitely will not be the best coffee you have ever had, far from it in fact.

I'm pretty sure the sales are way up because everyone wants to see the Winnipeg Jets in action!

Hmm, maybe helps that there is no 2k sports version this year to compete against it.

Tried the demo and I found it needlessly complicated...and the commentary was pretty broken. Won't be buying it.

Go Avs.

Go Islanders.. And don't leave NY. If you move, go to Brooklyn. Oh, and Go STEELERS.

I wonder how much it had to do with the Jets coming back. Although, now that I think of it, the phoenix coyotes would have the Jets' retro jersey to choose from in previous NHL versions.

I'm sure SOMEONE will give me hell for this, because that's always how it is, but Go Leafs Go!

On another note, I know they have about half a dozen more games sold this year because my friends and I are all on a "every other year" thing where these games are concerned. We started in 08 and we've all stuck to it since.

Go Nucks!!

Go fifa!

I agree

They must have sold a TON of that to eager Winnipeg Jets fans dying to play a game again as their home team

I know I'll be lining up at midnight the year my Nordiques are back!

Dear EA Sports:

You're welcome.

Signed, Winnipeg

I picked up this game for the first time in a while! I've taken the time to learn some of the mechanics and acclimate myself to the controls, but I think EA messed up on this one.

There is almost no way for you to learn to play effectively other than jumping right in. The tutorials are really a joke and don't explain things very well. On top of that the lack of a paper manual makes it very difficult to play right off the bat.

Face-offs are a perfect example of this. They do a tutorial for it, but don't really explain how a backhand beats a stick lift, which beats a forehand, which can be defeated by tying up, which is weaker than a backhand. That is incredibly useful info (and I had to find it on some random NHL 11 youtube video). I was super frustrated with faceoffs online until I learned this.

I love the game, but I just wish EA would have done a better job with "teaching" the noobs how to play in their game. Especially since it seems there are a lot of us this year >.>