Eric Staal named cover-boy for NHL 08

According to Alex Blonski, over at the "Games and reviews" column at Canada.com blogs, Canadian Eric Staal is EA's lastest victim, chosen to be cover-boy for the upcoming NHL 08 game.

Staal is apparently, a huge NHL 07 fan and that he played the mediocre '07 version "fanatically".

I guess most of us did, even if it wasn't very good, I hope EA Sports does a much better job this time around.

EA Sports has also acquired, finally, the AHL franchise that Gretzky hockey games have held so far, that's right, all 29 teams.

And EA realized how crappy their last game was as well, and they've fine tuned a lot.

--BBR

Ryan Miller...on EA's NHL 08 cover?

That, ladies 'n' gentlemen, is what has been flying around some hockey message boards in recent times.

If you don't know, EA Sports' "NHL" franchise is pretty succesful, although it has fallen off in the recent years.

But the question is: is this authentic, or just some joke?

Ryan Miller, no offence, is not good enough to be on the cover of a video game just yet, take a look at the recent names to hit the game cover:

1999 Lindros cover
2000 Pronger cover
2001 Nolan cover
2002 Lemieux cover
2003 Iginla cover
2004 Heatley/Sakic cover
2005 Naslund cover
2006 Lecavalier cover
2007 Ovechkin cover

Does it really make sense for Ryan Miller to follow suit?
And, if you look closely, the image is fake, the "08" is bigger than the "NHL" and the background for the "NHL 08" lettering should be transparent, like its predecessor, NHL 07.

Man, I should make one of those with Cristobal Huet on it, it would be so easy.

--BBR