Who is Free Agent Brendan Burke

[Oddbob]

Why is there a overly high rated fake player named Brendan Burke in NHL 18?

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[GiuDiSta50]

He committed suicide for being gay.

He was actually on track to make The Show

 

[Patrik Barkov]

He committed suicide for being gay.

He was actually on track to make The Show

It was a car accident.

 

[GiuDiSta50]

It was a car accident.

Right, my bad


I'm not homophobic. It was just a pure coincidence that he came out and he died. I'd remember it as suicide. Again, though, I'm not homophobic

 

[Elvs]

This thread was a cringe read.

I read the title and thought it was a bit strange they would honour Brendan Burke in the game now, given it's been 7 years since he died.

Then I started the game, looked at the free agents and saw the kid's name is Benjamin, not Brendan.

EA has been doing this for years now. I think they hold a contest and every year a kid wins the chance to be in the game.

Just move him to the ECHL and he won't turn up in the draft or as a free agent in franchise mode. Problem solved.

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

No need to move them, they simply don't show up in game modes anyways.

Anyways, to the guy upset if that someone who was going to make the NHL, was related to an ex NHLer and current staff, was put in the game, get real. It's a game.

 

[leburn98]

This thread was a cringe read.

I read the title and thought it was a bit strange they would honour Brendan Burke in the game now, given it's been 7 years since he died.

Then I started the game, looked at the free agents and saw the kid's name is Benjamin, not Brendan.

EA has been doing this for years now. I think they hold a contest and every year a kid wins the chance to be in the game.

Just move him to the ECHL and he won't turn up in the draft or as a free agent in franchise mode. Problem solved.

Does this work for the Expansion draft mode as well? I only ask because when I started mine, it defaulted to the default rosters and ignored all changes I made to them. The first thing I do when I buy an NHL game is remove the LTIR and retired players from active rosters by sending them to other leagues. This mode ignored all of that.

 

[Elvs]

Does this work for the Expansion draft mode as well? I only ask because when I started mine, it defaulted to the default rosters and ignored all changes I made to them. The first thing I do when I buy an NHL game is remove the LTIR and retired players from active rosters by sending them to other leagues. This mode ignored all of that.

Unfortunately not. I just complained about this in a different thread. Because I like to edit players manually, I was dissappointed to find out I can't use my custom roster in expansion mode

 

[IHaveNoCreativity]

Bump but it's the make a wish kid, they've been doing this for years.

 

[n00bxQb]

Not all of the kids featured in EA's game are Make-A-Wish kids.

For example, Sabrina Ladha was featured in NHL 09 because her father won a charity auction (proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish foundation) and Lexi Peters was featured in NHL 12 because of a letter she wrote the dev team.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blo...l-made-nhl-video-game-history?urn=nhl,wp12363

In any case, it's been a thing long enough that most are aware you just need to either edit them lower or move them before you start your franchise or BAP if you don't want them in the game.