{"id":64,"date":"2012-08-29T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-08-29T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:51:23","slug":"canadian-hockey-great-hayley-wickenheiser-in-nhl-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/08\/canadian-hockey-great-hayley-wickenheiser-in-nhl-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Hockey Great Hayley Wickenheiser in NHL 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great Canadian hockey star is being included in the upcoming release of NHL 13, but she&#8217;s not a member of the NHL. Yes you read that right &#8230; she.<\/p>\n<p>Hayley Wickenheiser is one of two female athletes to be featured as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wick_22\/status\/240412521138360320\">playable character in the NHL 13 video game<\/a>. A member of the Canada women&#8217;s national ice hockey team, she has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics four times, capturing three gold and one silver medal. Wickenheiser currently plays for the University of Calgary women&#8217;s hockey team.<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports started including female players in &#8220;NHL 12,&#8221; which featured generic female characters. But this is the first time recognizable, real-world female athletes are a part of the made-in-Canada game.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran American defenceman Angela Ruggiero is also available as a playable character.<\/p>\n<p>NHL 13 is available in stores September 11th and the demo is currently available for download on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4QbPPCGtjw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great Canadian hockey star is being included in the upcoming release of NHL 13, but she&#8217;s not a member of the NHL. Yes you read that right &#8230; she. Hayley Wickenheiser is one of two female athletes to be featured as a playable character in the NHL 13 video game. A member of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation3","category-xbox360","tag-nhl-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nhl_13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2521,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2013\/04\/nhl-14-revealled\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"NHL 14 Revealled","date":"April 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Electronic Arts announced today the new features for EA Sports' upcoming NHL 14 title, which is set to be released in the fall. 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