As in previous year EA Sports together with NHL and NHLPA will allow players to decide who they would like to see on the cover of the newest entry of the NHL series via the NHL 14 Cover Vote Campaign. The competition has already opened, candidates can be viewed and voted for at http://covervote.nhl.com/
The voting will consists of two preliminary rounds to limit the number of candidates from 60 to 16. First in teammate vs teammate format fans will choose one representative from every team of Eastern and Western conference. During second round 16 top vote-getters players will advance to the final round — weekly, single elimination playoff. The winning player will be revealed at the EA SPORTS NHL 14 Cover Athlete during the2013 Stanley Cup Final.
This year fans can double their voting power by using player specific hashtags on “Twitter Vote Thursdays.” Each
player specific hashtag used on Twitter on Thursdays will be counted as two official votes.
Since NHL last year»s voting proved to be extremely succesful with over 25 million casted votes expectations and hopes from this year»s campaign are high.
“These 60 NHL stars are excited to be finalists in the vote campaign that will see the fans ultimately select the EA SPORTS NHL 14 cover athlete. Following an impressive level of fan and player engagement shown in the cover vote last year, we are looking forward to seeing how the bar will be raised this year,” said Adam Larry, NHLPA Director of Licensing.
More information about the candidates and voting campaign can be found here: http://covervote.nhl.com/#/ballot
