NHL 2004

NHL 2004, developed by EA Black Box Studios, is an ice hockey video game. It is the successor to NHL 2003 and is widely considered a game changer in the NHL series. The game adds 3 elite European leagues: Germany's German Ice Hockey League (DEL), Sweden's Elite Series (SEL), and Finland's SM League. (This is not the first time European teams have been included in an EA game; EA released both Elitserien 95 and Elitserien 96 for the Mega Drive in Sweden only, and Elitserien and SM-liiga in 2001 as an expansion pack for PC in Sweden and Finland that included these teams.) The scores of the teams in Elitserien and SM-liiga were comparable to those of the NHL, but in later editions the league's teams were worse than those of the NHL.