NHL Hockey 94 (Genesis) - The Cutting Room Floor

NHL Hockey 94
Also known as: NHL 94Developer: High Score ProductionsPublisher: EA SportsPlatform: GenesisReleased in US: March 1993Released in EU: 1993 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

NHL 94 is the third installment in the EA Sports NHL series.

Contents

• 1 Exception Handler
• 2 Leftover NHLPA 93 Graphics
• 3 Revisional Changes
  • 3.1 Developer Logos
  • 3.2 Title Screen
  • 3.3 Hartford Whalers
  • 3.4 Tonight's Matchup
  • 3.5 Players
  • 3.6 Unused Text
    • 3.6.1 Arena Names
    • 3.6.2 Player Names
• 4 Team Data Oddities

Exception Handler

If the game ever crashes, it'll display an exception handler at the top of the screen.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Leftover NHLPA 93 Graphics

The Pro Set Trading Cards logo is partially stored within the pause menu graphics. Some of the tiles; however, were overwritten.

Revisional Changes

The game was later re-released as a bonus feature in the PlayStation 2 version of NHL 06. Due to legal issues, a few changes had to be made:

Developer Logos

Original	NHL 06
	N/A

The High Score Productions/Mark Lesser screen was removed.

Title Screen

Original	NHL 06

"Licensed by Sega Enterprises Ltd." was removed, and the text does not scroll down to reveal the credits.

Hartford Whalers

Original	NHL 06

As the NHL didn't have the rights to use their name and logo at the time NHL 06 was released, the Hartford Whalers are instead called the Hartford Canes (a nod to their post-1997 relocation as the Carolina Hurricanes) with a fictional logo based on the Hurricanes' to match (they do keep the Whalers' colors, however).

Tonight's Matchup

Original	NHL 06

Original	NHL 06
Hi, I'm Ron Barr for EA Sports. Welcome to a sold out (arena). Tonight's National Hockey League game features the (visiting team) and (home team).	Welcome to (home team's city). Tonight's National Hockey League game features the (visiting team) and (home team).

Ron Barr was removed, the text box was moved up, and the text itself was changed.

Players

Original	NHL 06

All players were replaced with generic ones, and all player pictures were replaced with silhouettes.

Unused Text

Arena Names

The data for each team includes the name of their arena. Because of the changes to the matchup screen text (as noted above), all arena names are never seen. Oddly, quite a few of them were changed despite this. Those are denoted in the table below:

Team	Original	NHL 06
Anaheim Mighty Ducks	Pond	Park
Buffalo Sabres	Memorial Auditorium	Buffalo Auditorium
Calgary Flames	Olympic Saddledome	Calgary Saddledome
Dallas Stars	Reunion Arena	Dallasn (sic) Arena
Detroit Red Wings	Joe Louis Sports Arena	Detroit's Sports Arena
Edmonton Oilers	Northlands Coliseum	Edmontonds (sic) Coliseum
Los Angeles Kings	Great Western Forum	Los Angeles.n (sic) Forum
New Jersey Devils	Byrne Meadowlands Arena	New Jerseyowlands (sic) Arena
New York Islanders	Nassau Coliseum	New Yorkoliseum (sic)
New York Rangers	Madison Square Garden	New YorkSquare Garden
Philadelphia Flyers	Spectrum	PF Arena
Pittsburgh Penguins	Civic Arena	Pittsburgha (sic)
Quebec Nordiques	Colisee de Quebec	Quebece (sic) de Quebec
Tampa Bay Lightning	Fairgrounds Expo Hall	Tampa Bay's Expo Hall
Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Toronto.af (sic) Gardens
Vancouver Canucks	Pacific Coliseum	Vancouver.liseum (sic)
Washington Capitals	Capital Centre	Washingtonntre (sic)
All Stars East	Madison Square Garden	New YorkSquare Garden
All Stars West	Madison Square Garden	New YorkSquare Garden

Player Names

While all of the players in the game were replaced with generic ones (as noted above), the names for up to 2 players from the original version remain in each team's data. These players are always the last one(s) listed and are always defensemen (the names of players marked with a * are partially cut off):

Team	Player(s)
Anaheim Mighty Ducks	Dennis Vial*
Boston Bruins	Jim Wiemer
Buffalo Sabres	Randy Moller, Keith Carney
Calgary Flames	Alexander Godynyuk*, Greg Smyth
Chicago Blackhawks	Cam Russell, Adam Bennett
Dallas Stars	Enrico Ciccone*
Detroit Red Wings	Steve Konroy*, Brad McCrimmon
Edmonton Oilers	Brad Werenka*
Florida Panthers	Stephane Richer
Hartford Whalers/Canes	Randy Ladouceur*, Allen Pedersen
Los Angeles Kings	Rene Chapdlaine
Montreal Canadiens	Donald Dufresne
New Jersey Devils	Tommy Albelin*, Myles O'Connor
New York Islanders	Dennis Vaske*, Richard Pilon
New York Rangers	Joe Cirella
Ottawa Senators	Brad Marsh*
Philadelphia Flyers	Gord Hynes*, Shawn Cronin
Pittsburgh Penguins	Bryan Fogarty*
Quebec Nordiques	Craig Wolanin
San Jose Sharks	Rob Zettler
St. Louis Blues	Murray Baron*
Tampa Bay Lightning	Chris Lipuma, Matt Hervey
Toronto Maple Leafs	Sylvain Lefebvre*, Bob McGill
Vancouver Canucks	Robert Dirk*
Washington Capitals	Jason Woolley*, Rod Langway
Winnipeg Jets	Dean Kennedy*, Randy Carlyle
All Stars East	Zarley Zalapski*, Glen Wesley
All Stars West	Steve Smith, Steve Chiasson

Team Data Oddities

• The data for the Dallas Stars is located in between the data for the Los Angeles Kings and the data for the Montreal Canadiens. This is a remnant of the Stars' 1993 relocation from Minnesota.
• The data for the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets are in reverse order (Winnipeg's is before Washington's).
• The data for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and Florida Panthers are located after the data for the Washington Capitals. This is likely because they were expansion teams that year, so their data was simply added to the end. Additionally, Florida's data comes before Anaheim's.

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Genesis	NHL Hockey • NHL Hockey '94 • NHL '95 • NHL '96 • NHL '97 • NHL '98
Sega CD	NHL Hockey '94
SNES	NHL '95 • NHL '96 • NHL '97 • NHL '98
Nintendo 64	NHL '99
Game Boy (Color)	NHL Hockey '95 • NHL '96 • NHL 2000
Wii	NHL Slapshot
PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Windows	NHL 2004
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	NHL '12
Other
Arcade	2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge
Genesis	NHL All-Star Hockey '95
SNES	NHL Stanley Cup
Nintendo 64	NHL Breakaway '98 • NHL Breakaway '99 • NHL Blades of Steel '99
Game Boy (Color)	NHL Blades of Steel • NHL Blades of Steel 2000
PlayStation	2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge • NHL Powerplay '96 • NHL FaceOff 98
PlayStation 2	NHL 2K8
Windows	NHL Powerplay '98