sport nhl 2005
NHL 2005 , the successor to NHL 2004 , is a ___MASK90___ video game released in 2004 . NHL 2004 , developed by the EA Black Box studios , is an ___MASK18___ video game . It is the successor to " NHL 2003 ". The game adds three European Elite Leagues : Germany ' s Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( DEL ), Sweden ' s Elitserien ( SEL ), and Finland ' s SM - liiga . The Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( English :" German ___MASK18___ League ") or DEL , is a German professional ___MASK18___ league that was founded in 1994 . It was formed as a replacement for the ___MASK18___ Bundesliga and became the new top - tier league in Germany as a result . Unlike the old Bundesliga , the DEL is not under the administration of the German ___MASK18___ Federation . The DEL currently has the highest number of American and Canadian players outside North America . NHL 2003 is the 11th edition of the popular EA Sports NHL series , a ___MASK90___ video game , released in 2002 as the successor to " NHL 2002 ". Jarome Iginla appears as the cover athlete and spokesperson of the game . Iginla appears in the Behind The Scenes video to show the player how the game was made . It was the first installment of the NHL series to be released on GameCube . ___MASK18___ is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent ' s net to score points . ___MASK18___ teams usually consist of six players each : one goaltender , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team .