NHL 08 (PS3) Complete Roster Update (145 Created Players)

These don't. These are as official as it gets. Here is what this roster update includes:

- Rosters updated (with 99% accuracy) as of Saturday, October 20th.

- 145 created players, with at least four more to come in future updates. Their attributes were decided mainly using McKeen's Hockey, Red Line Report, TSN, the Hockey Forecaster, and Hockeydb.com. Other information was found through the always helpful Google.

- Corrected salaries, up to about 75% accuracy. This is a tedious task, so this will become further accurate in future updates.

Other things to know:

- Some players remained on their teams despite being sent packing to an ECHL team. I'd rather have them on an AHL team than in the FA pool.

- This will be updated semi-weekly here at On Fire.

- The potential rating was a very useful tool. I basically judged a player's potential by where they were drafted or their overseas experience (combined with age). This is important to know before asking me why Josef Boumedienne got a fairly decent rating; his rating won't be improving anytime soon.

- Also remember that if you do not like a rating, feel free to edit it yourself.

- Players coming over from Europe stayed in Europe and were instead created. I simply could not figure out what the hell caused the rosters to blow up if you brought them over from Europe. I checked lines, roster limits, contracts, and what not. No matter what I did, the rosters blew up.

- I paid absolutely no detail to what the players look like. I hope that doesn't detract from your experience.

Things to come

- Retired players will be "zero'ed" out. In other words, they will be given the worst possible rating and highest possible salary to prevent any CPU acquisitions in Franchise mode. I didn't do it now just in case people want to keep those players in the game.

- Massive player re-ratings. Some of these guys are rated horribly. Rico Fata is an example. Yeah, he can fly, but that is about all. In this game, speed can get you a lot of chances, so we have to tone him down in the other categories.

In any case, enjoy. I am sorry 360 owners, I don't have one, so I cannot help you.

Link to Rosters

LIST OF PLAYERS CREATED

- Rochester is listed separate since it is a shared affiliate between Florida and Buffalo.

- There are 145 total players if you include the three I need to create. An asterisk indicates a player I totally forgot. I apologize, there were times my eyes were about to fall out of my head. It takes about five minutes to create each player, so it got a little tough.

Anaheim

J. Hiller
D. Miller*

Atlanta

T. Enstrom
B. Little
O. Pavelec
T. Pospisil
B. Sterling*

Boston

M. Lucic
A. McQuaid
W. Rabbit
T. Rask
V. Sobotka

Calgary

G. Baldwin
M. Keetley
M. Pelech

Carolina

N. Babin
C. Borer
M. Flood
J. Forrest
B. Hughes
D. Manzato

Chicago

M. Johansson
P. Kane
J. Toews

Colorado

C. Burki
T. Hensick
J. Hlinka
C. Stewart

Columbus

J. Boll
D. Brassard
P. Pohl
K. Russell
T. Sesisto

Dallas

R. Clone
V. Kohomitsky
J. Lammers
P. Lindgren
J. Neal

Detroit

I. Grigorenko
M. Ritola
J. Ryno
J. Tardif

Edmonton

A. Cogliano
S. Gagner

Florida

C. Murphy

Los Angeles

B. Boyle
M. Cliche
T. Lewis
B. Murray
S. Parse
T. Purcell
J. Quick

Minnesota

P. Albers
C. Clutterbuck
M. Kassian
M. Madsen
J. Sheppard

Montreal

J. Bonneau
M. Carle
J. Lahti
C. Price
R. Russell
G. Stewart
P. Valentenko

Nashville

C. Franson
R. Maki
J. Niskala
M. Santorelli
O. Setzinger
R. Stehlik
A. Sulzer
A. Thuresson

New Jersey

I. Khomutov
M. Pandolfo
J. Viuhkola

New York Islanders

S. Bentivoglio
S. Bergenheim
G. Johnson
D. Kohn
A. MacDonald
T. Smith

New York Rangers

A. Anisimov
M. Staal*

Ottawa

T. Donati
B. Elliot
N. Foligno
M. Karlsson
B. Lee
J. Mapletoft
G. Mauldin
A. Nikulin
D. Smith
S. Weller
I. Zubov

Philadelphia

O. Bartulis
J. Beaulieu
S. Downie
J. Matsumoto

Phoenix

M. Hanzal
P. Mueller
L. Stephenson (Double, to be removed)
B. Thomas

Pittsburgh

A. Boogaard
J. D'Aversa
A. Goligoski
T. Wallace

Rochester

M. Gragnani
D. Hunter
K. McArdle
T. Plante

St. Louis

H. Benson
N. Drazenovic
A. Hellstrom
E. Johnson
M. Kariya
N. Lemtyugov
D. Perron
C. Porter
J. Talbot
S. Wagner

San Jose

T. Dakers
D. Joslin
T. Mitchell
M. Morris
J. Tremblay

Tampa Bay

Z. Hrdel
R. Klinkhammer
C. Lawrence
M. Lundin
V. Mihalik
R. Munce

Toronto

B. Aubin
R. Cashman
A. Stralman

Vancouver

M. Grabner
P. Labrie
D. Rahimi
M. Raymond
C. Schneider
J. Simek

Washington

N. Backstrom
J. Boumedienne
S. Collins
A. Gordon
D. Machesney

Good work, but you missed Devin(SP?) Setoguchi and Big Jeremy Roenick on San Jose.PBSnipes

They are already in the game and I am pretty sure on the Sharks' roster. I have a new update coming with about 40 additional players coming in 24-48 hours.