NHL (video game series)

NHL
Genre(s)	Sports (ice hockey)
Developer(s)	EA Vancouver Previous developers: Budcat Creations, EA Montreal, High Score Productions, Park Place Productions, Tiertex Design Studios, Visual Concepts, HB Studios
Publisher(s)	EA Sports
Platform(s)	Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, Sega CD, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Saturn, Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Gear, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
First release	NHL Hockey 1991
Latest release	NHL 25 October 4, 2024

NHL (colloquially referred to as Chel^[1]) is a series of professional ice hockey simulation video games developed by EA Vancouver and published yearly by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports brand. The game is developed under license from the National Hockey League (NHL), which enables the use of the league's team names, arenas and colors in the game, and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), which enables the use of the league's player names and likenesses.