NHL 14 is an ice hockey video game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports It is the 23rd installment of the NHL series and was released on September 10 2013 in North America and was released three days later in Europe as well as Australia and New Zealand 1 However the game was released on September 7 2013 for subscribers of the EA Sports Season Ticket service 2 Like the NHL 13 cover anybody could vote on the player s they wished to see on the cover of NHL 14 The vote started on April 22 2013 with 60 NHL players 2 players per team in a single elimination voting with two players in each match up and was closed on June 2 2013 3 4 Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur and Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky qualified for the final 5 and Martin Brodeur was announced as the winner on June 28 2013 6 NHL 14 marked the first time since NHL 97 that a goaltender was featured on the official cover John Vanbiesbrouck was on the cover that year as well as the first goaltender on any official ice hockey video game cover since Marty Turco on 2K Sports NHL 2K6 Jonas Hiller was featured on the cover of NHL 12 but only in PAL regions