"Nash is one of the marquee names in the NHL today. "We're absolutely thrilled to have Rick Nash be part of the 2K Sports family," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. He was named Most Valuable Player and won a gold medal in last year’s tournament and was named to the All-Tournament team and won a silver medal in 2006. A member of Team Canada at the 2006 Olympics, he is currently playing in his third-straight World Championship. In his second season, at the age of 19, Nash became the youngest player in NHL history to lead the league in goals with 41 as he shared the "Rocket" Richard Trophy with Calgary's Jarome Iginla and Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk in 2003-04. He also set an All-Star Game record by scoring just 12 seconds into the game. He led the club in scoring in 2007-08 with 38-31-69 in 80 games and became just the 15th player in NHL history to record a hat trick in the All-Star Game at Atlanta's Philips Arena on January 27. Nash, first overall pick in the 2002 NHL Draft, is a three-time All-Star who has registered 154 goals and 122 assists for 276 points in 363 career NHL games with the Blue Jackets. "The set of new features they're adding is really going to make this game special for hockey fans - I'm hoping they give me a couple extra points to my player rating this year!" My idols have all been on the covers of video games as I was growing up, so to be on the cover of NHL 2K9 myself is truly incredible," said Nash. "I've been a longtime fan of the hockey games from 2K Sports. Louis, Marty Turco, Mats Sundin, Joe Thornton and Jason Spezza. Previous NHL players who have been featured on the game's cover include: Brendan Shanahan, Chris Drury, Jeremy Roenick, Martin St. Nash is expected to travel to 2K Sports offices in San Francisco at the end of May to participate in two days of audio and video sessions, photo shoots, development meetings and motion capture sessions to begin preparations for the game's development.
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