Ahead of the Winter Olympics, EA has finally introduced women's teams to its NHL games for the first time. You can pick one of 10 women's International Ice Hockey Federation national squads in NHL 22. You can pick teams from Canada, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the USA.
NHL 22 also gets IIHF Men's World and Juniors teams. Aside from competing in IIHF World Championship tournaments, the Men's and Women's teams are playable in the Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now, and Offline/Online Shootouts modes.