Original sentence: A career mode (later developed into a Franchise mode) with a retirement feature, drafting, and player trades were added to the game in NHL 99, and a similarity of gameplay was used in this version too
Edited sentence: A season mode (later developed into a Franchise mode) with a retirement feature, drafting, and player trades were added to the game in NHL 99, and a similarity of gameplay was used in this version too.After the round robin 8 teams are eliminated and then the reminaing 8 have a "playoff" but instead of it being out of 7 games it was out 1 game.Another mode in NHL 2000 is the Tournament mode where the user gets to choose 16 countries (only 18 countries were in the game) to play a round robin.Evenutally a Winner is crowned gold in the championship match.The game has a total of 28 NHL including the new expansion Atlanta Thrashers which was the only team in the game that didn't play in the 98-99 season.Their is also a third place match for the losers in the semi-finals