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If you check eliteprospects and hockeydb and they're not there, it's highly likely they're game-generated. The game will generate fictional players in historical mode if an AI team needs a player and there's literally no one they can sign, but the players are well below NHL standards and won't have much of a career.
There's no easy way of telling which players are fictional, short of looking them up online like that. Internally, we just check for an eliteprospects id when we want to know if someone's fictional or not (which, as far as I remember, only gets done during certain storylines we don't want occurring to real people.)
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