EA SPORTS will announce the cover athlete for NHL 26 on Aug. 4, the company said in a release Friday.

EA SPORTS NHL changed all of their profile photos and banners on social media to a generic NHL 26 logo, finally acknowledging the games existence, as well as a standard and limited edition version of the game. 

With Season 8 set begin in NHL 25 on it will be interesting to see if there are any tie-ins with NHL 26. 

Appears August 4th is the @EASPORTSNHL 26 cover reveal! pic.twitter.com/M8dBfpcEj2

— Cam / NoSleeves (@NoSleevesGaming) August 1, 2025

In a recent earnings call and in the Events and Presentations tab on the EA website NHL 26 is schedule to release in Q2 before EA FC 26. It was recently announce EA FC will be released Sept. 26, meaning NHL will likely release early to mid September. 

Comment below you think the cover athlete will be. The Hughes brothers were revealed to be the NHL 25 cover athletes in a leaked trailed on Aug. 19, 2024. 

Check out the new 99 overall HUT Team Builders.

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Two new 99 overall Team Builder cards are live now in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

A 99 overall Zdeno Chara and Jaromir Jagr are now available, as well as 14 new Chelebration cards.

The Team Builders can be built in sets, one 99 card can be acquired by trading in any 10 92+ cards. This is a good deal and a much cheaper way to build 99s than past events. 

The new Chelebration cards are led by four 97 overall players, they are Wayne Gretzky, Daniel Alfredsson, Mikko Rantanen, and Zach Werenski. 96 overall Mathew Barzal and Patrik Laine, 95 overall Jordan Kyrou and Adam Lowry were also added. 

Screenshots of Chara and Jagr via HUTContent on X.

The Season 7 XP Path is now live,  Check out the new Chelebration Event. 

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A new Chelebration Event and Community Request cards are live now in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team.

The four Community Request cards are 97 overall Eric Daze, Milan Hejduk, Kaiden Guhle, and Rasmus Ristolainen. A screen will pop up when players open NHL 25 and you make your vote there. 

The five new master set players for the Chelebration event are 97 overall Doug Weight, Matt Rempe, Sheldon Souray, Tyler Myers, and Jacob Markstrom. 

These MSPs can be acquired by trading in any thre 94+ Chelebration cards and any two 94+ cards. Players can also trade in MSPs with their corresponding team jersey for a fan pack. 

Players can trade in any three 90+ cards for a 92+ Chelebration card and any three 92+ Chelebration cards for a 94+ player. 

A free redeemable collectible pack is available daily in the HUT Store. Players can trade in collectibles for Chelebration player packs. 

The Chelebration base cards are full of tall players and are led by 97 overall Henrik Tikkanen, 96 Gordie Howe and Logan Stanley, and 95 overall Tyler Seguin and Valeri Nichushkin. 

The Season 7 XP Path is now live,  Check out the Origins Event Week 2 here.

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The Season 7 XP Path is officially live in NHL 25.

The reward cards are 91 overall Henrik Lundqvist, Erik Karlsson, Nicklas Backstrom, Ryan Suter, and 98 overall P.K. Subban. 

Subban can be acquired by reaching level 40 or 325,000 XP on the XP Path, previous paths required players to reach level 50 to acquire the highest rated reward. 

This XP Path is available for 35 days. 

Multiple packs, choice packs, and players can be acquired throughout the XP Path.

You can trade in five Season 7 XP Collectibles for one XP Token which can be used to upgrade one of the five 91 overall players mentioned above. 

100 collectibles total can be acquired throughout the path and can be used in sets to acquire packs. 

Check out Tuesday's and Wednesday's HUT Content. 

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New NHL Draft, Transactions, and Crowned cards are now live in NHL 25. 

The six new master set players this week are 96 overall Radim Mrtka, Caleb Desnoyers, Jackson Smith, Jake O'Brien, Roger McQueen, and Anton Frondell. 

Each master set costs three 93+ NHL Draft cards and any two 93+ cards. 

A 93+ NHL Draft card costs three 91+ NHL draft players, a 91+ card costs any three 89+ cards. 

There are also NHL Draft Collectible sets where players can trade in 30 event collectibles for a 95 BND Draft Player, a 93 UT players, a tradeable 91 player, or players can trade 40 collectibles for 4x 89+ players.  

Other elite cards that were added include 96 overall Evander Kane and Marie-Philip Poulin, 95 overall Jamie Benn, J.J. Peterka, Reilly Smith, Kashawn Aitcheson, Braedon Cootes, Sarah Fillier, Ann-Renee Desbiens, and Renata Fast.

There is a 96 overall Louis-Antoine Denault card available for purchase in the HUT Store. 

The NHL 25 Jumpstart Objectives as discussed last week are available until Friday July 4 at 5pm EST. This allows players to earn rewards in NHL 26. 

New HUT Moments were added that grant players a 93 overall card if completed. 

All new cards are pictured below. 

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Justin "Regs" Reguly has won the Caps Gaming Heatwave HUT Summer Showcase in NHL 25. 

The tournament had five days of qualifying rounds with players using base HUT cards before the 16 top players advanced to a best-of-three playoff bracket.  

On his run to the finals he defeated Babs91babs91 2-1, Geimer 2-0, and Erikeu1989 2-0. He then defeated Sauceshow 2-1 in the finals to take home the $1,000 grand prize. 

Regs was the runner-up at the NHL 24 Gaming World Championship and won the CBJ Gaming Winter Cup in February. 

It is great to see NHL Esports tournament like this in a year where there will be no NHL Gaming World Championship.

Congratulations to our Caps Gaming Heatwave HUT Summer Series Presented by @McDonalds Champion: @regs_84!

Shoutout to the runner-up Sauceshow, our signed jersey winner Shlarchey, and our signed puck winner Capitals SC.

See you all in the next one!

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— Caps Gaming (@capsgaming) June 23, 2025

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New Draft 25 cards and NHL 26 Rewards are available in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team.

The 96 overall master set players are James Hagens, Matthew Schaefer, Michael Misa, Victor Eklund, and Porter Martone. 

Each master set costs three 93+ NHL Draft cards and any two 93+ cards. 

A 93+ NHL Draft card costs three 91+ NHL draft players, a 91+ card costs any three 89+ cards. 

There are also NHL Draft Collectible sets where players can trade in 30 event collectibles for a 95 BND Draft Player, a 93 UT players, a tradeable 91 player, or players can trade 40 collectibles for 4x 89+ players.  

Start grindin” #NHL26 Rewards...TODAY🚨

🏒Beat objectives in the #NHLDraft Event
🌟Unlock top NHL prospects
🎮Earn unique carryover #NHL26 rewards

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— EA SPORTS NHL (@EASPORTSNHL) June 20, 2025

This event also allows players to earn rewards that will be redeemable in NHL 26.  

You can earn packs in NHL 26 by opening a pack, playing three games with NHL Draft Event Players, and playing 10 games with Draft Event Players. 

This is a fantastic way to bring players to HUT later in the games cycle and motivate people for NHL 26. 

More info can be found in the slide in the video above, by scanning the QR code, or visiting the EA NHL news page.  

All new cards are pictured in the video above.

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New Team of the Week, HUT Champs, and Crowned cards have been added to NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

The new Team of the Week prize is 96 overall Olli Jokinen while the HUT Champs rewards are 95 and 96 overall Saku Koivu for winning 10 games or finishing top 100 respectively. TOTW cards can be acquired in sets. 

A 96 overall Closers Leon Draisaitl was also added after he scored four overtime winning goals in the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. 

Six 96 overall Florida Panthers cards were added to celebrate their win, as were five 96 overall active players who have three Stanley Cup rings. 10 95 and 96 overall back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions were added as were 96 overall Sam Reinhart and 95 overall Ted Lindsay and Maurice Richard to celebrate players who have scored four goals in a finals game. 

All players are pictured below. 

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Back again with a Stanley Cup Finals version of NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team Fantasy Hockey card updates, there are two new 99 overall cards. 

Anton Lundell and Brad Marchand are now both up to 99 overall after strong performances. Marchand has skyrocketed to 99 after six goals in the SCF.

Sam Reinhart and Evander Kane are both up to 97 overall and are fantastic cards. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored his first goal of the finals and is 96 overall. 

All updated cards are below. 

The Crowned Event Week 2 is now live in HUT. 

The Hockey News' Stanley Cup Final simulation predicted the Florida Panthers to win in five games here.

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The Crowned Event Week 2 is live now in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

The new 95/96 overall master set players are Jonathan Quick, Taylor Heise, Erik Cernak, Sam Bennett, and Denis Potvin. 

These 96 overall players can be unlocked by trading in the corresponding 95 overall card and another 95 Crowned card. 

Three 88+ cards get you a 90 Crowned player, three 90+ Crowned players get you a 92, and three 92+ and any two additional 92+ cards get you the 95 master set card. 

The 96 overall cards come with free zone and superstar abilities. 

On top of the master set players 96 overall Nikita Kucherov, Alex Ovechkin and Connor Hellebuyck were added to celebrate their real-life awards. As were 95 overall Lane Hutson, Anze Kopitar, and Leon Draisaitl. 

94 overall Matt Murray, Dominik Hasek, and Calvin Pickard were also added. 94 overall Martin St. Louis and Henrik Zetterberg and 93 overall Drew Doughty and Marian Hossa highlight new Crowned base cards. 

All of Friday's cards and the releases from earlier this week are in the video above.  

The Hockey News' Stanley Cup Final simulation predicted the Florida Panthers to win in five games here.

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