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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Back again with a Stanley Cup Finals NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team Fantasy Card update. 

There have only been eight card updates since our last article. 

Sebastian Aho is up to 98 overall, and that is where he will finish after the Carolina Hurricanes were eliminated by the Florida Panthers. His card is one of the best in the game and plays like a 99. 

 Anton Lundell is up to 98 overall while Zach Hyman, Evander Kane, and Brad Marchand are 96 overall. Viktor Arvidsson is 95 overall.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Sam Reinhart received new Fantasy Cards prior to Game 1 and are both 95.

Marchand (x2) and Kane scored since the last update and will be 98 and 97 overall resptively after tomorrow's content additions. 

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

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The new Crowned Event in now live in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

The event celebrates NHL award winners for the 2024-25 season.

The five master set players are 96 overall Wayne Gretzky, Patrick Roy, Cale Makar, Jack Eichel, and Nicklas Lidstrom, they come with no cost AP. 

95 overall Sean Monahan, Aleksander Barkov, and Nikita Kucherov were added to celebrate their awards, Kucherov appeared at 96 overall in the original banner.  

12 base cards were added including 94 overall John Carlson and Anze Kopitar. 

There is a 90 overall Nick Bonino available for completing Objectives and an 88 overall Zach Whitecloud for completing Wildcard levels. 

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

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The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Florida Panthers in seven games in EA SPORTS NHL's simulation of the Stanley Cup Finals in NHL 25. 

The Oilers fell down 3-1 in the series after dropping games one, three and four before roaring back to win games five, six and seven by one goal, including a game five overtime win. 

Leon Draisaitl took home the Conn Smythe Trophy in the simulation. 

The #NHL25 simulation predicts Oilers in 7 — now it's time to finish the job and:

"DIG IN!!!!!!!!!!" 🗣️🏆🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/qxrP3xBq28

— EA SPORTS NHL (@EASPORTSNHL) June 5, 2025

Prior to round one EA SPORTS NHL's simulation predicted the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.

The Hockey News' simulation predicted the Florida Panthers to win in five games after losing game one.

We will see which simulation is more accurate in a few weeks.

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The 2025 Stanley Cup Finals begins tonight between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers and we simulated the series in NHL 25 to see who the game predicts to lift the cup. 

We used the most recent roster update and line predictions for the series in NHL 25 Playoff Mode, with Zach Hyman out of the Oilers lineup and Connor Brown inserted for Jeff Skinner. 

The simulation predicted the Florida Panthers to win the series in five games.

The Oilers took game one before the Panthers roared back to win the next four games to capture the cup. The Panthers won all of their games by at least two goals. 

Matthew Tkachuk led the series with nine points, Sam Reinhart had seven, Leon Draisaitl had six to round out the top three. 

Aleksander Barkov, Connor McDavid, and Sam Bennett each had five points, Barkov led the finals with four goals, just ahead of McDavid and Evander Kane who each had three.

Sergei Bobrovsky outplayed Stuart Skinner by a significant margin in the series, posting a .919 SP and 2.41 GAA while Skinner had a .897 SP and 3.84 GAA.

Florida outscored Edmonton 20-12 with five of them coming on the powerplay. 

While this simulation does not expect to see a close matchup we will see how closely it resembles the real series beginning tonight. 

EA SPORTS NHL predicted the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup in their official simulation. 

Double Shift Week 2 can be seen here.

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 NHL 25 has been available to play on PC for several weeks, here is what you need to know. 

The game can be played via Cloud Gaming on the Xbox app on PC for those who have purchased the Ultimate Game Pass.

The ultimate Game Pass costs $19.99 per month and gives players access to a library of games. 

Cloud Gaming works by streaming the game through the cloud instead of downloading which can result in ping discrepancies and lag. 

With EA SPORTS NHL reportedly having no plans of bringing the game to PC anytime soon this is the best PC players can do.  The last NHL game to receive a PC release was NHL 09.

Cloud gaming only allows one player and account at one time, and requires a controller.

This also allows players to play NHL 25 via mobile consoles like Legion Go or Steam Deck.

More information on Xbox and PC Cloud Gaming can be found here.  

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Double Shift Event Week 2 and new Stanley Cup Playoffs cards have been added to NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

The five new Double Shift master set players are 95 overall Markus Naslund, Jere Lehtinen, Seth Jones, Robyn Regehr, and Frederik Andersen. 

Each MSP can be built for three 92+ Double Shift players and any two 92+ cards. 

The new Double Shift base cars are led by 94 overall Mark Recchi and Sergei Zubov and 93 overall Gustav Forsling and Boone Jenner.

Building a 90 overall Double Shift card costs any three 88+ cards, three 90+ Double Shift cards can be used to build one 92. 

There are also collectible trade in sets to acquire Double Shift cards.

Six new Playoffs cards were added, three from the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers, they are led by a 95 overall Connor McDavid and 94 overall Matthew Tkachuk. 93 overall Brett Kulak, Evan Rodrigues, Adam Henrique, and Niko Miikola were also added. 

All new cards are in the video above. 

Players can ask questions or leave comments on the EA NHL 25 Forums here.

Check out Week 1 of the Double Shift Event here. 

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A new patch is going live at 1pm EST/10am PT in NHL 25. 

The update is to add support for upcoming World of Chel and Hockey Ultimate Team live content. 

🛠️An #NHL25 patch will be deployed tomorrow (Tuesday, May 27) at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.

This update adds support for upcoming HUT and WoC Live content. Server downtime is expected to last up to an hour after the patch.

Please finish any online games before then.

— EA SPORTS NHL (@EASPORTSNHL) May 26, 2025

EA SPORTS NHL warns server downtime could last for up to one hour after the update. Players are advised to finish all live games before 1pm EST/10am PT. 

Players can ask questions or leave comments on the EA NHL 25 Forums here.

Check out Week 1 of the Double Shift Event here. 

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Back again with a round three NHL 25 HUT Fantasy Hockey card updates. 

Andrei Svechnikov and Sam Bennett are now 99 overall, while Matthew Knies, Nikolaj Ehlers, and Mikael Granlund are up to 98 overall. Granlund has a good chance to reach 99 overall with the Edmonton-Dallas series tied 1-1. 

Four new NHL and two new PWHL Fantasy cards were added this week, Brianne Jenner and Kendall Coyne for the PWHL and Wyatt Johnston, Zach Hyman, Sebastian Aho, and Brad Marchand for the NHL.

Anton Lundell is up to 97 overall while Adam Lowry finishes at 97. Michela Cava is up to 96 while Sebastian Aho, John Tavares, Evander Kane, and Blayre Turnbull are 95 overall. 

All 19 updates or new cards are in the video above. 

Check out Week 1 of the Double Shift Event here. 

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New Closers, Game Breakers, HUT Champs, and Team of the Week cards were added this week in NHL 25 Hockey Ultimate Team. 

The Game Breakers cards can be acquired by completing related sets and objectives or purchasing packs in the HUT Store. All of the new Game Breakers are NHL Alumni, led by 96 overall Peter Forsberg and Jeremy Roenick, 94 overall Henrik and Daniel Sedin, and 93 overall Patrick Roy and Nicklas Lidstrom. 

The Closers cards celebrate great performances from the end of the NHL season, round one, and PWHL round one. 

The rewards for winning ten games or finishing top 100 in HUT Champs is a 93 or 94 overall Ryan Whitney. 

This week's featured TOTW card is 94 overall Filip Hronek. 

All new cards are in the video above. 

For more NHL 25 news make sure you bookmark The Hockey News Gaming Site or follow our Google News Feed. For gaming discussion check out our forum.