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

👉 Full details here: https://t.co/WMVsIDVENSpic.twitter.com/FwbyT7gBx0

— 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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.       

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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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