Needs for NHL27: List of Players who Need face scans for NHL27
EA_Aljo please pass this on to the development team. Can you confirm most of these players will be added next year? Anaheim Ducks Beckett Sennecke Jackson LaCombe Ryan Poehling Boston Bruins Fraser Minten Jeremy Swayman James Hagens Buffalo Sabres Jack Quinn Josh Doan Peyton Krebs Noah Östlund Juri Kulich Logan Stanley Sam Carrick Beck Malenstyn Alex Lyon Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen Calgary Flames Zayne Parekh Dustin Wolf Carolina Hurricanes Jackson Blake Alexander Nikishin Eric Robinson Brandon Bussi Chicago Blackhawks Ryan Greene Artyom Levshunov Oliver Moore Anton Frondell Spencer Knight Colorado Avalanche Sam Malinski Parker Kelly Jack Drury Gavin Brindley Nick Blankenburg Scott Wedgewood Columbus Blue Jackets Denton Mateychuk Jet Greaves Elvis Merzlikins Dallas Stars Wyatt Johnston (hair update) Sam Steel (hair update) Detroit Red Wings Emmitt Finnie Axel Sandin-Pellikka Ben Chiarot Edmonton Oilers Vasily Podkolzin Jason Dickinson Matthew Savoie Florida Panthers AJ Greer Mackie Samoskevich Los Angeles Kings Alex Turcotte Minnesota Wild Danila Yurov Jesper Wallstedt Filip Gustavsson Montreal Canadiens Ivan Demidov Oliver Kapanen Alex Newhook Zachary Bolduc Josh Anderson Alexandre Texier Arber Xhekaj Nashville Predators Nick Perbix Matthew Wood New Jersey Devils Connor Brown Arseni Gritsyuk New York Islanders Emil Heineman Calum Ritchie Cole Eiserman New York Rangers Will Borgen Noah Laba Taylor Raddysh Gabe Perreault Ottawa Senators Michael Amadio Philadelphia Flyers Noah Cates Christian Dvorak Emil Andrae Denver Barkey Pittsburgh Penguins Benjamin Kindel Parker Wotherspoon Justin Brazeau Noel Acciari Stuart Skinner San Jose Sharks Kiefer Sherwood Collin Graf Igor Chernyshov Sam Dickinson Yaroslav Askarov Seattle Kraken Bobby McMann Frederick Gaudreau Berkly Catton Joey Daccord St. Louis Blues Jimmy Snuggerud Dalibor Dvorsky Joel Hofer Tampa Bay Lightning Gage Goncalves Charles-Edouard D’Astous Toronto Maple Leafs Easton Cowan Joseph Woll Utah Mammoth Lawson Crouse Karel Vejmelka Vancouver Canucks Zeev Buium Drew O’Connor Tom Willander Vegas Golden Knights Rasmus Andersson (hair update) Brendan Brisson Jeremy Lauzon Adin Hill Washington Capitals Ryan Leonard Justin Sourdif Ethan Frank Logan Thompson Cole Hutson Winnipeg Jets Dylan Samberg
Feature Suggestion for NHL 27 Advanced Custom Gear System
I would like to propose a new feature for NHL 27 that could significantly improve player creativity, personalization, and long-term engagement. The idea is to introduce an advanced custom gear system inspired by the customization tools seen in the Forza Horizon series. This system would allow players to fully customize their equipment, including helmets, gloves, pads, and other protective gear. Instead of being limited to preset designs, players would have access to a very large library of stickers, decals, and visual elements that can be freely applied to their gear. A key part of this feature is complete creative freedom, where players can place stickers anywhere, resize them, rotate them, and layer multiple elements to create unique designs. There should also be a massive variety of stickers available, including simple shapes, patterns, textures, and more detailed graphics. It would be especially important to include official team logos from different leagues so players can represent their favorite clubs or create more authentic-looking equipment. This system would make customization much deeper and give players a stronger sense of identity in the game. Game modes like Be A Pro and World of Chel would benefit greatly since every player could stand out with completely unique gear. To expand the feature even further, it would be great if players could share and download designs from the community and explore popular creations. Seasonal or event-based sticker packs could also help keep the system fresh over time. Overall, this feature would bring a new level of creativity and personalization to the NHL series and make the experience more immersive and engaging for players.
NHL 26 on PC with GamePass Ultimate is alive!
Only about 7 months after the release people lucky enough to have a GamePass Ultimate subscription are now able to play NHL 26 on their PC by using Microsoft's CloudGaming platform. Even when the game is full of glitches and matchmaking seems to be flawed a lot, I am eager to give it a go. I was playing NHL 25 for a bit on the same platform on my PC, but it was useless, because there were almost no online matches available in NHL 25. Let's see if it works better with NHL 26 now. I might regret it, but let's do this.
Missing locations in location list.
EA_Aljo Thank you EA Sports for finally adding Riga, Vantaa, and Västerås as new cities to the location list. It's also nice that EA Sports added some cities from South Korea to NHL 24. But still, many cities around the world are missing from the location list.understand that EA Sports can't add every city in the world to the game, but it would be nice if EA Sports could add these cities to the location list in future updates. Öskemen, Kazakhstan Öskemen, which is also known as Ust-Kamenogorsk is city in Kazakhstan. You could say that Öskemen is the heart of Kazakhstani hockey. Five Kazakhstani players have played in the NHL, all of whom were born in Öskemen. In addition to them, two Russian goaltenders, Yevgeny Nabokov and Anton Khudobin, and German goaltender Dimitri Patzold were born in Öskemen. Would be nice see Öskemen and capital city of Kazakhstan Astana in the location list. Gävle, Karlstad, Örnsköldsvik and Ängelholm, Sweden These four swedish city is missing from location list. If you are using the Swedish version of NHL 26, you will find Gävle, Karlstad, and Örsköldsvik in the location list. In the other language versions these cities has been replaced by name Brynäs, Färjestads and Modo. Ängelholm is the hometown of Rögle BK. Rögle BK has been playing in the SHL since the 2015-16 season, but Ängelholm is still not on the location list. For example all Liiga teams hometowns will be found from there. For example we have there all DEL teams hometown and in addition few other cities from Germany. Hradec Králové, Czechia Why Hradec Králové isn't found in the location list ? All other Czech Extraliga teams hometown will be found in the location list, but Hradec Králové isn't be there. Also location list inclued other cities from Czechia.After many many hours of this game how do you rate it?.
As an old school woc player it's 2 out of 10 for me . Poor ai goalies and goalie animations are clunky. They promised they fixed it! A skill that stuns goalies with no skill to counter it. Absolute abuse of mechanics that according to Ea can not be fixed. A broken pressure system that rewards offense but nothing for def and x factors to back it. Zero realistic penalties in the game late hits, interference, g interference. Non existent AI the spend more time blocking you then playing. I don't even know how many bs skins and premade builds there are now. Defensive stick sucks used to be good now it's useless as been since 2 weeks of its release. Can't even dump the puck because of **bleep** poor game mechanic unlike the old days. Constantly have to reset lobby's , use private match glitch and reset just to find a game. If it's works. Add to list boys because it's long.... I can only hope they go back to basic, balanced hockey simulation. Sim being the key word! You can leave the arcadey crap in just give it is own game mode. For the love of God do something for the leagues on here who have kept you game alive over the past 8 years. If it wasn't for all the og guys this game would have died when you messed up the console transition.....
Co-op Franchise Mode Please
Just want the option to add my friends in the pregame lobby where you are selecting players in franchise mode please :) Would be a great feature for us who just want to play simple franchise mode with our buddies and not deal with the online nonsense! They don't need to have access to any changes, etc in the mode (franchise) just give me the option to add them to play with me is all!! thank you! <3NHL 27 MEGA WISH LIST (be nice)
DISCLAIMER: THIS WILL NOT INCLUDE THE USUAL FAN WISHES OF GM CONNECTED. EA HAS HEARD US PLENTY ON THIS ONE FRANCHISE MODE: Coaching: Allow for coaching to be turned on/off, giving the user the option to play without coaching. Coaching salary is broken with owner mode off, can give a coach any amount of money and they’ll accept. With owner mode off, the coaching budget has no real effect on your team. Coaching hinders custom Franchise leagues. I am unable to create my own league and play real-time games with a team I created because coaching automatically sets my strategies. All-Star game and Olympics: Add Olympics / all-star game to the mode. CPU can randomly generate the best players from each nationality and include them in a mini-style Olympics / all-star tournament (can be turned on or off in settings). Give GM’s the option to send or hold onto players in case of injuries. Trade Negotiations: Give the option to actually communicate with other GM’s. Bring back team relationship meter, but this time it will be re-worked due to negotiations 3-way trading. “Future considerations” option that can be used in trade negotiations at later dates (i can choose “future considerations” when trading with a team I helped in the past. For example, I took a salary dump from a team, now “future considerations” is unlocked when making a future trade with said team) Fixed trade values and higher requirements to dump bad contracts (low elite players should have slightly more value) Teams actually communicate what they are looking for, beyond being buyers or sellers. For example, it can be known a contending team is looking to add a top 6 center, and it may be harder to pry top 6 players away from them based on their current status. “Find trade” tab reworked. If my Med-elite 22 year old is selected “No trades found” shouldn’t be something I see. Fluid, year to year trade markets. One year, it can be noted that contending teams are desperate for top 6 centers, and that year, teams may overpay for them. The next year, teams may be looking for top 4 LHD. Etc etc. Player Editing: More editing options with players while in franchise mode (overall, position, height, weight, play-style, etc). [please with this one, It sucks not being able to edit your players mid-franchise] Ability to full edit/customize players in rosters. Other sports games do it, find a way. Ability to cycle through player profiles and see recent trades involving them. If Buffalo lands Auston Matthews, I want to see, on his profile, the trade that landed him. As well as what those potential draft picks turned into. Ability to set an age/season when players retire. If I want Ovechkin to retire at the end of a certain season, I can set that instead of him playing until he’s 47. Free Agency/Extensions: Ability to interview players in free agency (REWORK). I can be a regular playoff team, but players still won’t come here because they want to play for a playoff team? Salary needs a re-work. Players care too much about money. (One good season doesn’t warrant teams signing a 3rd liner to an 8m+ deal. Free agency is always over-bloated) Career long players willing to take pay cuts to teams they WANT to play in. Patrick Kane makes 3 million per, then asks for 7-8 million during the re-sign phase. Crosby regularly takes pay cuts in real life, but then wants north of 10 million in the re-sign phase. Draft Class: Ability to directly edit the draft class in the menus per year, before loading into a franchise mode Ability to select where players go in the draft. For example, I can choose that Gavin McKenna will go pick 5, or around pick 5. No-Movement and No-Trade Clauses: Dynamic player clauses based on year to year simulation results. In real life, players submit trade clauses to their respective management yearly. This should be something that changes. If X player prefers contenders, his M-NTC will change the next year in the sim based on last year's playoff results. Players straight up telling you where they want to play. If X player waives his clause for 1-3 teams, it should not be random. "I, X player, will only waive for Buffalo". Etc. AI GM’s/Coaching: AI coding seems off, too many GM’s trading for players they don’t need. Teams will trade for/sign useless vets and leave young players with actual potential scratched the whole season. Basically, better player utilization AI controlled teams actually drafting based on positional need at times. If X team is stacked with elite defenseman, they likely shouldn’t be drafting ANOTHER elite defenseman when there are other elite forwards still on the draft board. Roster and team/player editing + GENERAL GAMEPLAY Player editing/Team Editing: More editing presets (Unique/signature NHL player tape jobs, jersey sleeve roll-up, hairstyles, facial features, etc). Allow users to edit already existing NHL teams. More arena presets + more in-depth arena edits (fun activities, vendors, customizable signs, etc). More customization options!!!! (the same 20 hairstyles have been in the game since NHL 14) Merge custom roster sharing to both platforms. Xbox and Playstation players should be able to share rosters with one another Crowds: New crowd sounds/atmosphere noises. Current crowd sounds have gone stale. Literally just walk into an NHL arena and record the audio Sometimes, in a franchise mode/season sim, you can be game 7 of the SCF and fans will be in their seats, and crowd audio will be stale. Nothing realistic about it. Outdoor Games and Winter Classic: For normal quick play and modes like franchise mode or season mode. BE A PRO Story: Include a basic story for my player, including his upbringing, hockey career, etc. The story needs to feel more life-like. Ability to select, much like College Football, the type of career you will have. Examples being: Star Player: top 1-10 selected in the draft, likely to start in the NHL right away Top 6 upside: drafted in the mid first to mid second round, will likely still play in the system for a year or two Hidden gem: drafted in the later rounds of the draft, will have to carve your way through the system to prove yourself Undrafted: Become an undrafted player out of Juniors/Europe and have to carve your way to an NHL career. Goalie pros need a rework. I should not be fighting for the starter position, at 18, over Igor Shesterkin. Make it harder to make the NHL roster out of pre-season if you are a later pick. Olympics and All-Star: Same concept with franchise mode. Could include conflict with the coach on the decision to participate. AI GM’s and Trading: AI GM’s trade way too much during be a pro, and by year 2 teams will usually be lopsided with random players. Isn’t very realistic. Leagues and Drafting: Allow players to be drafted from more leagues Russia, America, ECHL, etc. Teams drafting your pro should make the decision based on their depth chart. A team stacked down the left defensive side with prospects shouldn’t take your pro simply because they are the best available player. NHL teams take swings on players all the time. Extras: Allow for users to participate in warm-ups. Maybe your player could throw a puck over the glass to a fan to boost fan likeness. More options for retirement; becoming a coach, retirement ceremony, inducted into hockey hall of fame, jersey retirement, etc.Suggestions to improve BaP
I have enjoyed NHL 26 but here are some things I think would greatly improve the game: -Even with slider adjustments the goalies cover the puck way too often. Make it so the game keeps flowing and the puck isn't covered every time the goalie catches the puck. -line changing shouldn't be so difficult. The arrow will change from one door to the other constantly when you skate to the bench. Once you skate to the designated area there should be a button to press to hop out -in be a pro energy gets depleted way too quickly and effects the attributes way too much. I like the realism but tone it down a little. I have had to spend 90% of my attribute points to replenish energy instead of into the players abilities -overall the sliders don't effect the game enough. Even setting the goalie to cover the puck at 0 they will cover it all the time. Make each slider adjustment have more actual effect on the game. Madden has mastered this so you can make incremental adjustments to make the game more fun/realistic to the players preferences. Edit: Modified the title to better reflect the content of the thread - CMBe a Pro Challenges stopped coming
A few months into my second season in Be a Pro my player got injured. Once he recovered, I never got any more challenges to move up a line. Every time I have a conversation with my agent or coach and they tell me they will be evaluating me, the only response is “Okay, goodbye.” and I don’t receive a challenge. So now I’m stuck on second line and have no challenges besides playoff check-ins. It’s been like this for 3 seasons. Changing teams don’t seem to help. Anybody have the same issue or find a fix?NHL Graphic issues
POV: It’s 2026 and EA releases a product that costs €70+ (€100+ for the pre-order), and this is what their graphics department and development team deliver! An entire year just to add Celebrini talking in Be a Pro, and some new ways to build your team in hut, I can see why this kind of stuff gets deprioritized, it doesn’t exactly make you money to get things polished or done right (🤧 pay-to-win, right?). Sure, you release games close to each other, and people have high expectations for changes, but the foundation is already there every year. The fact that some of these issues haven’t been fixed in a whole year, and even date back to NHL 24, is honestly laughable. I understand that once the game is released and issues start appearing, not everything can be fixed immediately. But by April, you’d expect some effort at least. Offline players’ opinions usually don’t seem to matter anyway. The fact that this is still a problem in 2026 suggests a lack of competence within the team. Helmets don’t fit properly, some players look like they’re wearing XXL helmets, which looks ridiculous, and face scans like Tyler Bertuzzi (and others)… who exactly did you scan? 😂 I really hope this gets fixed for the next game, otherwise I’m going to lose it. This has been an issue for two years now. Hopefully this gets noticed, thanks 🙏🏻.Please
This game is absolutely bad enough to justify a refund on the playstation store, considering sony's standards. Luckily for them, people just put up with this level of quality, and theres too small of a market for enough complaints (or any competition, for that matter). I pray the developers can get reassigned and this franchise dies a very deserved death. I dont even care about the gameplay honestly. Its outdated, glitchy and overall bad, of course, but the menus are offensively laggy. Its such a slap in the face to open the game and get an ad, for a gamemode i dont play, on top of having to FIGHT through these awful menu screens, where you dont know if the game has registered a button press for about 2 seconds, so you wait, see if it reacts to your input, and then you can react accordingly. Open world of chel - another ad. Back out of that one and finally get into the dressing room. Oops someone got an error which kicked them back to the main menu. Another 5 minutes waiting on them. Finally find a game and the other team leaves pre match, or someone on our team gets an error. Do it all over again, for a game that has already been out for 7 years, with some new - horribly optimized - additions (stick physics, reverse hitting, interference is allowed, goalies are worse than ever, but hey, new animations). Please stop purchasing these games, companies like ea would be forced to make better (or even just functioning) ones.Unacceptable, Ea.
This was my last NHL, sad, but true. After selling players in HUT according to the rules, with no real money involved, and having proof of it (since I have chat logs for almost every transaction), because I’m active and a member in several HUT trading/selling groups (Discord, Facebook, Reddit), where most, if not all, of my sales have taken place, especially the ones that might seem suspicious. These groups work in a way where people post which players they are looking for. Often, those players aren’t available on the Auction House, which can make them more expensive than their typical value, which is completely fine and within the rules. Then, out of nowhere, you receive a warning = banned for 14 days + banned from the Auction House for a month. As a high-paying customer who has bought many packs over several years, supported the game, and maintained zero tolerance for cheating, this is how you’re treated. And EA’s support, what a joke. Completely useless, far below acceptable standards. You only receive automated responses that give no explanation, none at all about what you’ve done wrong. “We have done nothing wrong, you have. Here’s a link to our rules. Thank you.” No matter what you write or refer to, it doesn’t matter. I’ve held this game in high regard and supported it, but no more. This was the final straw. An unprofessional, lazy, and honestly worthless way of handling things. Meanwhile, I encounter so many players online who harass, threaten, and deliberately sabotage matches, and they get to continue without any issue. But the moment someone earns some coins, fully within the rules…….BAN, immediately, with no chance to explain or present facts showing everything was done correctly. I’m done. EA has lost a loyal and high-spending customer Since I buy packs and have spent a lot of time and money on the game to build a team capable of competing at the top, I just want to make it clear that I am against coin farming and coin manipulation, it’s cheating. If I had bought coins from a third party, I would understand, but that has not happened. I have evidence to support my claim. But I refuse to support this company again. I refuse.
HUT messages at startup
It might not be a big deal, but I would love a setting to turn those messages off, or better yet, move it to when the HUT game mode is started instead. It feels like it's more relevant to them than to those of us who never open it. I know there's an interest to make money and possibly lure back someone who used to play HUT but doesn't anymore. But I can't imagine a survey (or something) showing that people seeing a couple of new HUT cards during startup make them enter HUT instead of the real reason they started the game. Just some thoughts! 😌
The year of the late hit
If anyone who plays this game has ever watched hockey (so not the devs) 98% of the hits this year are penalties. You can pass the puck and get hit 3 - 4 seconds after passing with no call? Before you know it you are out of the play for 10 seconds unless you use a trait and put on warrior. This needs to be changed YESTERDAY.
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