NHL 27 FINAL Facescan LOCKS

Okay,, this is the last time I’m going to bring this up. At some point, enough is enough. Several of us have been pushing this for years across multiple forums.

Now that NHL 27 is approaching, we’re seeing an unfinished game mode in Connected Franchise being presented as the feature you’ve spent so much time working on, with the message essentially being, “We heard you, here you go, thank us later.”

Honestly, it’s embarrassing, because the mode is so poorly implemented that it’s almost laughable: one season, no draft, no overall changes, no aging, and ultimately very little substance. There’s no meaningful change to HUT apart from coaches, no major changes to BAP, and we still haven’t heard anything about the traditional offline Franchise Mode.

NHL is so far behind the other EA Sports titles. Why not take a page from their book? Why not get help from other teams when the technology and expertise already exist within the same company? Hockey fans shouldn’t have to settle for mediocrity every single year.

Now to my main point: NHL player face scans.

This is my final list and post, and this absolutely should NOT be an issue in 2026. You should be able to deliver this. New players enter the league every year, current players change their appearance, and there is simply no reason anymore to leave players out when it has already been documented that they have been scanned,  in some cases, several years ago.

How is it possible that players like Christian Dvorak and Logan Stanley still don’t have a face scan in the game in 2026?

Give us something. We’ve been asking for this for years. It has gotten better, and you deserve credit for that, but IT HAS TO GET EVEN BETTER.

You put Macklin Celebrini on the cover and want to celebrate the next generation of NHL stars, THEN DO IT.

Here is my final list. If at least 80% of these players are not included in NHL 27, then in my opinion, this is a failure. Seriously. At that point, I think many of us offline players will start walking away from this game,  the only game available for the sport we love.

Thank you!EA_Aljo​ 

ANA
Beckett Sennecke (Already Scanned)
Ryan Poehling
Roger McQueen (Already Scanned)

BOS
Fraser Minten
Hampus Lindholm (Face Update)

Ivan Ivan (Already Scanned)

BUF
Logan Stanley
Zach Benson (Hair Update)
Noah Östlund (Already Scanned)
Konsta Helenius (Already Scanned)
Louis Crevier

CHI
Anton Frondell
Ryan Greene
Sam Lafferty
Wyatt Kaiser
Nick Lardis (Already scanned)
Ethan Del Mastro
Sacha Boisvert (Already Scanned)
Bowen Byram (Helmet Fit Update)

COL
Sam Malinski
Nick Blankenburg
Parker Kelly
Joel Kiviranta

Fabian Lysell (Already Scanned)

DAL
Wyatt Johnston (Hair Update)
Justin Hryckowian
Lian Bichsel

DET
Axel Sandin-Pellikka (Already Scanned)
Emmitt Finnie
Jacob Bernard-Docker (Already Scanned)

EDM
Spencer Stastney
Colton Dach
Joshua Samanski
Isaac Howard (Already Scanned)

LAK
Joel Armia
Samuel Helenius

Alex Turcotte (Change hair)

MIN
Danila Yurov

MTL
Alex Newhook
Josh Anderson
Alexandre Texier

NSH
Justin Barron
Ryan Ufko
Zachary L'Heureux
Joakim Kemell (Already Scanned)

NJD
Timo Meier (Face Update)
Dawson Mercer (Hair Update)
Arseny Gritsyuk
Connor Brown
Lenni Hämeenaho

NYI
Emil Heineman (Already Scanned)
Calum Ritchie (Already Scanned)
Pierre Engvall
Maxim Shabanov
Marc Gatcomb (Scanned at the 2025 NHLPA Rookie Showcase)

OTT
Shane Pinto (Face Update)

PHI
Christian Dvorak
Nick Seeler
Porter Martone (Face Update)
Denver Barkey
Nikita Grebenkin
Alex Bump
Oliver Bonk (Already Scanned)

PIT
Justin Brazeau
Benjamin Kindel (Already Scanned)
Parker Wotherspoon
Elmer Söderblom (Already Scanned)

SJS
Colin Graf (Already Scanned)
Igor Chernyshov (Already Scanned)
Ty Dellandrea
Pavol Regenda
Quentin Musty (Already Scanned)

SEA
Bobby McMann
Berkly Catton (Already Scanned)
Ty Nelson (Already Scanned – AHL Coachella Valley Firebirds)
Jacob Melanson (Already Scanned – AHL)

STL
Dalibor Dvorský (Already Scanned)
Matt Kessel
Logan Mailloux

TBL
Pontus Holmberg
Charles-Édouard D'Astous
Jakob Pelletier

TOR
Troy Stecher
Steven Lorentz
Easton Cowan (Already Scanned)

UTA
Brandon Tanev
Liam O'Brien
Kailer Yamamoto
Danil But

VAN
Zeev Buium (Already Scanned)
Drew O'Connor
Linus Karlsson
Aatu Räty (Already Scanned)

VGK
William Karlsson
Kaedan Korczak
Keegan Kolesar
Jeremy Lauzon
Nic Dowd
Braeden Bowman (Already Scanned)

WSH
Cole Hutson  (Already Scanned)
Hendrix Lapierre (Already Scanned)

WPG
Isak Rosén (Already Scanned)
Brad Lambert (Already Scanned)

Rookie Locks – Must Have

Must haves & Already Scanned at the NHLPA Rookie Showcase 2024-25 (Documentedj

Viggo Björck
Alberts Smits
Caleb Malhotra
Carson Carels
Caleb Desnoyers (Already Scanned)
Brady Martin (Already Scanned)
Radim Mrtka (Already Scanned)
Braeden Cootes (Already Scanned)
Victor Eklund (Already Scanned)
Carter Yakemchuk (Already Scanned)
Jett Luchanko (Already Scanned)
Adam Jiříček (Already Scanned)
Michael Brandsegg-Nygård (Already Scanned)
Brayden Yager (Already Scanned)
Jani Nyman (Already Scanned)
Jack Finley (Already Scanned)
Frédéric Brunet (Already Scanned)
Konsta Helenius (Already Scanned)
Francesco Pinelli (Already Scanned)
Bradley Nadeau (Already Scanned)
Samuel Honzek (Already Scanned)

Goalies

Frederik Andersen (EDM) – Stanley Cup Champion, 552 NHL Games
Jesper Wallstedt (MIN)
Logan Thompson (WSH)
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF)
Jet Greaves (CBJ)
Daniel Vladar (PHI)

Confirmed Scanned at the NHLPA 2026 Rookie Showcase

Carter Bear (DET)
Justin Carbonneau (STL)
Trevor Connelly (VGK)
Andrew Cristall (WSH)
Cole Eiserman (NYI, Face Update?)
Gavin McKenna (TOR, Face Update?)
Roger McQueen (ANA)
Quentin Musty (SJS)
Bill Zonnon (PIT)
Charlie Cerrato (CAR)
T.J. Hughes (COL)
Cole Hutson (WSH)
James Hagens (BOS, Face Update!)
Porter Martone (PHI, Face Update!)
Sacha Boisvert (CHI)
Roman Kantserov (CHI)
Kashawn Aitcheson (NYI)
Filip Bystedt (SJS)