Nothing has changed.
I stopped playing competitive online games with NHL20 because 90% of all opponents and their players were way too fast. I then only played team battles, just like with NHL21 and NHL22. I stopped playing NHL23 and NHL24 altogether, and I only recently started playing NHL25 again because my son was visiting and saw that you could download NHL25 for free. It was the same with NHL25: you played 30 games online, lost 29 because your opponents were too fast, and won 1 because that player was just as fast as your own players, and you just played better. So I thought, well, I'll just pre-order NHL26, and today, after exactly 3 games, I realized that nothing had changed at all. Actually, everyone should be equally fast at the beginning, but the truth is, in those 3 games, all 3 opponents were much faster than me. You can set whatever you want, but nothing helps. So I'll just play the cup competition again in this game and won't invest a single cent more in this game.
We need an explanation how ICONs and HEROs will work.
I mean, I like those cards but I dont want to buy them because I dont know if we can trade them for the next sets of ICONs and HEROs. Please tell us if they will work like Team builders last year? Or do we have to build them like normal MSPs? If we can't trade the old ICONs and HEROs to new ones, they will be such a bad value and not worth it. I'm not buying packs with real money until this is clear. EA_Aljo
Disconnects during chase for the cup
Hey so far a pretty positive experience with nhl 26. regarding to the rewards for going undefeated in chase for the cup. I’ve been disconnected twice now and it’s not the end of the world but when it gives me a loss already I feel a lot less urge to play. Hoping you can keep that as a consideration going forward.
First feedback for improving HUT in NHL 26
Dear developers, I'd like to leave my first feedback on the HUT mode. It's not my main game mode — I'm more of a casual player here — but there are still some annoying issues I hope you'll be able to fix through future game patches. 1. Team Setup. Right now, all players are shown at once — which is genuinely convenient and helps you see everything clearly for making swaps. But here's the downside: the font showing player positions and handedness is way too small. I almost have to press my face against the TV to read it! Please consider an alternative — for example, show an enlarged card preview when hovering over a player. I believe this feature existed in WildCard mode in NHL 25. 2. Multi-select cards when adding to Sets. Having to select cards one by one is incredibly tedious. In NHL 24 and earlier versions, we could select multiple cards at once. But in NHL 25–26, this feature seems broken. Please fix it — I'm sure I'm not the only one complaining about this… Thank you for listening to feedback and making the game better. Let's keep improving it together!Chel Weeks MSP Sets
Random issue I had and not sure how to fix it or who to reach out to. For the Kadri MSP set, I had a base item go into the Chel Weeks player spot and the item disappeared, says there is 1/5 items in the set but there is no visual of a card in any of the slots. Wondering how to fix this?How are you supposed to get undefeated rewards?
I can't get the undefeated rewards no matter how hard i try and this is seriously becoming a big problem. It's not because of the difficulty or because I can't win, no, I beat the computer every single time, that's far from the issue. The issue is the random disconnects because of the servers or I'll run into a bug where I have to restart the game. For example: I was playing my 18th game of a season and in between periods my players were completely stuck and nothing fixed it I tried pausing and unpausing (didn't work) I tried just waiting there (waited there a good 10 minutes and nothing) so because of that screw me right? I don't get the undefeated reward. The other 2 seasons I got randomly disconnected one of them in the finals on the very last game. This system sucks, and it's beyond frustrating. I have very high speed internet and when I disconnect I can log right back in instantly so I know it's EA's potato servers. I'm giving it one more season, I swear to the heavenly god above, one more season if I don't get the undefeated reward because of something that's completely out of my control I'm going to ask for a refund or just stop playing because this is stupid and it's just screwing offline players over.Goalie X-Factor ability "Show Stopper" seems OP
I played two opponents in a row whose goalie had this ability and it seemed to activate on a huge majority of shots. Wrist shots, snap shots, one timers, backhand-forehand/forehand-backhand and backhand tuck attempts. The description says "Utilize catlike reflexes with increase Save Accuracy and Readiness when performing reflex saves and consecutive saves" and based off of this, almost every save the goalie makes is a reflex save? It just seems weird.
Wins counting as losses in cup chase.
I dont know what is going on, this has happened twice now. At first it was after an overtime game, so I thought the glitch was just OT - but it just happened in another game. I won 3-1. When the game finished I got no XP, no coins, nothing. Then when I exited the game, I was at the cup chase screen and was given a loss. Record was perfect, now 7-1.
