NHL 26 early wishlist (let’s make NHL great again)
First off I will say nhl 25 is actual a huge step up im liking it so far , but it’s missing some details to feel complete.. full presentation needs to return and add more to what we had in the past games In edit player menu have the ability to change the color of sticks and gloves (nhl 2k had this) and now players have been customizing their own as well. Customizable tape job (adjust length on shaft and blade and not have it preset) And add the ability to edit goalie masks. hitting and collisions need to be tweaked to more realism. Franchise: be able to control more than one team able to scout and sign players from other leagues(I.E europe) Real coaches or at least customizable coaches A customizable GM character, have conversations be shown like it is in fifa where your Gm Meets the player. office similarly to dynasty mode in nhl 2004 On the hub where we get details of what went on in other games we can see highlights (either by clip or a screen shot) with description such as ‘stamkos nets a hat trick in last nights win’ and a small clip or screen shot showing stamkos scoring his 3rd goal. Be a pro: change up the whole be a pro game mode make it more like life the life. ability to use NhL players to continue their career or an nhl legend Street clothes for off days and make it interactive. If I buy a condo or a house i want to actualy see my self living in it. Same with the car we get, be able to drive around (a small map) and not just be a attribute boost. Pond hockey pick up games you can walk to or drive to when you leave your ‘house’ Call it a ‘hall of fame room’ similar to skybox 2k had in nhl2k5 where you had the Stanley cup and other interactive stuff and unlockables. Be able to decide to start from being drafted at 18 or create a 30 year old forward who just signed with an nhl team etc.. more interactive with teammates and coaches and GM list of teams you want to be traded to etc.. extras add winter classic and all star game (skills + game) both as a play now mode and also in franchise and be a pro. player retiring playing their last game get a ovation from crowd. Announce the player will retire 1 game before their last skate with the cup (playoff mode, season mode , franchise and be a pro) Tweak the fighting engine and allow more than one fight happening at once. this is a lot of an ask, but if we can get half of these implemented we are definitely heading Into greatness with NhL games.
Offline Creators wishlist
I love to create teams/leagues/cups and more in the offline modes, and I think many of the things I list down below is more than me that would love to have it in the game. I made the list four years ago, and we are still missing a lot from the list in the game, so why not post it again.... Some of the things are probably easy to implement in the game but gives us a game that we would love even more. And some of the things would take more effort from EA to implement but would still make the NHL game even better than it is today. More National teams from D1 A and D1 B (Even if there is generated players like in Japan, Ukraine...) Romania - China - Croatia - Estonia - Lithunia and Spain. There is a few problems with the National Teams setup in NHL games right now. * There is doubles of the same players in the roster file. Thats means that if you move out a player from the National team roster, there is two of the same player in the World in many cases. * You can´t edit a player if he is only in the National Team roster. If you want to edit the player you need to move him to a club team, edit him and then move in back to the national Team. Lots of extra work there. * You can´t have players under the age of 18 in the National Team roster, We all remember the Rasmus Dahlin problem in the last Olympic Games, everyone had to create a custom Rasmus Dahlin to be able to have him in the Swedish Olympic roster. And we all know that there is always a few young upcoming stars playing in the World Championships for some nations, that we have to manually create. And we also have to cheat the system even with a created player. - Change his age to +18, assign him to the National team, and then change his age back to under 18. My idéa of a solution to all of this three problems is that we handel National Teams rosters the same way we handel created teams rosters. We assign players to the team with an option like in Create a team roster, and only get copies of the players in the roster. If we remove the player from the national team, there is no double anywhere. And we get the option to actually edit players in the National team roster. (And yes it will change the real player in the club team he is on). More leagues: Slovakian Extraliga EIHL (Great Britain) Mestis (Finnish second division) Alphs Hockey league USHL NCAA Customization (This is the big part of the wishlist and would make the game - Play - No limits) 😉 - Be able to use all logos that is already in the game (not only NHL and ECHL) when creating a team - Be able to fully edit all players in a franchise save (change RW to LW for example) - Be able to have arenas that is not PRO in the Franchise mode/create a club, like its in EASHL clubs in the beginning. - Remove the limit to move an underaged player to only a CHL Team in Player Movement - Rosters. (In Europe underaged players do change teams IRL) - Citys that are missing when creating a team or player: Sweden: Huddinge, Kiruna, Halmstad, Karlstad, Gävle, Ängelholm, Örnsköldsvik, Kristianstad, Norrköping, Karlskoga, Uppsala, Västerås, Tingsryd, Ljungby, Västervik, Oskarshamn, Boden, Kallinge Finland: Rovaniemi, Joensuu, Vantaa, Forssa, Kokkola, Kajaani, Iisalmi, Imatra, Keuruu Russia: Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Podolsk, Khanty Mansiysk, Voskresensk, Vladivostok. Austria: Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Linz, Graz EIHL: Belfast, Coventry, Cardiff, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Guilford, Sheffield Slovakia: Banska Bystrica, Kosice, Nove Zamky, Presov, Liptovsky Mikulas, Michalovce, Trencin, Nitra, Poprad, Spisska Nova Ves, Zvolen. Poland: Tychy, Kraków, Katowice, Oświęcim, Nowy Targ, Sanok, Sosnowiec, Jastrzębie (JKH GKS from CHL), Toruń, Krynica, Gdańsk, Bytom Ukraine: Kremenchuk, Kiev, Donetsk Norway: Oslo, Lillehammer Kazakstan: Nur-Sultan, Astana Lituania: Vilnius, Elektrenai, Kaunas Others: Riga (Latvia), Minsk (Belarus), Tallinn (Estonia, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Shenzhen (China), Seoul (South Korea), Anyang (South Korea), Lake Placid (NY, USA) Playoff mode - Be able to play just the playoffs from any of the 13 leagues in the game, not just NHL. (Like you can in season mode) (It looks odd men Two teams from Finland wins Stanley Cup and not Liiga in playoffs mode for example) - Be able to make a custom playoff mode - name and teams in it Tournament mode Be able to create a custom tournament (for example Olympics, World Cup or others) and not just Spengler Cup and Champions Hockey League Be able to swap the teams in Spengler Cup and Champions Hockey league Franchise Mode - Have the opportunity to send players to their ECHL affiliate, and not just to the AHL affiliate. - Be able to fully edit generated players in the draft (or be able to do it after the draft, change face, name, etc) - Be able to edit the names and apperance on the generated coaches in your team (NHL + AHL) Add - non american names to players born in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia for the generated players in draft. (Your friends at FIFA have a good name pool for these countries) - Be able to set future expansions team between seasons in the Franchise mode Play Now Mode - Have the opportunity to choose what arena the game will be played on. (And options to choose from every arena in the game or created in Create a team mode or the standard EASHL and CHEL arenas) - Have the opportunity to choose if the game will be played in a outdoor rink (with those options for arena, maybe even the ones from CHEL and EASHL) - Have the opportunity to choose the value of the game that will be played. (For example World Championship semifinal, Stanley Cup Conference Final or LIIGA Final with those logos and settings for commentators and winning ceremony) League mode Be able to create a custom league (not custom franchise mode) (be able to set number of teams, set the amount of divisions/conferences/or just have the European way with no division and conferences and if you want to have a relegation/promotion league system) And then be able to choose freely what clubs you want to have in the mode. Choose what kind of league Logo and name you want it to have. I was thinking that not all of us want to play Franchise mode with 32 teams, but we still would like to play more than one season. Because the problem with Franchise mode is that its connected with AHL (farm teams). Arenas Be able to change and edit the arenas for teams that have a generic arena. For example if I play with Växjö Lakers, the arena is now EA Sports Arena, Stockholm. I should be able to edit what arena Växjö have in the game and be able to rename it to Vida Arena in Växjö (just like you can change and edit generic arenas in FIFA for those teams that dont have a licensed one in the game). CHL (Champions Hockey League) Be able to change the teams before you start a season, just like you can do before you start a league season in the game. These are the ones I wish now. But if EA NHL would like to know more of these ones, be free to contact me, I would love to help creating even a better NHL game.
Franchise mode contracts issue
Hey , I was wondering for nhl 26 will they be fixing the terrible and unrealistic contracts that players start demanding in franchise mode cause it makes it unplayable, also is there any word on if they will be revamping the free agency and other parts of franchise mode ? Also was curious if they would ever consider adding a be a coach mode as I believe it would be very fun. Thanks :)WE NEED CONNECTED FRANCHISE IN NHL26!
Ive spent over 57 days on NHL25 so I am a very committed NHL25 player and a die hard hockey fan. I get the game every year but this is the last straw for me this year. WE NEED CONNECTED FRANCHISE! Plase EA I'm begging you. It's been over a decade since we've been able to play against a friend online for a Stanley Cup... Imagine that! I can't play against my friend for the Stanley Cup in franchise mode, IN AN NHL VIDEO GAME! All of EA's other sports titles have an online franchise mode and those games are all more successful than NHL.... My friends and I are all super hopeful we can finally get this mode in NHL26 and I promise you EA the SECOND that this mode is announced to be back my friends and I will ALL pre-order the game. Otherwise we'll wait for the boxing week sale... For us to be able to be the GM of our favorite teams and use custom rosters for an in depth and realistic ONLINE franchise mode and truly compete for the Stanley Cup I would be willing to trade in my freaking car.... Please EA Please 🥺 - A hopeful hockey fan.Nhl 26
I hope they do away with the celebration scenes in franchise mode, you get Crosby scoring his first goal of the season and he is doing a belly slide across the ice have a turn off feature like for the broken glass feature. Add something more realistic, like guys getting into a scrum in front of the net after the whistle sometimes. Little stuff like that, which actually happens in a game would be cool.2 Requests for EA
Hello EA team, I have 2 easy to implement requests for NHL 26 to make the game more enjable. 1. Please do not add anything that will take away the realism on-ice when playing games. In NHL 24 there was the Pressure Icon and boards flashing “full pressure” which was not able to be turned off. In NHL 25 there was the “open for a one-timer” icon that was not able to be turned off. People who play Franchise mode for realism despise having these icons that take away the realism, so please, if you are going to add any on-ice icons for NHL 26 can you PLEASE allow us the option to TURN OFF the visual? 2. Could you allow us more oppertunity to customize players within Franchise Mode? For example, could you unlock the ability for us to edit CPU player positions, height/weight, etc. This way if a CPU team has a centerman with 60 faceoff rating I can edit him to be LW instead of me exploiting him and winning 100% of the faceoffs against that player. This would help simulation logic. Thank you for considering my requests :)Menu Lag in Franchise Mode
Obviously NHL 25 is nearing the end now but PLEASE tell me that you'll fix the menu lag for next year's release. I don't know if you guys even check the NHL communities on Reddit or any other forums but that issue has been persistent all year without fixes, constantly the top voted issue. I've seen some of the responses on here of 'oh just restart the console' but that's not an acceptable response when you spend $80 on a game. The longer you go into the season the worse it gets. I bought a PS5 Pro half way through the year and it makes absolutely 0 difference, which just shows the game was just poorly optimised from the start. Given the new conversation system you need the menu to be able to keep up.
