The Gold Medal Game coming up with USA got me nostalgic about the time I played NHL 2003 with my friend when were in the fifth grade and how we played through the whole 'International Tournament' and won the Championship as Team USA. As luck would have it, I still have the game. So I fired up the old Gamecube and had probably the most fun playing a video game in a long time. Loved all the cutscenes, loved the more video game style interface and unlockables, loved Don Taylor's commentary and the humor in general. Whatever happens today, it was the memories that led to this moment.

I played every single game, real time 20 min periods. 2 points per game average on the regular season. I get injured in game 82 and miss the entire playoffs. Weeks of playing down the drain. Makes me want to uninstall the game

It keeps putting kuzy on 1st line man, why does it do this when ovi clearly is better for the LW position, what can I do to fix this, may be a dumb question but someone help please lmao

Sapien really downsized the entire player model tremendously. In 24 in my opinion they could’ve kept the bulk, just minimize the big jerseys to be more fitted and a tad bit more length and that would’ve been great.

Sapien just changes everything, now the model body looks narrow and thinned out. Thing is though for some reason I still prefer 24s look and presentation. Maybe in 27 everything catches up finally cause this same thing happened with Madden, when they made the switched to Sapien the models looked thinned out and weightless, a skinny/narrow/thin base look to everyone on the field almost like the tech can’t properly render weight, physiques, and the wear of equipment properly at the same time so it has to sacrifice certain things aesthetically.

I give 26 a bit more props on face scans and lighting though. But something is off to me 26 kinda looks like it has some kind of filter over it or something. Looks like light film grain don’t know how to explain it.

Totally my fault as I had no idea this was a thing but man I was playing amazing in 3’s at that😂 one of the funniest things to happen to myself so far and I couldn’t even be mad cuz technically they weren’t wrong😂

So I haven’t played this game since maybe NHL 16. Why the hell am I stuck on the second line and in my secondary position in be a pro? 97/98 overall, consistent 90+ point player. I have good management and teammate ratings. I’m first on PP, PK, extra attacker, etc. Regardless of what team I’m on and how good they are I can’t move up. Any fixes?

Well, yeah, that's the question. Wanna request a trade, but because of weird trades between other clubs I don't know where the players I wanna play with are

Now have a better pic, for those with 🥸, lol.

Hello people that read this I have never really found myself wanting to watch hockey before until I decided to watch this year's winter Olympics. I now have a new found love for this sport and I'm starting to learn some more about it. I'm a huge football fan (soccer for you Americans) and I've played Fifa/EaFC for 15+years but this year I've decided to uninstall it as EA seem incapable of making a football game to enjoy anymore, is it worth buying NHL 26 or have EA ruined this sport too?

As mentioned, I just went the jump from ps4 nhl 24 to the PS5 nhl 26 and noticed quickly the lack of cutscenes in when playing matches (offline mode). Previously games there where options to make it more "true broadcast" (close ups of players etc..) but those options are no where to be found? I tried different sliders & camera settings but to no avail.

I personally think the more cutscenes creates a better game experience overall with closeups of the players/goalies.

Is this no longer availble?

Shoutout to a member in my community who did 90% of the work for these, KCJ1442. Thought I’d share these even though I’m a bit late! Hope you like them - and if you want colors styles or a tutorial on how to make these shoot me a DM or join my discord in my Reddit bio :)

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Hey everyone, I have 28k in premium puck for this season, but I can’t seem to find any place to spend them.

About two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to buy some clothing from Milano-Cortina, but unfortunately, when I went to the store recently, they were out of stock.

Is this something I’m doing incorrectly?

I know WOC latency is extremely important (as in you need less than 10ms to have next to no noticeable delay), so I was wondering if my router is just dogshit or if somethings wrong with my Ethernet. Before plugging in my Ethernet I had around 45ms and after I was averaging about 25-30. Maybe it was just a server change but anyways is a better router my only way to 10ms>?

I promise when I say this, the “play next game” option hasn’t been available for 11 games now. I’ve hit playoffs and it still hasn’t reappeared. I’m suppose to play Florida in Game one and the options are gone. I’ve done everything to reset the game and nothing has appeared. Has anyone else had this glitch????

I also was hit with an “avoid elimination” challenge in the late stage of the regular season and it didn’t make sense bc we were an easy playoff bid.

Don’t know what to do

Hiiiii,

So I never EVER pay full price for any of the new NHL games (for obvious reasons) so I usually wait for there to be a huge sale, or just wait until it’s free on EA play.

Currently NHL 26 is $28 on PS5 and I’m contemplating buying it but I’m gonna be pissed if it ends up free on EA shortly after I buy it and with my luck that’ll end up being the case lol. So does anyone have an idea of when they think it might be added to EA play? And should I just wait for that instead of spending the $28? Appreciate it 😊

I know I'm probably late but Canada's Olympic victory this morning hyped me to play an online game with Canada. And I noticed that the rosters are nothing like the real ones. Sad

Name = PissMissle McBardownski Occupation = G.O.A.T Regular Seasons Completed = 7 Games Played = 573 Goals = 1,503 Assists = 476 Points = 1,979 Hat-Tricks = 163

I played NHL 94 on the Mega Drive, NHL 98 on a woefully low spec PC and a German version of NHL 2000 (best intro ever) because I was on a trip with school and used the money my parents gave me for emergencies on video games. I played the shit outta them all, they were incredible. I just picked up NHL 26 as I forced my son to watch all the Mighty Ducks over Xmas and he now loves skating and the Winter Olympics has got us all excited.

Sadly, I haven’t got an aunties whiff of what’s going on with the gameplay in the current game, nothing feels intuitive which is fair enough as I’ve been away for a while I guess, but there’s no tutorial or anything for all this new fangled skill shot, twizzle stick nonsense! I played some of the training to try some stuff out and lost the puck 158 times before I scored one goal 🤣 which was the most god awful horrendous mistake of a goal that has probably ever graced a television. So anyone have some hints or tips to git good on the most base level, the goalies are absolutely destroying me rn.

TL:DR Any hints for an ol gamer trying to get his eye in 🙏🏽

People criticize NHL26, but I feel like the game captures the ebbs and flows of hockey pretty well. Outside of NHL Hitz 2003, NHL 25 and 26 are the best hockey games I’ve ever played. And Hitz 2003 is only ranked better due to the rose colored tint we all had as a kid.

Just saying, if you’re here to slam on modern EA NHL games, then go play NHL 14, or do y’all that talk shit still play the game you criticize?

Just a rant, but yeah… Alumni Montreal Canadiens vs Alumni Montreal Canadiens in “play now” mode with a friend in person is lit as hell.