EA SPORTS will announce the cover athlete for NHL 26 on Aug. 4, the company said in a release Friday. Chelebrations Event Week 2 EA SPORTS NHL changed all of their profile photos and banners on social media to a generic NHL 26 logo, finally acknowledging the games existence, as well as a standard and limited edition version of the game. With Season 8 set begin in NHL 25 on it will be interesting to see if there are any tie-ins with NHL 26. In a recent earnings call and in the Events and Presentations tab on the EA website [https://ir.ea.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx]NHL 26 is schedule to release in Q2 before EA FC 26. It was recently announce EA FC will be released Sept. 26 [https://www.ea.com/en-ca/games/coming-soon], meaning NHL will likely release early to mid September. Comment below you think the cover athlete will be. The Hughes brothers were revealed to be the NHL 25 cover athletes [https://sports.yahoo.com/hughes-brothers-expected-nhl-25-204010072.html] in a leaked trailed on Aug. 19, 2024. Check out the new 99 overall HUT Team Builders. [https://thehockeynews.com/gaming/nhl-hut/new-99-overall-team-builders-in-nhl-25-hut] For more NHL Gaming news make sure you bookmark The Hockey News Gaming Site [https://thehockeynews.com/gaming/] or follow our Google News Feed [https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMK-q0gsw7sXpAw/sections/CAQqEAgAKgcICjCvqtILMO7F6QMws-DfCA?hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen].