New Heroes, Icons, and HUT information have been released for NHL 26.

Heroes and Icons will be new additions to Hockey Ultimate Team, Heroes being fan-favorites and Icons being soem of the top players of all time.

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The announced Heroes are 84 overall Ales Hemsky, Jeremy Roenick, Keith Tkachuk, Markus Naslund, Rob Blake, and Zdeno Chara.

The announced Icons are 86 overall Chris Chelios, Chris Pronger, Henrik Lundqvist, Joe Thornton, Teemu Selanne, and Sergei Fedorov.

Along with these players a revamp of HUT has been announced. New line combinations that add bonuses based on nationalities and skillsets will be available. This will benefit those building theme teams.

Based on the image below it appears that building a high chemistry team will boost your team's overall, AP, and salary cap. This should allow users to build teams with all kinds of players and put less value on using meta cards.

There will also be a salary cap that will encourage players to build teams in different ways.

NHL 26 is set to release Sept. 12, those who pre-order the deluxe edition get access Sept. 5.

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New Heroes And Icons In NHL 26