NHL 21, the 30th access in EA Sports’ annual hockey franchise, may be launched Oct. Sixteen on HUT 21 Coins PlayStation four and Xbox One, publisher Electronic Arts introduced Monday.

Alexander Ovechkin, the surefire future Hall-of-Famer from the Washington Capitals, can be the game’s cover athlete. It is Ovi’s 2d time gracing the duvet of an EA Sports NHL name; he formerly seemed on the box for 2006’s NHL 07, in advance of his second yr inside the league. Ovechkin, who will flip 35 next month and sports activities salt-and-pepper hair nowadays, is possibly the finest pure scorer in NHL history.

He has racked up 706 goals over sixteen seasons, and — as a surprisingly long lasting player, having by no means overlooked greater than 10 video games in NHL 21 Coins a season — he has a actual chance to eclipse Wayne Gretzky’s all-time file of 894 career dreams (a mark Gretzky set over the path of 20 seasons).