New HUTVerse, Closers, and World Championship Frozen Forces Cards In NHL 25
New HUTVerse, CLosers, and IIHF World Championship themed Frozen Forces cards are available in NHL 25 HUT.
HUT Verse cards are players who are playing a different position than they do in real life, this is a massive content add with 84 new HUTVerse cards being introduced.
There are four HUT Verse exchange sets. Players can trade in any six 88+ cards for A HUT Verse pack. 20 88+ cards for a 5x pack, three 89+ HUTVerse cards for a 91+ HUTVerse player, or three 90+ HV cards for a 92 HV player.
HUTVerse cards are broken down into Young Stars Collection, Oh Canada Collection, and by Division, allowing players to trade in related cards for a master set player.
The master set players are 96 overall Dougie Hamilton, Victor Hedman, Filip Forsberg. and Quinton Byfield.
The new Closers players are five 95 overall members of the back-to-back PWHL champion Minnesota Frost. The Nine new Frozen Forces cards are three members each of the three countries who medaled at the 2025 World Championship, USA, Switzerland, and Sweden,
All new Closers and Frozen Forces cards as well as the 10 HUTVerse players pictured on the banner are in the video above.
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