{"id":801481,"date":"2026-07-15T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801481\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:43:08","slug":"ea-sports-nhl-27-announces-macklin-celebrini-as-its-cover-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801481\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Sports NHL 27 Announces Macklin Celebrini As Its Cover Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nhl-27-cover-athlete-scaled.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nhl-27-cover-athlete-1024x576.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"EA Sports NHL 27\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EA Sports has come out with the face of its covers for NHL 27, and it\u2019s Macklin Celebrini who gets the honour this time around.<\/p>\n<p>The news, as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/macklin-celebrini-ea-sports-nhl-27-cover-athlete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">National Hockey League<\/a>, doesn\u2019t come as a surprise, though, considering Celebrini\u2019s immense popularity as a young player who has risen to fame and fortune. He\u2019s the youngest face to ever grace the franchise\u2019s cover, in fact, and achieved the feat by being a very valuable addition to the San Jose Sharks in addition to being the second-highest scorer for Canada in the IIHF World Championship. He\u2019s also had a stint at the Olympics, where he guided Canada to a silver medal with five goals and ten points over six games.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has also been nominated for a bunch of prestigious awards, including, but not limited to, the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s Male Player of the Year for the 2025-26 season, as well as for the 2026 ESPY Awards\u2019 Best NHL Player and Best Breakthrough Athlete categories. Well, let\u2019s hope he\u2019s as powerful as his real-life persona when we take control of him in the game.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a trailer in the works that\u2019s dropping on July 16, 2026, and you can be sure we\u2019re going to bring it to you, alongside other details, as soon as it does.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports has come out with the face of its covers for NHL 27, and it\u2019s Macklin Celebrini&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-801481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}