The best NHL 25 sliders and how to use them

NHL 25 sliders follow the modern sports game trend of being able to tweak your personal experience for additional difficulty, authenticity, or just fun. By dipping into the Settings menu and editing bespoke parameters it's possible to change how often fights happen, penalty frequencies, and much more. Our recommended edits are focused on increasing realism – all is explained in your NHL 25 sliders guide.

How to input NHL 25 sliders

You’ll know how this works if you’ve sampled our guides to Madden 25 sliders and College Football 25 sliders. All you need in terms of applying NHL 25 sliders is found in the settings menus. Jump into the game, then scroll down to the small Settings square on the left of the screen. The two key tabs are Game Settings and Gameplay Sliders. Go into these, then match the headings on the list below to each respective entry. Be sure to press R3 once you’re done, in order to save these sliders as a preset.

If no value is listed here than leave that slider at the default level. Once you’ve made the necessary changes, play a few exhibition games to test out the new feel of the game. In this way you can further tweak the experience to your liking. Wondering who to use in those practice matches? Dip into our NHL 25 best teams guide.

Best NHL 25 sliders for realism

Game Settings

Period Length: 6 minutes
Difficulty: All-Star
Camera: Dynamic Medium
Shootout Camera: Medium

Gameplay Sliders: General

Gameplay Version: Latest
Gameplay Presets: (Custom Preset)
Broken Stick Frequency: 35*
Game Speed: 3/6*
Fatigue Effect: 60/50
Fatigue Recovery: 50/50

Skating

Back Skating: 75
Puck Carrier Agility: 45
Puck Carrier Skating: 50
Player Acceleration: 40/40

Shooting

One Timer Accuracy: 45/45
Shot Accuracy: 50/50
Slap Shot Power: 55/55

Passing

Pass Assist: 65/65
Min Pass Speed: 35/35
Max Pass Speed: 65/65
Saucer Pass Speed: 45/45
Pass Accuracy: 10/51
Pass Reception Ease: 30/30
Puck Control Rating Effect: 70/70
Puck Speed Reception Effect: 60/60
Bouncing Puck Receptions: 40/40

Puck Control

Puck Control: 20/20
Deking Impact: 60/60
Spin Deke Impact: 65/65

Goalies

Goalie Cover Frequency: 70
Goalie Passing: 48

Checking

Board Effect Non-Puck Carrier: 50
Board Effect Puck Carrier: 5
Stumble Threshold: 70
Agression: 45/45
Hitting Power: 7/10
Size Effect: 55/55
Preparedness Effect: 55/55
Incidental Contact Effect: 70/70
Stick Lift Effectiveness: 80/80

Penalties

CPU Penalties: 85
CPU Teammate Penalties: 55
Tripping: 30/30
Slashing: 20/20
Elbowing: 85/85
High Sticking: 100/100
Cross Checking: 90/90
Boarding: 95/95
Charging: 85/85
Delay of Game: 60/60
Holding: 70/70
Hooking: 85/85
Interference: 90/90

NHL 25 sliders credits

As with our previous sliders guides, we need to pay tribute to the guys and girls at Operation Sports. Their forums are full of fans experimenting with parameters that switch up sports sims, and these NHL ones were heavily influenced by Al_Tito13 and Pearly.