Game Over OnlineEA Releases NHL 18 Ratings
This week, EA Sports revealed its top 10 young stars and the top 50 overall highest ranked players for NHL 18, based on the game’s rating system. Cover star Connor McDavid took the top spot in both the young stars and the top 50 players with a whopping 93 rating – up five points from his ranking last year, and blowing past many of the top stars and veterans of the NHL.
Other young stars who are climbing the ranks include Auston Matthews, now with an 87 rating, surpassing the ranking of the 2015-16 NHL Rookie of the Year winner Artemi Panarin (rated this year at 86) and 2011-12 NHL Rookie of the Year, Gabriel Landeskog, who was rated at 85.
Young star Matt Murray is ranked as the fifth best overall goalie in the game. The ranking puts him ahead of Vezina Trophy winning netminders, Henrik Lundqvist and Tuuka Rask.
EA Sports recently detailed the new ratings methodology in place for NHL 18 in a blog post. Most important to the young stars is that they are now rated so they can step right out of the NHL Entry Draft and into the NHL directly.
NHL 18 hits the ice on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 15th.