EA has released the ratings for the Top 300 players in the NHL 27 video game, which releases on Friday, September 11th. The Philadelphia Flyers have 10 players in the Top 300, starting with Travis Sanheim and ending with Sean Couturier .
Travis Sanheim, the 90th overall player in the ratings, is an 88 overall. The Flyers' workhorse defender is rated as the top Flyer in the game. Travis Konecny is 10 spots behind him, also an 88 overall, ranked 100th.
Listed as a center, Trevor Zegras is the Flyers' 3rd highest-rated player, an 87 overall and 129th in the game. 10 spots behind him is Matvei Michkov , 139th overall. Owen Tippett (208) and Dan Vladar (219) are both 85 overall. Porter Martone, entering his rookie season, is an 84 overall in his first full season as an NHL player in the game, ranked 282.
3 spots behind Martone is Cam York . Noah Cates (297) and Sean Couturier (300) join Martone and York as 84 overall-rated players.
Here are the full attribute ratings for the players.
Now that the Top 300 players have been released, did EA get the Flyers rankings right?
The first two are quite obvious, in my opinion. Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny have been the best Flyers for the past few seasons. They continued to show that last season.
Even Trevor Zegras and Matvei Mickov's ratings seem pretty fair. Owen Tippett's overall rating seems fair. His max skating speed of 23.97 MPH per NHL Edge was ranked 10th in the NHL last season, and he was 2nd in 22+ MPH speed bursts with 61 last year, second to Connor McDavid . The 94 speed is spot on for Tippett.
At 85 overall, Dan Vladar is the 22nd-ranked goalie, which does feel a little low, considering he was just named the 8th-best goalie in the NHL right now by NHL Network. Vladar, in my mind, should be ranked a little higher. Goalies like Dustin Wolf , Lukas Dostal , and Spencer Knight are all 87-overall rated players, which, to me, seems more fair after what Vladar did last season.
Behind Vladar, Porter Martone at 84 seems fair, but at the same time, it does seem a little high for his first official rating as an NHL player.
84 does seem spot on for Cam York.
While Noah Cates and Sean Couturier are both important contributors to the Flyers team, it does seem a little high. I probably would have guys like Jamie Drysdale and maybe even Rasmus Ristolainen rated ahead.
To me, Jamie Drysdale is the clear omission from this list for the Flyers.
Do you think EA got it right? What do you think of the Flyers' ratings?
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