EA Sports released overall player ratings for the upcoming NHL video game. Auston Matthews is rated as the best player on the Toronto Maple Leafs, tied in a three-way tie for fifth among centres and tied for eighth among all players. The ratings place Matthews close to centres such as Sidney Crosby, Jack Hughes, Brayden Point, and Mark Scheifele. Some rating placements feel influenced by legacy reputations and prospect starting scores, creating debate about relative ranks. Matthews remains expected to return to elite goal-scoring form, compete for a fourth Rocket Richard Trophy, and potentially prompt a higher future rating.
We're about a month away from the start of a brand new NHL season and that means one thing: EA Sports has a new edition of their NHL video game franchise and fans are going crazy over what rating they gave their favourite player. For the Toronto Maple Leafs, one specific player is ranked among the best in the game, but not at the very top.
Is that right? Can we really fight on Matthews hovering around that marker as a top-five centre in the world? Not really. Take into consideration that Matthews was also tied for eighth among all players in the game, and it seems right. Obviously, almost everyone in the world would take Matthews over an aging Sidney Crosby on their team, but in the video game world it would feel unnatural to not have Crosby have an automatically high rating.
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