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The low 80s seem to be EA's way of saying that this player is replacement-level. A couple of rookies in Detroit might have something to say about that particular piece of hardware, but the Boston Bruins netminder has undoubtedly outperformed his NHL 22 rating of 81. We picked Jeremy Swayman as a betting underdog to win the Calder Trophy as the NHL's top rookie this season, and so far he's made this prediction look solid.

A 10-plus goal, 40-plus point season is totally within reach for the blueliner, making this a potentially slick trade for a team that badly needs skilled skaters in the lineup. We don't see that happening, but if he stays healthy, Gostisbehere will have every opportunity to fill the stat sheet for Arizona as the year rolls on. Ghost has looked like, well, a ghost of his past self, turning back the clock to 2017-18 when he finished 10th in Norris Trophy voting as a breakout offensive star for the Philadelphia Flyers.ĮSPN.com has him on pace for more than 60 points. Sometimes offseason projections can be wrong (see the Ducks), but in this case, they were spot on.ĭom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic recently wrote that this team could turn out to be one of the worst of the salary-cap era, and gives Arizona an 80 percent chance to finish as the last-place squad by year's end.and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet.īut hey, at least offseason reclamation project Shayne Gostisbehere is dramatically outplaying his NHL 22 rating.

They didn't win their first game until their 12th contest, which effectively torpedoed a year most expected to be lost anyway. The Arizona Coyotes don't have much going for them this season. Terry has been a massive reason why, skating on a line with Ryan Getzlaf, who apparently paid off Jaromir Jagr for the location of the Fountain of Youth this past summer. The Ducks are hanging around the top spot in the Pacific Division and are defying all odds in doing so. It's highly unlikely that the former fifth-round pick (2015) continues to play at this torrid of a level, but he's clearly outperforming his overall rating of 81. He's on pace for more than 50 goals and 100 points, according to. Go ahead and try to find an offseason prediction that had Terry playing at this level. He recently saw his points streak reach 16 games and was named the NHL's third star of the week for the week ending on Nov. To say that Troy Terry has been a revelation for the Anaheim Ducks this season would be an understatement. We're going in alphabetical order for teams here, so it's just a coincidence that the most obvious choice for this list is also the first player we're going to discuss. And we used as our baseline resource for all player rankings. Stats appear courtesy of Hockey Reference and Stathead unless otherwise noted and are accurate through games played on Nov. Here we're going to examine one player from every team who is outperforming their NHL 22 rating. Want to take your dynasty team to the Stanley Cup Final? You need to acquire as much high-end talent as possible.ĮA Sports puts a ton of time and energy into getting these things right, but that doesn't mean that reality doesn't sometimes overshoot their projections. If you want your Be-A-Pro to go first overall, you better get that overall up. And, as it turns out, hockey is a pretty difficult game to realistically replicate in video games.Īt the heart of the experience, though, is one number: that's a player's overall rating. Millions and millions of data points need to be (and are) considered when breaking the world of the NHL down into a highly customizable digital landscape. Player rankings can and are updated through patches, but by and large, what we see is what we get when we first sit down to play the latest installment. Fresh features are generally rolled out on a yearly basis, but it all boils down to the joy of either creating our own superstar or controlling our favorite pros. As fans, we have the luxury of experiencing what is, more or less, a finished product each October. It's easy to not consider the process that goes into a player's rating as you boot up your new copy of NHL 22.