EA Sports continues to unveil the highest-rated players by position ahead of the upcoming release of NHL 26, and Tuesday, they shared the top 10 overall ratings for left wingers.<\/p>\n
Minnesota Wild<\/a> superstar Kirill Kaprizov earned the highest rating at a 94 overall, with Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers<\/a> coming just behind him with a 93 overall rating. Earlier this month, Tkachuk was announced as the cover athlete for the game.<\/p>\n Kaprizov receives the honor after an injury-plagued 2024-2025 campaign that saw him score 25 goals and dish out 31 assists for 56 points in 41 games played. <\/p>\n The 28-year-old Russian is one of the most dynamic players the sport has to offer. In 2021-2022, he racked up 108 points in 81 games, and in 2023-2024, he was on track for a 100-point season had he appeared in all 82, finishing with 96 points in 75 contests.<\/p>\n After Kaprizov and Tkachuk, the rest of the top 10 is rounded out by Artemi Panarin of the New York Rangers<\/a> (92 overall), Winnipeg Jets<\/a> star Kyle Connor (92 overall), Jesper Bratt of the New Jersey Devils<\/a> (91 overall), the NHL\u2019s all-time leading goalscorer Alex Ovechkin (90 overall), Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> star Brandon Hagel (90 overall) and a trio of 89 overall players that includes Minnesota\u2019s Matthew Boldy, Florida\u2019s Brad Marchand and Tampa Bay\u2019s Jake Guentzel. <\/p>\n On Monday, EA Sports revealed the same top 10 lists for left-handed and right-handed defensemen, naming Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> the top-rated lefty and Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> as the best right-shot blueliner.<\/p>\n NHL 26\u00a0is slated for release on September 12, 2025 for PlayStation 5 and current-get Xbox consoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports continues to unveil the highest-rated players by position ahead of the upcoming release of NHL 26,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-102350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}