{"id":116015,"date":"2025-09-03T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116015\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:57:06","slug":"ea-sports-reveals-highest-rated-players-for-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116015\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Sports reveals highest-rated players for NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA Sports has unveiled the complete ratings for NHL 26, with Edmonton Oilers<\/a> center Connor McDavid<\/a> leading the pack. The Canadian superstar sports 97 OVR with 98 in Passing, Speed, and Offensive Awareness being his strongest points.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n

2 Related<\/p>\n

McDavid is followed by Colorado Avalanche<\/a> center Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, who has 96 OVR and slightly weaker stats across the board. Germany’s Leon Draisaitl<\/a> completes the top three with another 96 OVR ahead of the previously revealed Nikita Kucherov<\/a> with the same total rating — but the Oilers player’s better individual stats secured him the podium position.<\/p>\n

Here are the 10 highest-rated players in NHL 26:<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers: (97 OVR)<\/p>\n

Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche: (96 OVR)<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers: (96 OVR)<\/p>\n

Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>: (96 OVR)<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes<\/a>, Vancouver Canucks<\/a>: (95 OVR)<\/p>\n

Cale Makar<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche: (95 OVR)<\/p>\n

Aleksander Barkov<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche: (95 OVR)<\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby<\/a>, Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>: (94 OVR)<\/p>\n

David Pastrnak<\/a>, Boston Bruins<\/a>: (94 OVR)<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>, Winnipeg Jets<\/a>: (94 OVR)<\/p>\n

In addition to the ratings, EA has revealed the first batch of Heroes and Icons coming to Hockey Ultimate Team:<\/p>\n

Ales Hemsky, Edmonton Oilers: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Jeremy Roenick, Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Keith Tkachuk, St. Louis Blues<\/a>: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Markus N\u00e4slund, Vancouver Canucks: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Rob Blake, Los Angeles Kings<\/a>: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Zdeno Chara, Boston Bruins: (Hero, 84 OVR)<\/p>\n

Chris Chelios, Chicago Blackhawks: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

Chris Pronger, St. Louis Blues: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

Hendrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers<\/a>: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

Joe Thornton, San Jose Sharks<\/a>: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

Sergei Fedorov, Detroit Red Wings<\/a>: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

Teemu Selanne, Anaheim Ducks<\/a>: (Icon, 86 OVR)<\/p>\n

More Heroes and Icons will become available throughout the season as part of HUT programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports has unveiled the complete ratings for NHL 26, with Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid leading the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-116015","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\/116015","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=116015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}