{"id":95831,"date":"2025-08-25T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:51:06","slug":"avalanches-cale-makar-named-top-rated-right-handed-defenseman-in-ea-sports-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95831\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche\u2019s Cale Makar named top rated right-handed defenseman in EA Sports NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">EA Sports has begun to unveil their top ratings for each position for their upcoming\u00a0NHL 26\u00a0game, with <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> defenseman Cale Makar being named the top right-shot defenseman in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Makar takes the top spot among right-shot defensemen for the fourth straight season, having held the spot since NHL 23. He also sees his rating stay at 95 overall for the third straight year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Makar had another excellent season, leading all defensemen in scoring with 30 goals and 62 assists for 92 points in 80 games and capturing the second Norris Trophy of his career. He was also the first defenseman to score 30 goals in a season since Mike Green did with the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/washington-capitals\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> in 2008-09.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Makar also had one goal and four assists for five points in seven playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Makar\u2019s 95 rating also means that he ties with <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> defenseman Quinn Hughes for <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/vancouver-canucks-quinn-hughes-named-top-rated-left-defenseman-ea-sports-nhl-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the top rating among all defensemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a>\u2018 Adam Fox sits in second among right-shot defenseman with a 90 overall rating, which is five behind Makar and a much larger gap between first and second than NHL 25, which was only 95 to 92. The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/boston-bruins\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a>\u2018 Charlie McAvoy sits in third with an 89 overall rating, while the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>\u2018 Evan Bouchard, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>\u2018 Colton Parayko, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/detroit-red-wings\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>\u2018 Moritz Seider, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>\u2018 Dougie Hamilton, Capitals\u2019 John Carlson, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>\u2018 Noah Dobson and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/los-angeles-kings\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>\u2018 Drew Doughty are all tied for fourth at 88 overall. With the list only showing the top 10 players, there may also be more defensemen with an 88 rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">EA Sports player ratings help determine the quality of each player in the league, which in turn effects both their skillset during on-ice gameplay as well as how well they simulate during modes like Season, Franchise and Be a Pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">NHL 26\u00a0will be released on September 12th, 2025 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports has begun to unveil their top ratings for each position for their upcoming\u00a0NHL 26\u00a0game, with Colorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-95831","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\/95831","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=95831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}