{"id":128637,"date":"2025-09-08T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:57:07","slug":"connor-hellebuyck-earns-no-1-goaltending-rating-in-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128637\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck Earns No. 1 Goaltending Rating in NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

The popular sporting video game series by EA Sports, NHL 26, is set to launch next week on September 12 for Playstation and XBOX.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the past two weeks, the software developer has begun unveiling its rankings for each different playing position in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Among those listed within the Top-10 at each position have been a handful of Winnipeg Jets players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first position ranking provided by EA Sports was defenceman Josh Morrissey, who was given a 90 overall rating, ranking him eighth among all blueliners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second Jets player to earn a place on the Top-10 position rankings was winger Kyle Connor, who was named the No. 4 left winger in the game with a 92 overall stat line.<\/p>\n

The third player from the Jets to garner a Top-10 spot of the 1,000-plus players in the database was centreman Mark Scheifele, who was listed as the tenth-best centre in the game.<\/p>\n

Now, in the final position rankings, was goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, last season’s Hart Trophy, Vezina Trophy and Jennings Trophy winner.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly the best goaltender in the league, Hellebuyck’s NHL 26 ranking reflects that, as he is the No. 1 goaltender on the platform with a 94 overall rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old put up a 47-12-3 record to go alongside a career-best eight shutouts, a 2.00 goals against average and a .925 save percentage as he helped Winnipeg to the Presidents’ Trophy as the No. 1 team following the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck’s overall rating went up one percentage point from NHL 25 from a 93 to a 94 \u00a0overall, ranking him as the best goaltender and No. 8 player in the game overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The popular sporting video game series by EA Sports, NHL 26, is set to launch next week on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-128637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}