{"id":820555,"date":"2026-08-21T02:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820555\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:58:13","slug":"alex-ovechkin-falls-below-90-overall-and-isnt-the-capitals-highest-rated-player-in-nhl-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820555\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin falls below 90 overall and isn\u2019t the Capitals\u2019 highest-rated player in NHL 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA Sports is dropping the latest installment of its annual hockey video game series, NHL 27, on September 11. In the run-up to the release, the company has unveiled the ratings for the game\u2019s top 300 players, including 12 members of the Washington Capitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin<\/a>, the team\u2019s captain, is regularly the highest-rated member of the roster, but that won\u2019t be the case this season. In fact, Ovechkin falls behind two of his teammates this year, receiving a rating below 90 overall for just the second time in his illustrious career<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin, rated 89, is listed third on the team behind goaltender Logan Thompson<\/a> (90) and defenseman Jakob Chychrun<\/a> (89).<\/p>\n

EA Sports\u2019 Washington Capitals NHL 27 ratings<\/p>\n

Player
\nPosition
\nOverall
\nTop-300 ranking<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson
\nG
\n90
\n47<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun
\nLD
\n89
\n63<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin
\nLW
\n89
\n71<\/p>\n

Tom Wilson
\nRW
\n88
\n89<\/p>\n

Alex Tuch
\nRW
\n88
\n99<\/p>\n

Dylan Strome
\nC
\n87
\n102<\/p>\n

Jordan Kyrou
\nRW
\n86
\n144<\/p>\n

Aliaksei Protas
\nC
\n86
\n157<\/p>\n

Pierre-Luc Dubois
\nC
\n86
\n165<\/p>\n

Martin Fehervary
\nLD
\n86
\n181<\/p>\n

Rasmus Sandin
\nLD
\n85
\n210<\/p>\n

Matt Roy
\nRD
\n84
\n284<\/p>\n

Thompson is the only Capitals player ranked in the top 10 at his position, as he is the fifth-best goaltender in the game. Washington\u2019s number-one backstop trails behind Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> (94), Ilya Sorokin<\/a> (93), Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> (92), and Igor Shesterkin<\/a> (91).<\/p>\n

Outside of Thompson, Chychrun is the 12th-best left defenseman in the game, while Ovechkin is the 15th-best left winger.<\/p>\n

The top player in the game, getting the only 99-overall rating<\/a>, is Edmonton Oilers<\/a> center Connor McDavid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No other player even received a 98 overall rating, as McDavid is followed by fellow recent Hart Trophy finalists, Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> and Nikita Kucherov<\/a>, both rated 97 overall.<\/p>\n

Three defensemen also crack the top 10 in ratings: Cale Makar<\/a> (95), Zach Werenski<\/a> (95), and Quinn Hughes<\/a> (95).<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, EA Sports revealed that San Jose Sharks<\/a> center Macklin Celebrini<\/a>, who holds a 95 overall rating, will be the cover athlete for this year\u2019s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, who just turned 20 in June, will be the youngest-ever player to receive the honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports is dropping the latest installment of its annual hockey video game series, NHL 27, on September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-820555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}