NHL 11's Ridiculous Player Rankings

Where did you find these? And I could careless. I am still going to dominate with the Devils anyway :)

As I said in the article, the numbers next to the teams are not their rankings, rather the average of their top 5 players rankings. That’s the only information (aside from some select teams like the Devils) that is available as of yet.

Parise is a 90 or a 91

They better have the red whit and green jerseys for alts also, that scouts and rockies crap is not respectable.

I don’t think we are that far off, we are the fourth best team in the game and if you think about it we did finish second in the East. I don’t know how Calgary got up there but Pens and Detroit (even thought I think they are better than the Pens) have always had higher value than they deserve. Then lastly they probably gave Vancouver a really good rating because Samelsson had an unreal ending as did Burrows. Plus you look at the Sedins and the newly revamped Defensive core its kind of understandable. So I am not too disappointed.

IMO we are the best team in the league but with Rolston only being a 81 should be harder to move him now but add hi with a 1st overall you’ll probably get a solid goalie for when Marty retires.

Not sure why you’re all so upset… the ratings are always messed up. When I played regularly I would spend a good day with the game fixing what I felt were either too low or too high of ratings across each team.

And truthfully I never noticed much difference between Goalies ranked 85-90.

What they need to do is weight based on player style. In past years they had to make Sid and AO excellent “defensive awareness” players to get their overall ratings up, but their ratings should be true to talent, but be weighted for what they do (AO extra emphasis on skating, agility, and wrist shot, Sid extra for vision, etc).

Those jerseys suck, just like NHL 11, its probably the worst hockey game ever made.

for some reason, people think broduer has fallin off. I have no idea… must be they just don’t get to watch him play enough to make an educated judgement on just how good he still is.

Rankings are pretty decent overall, other than Brodeur, Tallinder, and possibly Clarkson needing to be a few points higher. Thought Tallinder would have been rated higher than Salvador, but there you go.

As a side note, does anyone know if Jacob Josefson is in NHL 11? I’ve found Tedenby Urbom and the rest of the prospects but Josefson doesn’t show up as “in the system” in Be a GM mode. Maybe I’m blind, but if searched everywhere and I can’t find him in the game.

let me guess, Luongos at like 99? since hes SOO much better than marty

Rangers appear a bit high.

Well, if you’re annoyed with the rankings, just edit the players and make Crosby a 55.

volchenkov is #7

But EA has the very uncap-friendly devils roster currently so salvador is still on the team.

Played two quick games against, you guessed it, the Rangers. they ARE ranked high and are rated comparably to the Devils. And by the way, the forwards this year on the Devils are stacked and are capable of scoring really on all three lines. Pretty accurate hopefully to what we see this year in real life. The lines are a little weird as well and I would guess don’t accurately reflect what we will see this year:

 Kovalchuk – Zajac – Langenbrunner, with the second line being
Parise – Zubrus – Elias
Rolston – Arnott – Clarkson

Not necessarily bad, but of course these lineups are going to be changed up considerably after the cap is purged.

As far as the game goes, it’s actually quite in depth and fun. They slowed it down a notch or two, but you can adjust the speed if you’d like. There is a bit of a learning curve with the new controls, but thats part of the fun of getting some skill. You create your own player in the beginning, along with a unique player card, and you can totally customize him. This is actually the first EA sports NHL game I have owned in quite some time (I’ve been running with the 2K series since now) But its overall a very entertaining game.