I've stopped paying attention to these ratings and started giving more weight to the core attributes (speed, shot power, accuracy). I find there are many stats (offensive awareness for example) that don't actually matter a whole lot, but can still drive stats up or down. For instance, a player can have massive stats for speed, shot power, shot accuracy, but if they are horrible at faceoffs, it will hurt their overall. Meanwhile a player like Yanic Perrault who is generally brutal will be rated very similarly because his faceoff stats are so high.
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