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Originally Posted by Russic
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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Exactly, and EA even said as much last year. They said that you will find that players who are rated in the low 70's may be top 6 players and yet you may have guys in the high 70's in the minors. I know I could do nothing with Dustin Boyd last year if he was on the big squad, yet I lit it up with Moss. If Boyd was in QC, he was one of my better scorers. I believe Moss was a 73 last year and Boyd a 78.