Ratings for sports games are never going to be perfect, and the reason for this is simple. The things that make a player great in NHL 10 are often very different from the things that make a player great in real life. In real life the thing that separates the greats from everyone else are things like vision and hockey sense, things that the person holding the controller has all the control over, it's not something that ratings can affect. So because of that the best players in the game need to be the fastest, have the best shooting/passing, best puck control, etc. even when they don't in real life. Iginla is faster than most players in the game in NHL 10, even faster than a guy like Lombardi I believe, and while this isn't true to life it is the only way to make star players actually be star players. It's a problem with every sports game and it's never going to change.
BTW people need to start realizing the the overall is an average, and not necessarily indicative of how good a player is. Regehr will be slowish and have crappy offensive skills, but because of high ratings in stupid stuff that doesn't matter he has a high overall. Toughness for example has the same weight as speed does when it comes to calculating overall, just like shot blocking and passing have the same weight, or defensive awareness and wrist shot accuracy. These things obviously don't have the same importance in the game, but they do when it comes to overall, and it's been like this for 4 years. So don't be waiting for massive edits to start be a gm, because they won't be coming.
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