video game player ratings

[cause4alarm 7]

I think back in when EA's NHL '93 came out, Jeremy Roenick was rated as the best overall guy in the game. He was good, but he certainly didn't win the Hart that year.

For those who play video game hockey, who are some players who had completely inaccurate ratings (also mention the game and year if you can)? Guys in their rookie years may have to be exempt from this.

[devilsrule711 0]

I remeber in the first gretzky game for PSP Jay Pandolfo was like a 60 and th erookies were high 70's

[jbyun04 7]

nhl 2005-2006 Cloutier with a 89 or 91 overall

i think jarret stoll had like a 50 overall rating in one game too so that was kinda weird.

[beaver5 1]

nhl 06 ea sports.

peca- like 85 WAY TO HIGH

[Gongshow11 1]

pavel bure from 94-96, 99 overall, and 100% true

[zingbergeur 0]

Lindros was a 100 in nhl '96 for snes.

[thejackal 46]

richter 77 or 75 in nhl2002 was a joke

[mack 44]

NHL '94, MacInnis was a 72.

[Chadd 916]

The Blackhawks of the early 90s were damn near unbeatable. The Rangers - Hawks series against my buddy Mike were amazing though. Roenick - Messier, Leetch - Chelios, Smith - Beukeboom, Larmer - Graves, etc...

[mack 44]

I never got the Rangers' ratings at times. It always seemed like Graves, who was potting 40 a year, was around 70something but then Larmer was in the 80s with a complete laser. Then there's Kovalev in the 80s even though he blew ass with the Rangers at the time.

Classic series of games. Nothing beat finding a Genesis and most of the NHL titles in a pawn shop in college and playing for shots.

[Hooah4 12]

Brings back memories on Vince Vaughn playing NHL 94 in "Swingers". Bleed Gretzky, Bleed!

[kmatt333 0]

Brings back memories on Vince Vaughn playing NHL 94 in "Swingers".  Bleed Gretzky, Bleed!

I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for super fan 99 over here.

Great flick.

[Eazy_b97 1]

I think Anderychuk was about a 77 in one of his 50 goal seasons, which pissed me off. Although his game didn't really translate into video game hockey. Juneau was a machine back in the early 90's for EA sports.

[Chadd 916]

MacInnis was money on a slapper from the point.

[Oberon 0]

MacInnis was money on a slapper from the point.

That whole Calgary team had juiced ratings - N'dyk, Roberts, Fleury, MacInnis, Suter, Reichel, Makarov.

Also (and I don't remember what teams they were on) Jarrod Skalde and Oleg Petrov were phenomenal players - at least on the PC version, '93 (?).

[JR Boucicaut 3802]

John Ogrodnick was lethal in the first EA Hockey game for the Rangers.

[mack 44]

MacInnis was money on a slapper from the point.

That whole Calgary team had juiced ratings - N'dyk, Roberts, Fleury, MacInnis, Suter, Reichel, Makarov.

Also (and I don't remember what teams they were on) Jarrod Skalde and Oleg Petrov were phenomenal players - at least on the PC version, '93 (?).

Yeah, MacInnis in the low 70s isnt' juiced.

Another overrated member: Zarley friggin' Zalapski. He was all speed + shot which were the only things that mattered in that game. Unreal.

[SR27 0]

MacInnis was money on a slapper from the point.

That whole Calgary team had juiced ratings - N'dyk, Roberts, Fleury, MacInnis, Suter, Reichel, Makarov.

Also (and I don't remember what teams they were on) Jarrod Skalde and Oleg Petrov were phenomenal players - at least on the PC version, '93 (?).

Yeah, MacInnis in the low 70s isnt' juiced.

Another overrated member: Zarley friggin' Zalapski. He was all speed + shot which were the only things that mattered in that game. Unreal.

Steve Duchesne and Jeff Brown on D were good in the Genesis version.

[mack 44]

Oh yeah, good call on those guys. Other random players that dominated in pixel form were: Tomas Sandstrom, Stephane Richer, Al Iafrate, Nelson Emerson, Stephen Heinze...

[Cavs019 708]

I think I scored 212 goals in one season with Richer in '95.

[Eazy_b97 1]

Oh yeah, good call on those guys. Other random players that dominated in pixel form were: Tomas Sandstrom, Stephane Richer, Al Iafrate, Nelson Emerson, Stephen Heinze...

Iafrate dominated everything he did :P

Both in the real, and fantasy, world.

[cause4alarm 7]

Didn't Iafrate have 100 ratings in both shot power and skating speed? I don't think even Zarley Zalapski could boast that.

Mikael Renberg was a pretty easy player to score goals with--not the fastest, but speedy enough and with smooth stickhandling control. That was during the Legion of Doom years when he was averaging a point per game.

[mack 44]

Didn't Iafrate have 100 ratings in both shot power and skating speed?  I don't think even Zarley Zalapski could boast that.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell no he didn't have that much. Double Z was a great balance between speed and shot, which should have been the only ratings that counted. Hell, even Mikhail Tatarinov played better than Leetch on there to show the gross rankings.

Always irked me how the Nords were so underrated there, even after Sundin/Sakic/Nolan tore it up they still had no rankings. Sakic was in the 80s but utterly useless because he had no shot.

[capes921 0]

In my NHL 06 game, Steve Martins on the Sens is the fastest guy in the whole game...his overall is around 70, and hes faster than guys with a 99 speed. I think I've scored 50 or 60 short handed goals with him in a season, nobody can catch him

[Chadd 916]

In the really old versions your shot ratings didn't matter, it was all about the "goalie ram". Hold the puck on one side to get the goalie to move off of the one post, then deke back to the other side with your body between the goalie and the puck and you all slide into the net and the light goes on. Once they fixed that, the best way was to go wide and pass back to the slot for a one-timer.