We might be a bit late to the party, but bear in mind that we just launched this beautiful website and that the laws of time and space would have made it impossible for us to produce this at the start of the current NHL season like everyone else. It is with that in mind that we want to join the NHL 17 players ratings debate. It always ends up being about Sidney Crosby in the end. Those ratings are an endless source of somewhat good-natured, but always entertaining debates between bloggers and commenters alike, trying to argue why their franchise player deserves a better rating than Sidney Crosby. A big part of that experience is the players’ ratings, those mystical numbers which will determine if your favourite team is being portrayed accurately or if your rivals are being unfairly boosted. The hits, the dekes, the plays, everything is tweaked ever so slightly every year in the hope of making the game more and more true-to-life. A big part of the NHL 17 experience is that it strives to provide a simulation of the big league as close as possible to the real thing.
