Carolina Hurricanes: A Look at NHL 20 Player Ratings
By Ollie Miller
The next installment of the NHL video game franchise has been announced. How can we expect the Carolina Hurricanes to perform?
Who doesn’t love gaming? I know I do. NHL 19 was my first taste of the NHL video game franchise. With a background in first person shooters and FIFA, I found it pretty tough to get to grips with initially. However, once you get the hang of it, it’s a lot of fun. How else will the Carolina Hurricanes win the cup 17 times in a row?
NHL 20 is being released on 13th September and is available (for those who just can’t wait) to pre-order right away for early access. Me personally, I won’t benefit from any pre-order because I don’t play the Hockey Ultimate Team mode but I do want to get it as soon as possible.
Franchise Mode is where it lies for me. Attempting to take the Caroline Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup. So far, there’s been some success and it’s really exciting watching the young talent that we have in the Charlotte Checkers, grow into stars that are ready to take on the NHL.
How much of an increase will we see in these prospects? Time will tell and we won’t have to wait too long to find out. We’ll get into individual player ratings later on. For now, let’s take a look at the team as a whole.
NHL 19 has been updated fairly recently, so we’ll be working with stats and figures from the most recent update from 23rd April 2019. Upon start-up, the Carolina Hurricanes sit at a modest 89 OVR in the Metropolitan Division. This is equal to the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders and New York Rangers.
A team OVR rating is based on the mix of all individual player ratings, so we should see some increase to that in NHL 20. It would be hard not to give each player on the team some sort of upgrade. With larger ones coming for a handful of players. I’d expect to see the Carolina Hurricanes at 90-91 OVR at the start of NHL 20.
The ratings over the next few slides are predictions. I wish I was privileged enough to know the actual ratings but sadly, I’m not. Which players are going to have the biggest impact on the Carolina Hurricanes OVR rating? It’s time to take a look.