EA Sports revealed their player ratings for NHL 25 and the St. Louis Blues have a couple of members featured in the top 100. Blues fans can play as their favorite team and with their favorite players on Oct. 4 when the game is officially released to the public.
Center Robert Thomas and right winger Jordan Kyrou each received an 88 rating in the new NHL video game.
The two Blues forwards are tied with 21 other players at 88 overall. Some of the most notable players they share the same rating with are Connor Bedard, Tage Thompson, Evgeni Malkin, and Patrick Kane.
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Thomas finished the previous EA Sports video game, NHL 24, with an 89 rating. After he recorded career-highs in goals, and assists, while averaging 20:58 TOI per game, the decision to bump him back down to an 88 is puzzling.
Kyrou finished NHL 24 at an 87 overall. Jordan recorded 75 points in 2021-22 and 73 points in 2022-23. Last season his production dropped slightly to 67 points, but he still managed to score 31 goals.
So in theory, Thomas should have stayed at 89 and Kyrou at 87. Interesting rating decisions for those two stars considering the seasons they are coming off of.
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Kyrou also received a 93 acceleration attribute rating for his blazing breakaway speed. Only 10 players were given a higher acceleration rating than the St. Louis speedster.
The Blues had five other players listed in NHL 25’s top 300 ratings.
Pavel Buchnevich, Colton Parayko, and Jordan Binnington were rated 86 overall, while Justin Faulk was given an 85, and the injured Torey Krug an 84.
Jordan Binnington’s player rating of 86 places him as the 13th-highest-rated goaltender in the league. This rating puts him on par with other goaltenders such as Stuart Skinner, Adin Hill, Pyotr Kochetkov, and Tristan Jarry.
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The full list of NHL 25’s player ratings can be found here.
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