The Flyers won’t be anywhere near the top of EA Sports NHL 27’s ratings mountain, but they do show up in solid numbers.
Philadelphia has 10 players in the game’s current top 300, and that group includes two names inside the top 100: Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny, both at 88 overall. Sanheim is the club’s highest-rated player, landing at 90th overall after another season of top-pair play, an Olympic silver medal and his first playoff run in six years. He’s listed as a left defenseman, though the game notes he would rank as the eighth-best right defenseman if he were slotted on his preferred side.
Konecny checks in right alongside him at 88, and he closes out the top 100 players. His playoff run may not have gone smoothly, but the developers clearly weighted another steady regular season heavily. Over the last four seasons, he’s finished between 24 and 31 goals and between 61 and 76 points, settling into the role of a dependable top-line winger.
The Flyers’ defense depth is thinner in the ratings, with Cam York the only other blue-liner in the top 300. He lands at 285th with an 84 rating. Sanheim is one of just two Flyers defensemen to make the list.
In goal, Dan Vladar stands out as one of the more interesting numbers on the board. He’s rated 85 overall, which puts him outside the top 20 goalies, but that looks light based on how he played in 2025-26.
According to Moneypuck.com, Vladar finished 10th in goals saved above expected in the regular season and second in the playoffs. He doesn’t have the same long resume as some of the goalies ahead of him, but a strong start to 2026-27 could force an early roster update.
Up front, Trevor Zegras gets one of the biggest rises in the game from NHL 26 to NHL 27. After a strong first season in Philadelphia, he jumps to 87 overall and is listed as a center, though his faceoff rating is just 72. That four-point leap is one of the largest shown by EA, behind only Matthew Schaefer on the graphic the game posted.
Matvei Michkov remains in the mix as well, coming in at 86 overall despite what was described as a sometimes trying sophomore season. He’s the last Flyer in the top 200, joining the two Travises and Zegras.
Owen Tippett lands at 85 overall, but his skating numbers are where he really jumps off the screen. Only Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon have a higher speed rating than Tippett’s 94, and his 92 acceleration is also among the game’s best.
Porter Martone is the top Calder-eligible player in the ratings if Gavin McKenna and Ivar Stenberg are not included because of rights issues or simply because they missed the cut. Martone is rated 84 overall and carries the Tape to Tape X-Factor, which boosts his passing after he recorded 11 assists in his first 20 NHL games between the regular season and playoffs.
The last two Flyers to sneak in are Noah Cates and Sean Couturier, both at 84 overall. Cates is 297th and Couturier is 300th.
They share the Quick Pick X-Factor for disrupting passes, while Couturier also has an X-factor tied to his 84 faceoff rating and Cates has one that boosts his strength in puck battles. Cates also drew Selke Trophy voting for the second time, following in the footsteps of Couturier, who won the award in 2019-20.
As a team, the Flyers’ ratings mirror their real-life profile pretty closely: plenty of depth, not much elite firepower. Only five teams have fewer top-100 players than Philadelphia’s two, and five Metropolitan Division teams have more.
Still, the 10 top-300 players give the Flyers a respectable footprint, good for sixth in the Eastern Conference. The Florida Panthers lead the conference with 15, tied with the Montréal Canadiens and Dallas Stars for the most top-100 players at six, while the Colorado Avalanche are the only Western Conference team with more top-300 players, at 13.
Jamie Drysdale and Tyson Foerster could also work their way into the mix if they put together strong seasons, as both are believed to be around the 84 overall range.
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